An examination is presented of costs, measured in time and dollars, resulting from the maintenance of a selective California state documents collection. A discussion of previous research dealing with government documents collections is followed by a brief description of the California state documents depository program. Then the state documents…

Reported are findings from a survey of eight state education agencies on the excess cost of educating handicapped children. Among findings presented are that no state surveyed has all the data required for a detailed analyses of excess costs; few states maintained a detailed accounting system for special education programs; few provided cost…

The Connecticut Program for Handicapped/Talented Children was designed to devise an assessment procedure for documenting developed or potential talent in handicapped children and to provide program services for handicapped children with high creative potential. Multi-arts experiences in the areas of visual arts, music, and theatre-movement have…

The Michigan Vocational Education Service, in September 1972, implemented a Performance Objectives Development Project to generate objectives for all vocational/technical education programs in the State. It was necessary that each school district adopt a set of minimum performance objectives for each program to retain the district's priority for…

The final report covers activities of the National Regional Resource Center in the area of special education from 1970 through June 30, 1974. Reported is program emphasis on the development of a statewide diagnostic-prescriptive resource system including target classes (which served as data collection points and demonstration classes),…

Georgia's Needs Assessment Package, which has many sample forms, includes a procedure which helps to identify short-range and long-range educational needs. This procedure utilizes community participation which broadens the decision-making base and serves to legitimatize actual decisions. It utilizes the opinions of professional educators,…

Monitors are provided with step-by-step directions on how to administer Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment Questionnaires to intermediate school pupils. They are told what materials are needed, how to keep materials secure, and what to do if a student misses a session. Monitors are given suggestions for questionnaire administration and…

Monitors are provided with step-by-step directions on how to administer Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment Questionnaires to secondary school pupils. They are told what materials are needed, how to keep materials secure, and what to do if a student misses a session. Monitors are given suggestions for questionnaire administration and…

This document describes the Pennsylvania Competency-Based Teacher Education (PaCBTE) program and the Pennsylvania Competency-Assessment Certification (PaCAC) program and their relationship to teacher certification. The PaCBTE program is described as the state department of education's effort to assist colleges and universities in the transition to…

Idaho's annual evaluation report relating to migrant programs funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (fiscal year 1969, school year 1968-69) is presented. Included in the document are descriptions of exemplary programs and information on number of children served, grade placement, teacher-pupil ratio, coordination with…

This report on school finance in New York State describes the components of general aid: operating expense, growth size correction, budget, high tax, reorganization incentive for compliance with master plan for school district reorganization, minimum aid per district, transportation, and expenses for construction of new buildings and maintenance…

This analysis focuses on the current patterns of linkage of local and intermediate education districts to State departmnts of education. Most of the literature offers suggestions and recommendations that State education departments increase their role in statewide coordination and in development and implementation of statewide educational policy.…

Designed to accompany the Wisconsin State Curriculum for educable mentally retarded (EC 030 035), the handbook offers suggestions for implementation of the 12 Persisting Life Situations reflecting the general objectives of the state curriculum. Guidelines for preparing teaching units and resource guides, and for utilizing the Curriculum Accounting…

A summary of delinquency, traffic, and other cases, sources and limitations of data, and the definition of six terms precedes 14 tables of statistics. Tables cover the following cases disposed of in 1967: number of delinquency cases; manner of handling cases; rate of delinquency cases; percent change in delinquency cases; number and manner of…

An outline is presented for a digital computer simulation model for an information network for the State of California. The methodology of simulation is discussed initially. The problems presented by the very large size of the system, in terms of materials, users, communication connections are depicted, and solutions are suggested which permit…