Accountability

New report examines how states – Texas, Virginia, and Maryland – have utilized financial aid data in their longitudinal and higher education data systems and provides recommendations for how California can follow suit to build a longitudinal data system that will help address equity gaps within the state.

States invest heavily in education, providing funding either directly or in the form of financial aid from preschool through college, with positive outcomes from those impacting nearly every other area of public policy, particularly the workforce. To understand and assess results, states collect and analyze information about these investments at various levels, and most have...

California is building the Cradle-to-Career Data System, a longitudinal education data system designed with the goal of leveraging educational, workforce, and eventually social service information to address disparities in educational opportunities and improve outcomes for all students. 

TICAS and partners submitted comments urging the legislature to prioritize oversight of for-profit colleges as part of the COVID-19 response, and to include two high priority policy changes in any reauthorization legislation passed regarding the Bureau in 2020.

The California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education is undergoing a sunset review process this year. The Senate Business, Professions, and…

Testimony of Angela Perry, Policy Analyst, before the Assembly Select Committee on Student Debt about for-profit higher education in California, past and future legislation, and the work that The Department of Consumer Affairs' Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and The Office of Student Assistance and Relief have done to help students.