CEPA works with state and national partners across the P20 spectrum from early childhood to higher education in projects demanding strategic planning, program evaluation, and original research, in the areas of:
• Afterschool: Funding and Policy
• Career and Technical Education
• Charter Schools
• Governor’s Ritter’s P20 Council
• K12 Achievement Gap
• K12 Colorado Education Report Cards
• K12 Teachers: Preparation, Recruitment, Retention, and Quality
• K12 Cost-Modeling and Resource Allocation
• K12 Education and Work Readiness
• High School to Post-secondary Education
• Higher Education
• Parent Choice K12 School
• School Finance in Colorado
• School Regulation
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Education
• Teacher Quality: Preparation, Recruitment, and Retention
Current projects include:
CEPA HOSTS ARRA/RACE to the TOP WEBSITE
CEPA has created a web-site dedicated to collecting and organizing information on the education aspects of the federal stimulus plan including two pages on the Race to the Top. We have just created an easy to remember address for the web site: www.ed-arra.ucdenver.edu
DPS ProComp Evaluation
CEPA, along with The Evaluation Center at the School of Education, University of Colorado Denver, and the Center for Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington are evaluating ProComp, Denver Public Schools’ revolutionary pay-for-performance teacher compensation system. Using a mixed evaluation design, we hope to answer the following research questions: Does ProComp achieve stakeholder expectations, increase student achievement, and attract and retain high quality educators? Is ProComp a sustainable, manageable, understandable compensation system? Do stakeholders have recommendations for improvement?
Paul Teske, former CEPA director and now Dean of UCD’s School of Public Affairs, is a co-author of Pay-for-Performance Teacher Compensation: An Inside View of Denver's ProComp Plan (Phil Gonring; Paul Teske; and Brad Jupp) Harvard Education Press:2007
For more information, contact Robert Reichardt.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education
CEPA works with the Colorado STEM Network as it helps develop aligned state policy for improving STEM outcomes for Colorado students through the Governor’s P-20 Council. The work continues a recently completed grant from the National Governors Association, the Gates Foundation, and INTEL to Governor Ritter’s Office of Policy and Initiatives. Other partners include the Colorado Children’s Campaign, COMSTEC (Colorado Math, Science, Technology and Engineering Coalition), and College in Colorado. Other partners include the Colorado Children’s Campaign, COMSTEC (Colorado Math, Science, Technology and Engineering Coalition), and College in Colorado.
For more information, contact Beverly Buck or Robert Reichardt.
P20 Education Policy
Governor Ritter’s P-20 Council provides a forum for considering options and providing recommendations for achieving the education initiatives articulated in the Colorado Promise, primarily cutting the dropout rate in half and doubling the number of postsecondary degrees and certificates over the next 10 years. CEPA staffs the Teacher Preparation, Recruitment, and Retention subcommittee and Systems Transformation subcommittee. Activities in 2008 center on the Governor’s Colorado Achievement Program for Kids (CAP4K), a sweeping education reform agenda, which will define school and workforce readiness and reassess standards and assessments across the P20 spectrum. Activities in 2009 include working on Colorado's Race to the Top process.
For more information, contact Kelly Hupfeld or Robert Reichardt.
Education’s Place in Workforce Innovation for a Regional Economy
CEPA is working with the Metro Denver Economic Development Council and the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment under a WIRED (Workforce Innovation for a Regional Economy) grant from the US Department of Labor. Denver’s WIRED initiative is focused on breaking down “silos” between industry, workforce development, and education sectors to develop a homegrown STEM workforce for targeted industries (aerospace, bioscience, energy and IT/software industries) in the nine-county WIRED region. CEPA has convened education panels, produced asset maps, conducted a network analysis, and produced various research briefs. CEPA also participates in strategic planning for the project as a whole.
For more information, contact Beverly Buck.
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CEPA’s P20 work dovetails with its work in the complementary areas of Teacher Quality; School Finance, Fiscal Policy, and Regulation; and Vulnerable Populations.