This report represents a detailed summation of existing workforce levels, training programs, career potential, and staffing level projections through 1981 for EPA Region VII. This region serves the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The specific pollution programs considered include air, noise, pesticides, potable water, radiation,…

This report represents a detailed summation of existing workforce levels, training programs, career potential, and staffing level projections through 1981 for EPA Region VIII. This region serves the Rocky Mountain - Prairie Region and includes the states of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The specific pollution…

This report represents a detailed summation of existing workforce levels, training programs, career potential, and staffing level projections through 1981 for EPA Region IX. This region serves the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada. The specific pollution programs considered include air, noise, pesticides, potable water, radiation…

This report represents a detailed summation of existing workforce levels, training programs, career potential, and staffing level projections through 1981 for EPA Region X. This region serves the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The specific pollution programs considered include air, noise, pesticides, potable water, radiation,…

This monograph is one of a series describing courses developed for a curriculum in higher education which prepares personnel for employment in local, state and regional levels of Employment and Training (formerly Manpower) Administration programs of the U.S. Department of Labor. This course, called "Critical Issues in Women Employment,"…

Following "Tinker vs. Des Moines Community School District," the United States Supreme Court decision that assured First Amendment rights to secondary school students and teachers, California began experimenting with statutory guarantees of free expression for students at the high school and community college levels. Decisions issued by…

Policies and procedures for disciplining students should be designed to teach them responsibility, rather than simply punish them. Providing educational opportunities to behavioral deviants is a problem that does not have a simple solution. However, alternatives to suspension or expulsion must be attempted before these disciplinary actions are…

This report describes a two-year State of Michigan demonstration project designed to investigate the feasibility of regulating family day care homes through a registration process that would be more effective and economical than the present licensing system. Registration is defined as the process whereby the State Department of Social Services…

A major legal development in the 1970s has been the extension of the principle of egalitarianism to the developmentally disabled, particularly the mentally retarded. The principle that all persons, however unequal they may be in terms of their development, should be treated equally in the sense of being granted equal opportunities has been…

The study has presented a case history of the evolution, passage, and early implementation in vocational education of a Massachusetts law, the first of its kind in the country, designed to counter practices and policies in public education which resulted in students receiving different treatment solely on account of their sex. Analysis of the…

Presented is a revised working draft of Connecticut's 5-year (1975-1980) state plan for the identification and education of the gifted and talented (GT). Briefly discussed in the first three sections are an overview and position statement (concerning legislation, administration and personnel); projected needs assessment; goals, objectives, and…

By systematically identifying the typical stages in the development of educational legislation, this paper attempts to aid educators interested in proposing legislation on the state level. The authors describe the legislative process in terms of a model involving the following seven major functions: involving community groups, analyzing the…

This special issue of the "Indiana English Journal" focuses on the law and the teacher of English and language arts. Included in the issue are the following articles: "The High School Press and Prior Restraint" by Roy Colquitt, "What's Obscene in Indiana? The New Law, the Miller Decision, and the Teaching of English" by Peter Scholl, and "The Law…

The Illinois community college system is comprised of 39 districts encompassing 49 campuses which served a fall 1974 enrollment of 267,156 (over 50 percent of all students enrolled in public institutions of higher education in Illinois). According to legislative dictum, Illinois community colleges must offer programs in liberal arts and sciences,…

This publication is a compilation of various bills and other measures related to education that were considered by the second regular session of the 43rd Idaho Legislature. It is intended primarily to serve as a useful reference for school board members, educational administrators, and other individuals involved in education in the state of Idaho.…