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Peer reviewedPeevely, Gary L.; Ray, John R. – Journal of Education Finance, 2001
Examines value-added student achievement levels of 74 school districts named as litigants in "Tennessee v. Small School Systems v. McWherter" and compares them with those of 64 nonlitigating districts. Although litigant districts have achieved greater fiscal equity, student achievement has not significantly improved. (Contains 11…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance)
Download full textAdvisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC. – 1984
In the last two decades, the federal government's role in state and local affairs has shifted markedly from subsidy to regulation. This report examines the origins and effects of the new "regulatory federalism" and proposes reforms. Chapter 1 delineates the subject, chronicling the growth of intergovernmental regulation and discussing…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bureaucracy, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Martin, Edwin – 1978
The history of educational programming for the handicapped has unfortunately been one of quiet discrimination. This pattern has come from the evolution of an isolation-based society. Society is moving increasingly toward the human and equity-based treatment of disabled people. Reflecting some court decisions, the Education of the Handicapped Act…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Change
