Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has announced grants totaling $2.65 million to ten nonprofit organizations working to advance education reform in California.

Awarded through the California Education Policy Fund, the grants will support efforts to foster "deeper learning" — which includes mastery of key academic concepts along with critical thinking and complex problem solving skills, teamwork and collaboration, and learning how to learn — across the state’s public education system.

Launched by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 2011, the fund has awarded more than $13 million to twenty-five nonprofits to date. The fourth cohort of CEPF grant recipients includes the California Acceleration Project, the California Collaborative for District Reform (American Institutes for Research), the Campaign for College Opportunity, the Council for a Strong America, the Educational Policy Improvement Center, Educators for Excellence – Los Angeles, the EdVoice Institute, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Policy Analysis for California Education, and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

"Today's grantees are in a unique position to impact the changing California education system by focusing on effective policy implementation at both the local and state levels," said Melissa Berman, president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. "It's a pivotal moment in the history of education in California, and these grants will build on the Hewlett Foundation’s longstanding commitment to providing a world-class education to all California students."