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Office of Inspector General (ED), San Francisco, CA. Region IX. – 1994
This report of the San Francisco (California) Regional Office of the Inspector General concludes that the U.S. Department of Education should improve its present method of allocating special education funds among the states. It finds that the basis of these allocations, reported numbers of students receiving special education in each state, is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Categorical Aid, Data Collection, Demography
Feeney, J. D. – 1982
Since 1969, Toronto's Metropolitan Separate School Board has been rewarding additional monies to "Special Needs" schools within its jurisdiction in the hope of raising educational opportunity in those schools to a more equitable level. The attempt to arrive at a fair system for determining which schools should receive such assistance led…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Equity (Finance)
Hoachlander, E. Gareth; Choy, Susan P. – 1982
To examine the fiscal implications of reorganizing the Los Angeles (California) Unified School District (LAUSD) into smaller, independent districts, researchers compared LAUSD revenues and expenditures with those of the balance of the state and analyzed differences in expenditures per student within LAUSD. This report on their evaluation is…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Merkel-Keller, Claudia – 1986
This paper traces the evaluation requirements of the Title I/Chapter 1 Program since 1966 to the present, discusses the implications of the evaluations, and reports on the evolution of evaluation during this 20 year period. The evaluations are described in four phases: (1) from a nadir of low quality, utility and precision (1966-1974); (2) to a…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Equity (Finance)
Ray, Douglas – 1984
This paper describes the Canadian systems for resource reallocation and how these systems affect public education. It identifies three tests for the adequacy of educational support and its distribution: (1) Do elite private schools provide significantly better education than public schools? (2) Does poverty at the personal, community, or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Economics, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Opportunities
IDRA Newsletter, 1997
This newsletter includes five articles about educational and school policies, primarily related to equality of educational opportunity. "Texas Legislature Considers Much for Education, Accomplishes Little" (Albert Cortez, Anna Alicia Romero) summarizes educational legislation considered by the Texas legislature in the session ending in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bilingual Education, Charter Schools, Dropouts
Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1995
The extent of structural inequalities of students from racial and ethnic minorities in access to knowledge and resources is explored, and some of the sources of these inequalities are discussed. Some of the consequences of these inequalities for the nature and quality of education in the United States are considered. The isolation engendered by…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Rural Policy Matters, 2000
This document contains the 12 issues of the newsletter "Rural Policy Matters" published in 2000. Issues examine recent educational research on small and rural schools; report on state standards and court litigation related to rural schools, the efforts of communities to save their local schools, and the condition of rural facilities;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Canagarajah, Sudharshan; Ye, Xiao – 2000
This paper analyzes efficiency and equity issues in public expenditures on education and health in Ghana during the 1990s. Data were drawn from reports of the ministries of education and health and from household surveys conducted 1988-98. In the late 1990s, Ghana's public expenditures on education decreased. Basic education enrollment was…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Dropouts, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Needs
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Brassell, Danny – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes how a second-grade inner-city class in California, 80% Spanish-speaking and suffering from a severe lack of books and textbooks, became a class of authors, making books themselves. Relates how their classroom library grew to over 400 books in six weeks, with children becoming avid, passionate readers and writers in the process. (SR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism
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Collinson, Vivienne; Vakalisa, Ntombizolile – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2000
Addresses three critical issues challenging South African and U.S. efforts to improve teacher quality: equity, demographics, and violence. Both countries want education to ameliorate long-standing racial inequities by improving teacher qualifications; both face increasing enrollments and teacher shortages; and both have high crime rates. (Contains…
Descriptors: Crime, Democratic Values, Demography, Educational Equity (Finance)
IDRA Newsletter, 1996
This theme issue focuses on issues related to high Texas dropout rates among Hispanic and other minority group students and on dropout prevention strategies. "School Finance Inequities Mean Schools Are Not Ready To Teach" (Maria Robledo Montecel) deplores the recent Texas Supreme Court ruling that state educational funding is…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Court Litigation, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC. – 1991
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is charged with protecting fundamental rights to equal educational opportunity. During fiscal year (FY) 1990, OCR received 3,382 discrimination complaints, the highest number (as of that year) in the agency's history. OCR's National Enforcement Strategy, announced in 1990, was to focus…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Educational Discrimination, Educational Equity (Finance)
Scheuer, Joan – 1993
Data previously reviewed are updated to show that, despite cuts imposed statewide because of the deficit reductions of 1991-92, the relations in educational finance among New York City, the rest of the state, and the metropolitan suburban districts remain essentially unchanged. State aid per pupil fell below the previous year's level in 1991-92 in…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Chambers, Jay; And Others – 1993
Current school funding systems established by many states are resulting in widespread disparities in expenditures across districts, and current comparability measures providing adequate guarantees for equity among schools are being questioned. This study, involving 95 elementary schools and 25 high schools in 30 school districts across 5 states,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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