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Dr. McCauley has also worked to build statewide leadership programs that establish new guidelines for equity when developing leadership competencies.

In this role, he led efforts to assess and pass state policies that improved school improvement efforts in secondary schools. His work seeks to examine inequities in education through multiple perspectives including school finance, resource allocation, federal policy and school improvement. McCauley research explores how marginalized groups come to be marginalized through education policy and how the existing distribution of wealth and capital are reinforced through policy.

Additionally, McCauley has authored reports, briefs, articles on school improvement and school reform on a range of topics including a guide entitled Considering Special Education as a Guide for Systemwide Improvement. Dr. McCauley teaches courses on education policy, school finance and financial management.

Additionally, during his time at ED, he served as an author of the SIG federal notice and oversaw the administration of federal funds dedicated to improving low-performing schools across the country which resulted in more than 1,700 schools seeking to advance local efforts to increase equity through the implementation of improvement strategies. As the Director for the Center on School Turnaround, McCauley manages the national technical assistance and dissemination of research-based practices designed to increase SEA capacity to support efforts to turnaround around low-performing schools.

Under McCauley’s leadership the national center has assisted states and regional comprehensive centers in developing coherent and systemic school improvement strategies for the past seven years. McCauley has served as a Principal Investigator across multiple grants totaling over $10 million. Prior to working at the U.S. Department of Education, McCauley worked with state education policymakers across the country while serving as the Project Director for the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE).

A regular presenter at state board meeting across the country, in 2006 McCauley also led a national study, comprised of state board members and state education leaders, on school turnaround entitled the “State’s Role in Improving Low-Performing Schools Through Restructuring” which focused on the role that states can play in improving the lowest performing schools across the country.

He has led a federally funded national research center and a university led research center supported with both federal and private funding. If you do not find an answer to your question, please contact us for further assistance. Carlas McCauley serves as Associate Professor in the Education Leadership and Policy Studies Department and Associate Dean for Research and Sponsored Programs.

In this role, he manages a network of project teams, including external partners and consultants, to deliver effective and efficient services designed to build local and state capacity to improve low-performing schools. In this role, McCauley advised on national K-12 policy; designed operating plans focused addressing state and local education program priorities.

 McCauley earned his BA at St. Louis University, his MS in education policy from the University of Southern California and his EdD in leadership and policy from the University of Southern California.

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Prior to joining WestEd, McCauley was a Senior Official at ED overseeing the Office of School Turnaround which administered the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) Program, the Turnaround Leaders Grant and the School Turnaround AmeriCorps Partnership.

McCauley has also spent several years working across local school systems, Los Angeles Unified School District, to improve education equity and policy. This site also serves as a resource for students and people outside of the University to learn about our faculty and staff. 

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