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Shand, Robert; Levin, Henry M. – National Education Policy Center, 2021
School vouchers, a school choice policy that allows students and families to use public funds to fully or partially pay the cost of attending private schools, became a major area of policy debate once again during Betsy DeVos's tenure as United States Secretary of Education. Recent evaluations have found negative impacts of vouchers on academic…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance, School Choice, Cost Effectiveness
Hoover, James P. – School Business Affairs, 2012
Sick leave banks are a common staple of teacher contracts. Although these banks may benefit employees, they expose school districts to a variety of complications and unintended consequences, including administrative complexity, potential cash flow implications, cost disparities, increased absenteeism, instructional instability, privacy issues, and…
Descriptors: Unions, Collective Bargaining, Cost Effectiveness, Leaves of Absence
Burke, Patrick J.; Klein, Jennifer R. – School Administrator, 2009
In the late 1990s, Fulton County Schools in Atlanta were looking at average enrollment growth of more than 2,500 students a year and a new source of significant revenue to drive its capital improvement program. With funding from Georgia's new special purpose local option sales tax, or SPLOST, for school capital needs, total revenue from the…
Descriptors: Privatization, School Construction, Program Administration, School Districts
Universal Service Administrative Company, 2009
This paper presents the activities of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) for 2009. The past year was one of accomplishment for USAC. USAC implemented a host of advances in operations, infrastructure, and outreach in an effort to continue to improve collection and disbursement of the Universal Service Fund (USF) support and to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Annual Reports, Activities, Outreach Programs
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Featherston, E. Glenn – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1948
This bulletin is one in the series on pupil transportation issued by the Office of Education. Its purpose is to furnish information and guidance for local school administrators and others who are concerned with school bus maintenance. Programs of school bus maintenance vary among the 48 States. Presumably all contract vehicles are maintained by…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Buses, Educational Facilities Planning, Student Transportation
Finchum, R. N. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Present capital outlay investments in elementary and secondary school buildings, sites, and equipment in the United States are being increased at the rate of about $3 billion annually. Maintenance and operational services, important aspects of property protection, educational progress, pupil safety, and plant efficiency, are being provided in…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Expenditures