Video Voter Guide

Californians are facing decisions on ten statewide ballot propositions in November 2024. The Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College produced this online Video Voter Guide to give voters an objective, easy-to-understand summary of...

Failed State Update: Truancy

Dan Walters at CalMatters: California’s public schools have a numbers problem —and it’s not just that their students don’t score very highly in national tests of mathematics ability.   Their other numbers problem is the financial squeeze posed by declining...

Failed State Update: Education Data

John Fensterwald at EdSource: States’ websites that annually report the scores on standardized tests and other valuable data, like chronic absenteeism, could provide a reality check by clearly and easily displaying performance results over time. However,...