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Teacher Quality: Sustained Coordination among Key Federal Education Programs Could Enhance State Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality. Report to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives. GAO-09-593
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US Government Accountability Office, 2009
Policymakers and researchers have focused on improving the quality of our nation's 3 million teachers to raise the achievement of students in key academic areas, such as reading and mathematics. Given the importance of teacher quality to student achievement and the key role federal and state governments play in supporting teacher quality, GAO's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Shared Resources and Services, Federal Programs, State Programs
State Education Accountability Reports and Indicator Reports: Status of Reports across the States, 2002. Results of a 50-State Survey by the CCSSO Division of State Services and Technical Assistance.
Manise, Jennifer; Pewett, Cynthia; Potts, Abigail – 2002
The Council of Chief State School Officers worked with state departments of education to compile this summary document on the current status of state education accountability and state education indicator reports. The summary is designed to provide state-by-state information (all 50 states, the Department of Defense Dependants Schools, the Virgin…
Descriptors: Accountability, Annual Reports, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education
State Education Accountability Reports and Indicator Reports: Status of Reports across the States 1999. Results of a 50-State Survey by the CCSSO State Education Assessment Center.
MacMillan, Thomas; Manise, Jennifer – 1999
This report presents, in chart form, information about the accountability reports and indicator reports from each state. State education staff were asked to identify and update descriptions of all current state reports that provide accountability or educational indicator information for K-12 education. As of August 1999, all state agencies except…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Agencies
An Evaluation of the Participation of Faith-Based and Community Organizations in U.S. Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs and as Supplemental Educational Services Providers
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McCrary, Joseph; Hosek, Adrienne – US Department of Education, 2007
Historically, faith-based organizations (FBOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) have been involved in the provision of social services, such as drug treatment, job training, community redevelopment, housing, and education. However, FBOs and CBOs have not often participated in U.S. Department of Education (the Department) grant programs. In…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Quality, Community Organizations
Child Welfare League of America 1997 Salary Study.
Curtis, Patrick A.; Laitin, Anna – 1998
This report details a study of trends in the salaries of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other personnel at member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America. Responding to the study's mail survey were 377 out of 780 member agencies (48 percent return) and 327 out of 640 direct service CWLA agencies (51 percent return), including state…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Compensation (Remuneration)
Salary Study, 1999.
Feagans, Laura – 2000
This report details a study of trends in the salaries of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other personnel at member agencies of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). Responding to the study's mail survey were 437 out of 977 CEOs (44.7 percent) and 337 out of 825 CWLA member agencies (40.8 percent). The bulk of the report is comprised of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Compensation (Remuneration)