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Blanton, Rebecca E.; Foster, Lisa K. – California Research Bureau, 2012
In 2011, CalVet and the California Commission on the Status of Women (the Commission) requested the California Research Bureau (CRB) conduct a second iteration of its 2009 survey of women veterans; identifying their needs, surveying their service utilization and gathering information on their demographics. This report provides the findings of the…
Descriptors: Females, Participant Characteristics, Veterans, Individual Needs
Blanton, Rebecca E.; Foster, Lisa K. – California Research Bureau, 2012
Women veterans' needs have been subsumed under the needs of veterans in general for many years. Because women veterans make up less than ten percent of the total current veteran population, their unique needs have been obscured by this, but this is beginning to change. The federal Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the California Department of…
Descriptors: Females, Veterans, Surveys, Services
Blanton, Rebecca E. – California Research Bureau, 2012
This study was mandated by SB537 (Simitian, Chapter 650, Stats. of 2007, codified at Ed. Code Section 47613), which requires the California Research Bureau (CRB) to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the key elements and actual costs of charter school oversight. Charter schools are public schools that are operated by entities other…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Charter Schools, Program Effectiveness, School Districts
de Cos, Patricia L.; Chan, Julie – California Research Bureau, 2009
The Careers Project is a study of the preparation all students in public middle and high schools receive to explore career options and the relationship between that preparation and California's state and regional economies. The California Research Bureau (CRB) undertook this research at the request of a bipartisan group of members of the…
Descriptors: Careers, High Schools, Career Planning, School Surveys