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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
Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, 2022
This briefing paper explores Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) policies and practices that state early intervention (Part C) programs may consider implementing to meet the social-emotional and mental health needs of infants and toddlers in the context of relationships with their parents and other caregivers.
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Development, Emotional Development, Infants
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
Clemens, Elysia V.; Sheesley, Alison P. – Online Submission, 2019
Fostering Opportunities is an innovative student engagement program for middle school and high school students who have experienced foster care. The goal of the program is to help youth who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential. Fostering Opportunities was developed because of the clear…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Foster Care, Graduation Rate
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
Anderson, Lexi – Education Commission of the States, 2015
States are taking several distinct approaches to implement reverse transfer policies. Although contextualized by state-specific factors, approaches to policy implementation commonly include determination of a group or regulatory body responsible for policy oversight, technology, funding and identification of students eligible to participate in…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Transfer Policy
Taylor, Jason L.; Bragg, Debra D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2015
In 2012, five foundations launched the Credit When Its Due (CWID) initiative that was "designed to encourage partnerships of community colleges and universities to significantly expand programs that award associate degrees to transfer students when the student completes the requirements for the associate degree while pursuing a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees
Dunbar, Jennifer L.; Sloane, Harvey I.; Mueller, Curt D. – 1999
The state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds state programs to help low-income, uninsured children overcome financial barriers to medical care. Previous research found that rural children were more likely to be uninsured than urban children. This report examines the implementation of CHIP and related outreach, enrollment, and…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, American Indians, Children, Economically Disadvantaged