Policy Studies

Measure 50: Are Tobacco Taxes The Answer To Funding Children’s Health Programs?

Policy Brief 65

Policy Brief by Skaidra Smith-Heisters January 29, 2008

Analysis of California’s Propositions 7 and 10: Renewable Energy Mandates and Handouts

Policy Brief 75

Policy Brief by Skaidra Smith-Heisters October 1, 2008

The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act: Prison Overcrowding, Parole and Sentencing Reform (Proposition 5)

Policy Brief 74

Policy Brief by Skaidra Smith-Heisters October 1, 2008

Illegally Green: Environmental Costs of Hemp Prohibition

Policy Study by Skaidra Smith-Heisters March 13, 2008

A Handbook for Student-Based Budgeting, Principal Autonomy and School Choice

Making school funding more equitable and transparent

How-to-Guide by Lisa Snell March 5, 2013

Private Options to Help Students Read

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell December 1, 2000

California’s K-12 Education Primer

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell May 1, 2005

The Case Against Universal Preschool in California

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell February 22, 2006

Addressing California’s School and University Building Needs

Alternatives to Proposition 1D

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell September 1, 2006

Analysis of California’s Proposition 88

Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax, Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell October 18, 2006

Ten Ideas to Fix Cleveland’s Schools

Turn failing schools into charters, empower parents and principals
Policy Brief 86

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell March 15, 2010

Fix the Schools

Close failing schools, open charter schools and replicate great schools
Policy Brief 87

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell March 15, 2010

School Choice, Charter Schools, and Trends In Educational Privatization

Education Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell and Leonard Gilroy February 15, 2011

School Choice, Charter Schools, and Trends In Educational Privatization

Education Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell May 1, 2012

Weighted Student Funding for California

Three Reasons Governor Brownâ??s School Funding Plan is Better than the Status Quo and Three Big Ideas to Make the Plan Even Better

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell May 31, 2013

School Choice, Funding Portability, and Trends In Educational Privatization

Education Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2015

Policy Brief by Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith June 8, 2015

Getting Greens in the Black

Golf course Privatization Trends and Practices

Policy Study by Lisa Snell August 1, 1999

Remedial Education Reform

Private Alternatives to Traditional Title I

Policy Study by Lisa Snell March 1, 2000