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April M. Bixler – ProQuest LLC, 2023
An ultimate goal of American universities is to provide a safe and secure environment for all who attend and operate there, but what safety looks and feels like to the individual can vary to a great degree. There are many factors that campus safety departments consider when designing their campus safety policies and regulations. One way…
Descriptors: School Security, School Safety, Weapons, Governance
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Liuning Yang; Yan Xie; An Zhou; Wenxuan Zhang; Jo Smith – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Private supplementary tutoring, also known as shadow education, has had a profound influence on Chinese education during the past twenty years. The rapid expansion of shadow education has attracted the attention and increased regulation of the Chinese government. In July 2021, the Chinese government adopted one of the most restrictive legislative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutors, Tutoring, State Government
Jones, Adam; List, Amanda – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2018
In 2013, the Texas Legislature gave the state commissioner of education the broad statutory authority necessary to close poor performing public charter schools. Since then, the commissioner has vigorously exercised this new authority, preparing the way for the state to shift its resources away from enforcement and toward creation and support of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Quality, Public Schools, Educational Needs
Richardson, Richard, Jr.; Martinez, Mario – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
"Policy and Performance in American Higher Education" presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those charged with crafting and implementing higher education policy. Public institutions of higher learning are called upon by state governments to provide…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Public Policy, Educational Policy
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2007
This paper presents the State Governance Action Report for 2007. Compiled in this report are state policy developments, including legislation, commissions, and studies, affecting the structure, responsibilities, and operations of public higher education governing boards and institutionally related foundations. Governance and governance-related…
Descriptors: Governance, State Government, State Action, Governing Boards
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Katsiyannis, Antonis; Williams, Brenda – Remedial and Special Education, 1998
A study examined the legislative and policy mandates of 38 states regarding alternative education. Results indicate variability in state policy/legislative mandates and funding mechanisms, acceleration in alternative education activity, a commitment to providing technical assistance, limited state compliance-monitoring, and an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Mintrom, Michael; Vergari, Sandra – 1997
The charter-school idea has spread rapidly across the United States. One-half of the states have adopted charter-school laws since 1991, and legislatures in other states have given the idea careful consideration. This paper explores the political factors that shape charter-school laws. The paper utilizes the policy-innovation-diffusion framework…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Charter Schools, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Change
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Bass, Gerald R. – Rural Educator, 2001
Various strategies used by state policymakers to influence small school districts are discussed. Incentives can be used to help small districts survive or encourage them to reorganize or consolidate. Disincentives, or "the stick," can withhold funding from small districts or establish impossible goals, resulting in consolidation while…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Institutional Survival
D'Amico, Joseph J.; Corcoran, Thomas B. – 1985
A discussion session for urban school superintendents from Pennsylvania and New Jersey identified four educational issues, currently the focus of a good deal of political debate and activity, that illustrate the shift from local to Federal, and then from Federal to state-level influence and initiative. These are (1) centralization of control; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Centralization, Educational Finance
Maryland State Dept. of Legislative Services, Annapolis. – 1999
The report was prepared by a task force appointed to examine issues related to the University System of Maryland (USM) ten years after its creation in 1988. The task force focused on key issues raised by stakeholders and higher education experts, including statewide goals and priorities for the USM; duplication and overlap of authority between the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Governing Councils, Educational Finance, Governance
Nebraska State Dept. of Education, Lincoln. – 1994
This booklet lists the laws that relate to Nebraska social studies. The volume is intended for administrators, teachers, and curriculum planners to assist them to do a more thorough job of planning social studies programs. The Nebraska Social Studies Statutes are designed to be a primary tool in developing a district's curriculum, as they speak to…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship, Policy Formation
New York State Assembly, Albany. – 1995
This report summarizes the activities and achievements of the New York State Assembly's Committee on Higher Education during the 1995 legislative session. The Committee is responsible for the initiation and review of legislation relevant to higher education and the professions in New York State, as well as monitoring the ongoing activities of 39…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Budgeting, Community Colleges
Klerman, Jacob Alex; Hotz, V. Joseph; Reardon, Elaine; Cox, Amy G.; Farley, Donna O.; Haider, Steven J.; Imbens, Guido; Schoeni, Robert – 2002
The impact of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS), which was passed to increase California welfare recipients' participation in welfare-to-work (WTW) activities, was examined. The impact study consisted of a nonexperimental program evaluation that used statistical models to estimate causal effects and a simulation…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Employment Level
Elliott, Edward C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1910
The work presented in this bulletin is in continuation of the plan inaugurated three years ago, which has resulted in two similar publications covering the periods 1904-1906 and 1906-1908 (Bulletin, 1906, No. 3, and Bulletin, 1908, No. 7). In this bulletin an attempt has been made to classify and to analyze the changes wrought in the public school…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Law, Educational Legislation, State Legislation