UC's impact — public investment at work 
Enhancing California’s K-12 schools
UC is helping create better futures for K-12 students by providing professional development for teachers and administrators, expanding efforts to train new teachers, and creating university-assisted schools.
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Helping K-12 educators
UC offers a statewide network of professional development programs such as the California Subject Matter Project to help teachers boost achievement for all students. Learn about CSMP’s UCLA Math Project site, which uses a new approach to teaching children the science of math and is helping improve math scores in California’s schools.
"(West Sacramento Early College Prep) will provide an exceptional opportunity for historically underserved students to achieve the promise of a postsecondary degree. At the same time, it will permit the School of Education to engage in deep and prolonged research on the conditions that impact school success and student achievement, yielding insights that will assist educators and schools throughout California and the nation. UC is working in partnership with schools, colleges, state agencies and others to enhance K-12 education." -- Harold Levine, dean, UC Davis School of Education
Training new teachers
To help address the shortfall of math and science teachers across the state, UC – in partnership with California State University, state government and industry leaders – has committed to train 1,000 new math and science teachers yearly for California classrooms.
Creating new schools
UC is helping create a new generation of K-12 schools – university-assisted schools – starting three (UC San Diego’s Preuss School, UC Berkeley’s CAL Prep and UC Davis’ West Sacramento Early College Prep) and exploring a fourth associated with UCLA.
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Find out more about UC’s involvement in enhancing K-12 education.
- UC’s California Subject Matter Project offers teacher professional development in nine disciplines
- UC College Prep Online makes course content freely available to students, teachers
- UC hosts symposium on P-16 school reform
- UC Berkeley and UC Irvine receive grants for math, science teaching program
- UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science offers math, science education programs
- UC Davis helps West Sacramento students get a new ‘early college’ school
- Teachers study science at Livermore Lab-UC Davis summer research academy
- Seeds school at UCLA wants to spread success
- UC Riverside’s STEP Conference offers hands-on activities for math, science teachers
- UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz selected for nationwide science education program
- UCSF Fresno’s doctors academy encourages students to focus on careers in medicine
- UC Santa Barbara Kavli conferences let science teachers interact with leading researchers
- UC Santa Cruz launches online mentoring program for math teachers
- Principal benefits from UC’s Principal Leadership Institute
Latest budget news
- UC Regents approve plans to trim enrollment, freeze senior management pay as part of response to state budget challenge
- Summary of governor's 2009-10 budget proposal for UC (pdf)
- UC President Mark G. Yudof statement on governor's 2009-10 state budget proposal
- UC President Mark G. Yudof: Our future: human capital
- Making the case for UC
- UC Office of the President cuts budget more than $60 million
- Governor's mid-year cuts include new reduction for UC
- UC Regents approve final budget for 2008-09
Did you know?
- In 2006, nearly 100,000 teachers were served by the professional development programs and UC-school partnerships were extended to 377 California schools.
- UC’s California Subject Matter Project alone served more than 40,000 educators in 2006 in nine disciplines: writing, math, science, foreign languages, international studies, history-social science, physical education-health, reading and literature, and the arts.
Resources
- UC's impact: key points (pdf)
- 2009-10 budget process for UC (pdf)
- Discussion of 2009-10 budget issues (pdf)
- Funding higher education: An investment in California's economy (pdf)
- Campaign for College Opportunity issues report on impact of higher education cuts to California
- UC, CSU, CCC leaders: Invest in public higher education (pdf)
- UC Academic Senate’s report on impact of proposed budget cuts (pdf)
- Student fee fact sheet (pdf)
- 2009-10 governor's proposed state budget
- Archived budget information
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