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Direct linkAlberto M. Ochoa; Cristina Alfaro – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
This article documents the San Diego National Origin Desegregation Assistance Center (NODAC), one of the nine national centers established by the U.S. Office of Education to provide technical assistance to school districts cited under Section 601 of Title VI, from the Office for Civil Rights, to meet the Lau compliance requirement based on the Lau…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
Download full textPublic School Forum of North Carolina, 2024
The 2024 North Carolina Education Primer serves as a fact-based guide to public education in North Carolina. The Primer provides a comprehensive overview of how education policy is made, along with the current state of public education and the policies guiding it. The Forum produces this guide in order to inform current policymakers, candidates…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Public Education, Public Schools
Kenji Hakuta; Sarah C. K. Moore – Language Policy, 2024
This paper describes the author's personal involvement with issues of policy and implementation that were sparked by the "Lau" decision. Topics included are student assessment, the bilingual education wars, the role of research, the paradigm shift with the advent of standards, and California state policy in the education of English…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Court Litigation, Student Evaluation
Owiti A. K'Akumu – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
This article is written within a conceptual space that considers engineering as a heteronomous discipline. In this context, we analyse how the state has intervened in the development of the body of knowledge of engineering discipline in a developing country in a process known as decolonisation and the political dynamism this has created. We take…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Decolonization, Political Attitudes, Accreditation (Institutions)
Adam Kissel – Heritage Foundation, 2025
Too often, the government has not attempted to resolve the many problems at public and nonprofit colleges, targeting the for-profit ("proprietary") sector instead. It should not be possible to shut down a college over a technical violation--but, under antagonistic actors, that is how regulations on for-profit colleges operate. Congress…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Private Colleges, Equal Education, Compliance (Legal)
Amber H. Dean – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine rulings of Pennsylvania hearing officers in cases that addressed procedural denials of a FAPE and provide recommendations to school districts. In order to develop recommendations, an examination of the 50 most recent due process cases occurred. The study examined the procedural regulation mentioned in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Civil Rights, Hearings, State Government
Betty A. Rosa, Contributor; Jeffrey Matteson, Contributor; Jason Harmon, Contributor; William Murphy, Contributor; Angelique Johnson-Dingle, Contributor; Ceylane Meyers-Ruff, Contributor; Michael Mastroianni, Contributor; David Hamilton, Contributor; Daniel Morton-Bentley, Contributor; Christina Coughlin, Contributor; Jennifer Trowbridge, Contributor; Lauren Moore, Contributor; J. P. O’Hare, Contributor; Laura Glass, Contributor; Anne Fiscarelli, Contributor; David Frank, Contributor; Michael St. John, Contributor – New York State Education Department, 2025
The New York State Education Department's Annual Report contains contributions from various program offices discussing initiatives for the 2024-2025 school year: (1) Advancing Equity and Excellence: A Transformative Year for the Office of Education Policy; (2) Elevating Equity and Excellence: A Year of Progress and Promise in Instructional…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Departments, State Programs, Educational Policy
Sarah C. K. Moore; John Chi – Language Policy, 2024
To commemorate "Lau v. Nichols," this paper reports on findings from archival data revealing its micro- and macro-level genesis, successive activities, and that despite its historic role in language policy development and critical importance for codifying language rights, the vision for educational equity by the Cantonese-speaking,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, School Districts, Instructional Leadership, Biculturalism
Ilana Marice Umansky; Nami Shin; Karen D. Thompson; Janette D. Avelar; Jaclyn Bovee – Grantee Submission, 2024
The "Lau v. Nichols" Supreme Court case specifies two core responsibilities of schools -- and rights for students -- with regard to students classified as English learners (ELs): 1) opportunities to learn English; and 2) equitable access to grade-level content. Yet 50 years since Lau's passage, students' right to content may not be being…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, English Learners, Language Proficiency
Yell, Mitchell L.; McNamara, Scott; Prince, Angela M. T. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that school districts provide eligible students with specially designed instruction that confers a free appropriate public education (FAPE). Depending on the unique needs of a student, FAPE may include physical education services. The IDEA also requires that a student's individualized…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Adapted Physical Education, Individualized Education Programs, Equal Education
Heewon Jang; Richard W. Disalvo – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
How progressive is school spending when spending is measured at the school-level, instead of the district-level? We use the first dataset on school-level spending across schools throughout the United States to ask to what extent progressivity patterns previously examined across districts are amplified, nullified, or reversed, upon disaggregation…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics, Expenditures, School Districts
Phillips-Krivickas, Karla – State Education Standard, 2022
When education initiatives set out to help those who have been "historically disadvantaged or historically marginalized," they perfectly describe students with disabilities. Yet too often, these students have been excluded from conversations about equity in education. Congress opened public school doors for millions of children with…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Misconceptions, Student Rights
Katsiyannis, Antonis; Losinski, Mickey; Parks Ennis, Robin – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Individualized education programs are considered the cornerstone of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act and serve as the means to determine whether qualified students with disabilities receive a Free Appropriate Public Education. This article aims to examine a recent circuit court ruling regarding the applicability of retrospective…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Court Litigation, Educational Practices, Meetings
Zhongfeng Tian; Kevin M. Wong – Language Policy, 2024
This study examined how three champion principals of Asian language dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs--Cantonese, Korean, and Mandarin--in California have navigated the oscillating language-in-education policies after the Lau decision. We explored principals' various roles through a lens of agency in a social justice leadership…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Bilingual Education Programs, Asian Americans, Advocacy
Gutfreund, Zevi – History of Education Quarterly, 2017
This article explores citizenship's multiple meanings in Los Angeles by describing five different types of Americanization, or immigrant education, in the city of angels from 1910 to 1940. The federal racialization of access to citizenship influenced these alternative approaches to Americanization at a local level. In the context of Supreme Court…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational History, Program Development, Second Language Instruction
