South Carolina's comprehensive Education Improvement Act of 1984 includes provisions for the development and implementation of statewide incentive pay programs for teachers, principals, and schools. The provision affecting teachers mandates the development and field testing of up to three programs between 1984 and 1986 and the implementation of…

In 1983, the California State Legislature passed Senate Bill 947 which authorized a statewide Youth Suicide Prevention School Program, including provisions for staff training, parent awareness, and a classroom curriculum. This document contains the four guides of the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program. The first guide, the Implementation and…

The threatened loss of more than $4.5 billion in federal funds over the next 2 years leaves New York State with three options: to increase state taxes drastically, an action that could jeopardize the state's recent emergence from severe economic crisis; to curtail state services significantly; or to devise a creative new strategy including an…

The "Documents on Documents Collection" consists of documents produced by a variety of organizations in the course of administering state document depository programs. This collection, which contains 387 documents gathered between 1973 and 1979, originated as a resource for administrators of such depository programs and for those…

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…

The report presents the findings and principal recommendations from the Wisconsin Joint Committee on Legislative Organization regarding implementation of Subchapter IV, Chapter 115 of the statutes which included the principle that all handicapped children in the state receive free and appropriate education. Chapters focus on background, laws, and…

This paper examines compensatory education and bilingual education programs, outlines their general characteristics, and discusses their differences. The following kinds of information are provided: (1) the nature of the authorizing legislation including patterns in the distribution of funds, (2) the criteria used to determine which students and…

For the past two years The Boston Project, a Massachusetts State Department of Education sponsored activity, has provided planning and technical assistance to the Boston public school system's administrative leadership in their efforts to comply with that state's Comprehensive Special Education Law, Chapter 766--a prototype of P.L. 94-142, the…

Written to comply with Article 3, Chapter 30, Alaska Statutes--which mandates that all exceptional children in Alaska have a right to an appropriate education at public expense, the handbook provides information for designing instructional programs and strategies that will most effectively serve the needs of all exceptional children in Alaskan…

The document presents New York state regulations regarding services to handicapped children. Sections address the following areas: definitions; state aid to school districts for the education of students with handicaps; establishment of a committee on the handicapped; educational programs (special classes, resource programs, home and hospital…

To inform the public about details of the employment security program and how it functions, this comparison of state unemployment insurance laws is presented. The report is based primarily on an analysis of state statutes. It examines state by state the types of workers and employers that are covered under the state law, the methods of financing…

The document reports on a study to design a model to meet the impact of the Pennsylvania Right to Education Consent Decree (particularly as it relates to the mentally retarded) through the following steps--a review of the literature, a review of existing information, a survey to determine the amount of impact in selected areas, and construction of…

The report examines the characteristics of children (primarily between the ages of 6 and 17 years) placed in 42 New Jersey detention facilities, juveniles in need of supervision (JINS) shelters, and children's shelters; and provides descriptive information and analysis on the programs, policies, and budgets of these "temporary"…

Legislative actions affecting higher education in the state of Washington in 1979, enacted by the forty-sixth Washington state legislature are presented. Numbers and brief descriptions of both House and Senate bills are provided in Section 1. Section 2 summarizes Senate and House resolutions and appropriations act study provisos directed to the…

This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…