Laura Hill
Policy Director and Senior Fellow
Expertise: K-12 education, immigrant populations
Laura Hill is a policy director and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Her areas of expertise are K–12 education and immigration. She is currently researching English Learners in California schools, special education, and ESL students in community colleges. Her recent publications examine student achievement on the state’s K–12 assessments and the link between language reclassification policies and student success. Prior to joining PPIC, she was a research associate at the SPHERE Institute and a National Institute of Aging postdoctoral fellow. She holds a PhD in demography and an MA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Californians Support Universal Preschool, but Take-up of Transitional Kindergarten Is Uneven
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Shifting School Enrollment Trends across California’s Regions
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