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Minnesota Department of Education, 2023
The purpose of this document is to provide information and resources on special education for charter schools and charter school authorizers. The information in this report should not be relied upon as a comprehensive or definitive response to specific legal situations involving special education compliance. This report includes a: (1) Minnesota…
Descriptors: Special Education, Charter Schools, School Administration, Planning
Ruth E. Ryder – Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2023
States continue to work to implement statewide accountability systems; publicly report extensive information on State and local report cards, as required under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); and provide additional resources to schools designated for support and improvement. These systems are vital for improving outcomes…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Statewide Planning
National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2023
The State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) is an important tool for states to assess local education agency (LEA) implementation of IDEA. However, reviewing LEA performance on the SPP/APR indicators must not be the only tool. This Fast Five introduces five factors (plus one!) other than the SPP/APR indicators that states should…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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Timothy E. Morse – Education and Urban Society, 2024
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) framework was established as a comprehensive, equitable approach for addressing urban students' academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs. Still, confusion surrounded its implementation. On returning to in-person instruction, urban educators have been challenged to…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Equal Education, Urban Education, Urban Schools
Gleason, Stacy; Beckerman-Hsu, Jake; Gabor, Vivian; Blitstein, Jonathan; Crocker, Jarle; Hansen, Dani – SNAP, 2021
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the country's largest food assistance program, providing more than $6.2 billion in supplemental benefits to over 42 million people with low incomes to purchase groceries each month. The SNAP Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Services grant program (SNAP-Ed) equips people eligible for…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Data Collection
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2022
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) requires each State to develop and implement a single, statewide accountability system to support all public elementary school and secondary school students in meeting the challenging State academic standards. These systems are important tools in achieving the goal of improving outcomes for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Accountability, Educational Legislation
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
Education officials have long hoped that the statewide academic assessments most students take each year could be used not only for accountability but also to guide instruction. Congress established the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) program in 2015 to help address this goal, offering up to seven states flexibility from…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Testing Programs, State Programs
Education Resource Strategies, 2021
In most K-12 school districts across the country, the beginning of the 2021-22 school year has been different from what school and district leaders expected and were planning for. Many spent the spring and summer sowing the seeds of their ESSER plans, allocating federal investments to high-impact strategies designed to bear fruit for years to…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, COVID-19, Pandemics
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
The education system's purpose is to enable every student to have the knowledge and skills to reach their full potential -- which requires students are college and career ready. But for far too many students, the system is falling short. A recent report found 60 percent of high school graduates were not college or career ready. Closing this gap…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Military Service, Readiness
Howard S. Adelman; Linda Taylor – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2024
The purpose of this monograph is to advance thinking about transforming how schools play their role in addressing barriers to learning and teaching. In the process, the authors discuss embedding and framing the evolving literatures related to improvement and implementation sciences into a general intervention perspective. Part I of this monograph…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Educational Improvement, Research and Development
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Klevan, Sarah – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
Widespread efforts to curb exclusionary and discriminatory discipline in schools have led to a growing focus on restorative approaches, a set of practices aimed at building strong in-school relationships and attachments, rather than pushing students out of school. This brief reviews research illustrating the benefits of these practices for…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Discipline, Justice, Conflict Resolution
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Dougherty, Kevin J.; Natow, Rebecca S. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Neoliberal theories--whether the new public management, principal-agent theory, or performance management--have provided the rationale for sweeping reforms in the governance and operation of higher education. This paper expands our understanding of neoliberal theory and practice by examining a leading neoliberal reform: performance-based funding…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Performance Based Assessment, Higher Education, Neoliberalism
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Kelly-Riley, Diane – Composition Studies, 2020
This article reports on a statewide implementation of a corequisite model of instruction for first year writing at two- and four-year public, postsecondary institutions in Idaho. This project explores how these institutions manage political and economic mandates for educational reform while preserving educational quality for students and teaching…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, College Students, Accountability
Foster, Kelly Robson; Robinson, Brian; Ali, Titilayo Tinubu – Bellwether, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 schools are under immense pressure to meet the diverse needs of students. But policies and practices have not evolved quickly enough to meet those needs -- and as a result, the system continues to fail far too many young people. In "Levers of Change: How State Policies Support District…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Policy, Educational Innovation, School Districts
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Tsuda, Emi; Wyant, James; Bulger, Sean M.; Elliott, Eloise; Taliaferro, Andrea R.; Burgeson, Charlene; Wechsler, Howell – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2019
With the introduction of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, physical education is now considered a part of a "well-rounded education." One of the critical features of ESSA is the growing expectation for states to establish accountability systems that monitor student learning. In 2018, a group of researchers conducted a study…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
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