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Prebil, Michael; McCarthy, Alice – New America, 2018
The Bachelor's of Applied Science in Information Technology is one of almost 40 bachelor's and associate degrees at Broward College that embed industry certifications into the course of study. Programs with embedded certifications allow students to earn two types of credentials: one issued by industry, the other by higher education. These new…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Degrees, Student Certification, Industry
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Dawso Van Druff, Cynthia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
School foodservice directors (FSDs) and school business officials (SBOs) in public school districts with enrollments between 2,500 and 25,000 in the USDA Mid-Atlantic geographic region provided responses to a paper-and-pencil survey. The FSDs assessed the level of implementation of a mandated school food safety plan in their districts and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, State Agencies, School Business Officials, Food Service
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2009
This paper presents the second part of "Massachusetts Primer on Special Education and Charter Schools." This section is an introduction for new staff members of state agencies and others who need an overview of topics related to Massachusetts students with disabilities enrolled in Massachusetts charter schools. The information focuses on…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Special Education, State Agencies, State Officials
Walters, Judy; Howard, Darlinetta – 1990
In 1989, a study was conducted to evaluate the effect which Assembly Bill (AB) 1725 funds had on faculty and staff development activities in the California community colleges. All 107 community colleges were surveyed to identify the four "most useful activities funded under AB 1725" and the "single greatest problem a college has…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2000
The United States Department of Education's (Department or ED) Public Charter Schools Program (PCSP) provides support for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools; the evaluation of the effects of charter schools; and the dissemination of information about charter schools and successful practices in charter…
Descriptors: State Agencies, School Districts, Educational Planning, Program Design
Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Denver. – 1992
This paper reviews progress on Colorado's Postsecondary Education Master Plan which forms the policy direction of the state's higher education system. In particular it reviews the Colorado Commission on Higher Education's (CCHE) implementation of Colorado State legislative House Bill 1187 (HB1187). Each major section of the legislation is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Admission Criteria, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
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Mestry, Raj – South African Journal of Education, 2006
In the Schools Act No. 84 of 1996 school governing bodies are mandated to manage the funds of schools. The Act also provides guidelines for the school governing body and the principal on their roles and responsibilities in managing the finances of the school. However, some members of school governing bodies and principals either have little…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governing Boards, Educational Finance, Money Management
Lukas, Carol VanDeusen – 1981
This report on the impact of the Vocational Education ACT (VEA) on special needs populations in vocational education examines the structure of the VEA, the state and local contexts in which the law is implemented, and the problems of serving special populations that the mechanisms are attempting to address. Outlined first are the goals and role of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Data Collection, Definitions
La Prad, Jeannine; Sand, Sharon – 1999
Progress in integration of state-level welfare and work force development systems in the Midwest was examined through case studies of 10 communities in 7 states. The case studies focused on local-level coordination and/or integration between the welfare and work force development systems. Despite legislative mechanisms to encourage collaboration,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2005
The focus of the Forum's eleventh Study Group report is assessing what it will take for the state to respond to the court's findings in the decade-old Leandro lawsuit, a suit that challenged, among other things, the constitutionality of the state's current system of financing schools. The essence of the court's ruling is that: The state, as judged…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, School Law, Court Litigation, Educational Finance