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Beth Hendrick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Authors of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) intended for the policy to serve a strategic role in improving California public schools' capacity to engage with education stakeholders. Early criticism of the policy's implementation highlighted districts' pro-forma approach to soliciting and responding to stakeholder feedback during the Local…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Public Schools, Stakeholders, Educational Research
Jessica Rittenhouse – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To ensure all students, including historically marginalized students, reached their highest capacity, there was a focus on equity in education at the state and national levels. Minimal research existed where researchers explored principals' educational equity mindset, and I found a gap in the literature concerning the use of principals'…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Rural Schools, Metacognition, Principals
J. Jesus Contreras – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze the decision-making and policy development of local governing boards acting in response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative and qualitative data was gathered through open-ended items in a mixed-methods survey and through a focus group interview. This research sought to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Governing Boards, State Policy
Susan B. Mythen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the use of data for assessing library collection utilization, to explore what tools are available to help guide purchasing decisions, and to create a blueprint for applying percentage-based allocation formulas to community college library collection budgets. Because there is little literature on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services
Joshua R. Testa – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The research examines whether and how performance-based funding formulas adopted by state policymakers for their public colleges and universities influence administrative behavior, both across and within institutions in states where the formulas are in place. The research builds from the public management literature and argues that despite the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Colleges, Universities
Jason Robert Murphy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Implemented in 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) requires Local Education Agencies (LEA's) to engage in a continuous improvement process that identifies actions that extend and improve services for targeted student groups. The vision of the LCFF is that all stakeholder groups including Staff (certificated, classified, management and…
Descriptors: Data, Visualization, Stakeholders, Access to Information
Ellen Ambuehl – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The provision of special education services to students with disabilities has grown dramatically since the passage of Public Law 94-142, the first federal legislation guaranteeing this right to publicly educated children. This legislation ensured that students with disabilities adversely affecting their ability to access the general education…
Descriptors: Special Education, Funding Formulas, Financial Support, Incentive Grants
Wolford, Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this grounded theory qualitative study was to discover the perceptions of special education directors regarding the changes in special education at the policy level, teacher practice level, and student support level necessary to improve the academic achievement of students with disabilities in California. Methodology: The…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education