Due to the difficulties experienced by our school and District communities during 2020, we will be approving only a select few proposals from every submission.  Only those research projects found by program decision-makers to be of concrete and timely benefit to the District will be considered. CERR, in concert with program staff, will determine the benefit to the District proposed by the researcher(s).

The Committee for External Research Review (CERR) reviews, approves, and monitors all research conducted in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). If you are looking to conduct research inside LAUSD schools or plan on contacting anyone associated with the District (administrators, teachers, parents, students) as part of your research study or evaluation, you must submit a proposal to CERR for review and approval. If your research study or evaluation requires individual-level data (e.g., student or staff), you will be also required to submit a Data Use Agreement for review and approval. If you only need school- or district-level data, you will find a wide array of publicly-available information regarding the work of LAUSD and its impact on students, teachers, principals and parents in the LAUSD Open Data Portal: http://opendata.lausd.net 

Please be aware that the proposal and approval process can take several months to complete so CERR strongly encourages researchers to plan accordingly.

If you have any questions about CERR or the research proposal submission process, please send an email to kathy.hayes@lausd.net or call (213) 241-5153.