This study was designed to examine the role of State Educational Agencies (SEAs) in desegregation activity. It examines the nature of SEA activity and identifies common elements important to effective programs. It also assesses whether these activities and elements could serve as models for other states, and determines the need and desire of the…

THE QUESTIONS OF THE GOVERNOR'S POWER REGARDING CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES WAS DISCUSSED. THROUGH THE "GOVERNOR'S CODE OF FAIR PRACTICES," WHICH BRIEFLY STATED THAT THE STATE'S BASIC POLICY WAS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION, THE GOVERNOR AS WELL AS ALL STATE OFFICIALS HAD SUFFICIENT POWER TO FIGHT DISCRIMINATION. THE OFFICIALS HAD FURTHER POWER WITH…

The protection of the student and prospective student at the postsecondary level is examined. Twenty-five possible educational abuses and concerns, such as discriminatory refund policies and misrepresentation, identified by the Federal Interagency on Education are listed. Ten issues selected as the thrust of the first National Conference on…

This report is essentially a summary of many studies and papers prepared during the course of a two-year project. The goal of the project was to develop a planning methodology for meeting educational program needs in allied health professions to be used in the California state higher education system. For the purpose of this project, nursing is…

A process of equalization of salaries has taken place in the State of North Dakota for higher education during the 1977-78 school year. The State of North Dakota supports eight institutions of higher education: two universities, four state colleges, and two two-year institutions. The equalization process as it effected the decision making at the…

Analyzing FY 74 GI Bill data seems to confirm that a Vietman veteran's chances of using the GI Bill turn on what state he is from. Geography controls opportunities because the formula of today's GI Bill, unlike that of World War II's Bill, ignores state differences in educational costs. This legislative formula inadvertently minimizes veterans'…

Based upon a case study of over 20 demonstration centers created by the Illinois department of education during the period 1963-65, a conceptual scheme was developed for the analysis of State control in education. The case study defined 10 State policies, examined State implementation efforts, and identified instances of State action affecting…

Prepared for the National Dissemination Project to suggest ways in which community colleges might better serve the needs of minority and disadvantaged students, this report addresses itself to the problem of community college articulation. Three problem areas of the articulation activities are: the student himself, curriculum and instruction, and…

This revision of earlier reports reproduces copies of, or excerpts from, legislation that has been enacted through August 1973 in 27 States. The facets of accountability that the laws cover are State testing or assessment programs; evaluation of professional employees; performance contracting; planning, programming, and budgeting systems;…

This bibliography, one of a series of reports dealing with accountability, lists publications from State education agencies on (1) the process of their accountability programs, (2) Statewide assessment, (3) legislation, and (4) on other related subjects. These publications, which are contained in the Wisconsin State Repository, appear in the…

In this article, the author analyzes recent court cases that struck down State school finance systems as being inequitable. Examined are such characteristics of current finance systems as the inequalities of the property tax, the variations in per pupil expenditures, and the variations between poor and rich districts. The report includes a…

This report is concerned with the problems and procedures relative to planning and effecting needed improvements in big city education and is based on the assumption that States should continue to be primarily responsible for education. Five authors discuss (1) big city education: its challenge to governance; (2) urban learning environments,…

This report discusses the State role in providing education for its citizens in a changing society. The author suggests that, although the idea of local responsibility for education is still valid, States should be responsible for developing adequate educational policies for local systems to implement. The report also suggests that the States, in…

The relationships between state government funding methods and instructional innovation in public higher education are explored in this study. It is argued that stimulating instructional innovation is socially and educationally productive and that fiscal and budgetary strategies available to state-level decision-makers may be used to stimulate…

In Runyon v. McCrary the Supreme Court held that federal law prohibits private schools from discriminating in student admissions on the basis of race. This case is discussed along with precedents that have brought the Court to its current interpretation of the "state action" doctrine as a "public sphere" doctrine. (LBH)