Pennsylvania's public schools employ tens of thousands of support professionals -- bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, maintenance workers, secretaries, paraprofessionals, and others. Due to fiscal challenges that many local districts face, school administrators often look to achieve savings and flexibility by outsourcing the provision of…

In the United States today, if a student with a serious physical disability wants to go away to college and live on campus, only four colleges provide the necessary services for that student to do so. To meet these students' requirements for living on campus, a college would have to have not only accessibility to its academic programs and its…

The "Quantum Opportunity Program" ("QOP") is an intensive and comprehensive program for high school-aged youth that offers case management, mentoring, tutoring, and other education and support services. The program also offers financial incentives for participation in program activities. Participants enter "QOP" in…

Because children who are deaf or hard of hearing are being identified at birth, fitted with advanced hearing technology, and enrolled in early intervention programs, families increasingly seek professionals who can provide services that support their choice of listening and spoken language. The increased demand for these services and shortages of…

In an effort to develop programs to meet school-age child care needs in southeastern Pennsylvania, a study was conducted to identify issues and needs as perceived by public school officials in the region. Superintendents and elementary school principals from 61 suburban school districts were surveyed, and 170, or 51 percent, responded. A total of…

With tuition on the rise, Auxiliary Services departments at a variety of colleges and universities are proving that they can innovate and still save their parent institutions cash. Primary areas of innovation include: (1) With advancements in technology, institutions are moving campus purchasing programs into the wireless space; (2) As junk mail …

This evaluation of the Pennsylvania Student Assistance Program (SAP) was conducted to determine overall efficacy of SAPs and, more specifically, how SAP is currently implemented. Findings indicate that SAP is being implemented as designed. Recommended is the development of benchmarks and indicators focusing on best SAP practices and effectiveness.…

In 1984 the Pennsylvania Department of Education notified school districts that they could not deny pregnant or parenting students an education; could not put them on homebound instruction in the absence of medical conditions; and could not place them involuntarily in segregated alternative programs. The state supplied additional funds to start…

Answers to technical administrative questions concerning the establishment, function and administration of nursery schools and kindergartens are given. Section one describes sections of the Pennsylvania School Code related specifically to kindergartens. These are concerned with areas of establishment, length of school term, attendance…

The final report of the Bristol Township School District (Pennsylvania) training program for the educable mentally retarded presents instructional units for the areas of preschool education, child care, shipping and receiving, maintenance and food services. It is explained that the project uses school service personnel to supervise students in…

A description is given of the structure and operation of 29 intermediate administrative units which provide consulting, advisory, administrative, or statistical services to local school districts in Pennsylvania. The basic services rendered by the units are in the areas of: (1) curriculum development and instructional improvement; (2) management;…

Problems associated with the returning adult student and methods used by colleges to address these problems were investigated. Attention was focused on full-time adult students registered in the traditional daytime program. A questionnaire was developed, based on typical problems identified through a literature review. Forty-two colleges and…

The freshmen orientation programs offered by the colleges and universities that hold membership in the Pittsburgh Council of Higher Education (PCHE) were studied, and recommendations for a comprehensive orientation process were suggested. Interviews with three individuals for each program at nine institutions were sought; attention was directed…

The responsibility of the Citizens Commission was to propose recommendations for the improvement of basic education in Pennsylvania. The Commission's recommendations are an attempt to clearly define the boundaries of the schooling process and to increase the effectiveness of the instructional process within those boundaries. The Commission…

Results of a 1983 evaluation of Pennsylvania's ACT 101 programs, which provide support services to educationally and economically disadvantaged college students, are presented. Attention focuses on: the achievement and persistence of this population of students in 1975, 1977, and 1979; the attitudes of currently enrolled students; the attitudes…