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Learn how Nevada’s Pupil-Centered Funding Plan uses a machine learning-based at-risk indicator to target education funding more precisely, identify students most in need, and evaluate the impact on student achievement.

This WestEd Perspectives piece analyzes the ongoing decline in California public school enrollment and its impact on funding, highlighting revenue losses, rising costs, reduced federal support, and the need for better forecasting, spending decisions, and community engagement.

This brief explores the possible impacts of federal funding changes and provides strategic recommendations for state education leaders and their counterparts in other government agencies.

This brief delves into some of the most pressing conditions contributing to current revenue volatility and explores policies that states may want to consider implementing to help them weather economic uncertainty and declining enrollment.

This brief describes how a statewide system of technical assistance in California to support school-based behavioral health might be structured to create improved statewide access to technical assistance for local educational agencies and their partners.  

Read about research into how California’s short-term investments align with districts’ highest priority needs for supporting students’ mental and behavioral health and with the state’s goal of advancing integrated, school-based systems of care to support students in the long term.  

This brief defines systems change and describes the principles that guide systems-change work at WestEd, from collaborating to facilitate improvements within a particular system or across sectors for large-scale, cross-system change efforts.

This guide helps state and district leaders plan and collaborate with interested parties to elevate teacher compensation by facilitating a structured conversation about vision, community engagement, data, effective processes, and finance concerns.

This report shows the key role county offices of education (COEs) play in leading or coordinating an integrated system of care in collaboration with child-serving agencies to provide a holistic and accessible set of mental and behavioral services to students and families.

As state and federal pandemic relief wind down, California school districts must consider how to sustain programs beyond the duration of this one-time funding. This paper explores funding sustainability, investigates whether California school districts face a “fiscal cliff,” and offers insights into how leaders are approaching funding sustainability.