The California case of Senate Bill 90 displays the changing nature of state education coalitions and demonstrates the usefulness of coalition concepts advanced by William Riker for analyzing the success and direction of school finance legislation. (Author/IRT)

Argues against legislatively mandated statewide negotiation of teacher salaries. (IRT)

Reviews federal and state law on one issue--stepparent support of stepchildren--and outlines the areas in which social science research is needed for policy development. (Author/BL)

The governor of Georgia outlines the Quality Basic Education Act that resulted from the recommendations from the Governor's Education Review Commission. (MD)

Discusses the use in academic debate of the state-level counterplan which mirrors all aspects of an affirmative plan adopted on the federal level. Gives reasons why this use is unjustified. (PD)

Reviews the specific provisions of state and federal statutes relating to parental visiting, contrasts provisions with those in several model acts, discusses the purpose of visiting as reflected in the statutes, and concludes with recommendations for statutory reform practices offering a compromise between terminating parents' visiting rights and…

Describes two state initiatives (in Virginia and Illinois) which illustrate the type of program components that have been designed to assist the identification, treatment, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. (CMG)

Highlights from a study that will document how state and local governments have improved their ability to respond to the needs of their citizens. (Author/MLF)

To ensure minimum teaching standards in its public schools, New Jersey mandates two essential factors: certification and tenure. Article defined both terms and considered their interrelationship. (Author/RK)

Charter schools are given greater autonomy than traditional public schools, and in return they are held more accountable to the public. As such, if a charter school fails to meet its educational objectives, the charter may be revoked or not renewed. Revocation is the withdrawal of a school's charter during its term, while renewal relates to the…

This survey provides answers to general questions regarding statutes and case law with respect to schools in force as of January 1, 2002, and administrative rules in effect as of March 30, 2001. It generally excludes, however, laws that are unique to Chicago Public School District 299. The book contains 27 chapters covering the following broad…

National Commission study helps prod States into enacting more than 100 amendments to improve protection for disabled workers. (Editor)

This paper describes the enactment, implementation, and subsequent review of the 1968 State Nonpublic School Authority Act in the state of Pennsylvania. (BB)

Personnel movements (transfers, promotions, etc.) are included in the scope of private sector collective bargaining, but excluded from the scope of public sector bargaining. The authors discuss the relationship between the merit principle and public sector bargaining with regard to conflicts and legislative experience, and they present a proposal…