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CalPEPAL will present findings from ongoing research on the content of California school districts' equity-focused policies over the 2014-2022 period. Using computational text analysis methods, we analyze a corpus of more than 6,000 CA school districts' Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs) to assess variation in the degree to which school districts identified migrant students as a distinct population in need of additional academic and socioemotional support across districts and over time. For the purposes of this conference, we focus on three periods: the pre-pandemic years (2014-2020); the remote schooling year (2020-21), and the return to in-person schooling (2021-22). The pandemic year introduced new priorities and goals in school districts across the state, with specific consequences for students in migrant families. We will present early-stage answers to the questions: Have these policy changes persisted into the post-remote schooling period, or did school districts revert to their pre-pandemic policy orientations? Did the changes associated with COVID-19 lead to increased or decreased focus on the needs of students in migrant families?
To find out more, please join us on Friday, March 11, at 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM via zoom