California Education: Planning for a Better Future
Eric Larsen

June 2010

California’s students continue to improve their standardized test scores—but nearly half are not proficient in math or English language arts. And budget cuts may make it difficult to maintain recent progress. To ensure continued progress among students, and to address a host of other challenges facing the state’s public education system, policymakers will need to adopt farsighted, long-term policy solutions.

This publication is part of a briefing kit that highlights our state’s most pressing long-term policy challenges in eight key areas:

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as part of the California 2025 project on the state's future challenges and opportunities.

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