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California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
Pursuant to California Education Code Section 84362, each community college district is required to allocate at least 50% of its annual education expenses, as defined by law, to the salaries and benefits of classroom instructors. This requirement ensures a significant portion of educational expenditures directly supports classroom instruction. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teacher Salaries, Teacher Employment Benefits, Educational Finance
Drew Jacobs; Debbie Veney – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2023
"Believing in Public Education: A Demographic and State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" is a new data analysis that examines enrollment trends during the last four school years (2019-2023). Over the last four school years (2019-20 to 2022-23), charter schools have gained more than…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
Danielle Farrie; Robert Kim – Education Law Center, 2024
Education Law Center's "Making the Grade" is an annual overview of the condition of school finance in the states. Using the most recently available data from the 2021-2022 school year, the report ranks and grades each state on three measures to answer the key question: How fair is school funding in your state? The three fairness measures…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Expenditure per Student, Public Schools
Rachel M. Perera – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Using newly available data on all civil rights complaints submitted to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights related to racial discrimination in discipline between 1999 and 2018, I provide the first systematic evidence on how modern federal civil rights enforcement is used to address racial discrimination in discipline. I find…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Racial Discrimination
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2020
This eleventh edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. This report evaluates each state's public charter school law against the 21 essential components of a strong charter school law. These 21 components are drawn…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Law, State Legislation, Public Schools
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2019
This tenth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. This report evaluates each state's public charter school law against the 21 essential components of a strong charter school law. These 21 components are drawn from…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Law, State Legislation, Public Schools
Ziebarth, Todd; Palmer, Louann Bierlein; Schultz, Emily – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2017
This eighth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. This year's rankings are the first that measure each state's charter school law against the National Alliance's revised model charter school law, "A New…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Law, State Legislation
Ziebarth, Todd; Palmer, Louann Bierlein – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2018
This ninth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. For the second year in a row, the 2018 rankings measure each state's charter school law against the National Alliance's updated model charter school law, "New…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Law, State Legislation
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
This twelfth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" evaluates each state's public charter school law against the 21 essential components of a strong charter school law. These 21 components are drawn from the National Alliance's "A New Model Law for Supporting the Growth of High-Quality Public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Law, State Legislation
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016
This seventh edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. Some highlights include: (1) significant activity regarding potential enabling legislation in several of the states without charter public school laws, (2)…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Law, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Hatch, Roger – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2018
The inter-district school choice law in Massachusetts was passed in 1991. Its two main goals were to provide education options to Massachusetts parents and children, and to spur competition among districts. School choice allows school districts to enroll non-resident pupils from other districts at a tuition cost that starts at $5,000 but averages…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Districts, School Law, Educational Cooperation
Jeff Strohl; Catherine Morris; Ban Cheah – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
Is law school worth it? A Juris Doctor (JD) offers high median earnings and a substantial earnings boost relative to a bachelor's degree in the humanities or social sciences--two of the more common fields of study that lawyers pursue as undergraduate students. However, graduates of most law schools carry substantial student loan debt, which dims…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Outcomes of Education, Wages, Student Loan Programs
Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Zeehandelaar, Dara – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2015
This paper examines thirty major American cities to determine how "choice-friendly" they are today. Selected for their size and geographic diversity, the cities reveal both the best and worst conditions for school choice to take root and grow. "School choice" is defined broadly to incorporate a wide range of public and private…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Urban Areas, School Choice, Educational Indicators
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, 2012
The New Jersey Commission on Higher Education (the Commission) is required by statute (N.J.S.A. 18A: 62-46) to prepare an annual report to the Governor and Legislature containing a compilation of the data it collected about community college students who transferred to senior public institutions of higher education in New Jersey. At its July 25,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Annual Reports, Enrollment, State Government
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2011
In the "Higher Education Opportunity Act" of 2008, Congress charged the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance with conducting a review and analysis of regulations affecting higher education, to determine the extent to which regulations are overly burdensome and need to be streamlined, improved, or eliminated. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Advisory Committees, Federal Regulation, Federal Aid
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