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Gerlinde Beckers – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2024
This position paper identifies the complexity of the special education teacher (SET) shortage and the social injustices of the already marginalized population of students with disabilities (SWD). Nationally, policy reforms and teacher certification initiatives may have unknowingly perpetuated the shortage of SET in an attempt to increase the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Students with Disabilities
Bonnie O’Keefe; John Bellaire; Indira Dammu – Bellwether, 2025
Access to high-quality early care and education (ECE) supports healthy child development, accelerates academic achievement, reduces educational inequality, and catalyzes economic growth. The benefits of ECE are even greater among economically disadvantaged children, children with disabilities, and multilingual learners. However, despite these…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Preschool Education, Educational Quality
Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Since the enactment of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, P.L. 89-10, as amended) in 1965, the major programs of aid to elementary and secondary education authorized under it have sought to provide for the equitable participation of eligible students enrolled in both public and private elementary and secondary schools. This is…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Court Litigation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Zota, Rita R.; Granovskiy, Boris – Congressional Research Service, 2021
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most elementary and secondary schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) across the United States stopped offering in-person instruction in February or March 2020. By the middle of April 2020, 48 states, four U.S. territories, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, School Closing
Naik, Manish; Yorkman, Michell; Casserly, Michael – Council of the Great City Schools, 2010
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act or ARRA) into law on February 17, 2009. This federal stimulus package provided an unprecedented infusion of new education aid for the nation's schools--more than $100 billion. To determine how the unprecedented federal infusion of education funding was…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Technology, Federal Programs
US Department of Education, 2010
This paper provides an overview of U.S. Department of Education programs authorized and funded under federal law. It includes information as well on the laboratories, centers, and other facilities funded by the Department that provide important resources for education. Readers will find funding information, contact information, and a web site for…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Public Agencies, Educational Improvement, Adult Education
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Innovation and Development. – 1994
As one of a series of papers on the unique needs of special populations with disabilities, this chapter of the 16th annual report on the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) reviews the literature on provision of services to Native American students with disabilities. Native American students with disabilities…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Disadvantaged