Providing Fiscal Assistance and Services to Local Educational Agencies

THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA SINCE 1992

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News In Education

FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.

Many Sonoma County students’ math, reading scores have grown worse since pandemic-era return to classrooms, new national study shows

May 19, 2026

Many Sonoma County elementary and middle school students are lagging far behind their California public school peers in making up for academic losses from online instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new national study shows.

County schools superintendent took $16k bonus without legal authority

May 19, 2026

César Morales, Ventura County’s superintendent of education, paid himself a $15,575 bonus in 2024 that was not approved by the Ventura County Board of Education, then repaid the money after people began to ask his office about it.

Pasadena Unified school board president’s ‘consolidation’ plan revealed in records

May 19, 2026

Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education President Tina Fredericks created her own consolidation plan that proposed closing six schools, public records show.

Top LAUSD academic chiefs leaving as test scores rise and FBI raid sidelines Carvalho

May 19, 2026

The top two Los Angeles school district administrators in charge of instruction during the recent rise in test scores are leaving as the school board moves on with major budget and student technology issues without its nationally acclaimed and now entirely silenced leader, Supt. Alberto Carvalho.

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Our Services

These three services represent the people and skills behind FCMAT and our dedication to California's educational system.

Professional Learning Workshops

FCMAT's professional learning service includes regional and local educational agency (LEA)-specific workshops on a variety of topics for county offices, school districts, charter schools and community colleges; various leadership preparation programs; and written resources and presentations on a variety of topics given by staff throughout California.

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California School Information Services (CSIS)

As a service of FCMAT, CSIS assists LEAs in addressing a variety of challenges in the management and exchange of public school student, staff, and institutional information. CSIS has a long-standing history of providing leadership, information and tools designed to empower California's LEAs with increasing access to and use of high-quality data.

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Fiscal Health Risk Analysis (FHRA) and Indicators of Risk or Potential Insolvency

FCMAT has developed the FHRA and the Indicators of Risk or Financial Insolvency tools to help evaluate an LEA's fiscal health and risk of insolvency in the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Separate versions exist for TK-12, charter schools, and community colleges.

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Ed-Data.org

Ed-Data.org, also known as the Education Data Partnership, is a partnership of the California Department of Education, EdSource, and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team/California School Information Services (FCMAT/CSIS). It provides educators, parents, policy makers, the legislature and public access to timely and comprehensive fiscal, demographic, and performance data about TK-12 education in California.

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