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Healy, Patrick – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will not ask the Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to exempt the Michigan Education Trust from federal income taxes. The state college tuition prepayment plan was discontinued in 1991 due to legal challenges but promised to honor its commitments to 55,000 participants. The program may now be…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Federal Government, Federal Regulation, Higher Education
Download full textUseem, Elizabeth L. – 1991
This paper describes the implementation of an innovative integrated approach to the delivery of services for disadvantaged youth in Massachusetts, and examines the fiscal, political, and organizational factors that led to its subsequent demise. Massachusetts was one of the first states to envision and implement a statewide system of coordinated…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Business Cycles, Coordination
Shoultz, Bonnie; Walker, Pam; Hulgin, Kathy; Bogdan, Bob; Taylor, Steve; Moseley, Charles – 1999
This report describes the closure process for Brandon Training School, Vermont's only public institution for people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities, until it was closed in 1993. The report was developed through a review of documents and interviews with state administrators, local program directors and staff members, former…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Racino, Julie Ann – 1993
In 1978 a complaint was filed by New Hampshire Legal Assistance against Laconia Developmental Services, New Hampshire's only public institution for children and adults with developmental disabilities. The decision from the Federal district court judge in August 1981 ordered the state to devise a plan for: institutional improvement; development of…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Community Programs, Court Litigation
Racino, Julie Ann – 1993
This case study shares the perspectives of two individuals who worked from within Laconia Developmental Services (a state institution in New Hampshire for people with developmental disabilities) to close it. One individual was institutional superintendent and the other served as a liaison officer among the state government offices, Laconia…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Agents
Schweitzer, H. J. – 1984
The University of Illinois College of Agriculture and Extension Service's 50-year commitment to a church leadership program for rural clergy was discontinued in 1980 because of changes in both rural religious structures and the College. The Church and Community Institute Committee voted in May, 1980, to disband while requesting that the University…
Descriptors: Church Role, Clergy, Continuing Education, Extension Education
