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Founded in 1909, Barney & Barney, LLC is a risk management and insurance brokerage firm providing solutions, services and products in employee benefits, commercial property and casualty insurance, workers compensation, compensation consulting, retirement and wealth planning, and surety. Barney & Barney’s employee benefits consulting services help schools and educators determine a vision and strategy for their benefit programs with support from in-house actuarial, communications and compliance resources. Barney & Barney is an independent, privately owned firm, headquartered in San Diego, with offices in Orange County, San Francisco, and Oakland.
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The Buckeye Community Hope Foundation (BCHF) authorized its first few schools in 2005 in central Ohio and has now successfully grown into one of the largest well-respected authorizers in the state with 50 school sites state-wide. BCHF believes that charter schools are an innovative and progressive approach for developing high-quality educational options, providing ongoing guidance and professional oversight geared toward the success of students. BCHF is committed to promoting high student achievement, financial stewardship, responsible governance, and effective management of the schools we authorize. The mission of BCHF is building communities and rebuilding lives. We are changing the lives of more than 14,000 students who have dropped out or at-risk of dropping out -- paving the way to a brighter future through education.
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The California Dropout Research Project was established in 2007 to produce new and useful research to inform policymakers, educators, and the general public about the nature of the dropout crisis in California and to help the state develop a meaningful policy agenda to address the problem. The project commissions studies by expert scholars on various topics dimensions of the dropout problem and conducts analyses of state dropout data. The project publishes research reports and policy briefs, statistical briefs, and city dropout profiles, and distributes them via its project website along with interactive graphs and information from outside organizations on the topic of dropouts.
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CCSESA's Student Programs and Services Steering Committee (SPSSC) facilitates communication and common understanding across all student services provided by county offices of education to school districts and communities including special education, Regional Occupational Programs/Centers, alternative education programs, migrant education, outdoor science education, and HeadStart/preschool. The committee promotes the development of quality programs and services through assessment, research and dissemination of best practices.
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We provide charter schools growth capital and facilities financing nationwide. Partnering exclusively with charter schools, we understand the operational challenges charter leaders face. We deliver financial resources charter schools need to be stable and grow. The support of our team allows charter leaders to stay focused on the school’s mission – educating students. Launched in 2006, Charter School Capital has provided in excess of $800 million in funding to 450+ charter schools providing high-quality education to 450,000+ students across the country.
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Jobs for the Future is a national non-profit with offices in Boston, Washington D.C. and Oakland, CA. JFF works to ensure that all underprepared young people and workers have the skills and credentials needed to succeed in our economy by creating solutions that catalyze change in our education and workforce delivery systems. Working with local, state and national partners, JFF designs and drives adoption of innovative and scalable education and career training models and systems that lead from college readiness to career advancement. JFF also develops and advocates for federal and state policies that create incentives for developing these solutions.
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John Muir Charter School is a school like no other. It gives young people the opportunity to earn a high school diploma while working with California Conservation Corps, Local Conservation Corps, YouthBuild, and WIOA sites around the state, doing exciting and valuable work for the community. John Muir Charter School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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K12 is an education technology company driving innovation and advancing quality by providing state-of-the-art, digital learning solutions across the globe. K12 serves over 2,000 schools and school districts in the United States and has delivered more than four million semester courses over the past decade. K12 is a company of educators with the nation's largest network of K-12 online school teachers, providing curriculum, instruction and academic services to support a variety of learning environments. The full-time online and blended public schools that K12 helps support enroll high percentages of students who arrive well below grade level in terms of academic preparation. In addition, roughly 60% of the students in these schools qualify for the federal meals program.
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Koppel & Gruber Public Finance specializes in financial consulting to public agencies. The founding partners of the firm, Scott Koppel and Lyn Gruber, each have over twenty years of experience in municipal financial consulting. We are privately held and our greatest concern is the satisfaction of our clients and their constituents and not shareholders. It is our practice to respect the culture and practices of each agency client and act as an addition to your staff. We specialize in bond issue reporting including continuing disclosure and arbitrage calculations, Developer Fee Studies (FJS and SFNA), Community Facilities Districts, and Parcel Taxes.
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Learn4Life is a constantly growing network of non-profits that includes accredited high school diploma programs, job training and wraparound services, and exclusive Workforce Investment Act partnerships. Learn4Life partners have resource centers throughout California, and each student receives an individualized education. No two students are alike, and we don’t believe they should be educated that way either. With dozens of centers throughout California, the opportunity for independent learning is available to hundreds of thousands of students.
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Our Piece of the Pie®, Inc. (OPP®) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping 14 to 24 year-old urban youth become economically independent adults. OPP’s unique model is centered around the intense and consistent relationship developed between each youth and a caring, committed and proactive adult staff member. That relationship helps participants identify and overcome barriers, access support services and programs and achieve the goals of high school graduation, college degree and/or vocational certification and rewarding post-education employment.
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Procopio, Cory, Hargeaves & Savitch LLP is one of the largest business law firms in California. With more than 140 attorneys in San Diego and Silicon Valley, Procopio is a regional law firm with a global network that gives it the ability to serve clients’ interests throughout the world. Procopio is dedicated to understanding the businesses and industries of clients and collaborating with them to develop tailored strategies. Since 1946, our success has been derived from our commitment to clients and our ability to maximize the value we provide to them. Our goal is to continue building long-term relationships with clients through a steady, team-oriented approach.
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Renaissance Learning is a leading provider of cloud-based assessment and teaching and learning solutions that fit the K12 classroom, raise the level of school performance, and accelerate learning for all. With the Universal Screener and progress monitoring in the STAR Enterprise assessment, Renaissance Learning enables educators to deliver highly differentiated and timely instruction while driving personalized student practice in reading, writing, and math every day. Renaissance Learning leverages top researchers, educators, content-area experts, data scientists, and technologists within a rigorous development and calibration process to deliver and continuously improve its offerings for subscribers in over one-third of U.S. schools and more than 60 countries around the world.
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For more than 35 years, School Services of California, Inc., (SSC) has served most of California’s school districts, county offices, and community colleges in meeting their management, governance, and fiscal responsibilities. The effective administration of California’s public schools has always been the firm’s primary mission and the company has played an integral role in the development and implementation of education policy at both state and local levels. Whether assisting school agencies in handling a fiscal or collective bargaining crisis, interpreting complicated laws and regulations, or developing, cost-effective tools to meet management needs, SSC’s combination of result-oriented services empowers school leaders to make educated decisions.
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YouthBuild Charter School of California (YCSC) is dedicated to working with opportunity youth in low-income communities who need to earn a high school diploma. Using a project-based, interdisciplinary model that is rooted in social justice and community action, YCSC has graduated over 3,000 students between the ages of 16-24 since opening in 2008. YCSC currently operates 19 school locations at YouthBuild programs in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Fresno and San Diego.
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