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Download full textKansas Action for Children, Inc., Topeka. – 2001
This pamphlet presents the concerns of child advocates related to the use of Kansas' portion of the Master Tobacco Settlement for improving the health and well-being of children and youth as legislated in 1999. This state legislation created the Kansas Endowment for Youth Fund (KEY) to receive the tobacco monies, the Children's Initiative Fund…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Advocacy, Children, Public Policy
Birch, Thomas L. – 1982
Beginning in 1980, legislation in six states to establish a Children's Trust Fund has been enacted. The legislation creates new sources of support for preventive services in the area of child abuse in Kansas, Washington, Iowa, Virginia, Michigan, and California. To show how the trust-fund concept has been and can be adapted to different political…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Child Abuse, Financial Support, Fund Raising
Kansas State Dept. of Social Welfare, Topeka. Div. of Institutional Management. – 1966
Summarized are the recommendations and findings of 1 1/2-year project to prepare a plan to combat mental retardation in Kansas. The study is said to have been based on the principle that needs rather than diagnostic labels should determine services provided. Outlined are mental retardation planning activities at the federal level and preplanning…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Program Development
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1989
Public school choice is an area of educational reform that has received attention from state and federal policymakers. Common applications of choice programs include alternative schools; open enrollment/intradistrict choice; and statewide/interdistrict choice. The following areas in public school choice are covered in this report: perceived…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education, Public Schools
Poggio, John P. – 1984
Kansas law requires setting passing scores for the reading and mathematics competency test for 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 11th grade students, administered annually since April of 1980. New objective-referenced tests are prepared each year. Both judgmental (Angoff, Ebel, and Nedelsky) methods and empirical (contrasting groups and borderline) methods…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1992
As Kansas schools have begun to work through the Quality Performance Accreditation (QPA) process, educators have asked for guidance and the establishment of some uniform parameters. This publication is one of the guides designed to lead schools through the school improvement process called for in the QPA. Creating a school profile is a way of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Change
Kansas State Dept. of Public Instruction, Topeka. – 1965
THE KANSAS PLAN IS DESIGNED TO HELP ESTABLISH NEW LOCAL ADULT BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS, AND TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE EXISTING ONES. INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT WILL INCLUDE READING AND WRITING, SPEAKING AND LISTENING SKILLS, CITIZENSHIP, CONSUMER EDUCATION, HUMAN RELATIONS, AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION. EARLY STAGES OF PLANNING (TO JUNE 30, 1966) WILL STRESS…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Action, Criteria
