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Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2006
Proposals to make high school more rigorous continue to surface in the states. Governors, lawmakers, and blue-ribbon panels are championing the plans, which are fueled by local and national concerns about economic competitiveness and jobs. But the agenda is growing to included calls for better middle school preparation, more flexible options for…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Richard, Alan – Education Week, 2006
A 50 state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows that Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy--high school and preschool. At least 22 governors proposed significant policies last year aimed at improving high schools, or have made such proposals so…
Descriptors: State Officials, State Government, Leadership, Educational Policy
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2006
Reading First, a program under the No Child Left Behind Act, is intended to bring research-based reading instruction to struggling schools through the awarding of grants. In an audit of New York's Reading First plan, investigators concluded that the state erred in awarding grants to eight districts and a charter school that did not meet the…
Descriptors: State Officials, Grants, Reading Instruction, State Departments of Education
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Tsoukalas, Theodore; Rudder, Cynthia; Mollot, Richard J.; Shineman, Meghan; Lee, Hyang Yuol; Harrington, Charlene – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: This study examined federal and state civil money penalties and fines collected from nursing homes and how states used the collected funds. Design and Methods: We used a telephone survey of state officials, Freedom of Information Act requests, state Web site searches, and stakeholder interviews to describe the funds collected, the…
Descriptors: State Officials, Telephone Surveys, Nursing Homes, Fees
Lange, Cheryl M.; Ahearn, Eileen M.; Giovannetti, Elizabeth A.; Rhim, Lauren Morando; Warren, Sandra Hopfengardner – National Association of State Directors of Special Education, 2008
The organization and format of this primer which is designed for state officials differs from the other two in this series based on the recommendations of the state officials who participated in the Special Education Technical Assistance for Charter Schools (SPEDTACS) Project state team meetings convened to assist in the development of the set of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Special Education, Technical Assistance, State Officials
Reder, Nancy – National Post-School Outcomes Center, 2007
The National Post School Outcomes Center (NPSO), in conjunction with the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE), conducted a focus group with several state directors of special education to (a) discuss the collection of their post-school outcomes data and (b) share their experiences and suggestions with other state…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Indicators
Marks, Leonard H.; And Others – International Educational and Cultural Exchange, 1976
This report of the U.S. Advosory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Exchange presents observations and recommendations based on interviews with officials in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the Soviet Union which reflected willingness of East European countries to implement international exchange provisions of the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs, Foreign Countries
Padilla, Fernando V.; Ramirez, Carlos B. – Aztlan, 1974
The pattern of Chicano political representation in the territorial and state legislatures of California, Colorado, and New Mexico was examined. (NQ)
Descriptors: Legislators, Mexican Americans, Political Affiliation, Political Power
Wattenbarger, James L.; And Others – 1970
At the present time, there is wide diversity among the 50 states with respect to state level coordinating and control agencies for junior colleges. To provide an overview of the composition of these agencies, the authors compiled summary data from 27 states having staffs that deal exclusively or primarily with the problems of coordinating and…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Staff Role, State Agencies
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Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. Div. of Academic Services. – 1973
In this paper, a general conceptual framework for the role of consultant in the Bureau of Program Development and Diffusion as an education extension agent is presented. The key elements of the definition are (1) service, (2) local school system advocacy, and (3) developmental leadership. The operational definitions for each are viewed as…
Descriptors: Consultants, Diffusion, Extension Agents, Job Analysis
Wahl, Dewey – 1973
This study attempted to identify some of the major problems that a State Education Agency (SEA) might encounter during the transition from an agency headed by an elected Chief State School Officer (CSSO) to that same agency headed by a State Board of Education (SBE) appointed CSSO. Five States--Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and West…
Descriptors: Administrators, Education, Elections, Politics
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Hale, George E. – Administration and Society, 1977
Describes the apparently infinite adaptability of public administrators to changes in executive priorities by examining budgeting under two successive, sharply contrasting chief executives in Delaware. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgeting, Government Employees, Political Influences
Christie, Kathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Beginning each January, governors summarize accomplishments, present challenges, and propose solutions. As one might expect, a certain amount of rhetoric accompanies the listing of accomplishments. But when that rhetoric is stripped away, patterns of gubernatorial focus can be seen. Some of these patterns might be linked to common state…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Educational Finance, Economic Development, Early Childhood Education
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Johnstone, Douglas – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
In 1997, in an unprecedented effort to resolve a cluster of practical problems that each of them faced, the governors of 19 western states formally launched the university that bears their name. The governors intended their new university to be student-centered but market-oriented; independent but serving needs across the western region through…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Universities, Educational Quality, Models
Association for Children of New Jersey, 2006
New Jersey has some good early learning programs in place, but it has not taken a systemic approach to ensure access, quality and coordination of programs. The broad nature of early learning, which encompasses health, child care, education and parent involvement, makes it difficult to create a uniform system. Roughly 20 different New Jersey state…
Descriptors: State Government, State Agencies, Organizational Change, Coordination
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