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Nold, James; De Jong, David; Moran, James; Robinson, Derrick; Aderhold, Frederick – SAGE Open, 2021
State-funded prekindergarten educational programming for all children is a rarity in the United States. Five states offer no financial support to fund prekindergarten educational programming, and the majority offer partial funding. Only three states provide universally funded prekindergarten educational programming. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Educational Finance, Program Effectiveness
Houston Independent School District, 2019
This report presents the State Compensatory Education (SCE) report for the 201-2019 school year. Per Section 29.081 of the Texas Education Code (TEC ยง29.081), the SCE program is designed to reduce dropout rates and increase academic performance of students identified as being at-risk of dropping out of school. SCE operates as a funding source to…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Educational Finance
Oregon Department of Education, 2014
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of public schools and their progress towards the goals of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Public Schools, Progress Monitoring, State Legislation
Morris, H. H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
The decline of the American educational system is due not to teacher incompetence, but to funding systems that depend upon body counts rather than excellence, to weak discipline policies, and to egalitarian admissions policies that reward students according to need rather than ability. (WD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Admission, Discipline Problems, Educational Quality
Oregon Department of Education, 2012
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of public schools and their progress towards the goals of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Public Schools, Progress Monitoring, State Legislation
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Milstein, Mike M.; Burke, William J. – Planning and Changing, 1980
Identified voter attitudes directly affecting voter behavior in fiscal elections, including attitudes about community involvement in policy-making, school community relations, school discipline and the teaching of democracy, present level of spending, and present level of taxes. Perceptions of school quality and social conditions have little…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Support
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Div. of Student Services. – 1981
Pennsylvania's alternative education programs for youths with disciplinary problems have increased three-fold in the last five years. This publication includes descriptions of 36 such programs, chosen to be representative of the variety of programs operating in the state's schools. Each program description identifies the district, coordinator,…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Financial Support, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades
Hess, Fritz; And Others – 1979
This paper discusses alternative schools that serve students with special needs. The evolution of alternative education is outlined and several kinds of alternatives are discussed: schools for the gifted, the vocationally-oriented, and the disruptive, and multiethnic and basic skills programs. Alternative schools for problem students appear to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Curriculum Development, Discipline
Clay, Thomas – 1982
To determine facts and opinions concerning the status of music in all Ohio schools (public and private), questionnaires were sent to the 4,389 K-12 teachers listed in the 1981 Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Directory and survey instruments were mailed to superintendents of each of Ohio's 614 school districts. Approximately 47.5% of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Class Size, Disabilities, Discipline Problems
Shavelson, Richard J. – 1985
The Department of Defense Dependent Schools (DoDDS) is a unified school district operating schools in 20 foreign countries. As part of its efforts to assess the educational and social development of its students, DoDDS participated in the longitudinal study, High School and Beyond. The purpose of the present study was to describe those DoDDS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Cognitive Tests, College Bound Students