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Direct linkCatherine N. Pichon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As superintendents steer their districts through uncharted territories, their experiences and strategies are key to transforming schools. This study employed transcendental phenomenology to explore how seven Virginia superintendents from two different regions described their experiences implementing novel cultural competency training. Data…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Cultural Awareness, Program Implementation, Administrator Attitudes
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Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics, 2017
In general, data governance refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, quality, and security of data. A sound data governance program includes a governing body or council, a definition and allocation of authority, a defined set of procedures, and a plan to execute those procedures. This brief offers best practices…
Descriptors: Data, Governance, Information Management, Information Security
Smith, Paul Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Community colleges are an increasingly important component of the higher education systems in the United States. Community college as a pathway toward a better educated workforce has been emphasized at a national and state level. Virginia's policy makers set an ambitious goal of producing 100,000 new baccalaureate degrees in the Commonwealth by…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Transfer Policy, Community Colleges
Barger, Kenna; Murray, Renee; Smith, Janie – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Through the "Strengthening Statewide College/Career Readiness Initiative" (SSCRI), Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has collaborated with states on state policy goals and actions needed to improve high school students' academic readiness for postsecondary study and reduce the need for remedial work. SREB created and implemented…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Programs, Transitional Programs
Griggs-Drane, Ellen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study focused on current practices of character education in Virginia secondary schools and intended to establish baseline data. The research was conducted in two phases and used a mixed methodology. Of the 621 secondary schools in Virginia, a combination of 243 urban and county schools were randomly selected to participate in Phase One of…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Secondary Schools, Federal Legislation, Geographic Location
Virginia State Dept. for Children, Richmond. – 1989
Virginia's 1988 General Assembly mandated special technical assistance to develop pilot rural child care programs through the collaborative efforts of the Department for Children, the Department of Social Services, and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. This interim report provides an update of program activities and describes processes…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperation, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1993
To fulfill an agreement with the 1992 General Assembly, the Virginia Department of Education conducted a study during the fall and winter of 1992-93 of school divisions' implementation of their Family Life Education (FLE) programs. The program was to provide comprehensive, age-appropriate, and sequential instruction in 10 specified content areas…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life Education, Program Implementation, Public Schools
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1992
Guidelines for the development and implementation of a public school uniform policy are presented in this document. Written during spring 1991 in response to Virginia House Bill 1206, which directed the state board of education to develop model policy guidelines by January 1, 1992, the suggestions serve as a practical guide for planning,…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Dress Codes, Elementary Secondary Education, Policy Formation
Cahalan, Margaret; And Others – 1983
Under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (P. L. 96-272), Congress outlined a case review system intended to assure that child welfare agencies deal directly with various aspects of child placement. The second of four volumes, this document presents case study descriptions of the hearings within the context of the case review…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
