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Peer reviewedLoheyde, Katherine Jones – Education and Urban Society, 1979
Among the many questions raised by minimum competency testing is the question of responsibility for the initiation and financing of these tests and any necessary remediation. The federal role is, and should remain, merely one of providing financial assistance to states who insist on pursuing their own efforts in this area. (Author/RLV)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship
Higgins, Scottie; Hockenberry, Cathe – 1979
State and federal policy issues regarding graduation requirements for handicapped students are explored. After a historical review of such issues as school attendance laws and the competency based testing movement, the effect of state and federal legislation is discussed. State action regarding minimum competency testing is charted and four policy…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Graduation Requirements
Hathaway, Walter E. – 1981
More than thirty states, as well as numerous local school districts, have adopted some form of student minimum competency program. Such programs vary widely in their purposes which range all the way from instructional and curriculum planning to deciding whether students are promoted from grade to grade. Thus far, there has been little actual…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Legislation
Peer reviewedLanford, Allyson D.; Cary, Lynn G. – Remedial and Special Education, 2000
Discussion of high school graduation requirements for students with disabilities focuses on legal and practical issues including graduation standards, minimum competency testing, and termination of services. Recommendations are offered to help school districts establish a process for graduating students with disabilities within the legal framework…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Download full textMerkel-Keller, Claudia – 1992
New Jersey has taken steps to improve vocational education programs and services in response to two state reports and the measurement and evaluation requirements of the reauthorized Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-392). Among state initiatives is the Occupational Competency Project, a study of 100…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
This document contains testimony, prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials submitted during two days of hearings held in September, 1977. Under consideration was a bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require state educational agencies to establish basic standards of educational proficiency applicable…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
