This legislative handbook for child advocates in Florida features a description of Florida's legislative process, including sessions, leadership and procedure, committees, legislation, public access to legislative information, state publications, and critical stages in the passage of a bill. A legislative glossary and a chart showing the route of…

Like most States, New Mexico's legislature grants not only basic foundation money for public schools but also a small percentage of additional discretionary funds. While the foundation money is almost always dispersed in light of a rigid formula, the discretionary funds present the opportunity for political bargaining. While hardly of as obvious…

This document is a report of the anonymous responses of 61 legislators and 70 men and women serving as college trustees or as members of boards or commissions charged with responsibility for higher education in Colorado. These responses were made to 50 selected issues in higher education to which respondents were given the opportunity to strongly…

A multigenerational examination of learning needs is discussed in terms of proposed legislation which encourages the expansion of lifetime learning options for all citizens. (Author)

Provides information on how the Region 11 Vocational Center in Concord, New Hampshire, arranged a State Legislature Day. This project involved legislators visiting the Vocational Center and observing its programs. Shares several positive results from this outreach program. (CH)

Discusses the ritual Speech on the Address in terms of its function to preserve stability in the English government. Suggests it was not strictly a genre or subgenre. (MS)

Explores how Indiana state legislators use statehouse reporters for information and publicity purposes, identifies characteristics of lawmakers associated with particular motivations for using reporters, and relates these characteristics to how reporters are perceived to influence the policy making process. (FL)

Knowing and contacting your congressman is an important part of every educator's efforts to influence legislation and to be politically alert, writes the author, but also important is knowing how the federal agencies most closely related to education are organized and operate. He gives a bird's eye view here. (Editor)

An expert on Capitol Hill describes the maze of federal agencies and Congressional subcommittees concerned with higher education. A chart on House-Senate committees is provided. (Editor/LBH)

Author criticizes Maryland's $2.5 million in scholarships awarded exclusively by state senators to their constituents. (HS)

Recent Florida legislation provides for the training and use of paraprofessionals in guidance. This article discusses the preliminary hearings, content of the laws, and guidelines for implementing this legislation. (Author)

In order to be politically effective, it is necessary for local agricultural education programs to establish relationships with legislators, publicly recognize those that support the program, and have contacts with legislators during legislative sessions. (SB)

Institutional factors that constrain the Congress's use of evaluation research are illustrated by a case history of congressional deliberations about the Professional Standards Review Organization program. Guidelines for researchers who would like to make their work more useful in the policymaking process are proposed. (Author/BW)

In reaction to the Administration's request to consolidate federal educational programs for the handicapped, Congress has reaffirmed the need to retain the categorical nature of federal support for special education programs. (Author/SB)