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Download full textLefkowits, Laura; Arens, Sheila A. – Mid Continent Research for Education and Learning, 2004
In response to the need to ensure that standards fulfill their promise of supporting a system of education that leaves no child behind, McREL created a multimedia, multi-site, ongoing nationwide dialogue related to standards-based reform efforts. These dialogues provided participants with opportunities to share underlying assumptions, beliefs, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Academic Achievement, Resource Allocation
Peer reviewedWilliamson, Mary Lynn; Mamarchev, Helen L. – NASPA Journal, 1990
Describes vulnerability of student affairs and other academic support areas during economically difficult times. Explores four components of unified systems approach to student affairs financial management that can maintain efficiency and effectiveness: (1) long-range planning; (2) accountability; (3) evaluation; and (4) applied model of systems…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Evaluation, Higher Education
Direct linkHemmings, Philip – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper looks at ways of ensuring Czech regions and municipalities are fully motivated to make efficiency improvements in public service provision and so help achieve countrywide fiscal sustainability. The very large number of small municipalities in the Czech Republic means that scale economies are difficult to exploit and the policy options…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Public Service, Administrative Organization
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Board of Governors. – 1979
In order to establish a clearer sense of what California community colleges are expected to accomplish, to insure adequate resources to accomplish those tasks, and to provide a sounder basis for the assessment of the return of public investment in community colleges, the Board of Governors and the Office of the Chancellor of the California…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, College Planning, College Role
Henderson, Anne, Ed. – 1983
The effects of Chapter 2 block grants on fund distribution, programs, and school district spending, and the role played in Chapter 2 implementation by parents and citizens were investigated. Interim findings include the following: (1) there has been a massive redistribution of Federal funds away from States serving large numbers of poor nonwhite…
Descriptors: Accountability, Block Grants, Case Studies, Citizen Participation
Texas State Dept. of Commerce, Austin, TX. State Job Training Coordinating Council. – 1993
A Texas State Job Training Coordinating Council task force developed a series of recommendations regarding improving Texas' current employment and training system to prepare the state's residents for the "smart jobs of the future." A formal literature review was conducted, and regional forums were held and attended by a wide range of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies, Educational Change
Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 1998
This document consists of the first two volumes of the 1997 annual report on Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system. Examined in volume 1 are the following topics: strategic directions for 1997; overview of the VET system's operation and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) agreement; key initiatives in 1997 (the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Annual Reports, Apprenticeships
