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Download full textHiatt, Diana Buell – 1987
This description of the research, the development of state laws, and the origins of practices attempting to restore safe schools suggests that there was a relationship among research, policy, and practice. The Congress of the United States enacted the Safe School Study Act in 1974 to ensure a safe environment for education. In response to this…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Sutter, Joel A.; Rice, Elizabeth V. – 1984
This report provides Minnesota legislators with background information on establishing state educational standards and periodic testing to measure student progress. Scientific management, the accountability movement, and the basic education movement were educational trends of the 1970's providing pressure on states to set standards to improve…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation
Walker, John H.; Kozma, Ernest J. – 1982
A process policy model that contains a broad range of categories and matrices that can be used to generate questions is used to analyze the development and application of selected segments of the South Carolina Educator Improvement Act. This act is a comprehensive legislative endeavor to upgrade public education in South Carolina. This paper…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Educational Policy, Elementary School Teachers
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. – 1989
This draft report describes the Rhode Island state plan to implement Section 772(e) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (the McKinney Act) under Title VII, Subtitle B of the Act, which provides for education for homeless children and youth. The plan addresses the following issues: (1) school placement; (2) dispute resolution; (3)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1988
In April 1978, the Commissioner of Education in New York approved a new part 53 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education (to reflect and administer the intent of Section 493A of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended by Public Law 94-482 concerning the dissemination of information to postsecondary students) entitled…
Descriptors: American Indians, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Fellowships
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1989
In response to a legislative mandate, this report assesses proprietary education in Florida in terms of institutional licensure, program standards, data collection, and student financial aid. The report defines "Proprietary schools" as accredited or non-accredited postsecondary vocational institutions, universities, and colleges owned by…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Associate Degrees
Harkness, James A. – 1985
This publication is designed to help members of boards of education understand and work effectively within the requirements of New Jersey's Open Public Meetings Act, also referred to as the Sunshine Law, which requires that the public must be given adequate notice of, and be permitted to attend, meetings of all public bodies empowered by law to…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation
Lauber, Diana; And Others – 1987
The 1985 legislation (PA 84-126) creating Local School Improvement Councils (LSIC) and annual local school budget hearings laid the foundation for meaningful citizen involvement in the Chicago Public Schools. This legislation had two components: (1) annual school site budget hearings required in each school in which citizens, parents, and teachers…
Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Budgets, Citizen Participation
Trostle, Susan L.; Merrill, Barbara – 1986
This national and state review provides a synthesis of current thinking and practice concerning prekindergarten programs in public schools. Section I discusses the need for preschool programs in terms of the changing family and workforce, the baby "boomlet," and socioeconomic factors. Section II reviews early childhood programs,…
Descriptors: Class Size, Community Needs, Coordination, Disadvantaged Youth
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1984
This guide intended for local school districts discusses the implementation of New Jersey's Special Review Assessment (SRA) process which provides high school students with the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of basic skills by an assessment method other than the statewide graduation test. The process is required for eleventh graders who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Alternative Assessment, Educational Diagnosis
Dodson, Diane – 1984
This report is the third of four volumes presenting results of the Comparative Study of Case Review Systems Phase II--Dispositional Hearings, focusing on implementation of the dispositional hearing requirement of P. L. 96-272, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. This volume of the study presents the results of a state statutory…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
Gray, G. Susan; Grajko, Philip F. – 1982
Responses from 230 New York State school districts were analyzed to determine the impact of the new State handicapped regulations with regard to financial impact, meeting the 30-day time period between initial referral of a handicapped child and board action, variances, and programming and placement according to 4 criteria. In general, small,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Morgan, David R.; And Others – 1982
This handbook was prepared to provide guidance and suggestions primarily for school officials who are developing a plan for school desegregation or who are trying to revise an existing plan. Indications of what has and has not worked in other districts are based on experts' recommendations, on case studies from other communities, and on the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Busing, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
Texas Governor's Committee on Education Beyond the High School, Austin. – 1964
Reponsibilities of the Governor's Committee on Education beyond the High School, which was created in 1963 by Governor John Connally of Texas, are outlined. In addition, the creation of a Joint Advisory Committee on Government Operations in 1975 by the 65th Texas Legislature and a Special Committee on Higher Education Financing in Texas by the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Finance
Hall, John C.; And Others – 1982
This document, 1 in a series of 10, presents state profiles of the results of a systematic examination of child care agencies and their involvement with out-of-state residential care for children. This volume contains profiles of the Western states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Child Welfare, Children
