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Christine G. Mokher; Toby J. Park-Gaghan – Grantee Submission, 2023
In response to concerns about the additional costs and time-to-degree associated with traditional developmental education programs, several states and postsecondary systems have implemented corequisite reform where academically underprepared students take both a developmental education course and college-level course in the same subject area…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Alexander C. Cassell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
State governments are regularly reexamining the statewide board governance arrangements over public higher education, enacting governance reforms that change the structure or authority granted to boards by state legislatures. While previous research has studied governance reforms, there is a lack of recent studies on such reforms and what…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Governance, State Policy, Educational Policy
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
Amanda N. Nix; Tamara Bertrand Jones; Shouping Hu – Educational Policy, 2023
Florida Senate Bill 1720 drastically changed developmental education, beginning in fall 2014. This paper considers affected faculty members' perceptions and experiences with the passage and implementation of reform, according to focus group data provided by 294 participants at 21 Florida College System institutions between 2014 and 2019. We found…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Linea Harding; Carrie Hahne – Bellwether, 2024
In 2022, Tennessee overhauled its education funding formula to improve outcomes for the 1 million students in the state. The Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement Act (TISA) was designed to simplify the existing funding formula and more equitably allocate resources to schools. Bellwether's case study, "After the Policy Win: First-Year…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Program Implementation, Educational Finance
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
Russhell Lynn Martinez-Ortega – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Purpose Statement: The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of CTA stakeholders as they responded to the implementation and challenges of the PBIS approach in relation to AB 420 and AB 1729. Theoretical Framework: Systemic change theory was used to support this study. It describes a process of change that involves transforming a…
Descriptors: Teacher Associations, Positive Behavior Supports, Barriers, Program Implementation
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Caroline Bartlett; Rebecca Callahan; Madeline Mavrogordato – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2024
Purpose: We examine the ways state education agency (SEA) and local education agency (LEA) leaders interpret and use educational policy to guide the provision of services for multilingual students classified as English learners (ELs) in their contexts. Our inquiry focuses on the external factors leaders describe that either enable or constrain…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Leadership, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Kri Burkander; Dae Kim; Lauren Schudde; Mark Duffy; Maja Pehrson; Nancy Lawrence; Taylor Stenley; Elizabeth Jackson; Wonsun Ryu; Lindsey Liu – Research for Action, 2024
Research for Action (RFA) in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin is engaged in a five-year mixed-methods study of the reforms associated with California AB 705. Over the course of the study, our team will assess the implementation, impact, and cost effectiveness of reforms associated with the law. This report first offers a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Implementation
Bill Kottenstette; Janyse Skalla – 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. Innovation schools are required to articulate a vision around the autonomies they are seeking, as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, State Legislation, Institutional Mission, Educational Objectives
Nix, Amanda N.; Bertrand Jones, Tamara; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
When it comes to the creation of higher education policy, state legislators are challenged with addressing the diverse academic needs of college students enrolled across a spectrum of institutions. In this paper, we explore how 203 individuals at five rural-serving colleges in Florida engaged in state-wide developmental education (DE) reform using…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Program Implementation
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Wright, James; Whitaker, Ronald W., II; Khalifa, Muhammad; Briscoe, Felecia – Urban Education, 2020
This critical case study analyzes Michigan's implementation of Public Act 4 (PA4), also known as the "emergency management" (EM) takeover law. PA4 grants the state control of school districts with dire budgetary problems. As most U.S. school districts are citywide, PA4 gives the state direct control over all the (previously locally…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, School Districts, School Turnaround
Rauner, Mary; Lundquist, Sara – WestEd, 2019
The California College Promise Policy brief outlines the policy landscape that helped fuel the growth of College Promise in California. It reflects on issues that have arisen as the state's College Promise legislation and reforms have been implemented, and offers recommendations for maximizing the equity and impact of the California model of…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Policy, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Gahungu, Athanase – Online Submission, 2019
Two years after the State of Illinois enacted an extensive non-exclusionary discipline reform in schools, 322 key discipline gatekeepers in schools were surveyed about the extent and impact of its implementation. The results showed that a number of core provisions of the reform had not been fully implemented or addressed through professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Zero Tolerance Policy, Educational Change, Suspension
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
Leaders across North Carolina believe strongly in the potential for all students to read proficiently by 3rd grade. Yet despite significant effort and investment, only 36% of 4th graders are at or above proficient in reading. The Belk Foundation, in partnership with The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), The Foundation for…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Partnerships in Education, Excellence in Education, Reading Research
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