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Massachusetts Department of Education, 2008
This paper reports on the implementation of the Special Education Reimbursement ("Circuit Breaker") Program. Fiscal Year 2007 is the fourth year implementing the Circuit Breaker reimbursement program which provides additional state support for students with disabilities. School districts are eligible for a reimbursement of eligible costs…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, State Aid, Individualized Programs, Educational Finance
Alberta Education, 2009
Alberta Education provides programming support and funding to school authorities to develop and implement special education programming for ECS children and students in grades 1 to 12. "Special Education Coding Criteria 2009/2010" outlines criteria within specific categories to help school authorities identify those children and students…
Descriptors: Individualized Programs, Criteria, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
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Steinberg, I. S. – Oxford Review of Education, 1978
Discusses problems posed to education by declining enrollments. Major problems are unused school facilities, unemployed teachers, and decline in finances allocated to education. Suggest that declining enrollments should be considered instead as an impetus toward better teacher/student ratios and individualized programs. (DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Christison, Milton – 1976
This manifesto outlines the purposes, instructional program, facilities, allocation of resources, financing, and implementation of a private elementary and middle school that is based on the concepts of professional accountability and individualized learning. The school would be organized around learning families that cross grade and ability…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Finance, Elementary Education, House Plan
Wasserman, Diana R. – 1979
Intended for direct service special education personnel, the paper traces the origin of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142); examines the legislation and litigation which preceded its enactment; discusses its funding mechanism; reviews its relationship to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and looks at several…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Due Process, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Finance
GREAVES, JACK – 1967
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, HAS MADE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE RACIAL BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS BY INSTITUTING VOLUNTARY, MANDATORY, AND REVERSE TRANSFER PROGRAMS, IN WHICH 1500 NEGRO AND 90 WHITE STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY PARTICIPATED. MOREOVER IN ANTICIPATION OF INCREASED INMIGRATION, THE CITY HAS DEVELOPED A NEW TYPE OF SCHOOL STRUCTURE FOR URBAN LIVING, THE…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Cooperation, Continuous Progress Plan, Educational Finance
Evers, Nancy A. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to identify any increase or decrease in expenditures among a stratified sample of schools during their first year of implementing the system of Individually Guided Education in the Multiunit Elementary School (IGE/MUS-E). IGE/MUS-E is a comprehensive educational system incorporating several innovative educational…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Costs, Differentiated Staffs, Educational Finance
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Goddard, J. Tim; Foster, Rosemary Y. – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2006
In this paper we examine the contention that many schools and school boards use funding generated from testing and coding of students with special needs as a means of augmenting general operating revenues. As a result, students with special needs do not receive the full benefit of the monies received for individualized programs. The article draws…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Individualized Programs, Educational Finance
Ober, Edward M.; Perine, Joseph P. – 1978
The illustrated pamphlet briefly reviews the laws relevant to the obligations of those responsible for educating, habilitating, and employing hearing impaired developmentally disabled persons. Aspects discussed include the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142), Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, federal…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Finance
Gonder, Peggy – 1979
The report discusses the California State Department of Education's California Master Plan for Special Education, a comprehensive approach to provide special education services to handicapped children. The plan establishes a system that identifies children in need of special education, places children in the programs best suited to their needs,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Handicapped Children
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1979
Two purposes are served by this guide: to allow school districts to examine their special education programs and related pupil personnel services, and to aid state departments of education in evaluating the nature, scope, and quality of school district offerings to handicapped students. The guide is divided into two parts: one provides forms for…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Agency Cooperation, Check Lists, Data Collection
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1980
The guide, a support document to the Oklahoma State Plan for Special Education, presents a policies and procedures manual for special education in Oklahoma in accordance with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142). The manual is intended to establish the minimum standards for special education program approval, to establish…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Due Process, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Mountain-Plains Education and Economic Development Program, Inc., Glasgow AFB, MT. – 1975
One of three supplements which accompany chapter 1 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), this document contains specific information concerning the start-up plan and operational budget of the executive division. The following areas of the program are…
Descriptors: Accounting, Budgets, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
James, H. Thomas; And Others – 1969
Papers contributed by authors prominent in educational innovation and technology are in this collected work. The authors do not always agree, but a broad pattern of agreement is discernible. They agree on the identification of those major problems confronting the schools today as a result of the new social forces at work; and generally, they agree…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction