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Finkel, Ed – District Administration, 2010
This article reports on the mission of the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education to ensure equal access to education through compliance reviews. The Office hopes to use these reviews to provide technical assistance to help districts improve their performance. In late March, the Los Angeles Unified School District became the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Access to Education, Institutional Mission
National Archives and Records Administration, 2008
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is finalizing an alternative set of generator requirements applicable to laboratories owned by eligible academic entities, as defined in this final rule. The rule provides a flexible and protective set of regulations that address the specific nature of hazardous waste generation and…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Hazardous Materials, Laboratories, Environmental Standards
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Graham, Richard; Hall, Richard; Gilmer, W. Gerry – Education and the Law, 2008
Misunderstanding of privacy laws and regulations impedes appropriate information sharing by post-secondary educational institutions under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 ("FERPA"). Post-Virginia Tech regulatory amendments allow institutions to "connect the dots" regarding a student's behavior and to be…
Descriptors: Colleges, Privacy, Information Dissemination, Federal Legislation
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Amstutz, David Lee – Great Plains Quarterly, 2008
The state of Nebraska contributed to progressive thought in the 1880s. Like the other states in the Great Plains, Nebraska was heavily involved in the livestock industry. When contagious diseases threatened Nebraska's livestock, the state advocated a Federalist-Whig policy by requesting federal assistance. The national government's powers were…
Descriptors: Animals, Agribusiness, Federal Regulation, Public Policy
US House of Representatives, 2011
This paper presents the Committee on Education and the Workforce's hearing examining the adverse impact extensive federal regulations and reporting requirements have on teachers, administrators and students in elementary and secondary schools. Too many schools and school districts are overwhelmed by unnecessary paperwork requirements. Currently,…
Descriptors: Hearings, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation, Government Role
Society for Science & the Public, 2011
This paper presents the rules and guidelines of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2011 to be held in Los Angeles, California in May 8-13, 2011. In addition to providing the rules of competition, these rules and guidelines for conducting research were developed to facilitate the following: (1) protect the rights and welfare of…
Descriptors: Standards, Guidelines, Federal Regulation, Secondary School Science
Shames, Lisa – US Government Accountability Office, 2011
Through its commodity program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides commodity foods at no cost to schools taking part in the national school meals programs. Commodities include raw ground beef, cheese, poultry, and fresh produce. Like federal food safety agencies, the commodity program has taken steps designed to reduce microbial…
Descriptors: Safety, Purchasing, Federal Regulation, Food Standards
Jones, Jessika – California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2009
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Act commits $100 billion to education, with $8.5 billion allocated to California. Education programs to receive funding through ARRA include Local Education Agency Title I Grants, Educational Technology Grants, IDEA Grants, Federal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Reports, Educational Finance, Finance Reform
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that he plans to demand radical steps--such as firing most of a school's staff or converting it to a charter school--as the price of admission in directing $3.5 billion in new school improvement aid to the nation's 5,000 worst-performing schools. In sharp contrast to the current free-flowing nature of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grants, Federal Regulation, Eligibility
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Criado, Raquel; Sanchez, Aquilino – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The goal of this paper is to verify up to what point ELT textbooks used in Spanish educational settings comply with the official regulations prescribed, which fully advocate the Communicative Language Teaching Method (CLT). For that purpose, seven representative coursebooks of different educational levels and modalities in Spain--secondary, upper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Textbooks
Dalton, Jason – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the primary federal legislation establishing national wage and hour standards. The purpose of the Act is to protect the working class from overwork and underpay by providing non-waivable rights to a minimum wage and a premium pay rate at time and one-half the regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40…
Descriptors: Minimum Wage, Working Class, Labor Standards, Child Caregivers
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Naughton, Keith; Schmid, Celeste; Yackee, Susan Webb; Zhan, Xueyong – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009
We provide the first empirical assessment of commenter influence during the rule development stage of administrative rulemaking. We argue that public commenters play a critical agenda-setting role during rule development. To test this proposition, we analyze data from 36 Department of Transportation rules and almost 500 comments. Each of these…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Federal Regulation, Feedback (Response), Public Officials
Lake, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
New regulations for the Family Rights and Privacy Act (Ferpa), which governs the privacy of student records, become effective this month. Announced by the Department of Education in December 2008, the regulations empower colleges to act appropriately and decisively to protect the health and safety of students and others. They also signify a new…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Records, Privacy, Trust (Psychology)
Muller, Eve – Project Forum, 2010
The purpose of this document is to determine whether revocation of parental consent is currently posing a challenge for states and to describe how states are responding to this new provision. Although parental consent has always played a central role in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the new provision allowing revocation of parental…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
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Stone, James R., III; Lewis, Morgan V. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2010
Local educational agencies (of which there are more than 14,000) have the primary responsibility for governance of public vocational education and training (VET) in the United States. Local agencies operate within a framework of state legislation and regulations that are heavily influenced by federal legislation. The federal government offers…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Federal Legislation, Tech Prep, Vocational Education
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