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Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1988
This state master plan provides a structure to facilitate the development of an appropriate and effective education system for all students in Utah, including those at risk of dropping out and of failing to achieve literacy. The challenges of ensuring an appropriate and effective education for each student are significant, numerous, and complex;…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Syfrett, Evelyn E. – 1984
Florida state legislation has mandated the evaluation of its compensatory education programs. The Florida Accountability Act of 1976 called for minimum basic skills testing in grades 3, 5, 8, and 11 (subsequently amended to grade 10). In 1977, the Florida Compensatory Education Act mandated remedial programs for students performing below the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis
Download full textSachs, Steven G. – 1984
Planning the activities for an instructional development unit and evaluating how well it has performed requires a set of standards against which the unit can be compared. This paper proposes a set of standards developed from a variety of references and personal experiences with instructional development units from across the country. Thirty-eight…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 1989
A two-part survey prepared in compliance with the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act assessed the extent of homelessness among Missouri children and the types of educational barriers that they confront. The survey formed the basis for the federally required State Plan for educating homeless children. In this document, an explanation of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1988
This document comprises testimony delivered before the House Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and on the role of tax policy in preserving the stock of low-income housing. The effectiveness of the low-income credit program is discussed and strategies to improve it…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Financial Policy, Government Role, Hearings
Peer reviewedBaldwin, Donald R. – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1986
A recently-implemented university technology transfer program is described and discussed, including the context, elements required for technology transfer, federal patent policy, university policies and organization, the operating model, early results, university-industry interactions, and anticipated benefits to the university and industry. A…
Descriptors: Contracts, Government School Relationship, Higher Education, Models
Advanced Technology, Inc., Reston, VA. – 1983
Following up on the first two phases (1976-82) of the "District Practices Study" of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as presented in a resource book and seven special reports, this report is devoted to the study's third and final phase. During phase III (1982-83), researchers visited 14 sites to describe their…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Board of Education Policy, Case Studies, Compensatory Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1987
This document provides the text of House Joint Resolution 153 and the remarks made in the hearing held before a subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives. This joint resolution was written to provide for insurance grants and loans by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA)…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Asbestos, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Standards
District Court, Houston, TX. Southern District of Texas. – 1984
This Civil Action (C.A.) settlement agreement concerns employment policies (specifically of minorities), student transfers, boundary changes and new school construction, facilities and supplies, instructional programming, the dropout rate, and retention of the Voluntary Interdistrict Education Plan. These concerns are related to the increase of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Bilingual Teachers, Compliance (Legal)
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1991
The final report of the congressionally-mandated Special Study Panel on Education Indicators (SSPEI) that was transmitted to Congress as required by the Hawkins-Stafford Education Amendments of 1988 is presented. This report is divided into two sections. Part I--"Education Counts"--presents the SSPEI's overall conception of how an…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Indicators
Connors, Eugene T.; Vacca, Richard S. – 1981
The section of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) detailing "appropriate education" as a function of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) regulates a variety of educational considerations. Arguing that the IEP is in fact "the hub of the special education wheel," the authors of this document begin…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Educational Malpractice, Educational Needs
Spartz, James L. – 1987
This comparative analysis updates the effects on school finance of the Delaware Legislature's passage of a new equalization law in 1984. The formula for allocation of equalization funds was modified by increasing the level of state support and by requiring greater local tax effort for districts to qualify for the funds. Analysis focuses on four…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Equity (Finance), Equalization Aid, Expenditures
Association for Institutional Research. – 1983
Proceedings of the 1982 forum of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the 1982-1983 AIR Directory are presented. Titles and authors of general session addresses contained in section 1 are as follows: "On Quality: The Federal Connection" (David Pierpont Gardner); "New Initiatives of State Policy in Higher…
Descriptors: Abstracts, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making
