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P-16 Council Report Recommendations

Based on research conducted by the Council and other partners involved in this project, the following recommendations have been proposed to address the achievement gap among student subgroups. See the full P-16 Report (PDF) for background and details.

Recommendation 1: Provide High-Quality Pre-kindergarten Programs

  • Access to quality early learning experiences for all students

Recommendation 2: Better Align Educational Systems from Pre-kindergarten to College

  • Unprecedented collaboration between all educational stakeholders

Recommendation 3: Develop Partnerships to Close the Achievement Gap

  • Implementing a consistent approach to a high-quality and inclusive educational program

Recommendation 4: Provide Culturally Relevant Professional Development for All School Personnel

  • Develop a comprehensive culturally, relevant and responsive strategy

Recommendation 5: Conduct a Climate Survey

  • Develop a tool for assessing the “organizational health” of a school

Recommendation 6: Augment Accountability System

  • Provide an immediate measure of progress made by schools and districts in educating all students

Recommendation 7: Model Rigor

  • Define more clearly what constitutes a rigorous curriculum

Recommendation 8: Focus on Academic Rigor

  • Define consistent and ubiquitous academic rigor for future success

Recommendation 9: Improve the Awards System

  • Align recognition programs to address the focus on improving academic achievement for all students

Recommendation 10: Create a Robust Information System

  • Design, develop, and implement a system that collects rich, robust high-quality information to meet the needs of educators and legislative policymakers

Recommendation 11: Provide Professional Development on the Use of Data

  • Design, develop, and implement coherent and relevant professional development in the areas of data collection, analysis and interpretation

Recommendation 12: Share Successful Practices

  • Collect and disseminate a high-quality, comprehensive body of knowledge, expertise, resources, and research on effective and successful practices

Recommendation 13: Fully Implement the California K-12 High-Speed Network

  • Fully fund the High-Speed Network to ensure that school, districts, and county offices of education have access to the technology needed to assist students

Recommendation 14: Create Opportunities for School District Flexibility

  • Provide flexibility in the use of educational funds to target academic improvement and professional development

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