Mission: The Education Trust—West works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, kindergarten through college, and forever closing the achievement and opportunity gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Our basic tenet is this – all children will learn at high levels when they are taught to high levels.
“In terms of our legislative efforts, in the first part of the session, we’re very much looking at reforming the state’s seniority-based layoff policies and the teacher evaluation system,” says Arun Ramanathan.
Recent Achievements
The Education Trust—West pressed the state to apply for both rounds of Race to the Top. After California’s first-round loss, ETW developed a blueprint for implementation in the second round, advising the state to take a bottom-up approach and use best practices in state school systems as the driving force of the application. The impressive districts pinpointed by ETW have since formed an externally funded nonprofit, CORE.
ETW released three separate reports on the crisis in achievement and opportunity for African-American, Latino, and Asian-American and Pacific Islander students.
