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Sarah Cashdollar; Mariana Barragan Torres; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
This report provides a first look at how Illinois school districts' uses of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds were related to their test score outcomes in the years following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on districts' ESSER expenditures as of November 2023, the authors analyze test score trends across…
Descriptors: School Districts, Federal Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs
Kunkle, Kelsey; Laderman, Sophia – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2023
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of public policy decisions in each state that contribute to public higher education funding levels and funding distributions across states and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Expenditure per Student
National Charter School Resource Center, 2016
In partnership with the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC), the National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) has been conducting authorizer assessments over the past six years. However, the correlation between high-quality authorization practices and charter school impact has largely been unexplored. This report uses a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Formative Evaluation, Educational Quality, School Administration
White, Bradford R. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2016
Charter schools are publicly-funded educational entities that operate independently from local school districts and are exempt from certain state and local requirements, particularly with regard to teacher personnel policy. In exchange for this flexibility, charter schools are held more accountable for results and may be shut down if they fail to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Human Resources, Accountability, Competition
Booth, Ronald R.; Carlson, Milton – 1975
This publication presents data gathered in a survey of the impact of collective bargaining on Illinois school districts. In September 1974, the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed a three-part questionnaire to the superintendent of each of its 932 member school districts. Completed questionnaires were returned by 739 districts,…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Personnel Policy
Budde, Stephen; Mayer, Susan; Zinn, Andrew; Lippold, Melissa; Avrushin, Adam; Bromberg, Ava; Goerge, Robert; Courtney, Mark – Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2004
In this multi-faceted exploratory study, administrative data were used to examine trends in residential care utilization by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and youth outcomes from 1993 to 2003. Multivariate analyses were conducted to determine the factors associated with entry to residential care and…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Placement, Youth, Foster Care
Pultorak, Edward – 1999
This paper discusses recent Illinois legislation related to education reform and some collaborative approaches being used to impact public policy. It shares implementation updates regarding the rules and regulations attached to the legislation and how these changes could impact educational excellence, equity, and accountability in the 21st…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teacher Induction, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Booth, Ronald R.; And Others – 1985
In October 1984 the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed four-part questionnaires concerning collective bargaining and salaries to superintendents in 940 of the 1,006 school districts in Illinois. This report arranges the data from the 582 responses into tables providing information concerning four broad subjects: the current status of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1996
This annual report on college affordability provides information pertinent to tuition and fee decision making designed to assist Illinois college and university governing boards in finding a balance between keeping college affordable for students and generating sufficient revenue to defray a portion of the cost of providing quality instruction.…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Change Agents, College Students, Community Colleges