Official Report from the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence:

"Students First: Renewing Hope for California"

In April 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger established The Governor's Committee on Education Excellence (GCEE) to recommend changes and reforms that would lead to a more effective education for California's students. The committee was charged with analyzing current conditions, best practices, and research to find ways to improve California's public school system, with a particular emphasis on governance, finance, teachers and administrators.

The committee's report, released March 14, 2008 calls for systemic reform that includes strengthening teaching and leadership, ensuring fair funding that rewards results, streamlining governance and strengthening accountability, using data wisely, and creating a foundation for continuous improvement. The full and official set of documents released by the committee are available for free download below. For more information about the GCEE, please see: http://www.everychildprepared.org/

View and Download Reports:

Executive Summary
This 6-page PDF provides a brief overview of the committee's recommendations.

Official Summary Report
This 44-page report includes the executive summary and contains the committee's official findings and recommendations. This report is available in English and Spanish.

Technical Report
Released along with the official report, this 278-page document is much more extensive in describing the deliberations and research on which the committee's recommendations are based.

Frequently Asked Questions
This 4-page PDF contains the answers to the most commonly asked questions about the education debate in California.