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Matthew Clayton; Andrew Mason; Adam Swift; Ruth Wareham, Contributor – Oxford University Press, 2024
Should religious schools be an option? Should they receive public funding? Are they bad for community cohesion? What should we make of the charge that they indoctrinate? How should they be regulated? People disagree on the answers to these questions. Some maintain that religious schools should not be permitted. If parents want to raise their…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Private School Aid, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy
McShane, Michael Q. – EdChoice, 2018
As more and more cities and states diversify the educational options available to parents and students, creating magnet, open-enrollment, small school, career and technical, charter, and private school opportunities, educational choice markets need to become a part of the regulation conversation. In this report, Mike McShane examines the…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Educational Legislation, School Policy, Educational Policy
Wurmbrand, Mitchell M.; Klotz, Thomas C. – Facilities Manager, 2010
On September 22, 2009, The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final rule on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reporting. The informational literature that EPA has published to support the rule clearly states that EPA believes the vast majority of smaller GHG-emitting facilities, such as educational facilities, will not be…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Disclosure, Environmental Standards, Pollution
Knudson, William A. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
Higher energy prices and the growing concern about global warming have led to a number of policy goals and targets designed to curb global warming and/or the development of alternative sources of energy. However, the Tinbergen Rule states that for each and every policy target there must be at least one policy tool. If there are fewer tools than…
Descriptors: Climate, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Energy Conservation
Myers, Phillip E.; Smith, Marie F. – Journal of Research Administration, 2008
Research administrators can be assisted in resolving issues with awareness of the critical period of policy formation divulged in the Joseph Warner Papers. He and his colleagues on the Subcommittee on Grants and Contracts Provisions of COGR adopted the philosophy that research administrators needed flexibility and reduced paperwork and costs.…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Policy Formation, Federal Government, Government Publications
Data Quality Campaign, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education is conducting several activities to address privacy and security issues related to education data. Earlier this year a contractor for the Department convened a group of privacy and security experts and produced a report with recommendations to the Department on ways they can address emerging challenges in…
Descriptors: Information Security, Stakeholders, Technical Assistance, Feedback (Response)
Ferejohn, John; Shipan, Charles – 1988
This paper examines two issues in telecommunications policy in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has attempted to pursue policies that were distant from the policy desires of their supervising committees in Congress, and in which congressmen made use of various instruments of congressional influence: the FCC's attempt to…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation, Legislators
Wagner, Ellen D. – Educational Technology, 1993
Explains how the availability and cost of telecommunications services and equipment are determined through regulatory means. Highlights include distance education and training; telephone services; regulation and public policy; and key telecommunications regulatory activities, including judicial, legislative, and executive. (Contains 13…
Descriptors: Costs, Distance Education, Federal Regulation, Policy Formation
Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2009
This paper is the Office for Civil Rights's (OCR's) "Annual Report to Congress" for fiscal years 2007 and 2008. This report details OCR's accomplishments in enforcing the civil rights laws under which OCR has been granted jurisdiction to address and remedy discrimination. These enforcement efforts include complaint investigation and resolution,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Technical Assistance

Jones, Anthony P. – Student Aid Transcript, 1998
Outlines the federal legislative and regulatory processes concerning student financial aid, with the objective of encouraging participation in modification of the rules by which schools, lenders, servicers, and guaranty agencies must administer Title IV (Higher Education Act) financial aid. Topics discussed include authorization/reauthorization,…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation, Higher Education
Rowland, Willard D., Jr. – 1989
The late 1980s' resurgent appeal to public interest standards entails a misunderstanding of the real meaning of "public interest" and, whatever the merits of the critique of the deficiencies during the recent regulatory period, the standard still contains within it the seeds of its own compromise, if not destruction. Even among its…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Communication Research, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
Hubbell, Ruth – 1980
Family impact analyses are focused on one basic question: What will a given law, policy or practice do to families? There are two major activities in the process of analyzing family impact that has been developed by participants in the Family Impact Seminar: the first involves figuring out exactly how a law, policy, or system under study actually…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Family (Sociological Unit), Federal Regulation, Guidelines

Figueiredo, Nice – Information Development, 1987
Describes the events that led to the establishment of the national policy for informatics in Brazil, which restricts foreign involvement in that nation's computer industry. The governing agencies are described, controversies and debates surrounding the policy are summarized, and the reaction of the American government is discussed. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, International Trade
Benton, Charles – Library Journal, 1979
Highlights program activities of the commission, and considers projected effects of the White House Conference on it. Future concerns are noted including the role of the school and public library, the needs of research and scholarship when knowledge is multiplying rapidly, and mediation between library and information services and users. (SW)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Conferences, Federal Regulation, Futures (of Society)
Wilson, Joy; And Others – 1984
This paper examines the history, functions, and impact of the four existing educational communications organizations in Canada: (1) TVOntario; (2) Radio Quebec; (3) ACCESS Alberta; and (4) the Knowledge Network of the West in British Columbia. It is noted that, while broadcasting and communications have always fallen under federal jurisdiction,…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Distance Education, Educational Radio, Educational Television