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Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Bureau of Education for Exceptional Children. – 1991
This document is a request by the Kentucky Department of Education for state legislation to mandate services and provide new state funding for preschool children aged 3, 4, and 5, with handicaps. Preschool services would include special education (center, home-based, itinerant); speech, physical, and occupational therapies; and other related…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Compliance (Legal), Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Fuller, Howard L.; Mitchell, George A. – 1999
This paper compares racial and ethnic enrollment in Milwaukee private schools between 1994-95, when the legislature expanded the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), and 1998-99, when the expansion was first implemented. While some predicted that more choice would worsen racial and ethnic segregation, researchers instead found that it…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Ethnic Groups
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2004
The stakes for California's schools and students have never been higher. More than 1,600 California schools are now on a statewide "watch list" for failing to meet new federal standards, a number that is expected to triple in less than 5 years. Many of these schools face federal sanctions or even takeover by the state. This year's high school…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, High Schools, Teaching (Occupation), High Stakes Tests
Freitas, Joseph M.; Close, Catherine – 1983
Prepared for the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, this report provides an overview of the 50% Law (Education Code Section 84362), which requires the state's community college districts to spend 50% of the current expense of education each fiscal year (FY) on the payment of salaries for classroom instructors. The first of…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance

Integrated Education, 1978
Presented in this article are attitudes expressed by various individuals and actions taken by various states regarding school integration, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, and employment opportunities for minority groups. (EB)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Campbell, Robert; And Others – 1984
This Special Committee report presents a discussion and recommendations concerning the financing of California's community colleges, student matriculation, student costs, and tuition options. First, the committee's conclusions and recommendations are presented in the areas of college role and mission, the financial condition of the colleges,…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational History
Bland, Laurel L. – 1976
Numbering approximately 62,005 and representing 15.3% of the total Alaska population in 1975, Alaska Natives are a finite and predominately rural subpopulation. However, a significant portion of the Alaska Native Work Force (estimated at 13,854) now resides in the major urban areas and is available to the Statewide Work Force. Statistics from May,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Culture Conflict, Demography, Economic Development
Morrisson, Christian; Jutting, Johannes – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2004
Donor agencies and policy makers tend to agree that increased access of women to education, health, credit, formal legal rights and employment opportunities, in conjunction with economic growth, will substantially improve the socio-economic role of women in developing countries. This paper challenges that view. It argues that these measures might…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Females, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities