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Kathleen M. W. Cunningham; David Osworth – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the presence of continuous improvement and improvement science in the Consolidated State Plans required by ESSA. Through an exploratory qualitative content analysis, we examined 52 state plans to determine the extent education policies encourage professional educators to use a continuous improvement and…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Susan Rutherford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
States recognize that a workforce skill shortage exists and have started educational initiatives to prepare students for workforce readiness and postsecondary success. There is a growing consensus among states that the goal of our education system is to prepare students for a career, college, or the military by providing all students with…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Military Service, Credentials
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Ebony Love; Endia J. Lindo – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2025
School and district leaders often face a politically charged environment. The past few years have heightened the unusual community sentiment on social media, newsletters, board meetings, and other public venues, especially around issues such as "Critical Race Theory." Superintendents in Texas have been charged with considering book…
Descriptors: Social Justice, School Districts, Politics of Education, State Legislation
Dan Adams; Marie Falcone; Jessica Maddox; Emily Passias; Layla Alagic, Contributor; Kate Kreamer, Contributor; Stacy Whitehouse, Contributor – Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2025
"The State of Career Technical Education: Credentials of Value" report draws on a 2024 national scan of state practices, a 50-state survey, and interviews with state leaders to gather insights and strategies for improving the identification, validation, incentivization, and data collection related to credentials that support learners'…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Labor Force Development, Data Collection, Education Work Relationship
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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Aaron M. Pallas; Cami Touloukian – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Federal and state reforms have expanded accountability systems for school districts, schools, and teachers. However, there is little evidence that the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems relying on measures of student learning and measures of teaching practice, with differentiated performance categories and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Kathleen Rzucidlo – Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2023
Recent state legislative developments have brought accreditation to the forefront of public higher education conversations. Some accreditation critics state that accreditors have too much influence in higher education suggesting that their efforts may affect institutional autonomy and that they are allegedly structured as legalized monopolies…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Accountability, State Legislation
Nebraska Department of Education, 2021
The Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) seeks to improve all schools. To strategically target resources and champion equity in education, the NDE blends both federal and state supports in its classification and designation system. Nebraska statute requires the State Board of Education to create a system of accountability combining multiple…
Descriptors: Accountability, Academic Achievement, Classification, Educational Legislation
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Gabriella Franza; Patrick Pizzo; Michele Williams – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2023
This article examines the needs in New York State for public policy to address disparities in educational outcomes, opportunities to learn and appropriate evaluations that assess student readiness to advance in their education or work opportunities. Several proposals for educational public policy changes and practices are offered in the conclusion…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
Bruce Henecker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the impact of the Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act on teacher tenure revocation in New Jersey. Employing a qualitative content analysis approach, the study analyzes 270 arbitration decisions from 2012 to 2023 to identify the specific legislative provisions that most…
Descriptors: Tenure, Faculty, Teacher Dismissal, Teacher Effectiveness
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Addie Campbell-Mungen – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Decades of federal and state education legislation enacted to increase student academic achievement and enhance school quality have pronounced impacts on teachers and their instructional practice. That impact is captured in the term intensification. Intensification is multifaceted and manifests as additional tasks accomplished simultaneously, with…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, English Teachers, Language Arts, Faculty Workload
Bill Kottenstette; Paola Paga – Colorado Department of Education, 2024
The Innovation Schools Act of 2008, § 22-32.5-102, et seq. C.R.S., was designed to provide a pathway for schools and districts to develop and implement innovative practices in a wide variety of areas and contexts to improve student outcomes. The Act provides a formal process that allows schools or groups of schools to make requests to their local…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, School District Autonomy
Erwin, Ben; Francies, Cassidy; Pechota, Damion; McCann, Meghan – Education Commission of the States, 2021
School accountability systems can serve many purposes, including sharing information, measuring progress toward state and local goals, and supporting greater educational equity. Given the important role accountability systems play in states' education systems, states have taken the opportunity provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Policy, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
Hawtin, Amy Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research suggests that school leaders' understanding and process of making sense of educational reform policies and/or laws is shaped by social, organizational, individual factors. This understanding can impact how a school leader understands and interprets the law/policy and ultimately may impact implementation actions. In 2016, Michigan's Read…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Rebekah Renee Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study applies Clark and Estes's (2008) gap analysis model to understand how a state education agency's decision making, during reform policy implementation, impacts the success of the initiative. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) decision making, during the policy design and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, Access to Information, Disclosure
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