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Trevor Maiseroulle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Career and technical education (CTE) has been an effort in the United States to help bring quality career preparation programs to secondary schools nationwide, with many career clusters allowing schools to teach various courses. For example, the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career cluster provides interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Termination, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Students
Burke, Lindsey M.; Butcher, Jonathan – Heritage Foundation, 2020
Forty years after its opening, Americans must reconsider the efficacy of a federal, Cabinet-level Department of Education. Rescinding agency status, eliminating duplicative, ineffective, and inappropriate programs, and re-organizing remaining programs under a restored Office of Education within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Education, Politics of Education
McCluskey, Neal – Cato Institute, 2021
As COVID-19 struck the United States in March 2020, sending the nation into lockdown, worry about the fate of private schools was high. These schools, which only survive if people can pay for them, seemed to face deep trouble. To gauge how the private schooling sector has fared amid the coronavirus pandemic, Cato's Center for Educational Freedom…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Private Schools, School Closing
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Williamson, W. John; Gilham, Chris – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2017
Alberta Education has been engaged in reviews and reforms of special education, and attempting to describe and move toward more inclusive ways of supporting students with disabilities since 2008. These efforts have, at times, resulted in more progressive and inclusive education policies and, at times, seemed somewhat halting. The obstacle to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Change, Special Education
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Heinze, Kathryn L.; Zdroik, Jennifer – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Public schools in the US are increasingly charging "pay-to-play" fees for participating in sports. Although these fees can cause reductions in participation, particularly for children from lower-income families, pay-to-play has become a legitimate practice within the field of public education. This study examines what leads some school…
Descriptors: Fees, Public Schools, Student Participation, School Districts
Webert, Candice D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study addressed the impact of VAM, concerns with VAM data, uses and interventions educational leaders provided teachers, and components perceived as necessary for VAM effectiveness as an evaluation tool. The demographics used for this study were position, school size, and experience. Due to the documented need for educational accountability…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Educational Administration, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Practices
Squire, Juliet; Robson, Kelly; Smarick, Andy – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
In 1997, the Buckeye State embraced a new approach to public-education delivery, launching a pilot program of community (charter) schools. Since then, the state's community schools sector has grown tremendously. During the 2013-14 school year, 390 schools served approximately 124,000 students--seven percent of students statewide. Despite its…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Watkins, Marley W.; Hall, Tracey E.; Worrell, Frank C. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2014
In this article, we report on a multiyear consultation project between a consulting team based in the United States and the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago. The project was initiated with a request for training in counseling for secondary school students but ended with the training of personnel from the Ministry of Education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Consultation Programs, Guidance Programs, Student Personnel Services
New America Foundation, 2011
President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 14th, 2011. The detailed budget request includes proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2012 funding levels for individual programs subject to appropriations. Congress will use…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Public Agencies, Federal Aid, Budgets
Lips, Dan; Marshall, Jennifer A. – Heritage Foundation, 2008
The authors of this memo to President-elect Barack Obama state that many in Congress are now proposing that the federal government intervene to address a range of problems in education by creating new programs and federal subsidies, including public school infrastructure and construction, funding for runaway college tuition costs, and the costs of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, School Choice
New America Foundation, 2009
President George W. Bush submitted his eighth and final budget request to the Congress on Monday. Under the proposal, fiscal year 2009 discretionary spending--spending subject to annual appropriations--would be at the same level as in the prior year for domestic programs and agencies not involved in homeland security efforts. The budget request…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Budgets, Presidents, Federal Aid
Delisle, Jason; Luebchow, Lindsey; Rieman, Heather – New America Foundation, 2008
Next week, President George W. Bush will submit his eighth and final budget request to the Congress. How has he fared with respect to education budget proposals thus far? Answer: although President Bush made the No Child Left Behind Act, which deals with elementary and secondary education, the hallmark of his education policy, from a federal…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Budgets, Presidents
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Purcell, Jeanne – Roeper Review, 1992
Two surveys of educators examined the status of gifted programs in Connecticut during 1989 to 1991. The 1991 results indicate that increasing numbers of programs for the gifted are experiencing jeopardy resulting from the state's fiscal crisis. The number of program eliminations increased by 63% and program reductions rose by 11%. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Exigency, Gifted, Program Termination
DeLuca, Nicholas M. – Executive Educator, 1982
Instead of shielding the public from the effects of budget cuts by making small across-the-board cuts on many programs, school administrators should slash whole programs. This will maintain the system's overall educational effectiveness while making clear the consequences of the public's political actions. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Administration, Program Termination
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Taylor, James E. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2006
One of the greatest challenges to comprehensive school reform (CSR) is sustaining reform over a period long enough to produce substantial effects. This article highlights the importance of studying sustainability as well as the importance of being clear about what is being sustained, distinguishing between a sustained reform relationship and…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Disadvantaged, Program Implementation, Program Termination
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