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Cummings, Amy – National Education Policy Center, 2021
In recent decades, state policymakers across the country have turned to early literacy policies to address students' reading proficiency--particularly in third grade. Though states' policies vary widely in terms of the interventions and supports provided to educators and students, their intent is similar: to get students reading on grade level by…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, State Policy, Grade 3, Grade Repetition
García, Emma; Han, Eunice – Economic Policy Institute, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 decision in "Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees" (AFSCME) (referred to as "Janus" hereafter) prohibited state and local government worker unions from negotiating collective bargaining agreements with fair share fee arrangements. In this report, the authors…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Laws, State Legislation, Unions
Sciarra, David; Dingerson, Leigh – Education Law Center, 2021
After five decades advocating for school finance reform, Education Law Center (ELC) sees the urgent need to deepen understanding of how differing strategies--from litigation to research to grassroots organizing to communicating with the public--can combine to achieve successful school funding reform in the states. In "From Courthouse to…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Finance Reform, Educational Finance, School Support
Simon, Matthew – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
Having access to an excellent teacher is one of the most important factors for student achievement. However, access to excellent teachers--this crucial talent resource--is in increasingly limited supply. In 2017, Arizona took bold action on teacher certification requirements in a joint effort with A for Arizona and the US Chamber Foundation. By…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Teacher Certification, Teacher Competencies, Alternative Teacher Certification
Erwin, Ben; Francies, Cassidy; Pechota, Damion; McCann, Meghan – Education Commission of the States, 2021
School accountability systems can serve many purposes, including sharing information, measuring progress toward state and local goals, and supporting greater educational equity. Given the important role accountability systems play in states' education systems, states have taken the opportunity provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Policy, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
Marilyn Arleen Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There seems to be "open season" on the lives of young, unarmed African American men and women in the United States. Stand Your Ground law/Castle Doctrine has become the tool of legal lynching in the United States. Across varied and diverse communities, leaders are grappling with this phenomenon with a sense of urgency. This qualitative…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Safety, African American Leadership, Racism
Michael Kirk Westwood – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The 115 community colleges in California fulfill an essential role in providing quality educational experiences for a diverse adult student population. However, U.S.-educated language minority (US-LM) students remain largely invisible in this educational context as current admissions and placement procedures do not account for their complex…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, English Learners, Minority Group Students
Luz Maria Castillo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to examine California community college administrators' perceptions of preparation for achieving full compliance in implementing California Assembly Bill (AB) No. 705. The study involved analyzing documents, a physical artifact, and archived data from 14 community colleges in southern…
Descriptors: State Legislation, College Administration, Community Colleges, Administrator Attitudes
Rene Teruko Bernel – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This multi-site case study uses Policy Implementation Process Examination (PIPE) and a variegated diagram to represent the evolution of interpretations in a human sense-making framework as it relates to Ohio House Bill 410, legislated in 2016. The purpose of the research is to study how implementing agents such as school district personnel respond…
Descriptors: State Legislation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Attendance
Suchy, Carrie – Communique, 2019
The author became involved with the Washington State Association of School Psychologists' (WSASP) legislative advocacy work in 2013. At the time, WSASP was not actively engaged in legislative advocacy work, and was the smallest of many clients of a lobbyist paid to represent their interests. In that year, the Washington State Legislature proposed…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Professional Associations, Advocacy, State Legislation
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Anderson, Drew M. – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
This study examines how private colleges and universities choose to spend versus reinvest resources in endowment funds that have suffered investment losses. The analysis takes advantage of a market downturn and public policy shift, which together revealed how colleges define prudent spending. Investment losses during the financial crisis of 2008…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Endowment Funds, Expenditures, Investment
Institute for College Access & Success, 2019
States' oversight of higher education has traditionally focused on schools within their borders, not those offering educational programs across state lines. However, an increasing number of students are enrolling online: 1.3 million students now enroll online in a school based in another state. Additional vigilance is required to safeguard states'…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Distance Education, College Students, State Legislation
Keystone Research Center, 2019
Pennsylvania's public schools employ tens of thousands of support professionals -- bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, maintenance workers, secretaries, paraprofessionals, and others. Due to fiscal challenges that many local districts face, school administrators often look to achieve savings and flexibility by outsourcing the provision of…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Outsourcing, Costs
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López, Omar S. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
In Texas, public-funded pre-kindergarten is important because it provides the most vulnerable children with the opportunity to develop school readiness, so they can learn core competencies in kindergarten relevant to academic readiness for first grade. The Texas Legislature was back in session in spring 2019 and, not surprisingly, a bill was filed…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Holder, Eric H., Jr. – American Educator, 2020
Over the past decade, the students of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, the largest historically Black public university in the country, were forced into the spotlight of a national fight over voting rights that has been profoundly reshaping our democracy. During the 2018 midterm elections,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Voting, Democracy, Elections
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