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Brown, Chequita S.; Ruedas-Gracia, Nidia; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2023
The Postsecondary Pathways for Former Foster Care Youth (PP-FFCY) study is a research project that focuses on the transitions of foster care alums to and through postsecondary institutions. Through the Ofice of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL), the PP-FFCY project team is conducting a comprehensive needs assessment report that:…
Descriptors: Foster Care, College Attendance, Program Descriptions, Community Colleges
Farber, Misty Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative comparative quasi-experimental study was to compare the perceptions of work-life balance and turnover intentions of four-day and five-day rural Oklahoma classroom teachers. Four-day school districts have become increasingly popular across the United States as a way to reduce operational expenses, with 92 four-day…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Faculty Mobility, State Legislation, Measures (Individuals)
K. B. F. Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This descriptive exploratory study describes teacher self-efficacy in providing LGBTQ+ support in the implicit and explicit social studies curriculum in the wake of numerous anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in education in Florida. Four high school social studies teachers from three different Florida public school districts were interviewed to answer three…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, LGBTQ People
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Cooper, Patricia M.; Casey, Erin M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Professional literature in human development, social foundations, and academic subject area courses function as a major but understudied tool of teacher preparation programs. Through the overlapping lenses of sociocultural and critical theories of child development, this study employs descriptive content analysis to investigate the potential of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Democratic Values, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Erdelac, Ryan Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Indiana K-12 teacher evaluations were lawfully mandated by Public Law (PL) 90 in 2012. PL 90 required all public-school teachers to be rated annually by their administrators using a state approved teacher evaluation rubric. Teachers were evaluated as highly effective, effective, needs improvement, and ineffective. Student achievement and growth on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers
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Rebeca Heringer; Melanie Janzen – Critical Education, 2023
The enactment of the Education Modernization Act by the government of Manitoba in early 2021 proposed several structural changes to the governance and delivery of provincial education. The related documents had a strong emphasis on improving the achievement of all students, making them future-ready and strengthening parental involvement. But…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Diversity
John Westall; Andrew Utter; Katharine O. Strunk – Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 2023
Early literacy skills are critical to the educational outcomes of young students. Accordingly, 19 states have early literacy policies that require grade retention for underperforming readers at the end of third grade. However, there is mixed evidence about retention's effectiveness and concerns that retention may disproportionately impact…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Emergent Literacy, Grade Repetition
Sonya Christian – California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
During the 2018-2019 legislative and budget cycle, the California State Legislature and Administration established the Student Equity and Achievement (SEA) Program, which was created to consolidate funding allocated for three distinct, but interconnected, categorical programs: (1) the Basic Skills Initiative; (2) the Student Equity Program and (3)…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Financial Support, Educational Finance
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Lemke, Melinda – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
Despite its significance as a policy issue, there is a paucity of knowledge about trafficking within educational policy and leadership research. The lack of research in this area and the contemporary spike in displaced youth populations necessitates examining those policies that aim to prevent trafficking through educational mediums. This study…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Crime, Crime Prevention
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2019
An early college high school is four-year public high school whereby students are concurrently enrolled in high school and a postsecondary institution. Students are eligible to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's or bachelor's degree from an institution of higher education. This document contains a model policy for the creation…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dual Enrollment, Colleges, Public Schools
Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Rivera, Marcos D.; Akani, Briana – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2019
Across the Midwest, colleges and universities are saving students millions of dollars through textbook affordability initiatives, primarily through OER creation and adoption programs and Inclusive Access bulk-purchase discount programs. Notable examples of textbook affordability initiatives include Indiana University's eTexts Initiative and Ohio's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, Electronic Publishing
Mann, Sharmila – Education Commission of the States, 2019
This Policy Brief provides a detailed look at 529 education savings plans -- investment accounts with tax advantages -- including a breakdown of maximum annual dollar amounts and state tax deductions allowed, state responses to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, information on legislation in 2018 that changes eligible expenses allowed under 529 plans and…
Descriptors: Investment, Taxes, Federal State Relationship, State Policy
Murphy, Peter – Empire Center for Public Policy, 2019
School districts across New York are constrained from fully exploiting a potential source of revenue to help offset pressure on local taxes. The revenue source in question is commercial advertising--including signs, sponsorships and facility naming rights, especially for athletic facilities. Experience in other states suggests New York school…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Income, Taxes, Advertising
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Zhao, Kai; Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – AERA Open, 2022
Under Florida's developmental education (DE) reform since 2014, recent public high school graduates and active-duty military personnel became exempt from DE and traditional placement tests. The legislation also required colleges to provide accelerated instruction strategies for students remaining in DE and offer enhanced advising and support…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Student Placement
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Shupin, C. Jaye; Naimy, Brenda; Casias, Nicholas B. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2022
Over the last decade, many local education agencies (LEAs) across California imposed significant restrictions on community-based orientation and mobility (O&M) instruction. Administrators from these LEAs prohibited O&M Specialists from transporting students off-campus for instruction, with one large Southern California district going so…
Descriptors: Visually Impaired Mobility, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Students with Disabilities
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