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Stephanie Jones; Grace Enriquez; Roberta Price Gardner; Susan Flis – Journal of Children's Literature, 2024
This article highlights the State-Wide Read Aloud Days of the picturebook "My Shadow is Purple" (Stuart, 2022) held across and beyond the state of Georgia in response to the firing of elementary school teacher Katie Rinderle under Georgia's trio of censorship laws. The goals for this article are to: (1) document and analyze the emergence…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Books, Advocacy, Activism
Plank, David N.; O'Day, Jennifer; Cottingham, Benjamin – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was adopted by the California Legislature in 2013. The LCFF made fundamental changes in the way the state funds school districts and charter schools (Local Education Authorities or LEAs), shifting decisions about how to spend resources from the state to the local level. The LCFF also introduced a new…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Finance, School Districts, State Programs
Williams, Conor P.; Meek, Shantel; Marcus, Maggie; Zabala, Jonathan – Century Foundation, 2023
Children who are English learners (ELs) comprise a large, diverse, and growing student group in U.S. schools. ELs face systemic educational challenges rooted in language, race, class, and nativity. The Century Foundation and Children's Equity Project constructed a first-of-its-kind database covering more than 1,600 dual-language immersion (DLI)…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Access to Education, Native Language Instruction