Full-Day Kindergarten in California Lessons from Los Angeles

These appendices provide technical information on the data, methods, and analysis used in the report, and serve as the basis for several of its figures. Appendix A describes the data collection and response rate for the survey of full-day kindergarten in California’s public schools. Appendix B details the Los Angeles Unified School District and California Department of Education data used in analyses, including descriptive statistics for the main analysis samples. Appendix C discusses the methodology underlying our estimates of the effect of full-day kindergarten, including tests performed to check the robustness of the estimates and similarity to statewide results. We then describe the interaction models used to examine variation in effects by student and school characteristics. Appendix D presents regression results for the report’s findings, including main results, robustness checks, and interaction results.

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