 California's K-12 Educational Infrastructure Investments: Leveraging the State's Role for Quality School Facilities in Sustainable Communities
This report takes a comprehensive look at the state of K-12 school facilities in California, focusing on state-level policies and funding patterns. The recommendations lay out a detailed framework that re-envisions the state's role in K-12 infrastructure to appropriately support educational quality and contribute to healthy, sustainable communities goals. Our hope is that this report helps guide state leaders in aligning infrastructure investments for efficiencies and multiple benefits for Californians. The report also includes a message of support for implementation from California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson.
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|  TOD 205 - Families and Transit-Oriented Development: Creating Complete Communities for All
The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) and the Center for Cities & Schools (CC&S) at the University of California, Berkeley, today released "TOD 205 - Families and Transit-Oriented Development: Creating Complete Communities for All,” the seventh in the Federal Transit Administration-sponsored series of reports explaining the best practices of transit-oriented development. This guidebook illustrates why planning for transit-oriented development that serves families is important for creating truly “complete” communities and how such planning can be achieved in conjunction with school stakeholders.
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 Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities: Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education with Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development
Our report for the What Works Collaborative, supports federalagencies—and community development and regional planning practitioners—in identifying the mechanisms to tangibly link their work in sustainable communities planning to educational improvement efforts to create cross-sector “win-wins,” increase productivity, and foster social equity.
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 Y-PLAN Overview
CC&S’s Y-PLAN toolkit is designed to provide participants and partners in Y-PLAN initiatives with a portfolio of teaching resources to be adapted to local circumstances and contexts.
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 Y-PLAN is our award-winning educational strategy and action research initiative that builds young people's knowledge and skills for college, career and citizenship while creating healthy, sustainable and joyful communities.
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CC&S's paper, Sustainable Communities Need Opportunity-Rich Schools: A Smart Growth Imperative, was chosen for Smart Growth Network's compendium, The National Conversation on the Future of Our Communities. The project's aim is to start a conversation on thorny issues the smart growth movement has yet to resolve, issues that have received too little attention, and issues that have escaped us altogether. Our paper argues that planners—and particularly those that favor smart growth—already recognize the importance of workforce development and job creation, but too often fall short of extending their analysis and planning to a key foundation of strong regional economies: effective K-12 schools. We lay out a applied policy framework for remedying this reality.
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