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Mokher, Christine G.; Jacobson, Louis – Educational Policy, 2021
This article explores challenges in starting, developing, and incorporating partnerships between the secondary and postsecondary education sectors. We use qualitative data from site visits at high schools, district offices, and state colleges across six Florida counties to identify the types of challenges educators faced in various phases of…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, High School Students
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Honig, Meredith I.; Rainey, Lydia R. – Educational Policy, 2012
New "autonomy initiatives" aim to increase schools' decision-making authority as a strategy to leverage school improvement. These policies build on lessons of previous reforms such as site-based management in ways that bode well for their success. However, how are these policies actually faring in implementation? The authors addressed that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Institutional Autonomy, Decision Making
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Clune, William H. – Educational Policy, 1994
A true adequacy model is emerging, a system of school finance that links resources and outcomes to ensure that all students receive an adequate education. Implementing true adequacy would require school districts to adopt high minimum goals, identify necessary resources, and have a long-range investment plan for deploying resources and developing…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Combs, Mary Carol; Evans, Carol; Fletcher, Todd; Parra, Elena; Jimenez, Alicia – Educational Policy, 2005
In November 2000, Arizona voters passed Proposition 203, a law that replaced bilingual education with a 1-year program known as Structured English Immersion (SEI). Although SEI has little support in the educational or applied linguistics research literature, all English-language learners (ELLs) in Arizona are automatically placed in SEI…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
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Berne, Robert – Educational Policy, 1994
Explores 1990s educational equity issues and implementation challenges, including outcome measurement, the accountability-governance relationship, resource implications, the need for integrated children's services, and necessary role changes for teachers, administrators, and parents. Summarizes recommendations of a New York State Equity Study…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Definitions, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Clune, William H. – Educational Policy, 1994
Introduces a special issue on educational program adequacy--the cost of raising poor children's outcomes to functional levels through improved systems of finance, governance, organization, implementation, and educational practice. Essays raise numerous problems, including a weak knowledge base, low educational productivity, political resistance,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Equity (Finance)