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Direct linkTaranto, Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2015
In 2009 the Los Angeles Unified School District passed the Public School Choice Initiative, which aimed to give students in the lowest performing schools educational options. LA Pilot Schools are one option students and their families have when choosing a school in LAUSD. These schools boast small size, autonomy, greater accountability,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Urban Schools, School Districts
Hines, Damon – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) passed the Public School Choice Initiative in 2009, with the aim of providing students in the lowest performing schools educational options. LA Pilot Schools represent one alternative students and their families have when choosing a school within LAUSD. The mission of LA Pilot Schools is to provide a…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Urban Schools, School Districts
Silvers, Blake – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) passed the Public School Choice Initiative in 2009, with the aim of providing students in the lowest performing schools educational options. LA Pilot Schools represent one alternative students and their families have when choosing a school within LAUSD. The mission of LA Pilot Schools is to provide a…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Urban Schools, School Districts
Kisow, Matthew R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, an attempt to reform publicly traded companies that suffered from a series of scandalous failures in the late 1990's, did not apply to nonprofit organizations. Several high-profile scandals which occurred in the nonprofit sector between 1996 and 2002 led lawmakers to make several unsuccessful attempts at mandating that the…
Descriptors: Taxes, Nonprofit Organizations, Federal Legislation, Corporations
Baileys, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The content standards reform movement and the accountability movement that have occurred over the past 10 to 20 years have received much attention among educational professionals and the general public. The federal government legislated accountability measures with the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2000. The Pennsylvania…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education, High Schools, School Districts
Candelarie, Doris – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Across the United States, school districts are working to turnaround their lowest performing schools in order to meet the requirements of Adequate Yearly Progress mandated by the "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2001. These failing schools are facing district, state, and federal sanctions of closure, takeover, or restructuring. A new…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Federal Regulation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Bechtoldt, Jana L.; Bender, Virginia – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this doctoral project was to conduct a policy analysis of two federal laws affecting public education today-- the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004. The common themes of both pieces of legislation and the congruent and the incongruent mandates required by each law were…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
