In the absence of continuous legislative and institutional intervention, the demand for services provided by vocational and registered nurses in California over the next ten years will greatly outpace the supply of nurses anticipated to flow from postsecondary degree programs. Nursing education and supply issues can be better understood and…

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) follows education budgets and legislation during regular and special legislative sessions. The Legislative Reports follow education and budget issues from governors' proposals through final legislative actions in each of the 16 SREB states. The reports include bill numbers and legislative Web site…

On March 13, 2007, Governor Bill Ritter and state Senator Sue Windels announced a proposal they call the "Colorado Children's Amendment." This proposal would "freeze," or stabilize, local property tax mill levies for general education to maintain local funding for public K-12 education. As overall costs for K-12 education grow,…

A decade after Kinsey published his famous studies on sexuality, a special legislative committee in Florida targeted gay and lesbian teachers in an investigation that led to the dismissal and loss of credentials for scores of educators. The Florida purge of 1959-1964 remains without parallel in educational history in terms of its intensity and…

The USA Patriot Act is having far-reaching effects on the kinds of data that wind up on some academics' computers in Canada. Canadian colleges, responding to provincial laws passed in reaction to the Patriot Act, are preventing professors from entering the United States with students' private data on their laptops and limiting the locations of…

The idea that lawsuits can move a public as well as a legal agenda is not new. In recent years, conservatives have brought high profile lawsuits designed both to vindicate the rights of an individual plaintiff and to educate the public about an important issue. For example, lawsuits filed nearly 10 years ago against the University of Michigan's…

A report of a national survey of recent school library legislation action at the federal, state, and local level. (Author)

The first two volumes of the Interstate Child Support Enforcement Laws Digest provide a collection of interstate laws pertaining to child support enforcement. The volumes, like their predecessor, the URESA Laws Digest, represent each state's Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Acts (URESA), and include a compilation of URESA codes and the…

THE LEAFLET GIVES LEGISLATED WEIGHTLIFTING LIMITATIONS FOR WOMEN OF ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, GEORGIA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, NEW YORK, OHIO, OREGON, UTAH, AND WASHINGTON. THE ACTUAL POUNDS OF WEIGHT WHICH WOMEN ARE PERMITTED TO LIFT AND THE CONDITIONS OF CARRYING ARE STATED. ALASKA'S AND GEORGIA'S STANDARDS VARY ACCORDING TO THE SIZE AND…

Enactment of Alaska's new Children's Code, a breakthrough in welfare legislation for children, was achieved after years of struggle involving professional and public forces. (Author/SE)

Reviews the campaign to pass a counselor licensure bill in Idaho, and provides specific and workable guidelines for a successful effort under the headings of professional responsibility, realities of political life, outreach, veracity, endurance, and need for the law. (JAC)

In 26 states, the maximum weekly benefit is now at least half of the statewide average weekly wage; in 4 states, the maximum is two-thirds. (Editor)