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Lynnea M. LoPresto; Diana L. Cassady; Melanie S. Dove – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Districts with federal nutrition programs must have an updated local school wellness policy (LSWP) to promote nutrition, physical activity, and student wellness. This study evaluates factors associated with LSWP quality among low-income districts. Methods: In 2018, we collected LSWPs from websites of 200 randomly selected,…
Descriptors: School Policy, Wellness, Low Income, Federal Programs
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Elizabeth S. Peterson; Joseph A. Taylor – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Increasing and diversifying STEM college graduates, and consequently the STEM workforce, remains a pressing national priority. As such, the purpose of this quantitative study was to evaluate the Educate to Innovate campaign within higher education. Using preexisting public survey data together with interrupted and comparative interrupted time…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Innovation, STEM Education, Diversity
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Stephanie Aguilar-Smith; Erin Doran – Educational Policy, 2024
Understanding the development of major educational policies is essential, especially federal policies integral to Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)--one of the fastest-growing types of postsecondary institutions in the United States, which collectively serve over two-thirds of Latina/o/x-identified college students. Accordingly, in this…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students, Educational Policy, State Policy
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Nathan A. Hutcherson; Raquel Muñiz – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
Educational policies designed to benefit students from first-generation, low-income, and racially minoritized backgrounds do not always consider the realities these students experience during college. Instead, students participating in compensatory education programs can endure further marginalization. Using critical policy analysis' core tenets…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Hidden Curriculum, Minority Group Students
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April Yanyuan Wu; Denise Hoffman; Paul O'Leary – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2025
Our study is the first to provide statistics on opioid use among U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants. We use an innovative machine-learning method to identify opioids in open-ended text fields in SSDI administrative data. We find that more than 30% of applicants between 2007 and 2017 reported using one or more opioids, a…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Use, Disabilities, Federal Programs
Joshua Bleiberg; Eric Brunner; Erica Harbatkin; Matthew A. Kraft; Matthew G. Springer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting their staggered implementation across states. We find precisely estimated null effects, on…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Incentives
Julien Lafortune; Iwunze Ugo; Brett Guinan – Public Policy Institute of California, 2024
With pandemic stimulus funding subsiding, efforts to boost achievement, stem absenteeism, and narrow outcome gaps in California's TK-12 public school system will rely on the level and sustainability of ongoing state and local dollars. First implemented over 10 years ago, California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) provides additional funding…
Descriptors: Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Financial Needs, Financial Support, Student Needs
Rachel Brooks; Maria Hassett; Francesca Venezia; Maria Boyle – US Department of Agriculture, 2024
This report provides findings on language access policies, plans, and procedures in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) agencies in four States at the State and local agency levels: (1) Massachusetts, (2) New Mexico, (3) North Carolina, and (4) Washington. The study team conducted case studies in each site--interviewing State and…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Bilingualism, Translation, Second Languages
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2024
The five-year initiative New Skills for Youth (NSFY) aimed to transform career readiness education and bridge the skills gap by supporting innovative strategies in 10 states across the United States. NSFY was one of the earliest and most impactful philanthropic investments in career pathways and career readiness in recent history and helped spark…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Youth Programs, Career Readiness, Federal Programs
Emily Gutierrez – Urban Institute, 2025
Free school meal access has become increasingly intertwined with federal social safety net programs--including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)--to reduce duplicative paperwork for schools. The changes to SNAP that House Republicans have proposed would have downstream effects on free school meal access. The proposed changes to…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Political Attitudes, Eligibility
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Robin Clausen – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Direct certification has been described by policymakers and academics as a tool which may replace National School Lunch Program (NSLP) eligibility data (Douglas Geverdt, National Center for Education Statistics, personal communication, August 28, 2023). It suggests a policy future in which we change the metric of how we identify disadvantage. On…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Lunch Programs, Educational Policy, Identification
Neetu Arnold; Mason Goad; Teresa Manning; David Randall; Nathaniel Urban – National Association of Scholars, 2025
This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term political dispositions of America's citizenry, supports the wholesale reform of ED, but not its elimination. The authors have structured their report in this…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Administrative Organization, History
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W. Steven Barnett; Kwanghee Jung – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
We investigated the extent to which practices considered developmentally appropriate and inappropriate varied by preschool program auspice (private, public school, and Head Start). Survey data from a 2010 national sample of 2,664 teachers of 4-year-olds provided teacher reports on the frequency of seven practices (e.g., offering children choices…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Teachers
Carly Morrison; Kate Stepleton; Diane Schilder; Catherine Kuhns – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
This brief presents select findings from "The Conversion of Enrollment Slots from Head Start to Early Head Start (HS2EHS) Case Studies," six case studies of grant recipients that converted enrollment slots from Head Start to Early Head Start in 2021. This brief focuses on how grant recipients "assess the need for conversion."…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Federal Programs, Social Services, Low Income Students
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Thomas Packebush; Katherine Ahern; Barbara Brody; Katherine Gunter – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: School-based physical activity (PA) programs are an equitable, evidence-based approach to combat health and PA disparities. This study examined factors associated with implementation of BE Physically Active 2Day (BEPA 2.0), a K-5 school-based PA program, and examined how support from Cooperative Extension via Supplemental Nutrition…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Teacher Attitudes, Physical Education, Evidence Based Practice
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