Signers and Commitments
Major L.A. organizations and institutions have committed to be jointly accountable for implementing transformative strategies along the cradle-through-career education-workforce pipeline.
Major L.A. organizations and institutions have committed to be jointly accountable for implementing transformative strategies along the cradle-through-career education-workforce pipeline.
L.A. Compact partners are committed to mutual accountability for student success and the use of data for continual improvement. To track progress towards the L.A. Compact's goals, the partners have identified several indicators of success and promised to regularly report on these measures to the community.
The Los Angeles Digital Equity Action League (LA DEAL) Consortium is a collaborative, community-driven consortium assessing and addressing existing broadband gaps across the Los Angeles region.
The LAUSD Community Schools Initiative (CSI) aims to transform systems to support and enhance culturally competent, restorative, joyful, and holistic learning environments for all LAUSD students and families.
The Los Angeles Opportunity Youth Collaborative brings together a multi-sector collaborative to address the systemic barriers facing transition age foster youth in Los Angeles County.
The L.A. Region K-16 Collaborative aims to close postsecondary attainment and workforce gaps for students who have been historically excluded from high-skill and high-wage positions in health care, computer science, and engineering fields.
Launched in 2008, the Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) Collaborative is a consortium of 12 colleges and universities in the region, which have committed to advancing the L.A. Compact’s goals.
In 2016, UNITE-LA launched the L.A. Compact Data Workgroup to identify appropriate metrics to be featured on the L.A. Compact Charting Progress Dashboard, via a collaborative process described here.
The L.A. Compact has always championed local, state, and national policy shifts that support students and families in achieving success in education, careers, and in the community.
Horizons 32K is a regional, holistic campaign to engage young people ages 16-24 in work and school through both prevention and re-engagement strategies.
From 2005-13, the first iteration of the Los Angeles Workforce Systems Collaborative (LAWSC) was founded under the leadership of Mayor Villaraigosa.
As the L.A. Compact’s leading partner in the early childhood community, from 2015-16, First 5 LA led the Los Angeles School Readiness Workgroup (SRW) as part of the L.A. Grade Level Reading Campaign.
Between 2013 and 2019, the Los Angeles Regional STEM Hub sought to connect the region’s leading professionals and educators in an effort to expand student access to high-quality Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEAM) education and provide sustainable models for 21st century workforce and skills development.
Launched as a strategic initiative of the L.A. Compact, LASDI was a collaboration between LAUSD, United Teachers Los Angeles, and Associated Administrators of Los Angeles to provide capacity-building support to internal Public School Choice (PSC) implementation teams in accordance with the 2009 Public Choice Resolution.
Between 2009-20, the L.A. Compact Joint Advocacy Group promoted a united advocacy voice in Sacramento on issues impacting young people in the L.A. region.
Launched in 2010, the L.A. Educator Pathways Partnership (LAEPP) was a longstanding data sharing and research collaboration between L.A. Unified and the region’s primary teacher training programs.
In 2020, as a result of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the urgent spotlight on systemic racism prompted by the murder of George Floyd, UNITE-LA launched a policy workgroup to advocate for legislative and budget reforms that support flexibility in pathways to careers in teaching, modifications to credentialing requirements, and equity-focused improvements in financial supports for teacher candidates.
