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Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
The Colorado Re-Engaged (CORE) initiative, created under House Bill 21-1330, allows a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) to award an associate degree to former students who meet eligibility requirements -- including having already earned at least 70 credit hours before stopping-out of a bachelor's program. Under HB21-1330, each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Implementation, Associate Degrees, Stopouts
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
This playbook provides ways in which Governors and teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Governors play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: State Government, State Officials, Governance, High Schools
Chealsye Bowley – Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2024
Containing costs for students in higher education is a significant priority for the Colorado Department of Higher Education and the state of Colorado. Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials licensed to be freely shared and available at no cost to students. The Department champions OER as a strategic means of meeting the demand…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, State Departments of Education, State Universities, Instructional Materials
Pankovits, Tressa; Osborne, David – Progressive Policy Institute, 2020
Across the country, urban school districts are moving beyond industrial-era systems by creating "innovation" or "partnership" schools that have the freedom to reinvent the way they educate students. The Progressive Policy Institute released a how-to guide for legislators, district leaders, and advocates who want to create more…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation
Lieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron – New America, 2022
While research shows that exclusionary discipline practices in the early years are ineffective and developmentally inappropriate, young children continue to be suspended and expelled at high rates. An increasing number of states have taken steps to ensure that young children are not removed from programs due to their behavior. This report explores…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Suspension, Early Childhood Education, Discipline Policy
Robson, Kelly; Schiess, Jennifer O'Neal; Burgoyne-Allen, Phillip – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
Policymakers and researchers often talk about "autonomous schools" as if there's a single, agreed-upon definition of what that means. In reality, there's no standard design for autonomous school policies, and school autonomy can mean a lot of different things. The policies that states have enacted vary widely in terms of their goals, the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Based Management, State Policy, Educational Policy
Robson, Kelly; Schiess, Jennifer O'Neal; Burgoyne-Allen, Phillip – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
Policymakers and researchers often talk about "autonomous schools" as if there's a single, agreed-upon definition of what that means. In reality, there's no standard design for autonomous school policies, and school autonomy can mean a lot of different things. The policies that states have enacted vary widely in terms of their goals, the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Based Management, State Policy, Educational Policy
Jones, Dennis P. – National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2016
This is the third paper on the topic of outcomes-based funding written by Dennis Jones for Complete College America. The first paper, "Performance Funding: From Idea to Action" (ED535356), proposed a set of design and implementation principles to help states develop and implement their own outcomes-based funding models. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness, Models
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
About 13 percent of children aged 3 through 21 enrolled in public schools received special education services in school year 2015-16, and about 3 percent of children from birth through age 2 received special education services. Concerns about the difficulties identifying and evaluating children for special education have been raised by the media,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Disability Identification
Vandal, Bruce – Complete College America, 2014
With research indicating that upwards of 50 percent of all new entering postsecondary education students are placed into remedial education and that students placed into remedial education are less likely to earn a postsecondary credential, policymakers and postsecondary leaders alike have committed themselves to transforming remedial education in…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Remedial Programs, Postsecondary Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Fulton, Mary; Gianneschi, Matt; Blanco, Cheryl; DeMaria, Paolo – Education Commission of the States, 2014
The Developmental Strategies for College Readiness and Success Resource Guide was produced by the Education Commission of the States and the Southern Regional Education Board for the "Countdown to 2015: Developmental Strategies to Advance Readiness in the Common Core Era" convening held April 21-23, 2014 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Success, Developmental Studies Programs, Guides
Miller, Susan – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
In late 1999, philanthropist Susie Buffett wanted to make the smartest possible investment to improve public education in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. She and her then-foundation president, Dan Pedersen, spoke with Superintendent John Mackiel regarding how he would choose to use private funds to enhance opportunities for Omaha's 46,000…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Private Sector, Program Development, Neighborhoods
Falsone, Anne Marie – 1986
Designed to propose ways for the Colorado Department of Education to provide leadership in the implementation of a statewide educational telecommunications network, this study examines ways in which telecommunications can be used by the state department of education, school districts, libraries, and other informational or educational agencies to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Financial Support, Long Range Planning
Grieder, Timothy M., Ed. – 1991
This guide presents state policies and procedures for all types of off-campus instruction delivered by Colorado institutions. Instruction may be offered at off-campus locations, at other institutions' campuses, or delivered to students via the mails or electronic media. Part A provides an introduction, while Part B considers general policies…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Distance Education, Educational Policy
Anderson, Ronald D.; And Others – 1984
Sixty-eight specific interventions to improve science education were grouped into 11 categories. Each category was then related to one of three major intervention objectives and an associated group. These categories, grouped by objectives are: (1) interventions increasing amount of time students are engaged in learning science (increasing student…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
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