Download or read book School District Decision making about Federal Aid written by George J. Michel and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflict and Decision written by John Martin Rich and published by Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division. This book was released on 1972 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency Federal Aid for School Construction written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving High Educational Standards for All written by Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and published by . This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council, with help from the US Department of Education, held the Millennium Convention in Washington, DC in September 2000. It gathered educators, researchers, and policy makers at the national, state, and local levels to assess success and failure in educating minority and disadvantaged students since the Brown vs, Board of Education decision nearly a half century before, report on research into the causes of the successes and failures, and review strategies and practices that hold promise for continuing improvements. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book A Federal Right to Education written by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. A Federal Right to Education provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.
Download or read book The Use of Evidence in District Level Decisions for the Distribution of Resources to Elementary Schools written by Tina M. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York State's challenging fiscal, instructional and accountability context has challenged school districts to make intra-district resource distribution decisions that foster equal educational opportunities for all students. In terms of intra-district resource distribution, research indicates the field has limited literature from which to draw guidance on the decision making process. Due to the limited literature on intra-district resource distribution and the increasing expectation to use data, practitioners in the field of education are still learning how to use data as part of an evidence-based decision making system to distribute resources throughout a school district with varying student need. It is critical to understand the processes system leaders use to make intra-district evidence-based, resource distribution decisions in order to provide an equal opportunity for all students to achieve intended standards. This study explored how district leaders in school districts that have three or more elementary schools with disparate free and reduced lunch percentages are currently using evidence to distribute resources for elementary programs. This study's research questions were developed to discover how resource distribution decisions are made within the contexts in which district leaders are immersed. Specifically, this research looked at the processes that district level leaders use to distribute resources to schools within their district with a iv subpopulation of students that is not performing at preferred levels, the specific evidence utilized and the structures within which resource distribution decisions were made. This qualitative study used interviews with school system leaders, school board trustees and elementary building principals in seven school districts in the Capital Region of New York State. The perspectives of these school leaders provided details on the decision making processes and structures districts use and the types of evidence used to make resource distribution decisions. Findings from this study showed there are an imbalance of influences, most notably the financial context, at the beginning part of the process of resource distribution decision making. In addition findings further revealed that each influence on the process caused leaders to operate within different leadership frames. Furthermore, although there was an imbalance of influences, most school district leaders made decisions within the two leadership frames most often associated with effective leadership. Data showed that decision makers in this study referenced their vision as an influence to provide more to at risk students establishing a basis for the district's theory of equitable resource distribution. Another finding revealed that districts used a variety of data to include demographic and student learning data, but using research based evidence in the decision making process was not a tendency of decision makers. Finally, in complex systems, the assistant superintendent has a crucial role in the resource distribution decision making process.
Download or read book Government in the Classroom written by Mary Frase Williams and published by New York : Academy of Political Science. This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Education at the Local State and Federal Levels written by Michael W. Kirst and published by Berkeley, Calif : McCutchan Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1970 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Aid for Schools 1967 1968 Guide written by Howard S. Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Influence Over State and Local Government written by Paul Thomas Hill and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1982 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for policymakers, the report examines the federal government's efforts to influence state and local governments on matters of education. Two agencies within the Department of Education are spotlighted: the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of Special Education (OSE). Parallel case studies of OCR and OSE were conducted via more than 150 interviews which sought to identify informal strategies used to influence state and local actions. Interviewees included federal officials from both Washington and regional offices; interest group representatives; members of state and local educational agencies; and complainants, parents, and beneficiary group representatives. Following a discussion of the two offices' operating styles and assumptions, a typology of influence methods available to OCR and OSE is postulated. Two major influence strategies (enforcement and promotion) are identified, and the effects of each on decision making administrative processes, and general policies at the state and local level are considered. A final section presents a framework depicting factors to be considered by the federal government in decisions regarding change for local and state government activities. The importance of matching federal goals with local conditions and of using hybrid strategies is emphasized. (CL)
Download or read book The Politics of Budgeting Federal Aid Resource Mobilization by Local School Districts written by David O. Porter and published by Sage Publications (CA). This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Testing Teaching and Learning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization of Title I, the largest federal effort in precollegiate education, which provides aid to "level the field" for disadvantaged students. Testing, Teaching, and Learning is written to help states and school districts comply with the new law, offering guidance for designing and implementing assessment and accountability systems. This book examines standards-based education reform and reviews the research on student assessment, focusing on the needs of disadvantaged students covered by Title I. With examples of states and districts that have track records in new systems, the committee develops a practical "decision framework" for education officials. The book explores how best to design assessment and accountability systems that support high levels of student learning and to work toward continuous improvement. Testing, Teaching, and Learning will be an important tool for all involved in educating disadvantaged studentsâ€"state and local administrators and classroom teachers.
Download or read book Making the Grade written by Twentieth Century Fund. Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Policy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents findings of an independent committee that was organized by the Twentieth Century Fund to study the Federal role in shaping educational policy, and includes the comprehensive background paper (prepared by Paul E. Peterson) on which the task force discussions were based. The report describes current problems in elementary and secondary schooling, reviews effects of the past Federal role in education, and proposes Federal policy involvement in the following areas: (1) establishment of a program to reward teaching excellence ; (2) emphasis on English language literacy; (3) provision of advanced science and mathematics training; (4) continued support of special programs for disadvantaged students; (5) support for educational research; and (6) financial support to provide parents with schooling options. The background paper examines the history and current state of American education, evaluates the impact of Federal policy on education, and provides a framework for evaluating recommendations for change. Specifically, the paper describes declines in educational expansion over the years; suggests that the Federal government has had only modest effects on the educational system; and stresses that Federal policy should consider the need to balance the issues of quality and equality and of Federal direction versus local autonomy in education. (MJL)
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Schools from the Bottom Up written by Patrick M. Shields and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents findings of a national study of effective schools programs and other school-based reforms conducted during school year 1991-92. The reforms were broadly defined to encompass school-site improvement efforts designed to develop schoolwide capacity for problem solving, to improve teaching, and to increase student learning. Data were obtained from a survey of a nationally representative sample of local school districts (n=1,555), surveys of administrators in all state education agencies, and intensive case studies of 5 states, 16 districts, and 32 schools. Data from the district survey show that school-based reform was relatively widespread, occurring at all school levels. The case-study data suggest that change efforts varied widely across districts and schools. The study examined the degree to which the reform effort involved meaningful collaboration among school staff, staff ownership of the change process, a focus on teaching and curriculum, building professional capacity among staff, and a focus on student outcomes and equity. The case-study data suggest that the more promising examples of school-based reform often shared a set of characteristics--a clear focus on creating more challenging learning experiences for all students, a school culture in which teachers worked collaboratively and had a voice in decision making, and opportunities for faculty development. The following recommendations are made for supporting promising reform efforts: (1) find a balance between top-down and bottom-up structures; (2) adapt leadership and vision at every level of the system; (3) build local capacity-building systems; (4) devolve some authority to school staff; and (5) clearly tie government mandates and requirements to learning goals. A total of 32 tables and 1 figure are included. Appendices contain notes on methodology and copies of the survey instruments. (LMI)
Download or read book Education and the Federal Government written by National Education Association of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power and Process written by Harry L. Summerfield and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
