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Nowicki, Jaqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Almost 7 million children aged 3 to 21 received special education services under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in school year 2016-17. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review parents' use of the Individuals with IDEA dispute resolution options. This report examines (1) how often IDEA…
Descriptors: Special Education, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Minnesota Department of Education, 2021
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) ensures educational equity for multilingual learners through supporting school districts and charter schools to develop, implement and evaluate research-based language instruction education programs so that multilingual learners, including students with English learner status, attain academic language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, At Risk Students, Language Proficiency
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2024
The 2024 North Carolina Education Primer serves as a fact-based guide to public education in North Carolina. The Primer provides a comprehensive overview of how education policy is made, along with the current state of public education and the policies guiding it. The Forum produces this guide in order to inform current policymakers, candidates…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Public Education, Public Schools
Randall, David – National Association of Scholars, 2018
America faces a growing crisis about who can say what on our college campuses. At root this is a crisis of authority. In recent decades university administrators, professors, and student activists have quietly excluded more and more voices from the exchange of views on campus. This has taken shape in several ways, not all of which are reducible to…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Educational History, Educational Trends, College Faculty
Kucsera, John – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
The fight for equal educational opportunity in New York has followed a pattern similar to other diverse or racially transforming states. From the 1950s to 1980s, the issue of school desegregation was an important issue. Local civil rights pressure, the courts, and legislation attempted to desegregate large urban school systems through both…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Desegregation Plans, Educational History, Student Diversity
Ayscue, Jennifer B.; Woodward, Brian – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
North Carolina has a storied history of school integration efforts spanning several decades. In response to the "Brown" decision, North Carolina's strategy of delayed integration was more subtle than the overt defiance of other Southern states. Numerous North Carolina school districts were early leaders in employing strategies to…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, School Districts, School Segregation
Chaiken, Jan; McDonald, Douglas – 1988
This report looks at what happens to individuals arrested at the federal level for drug crimes, including the number of drug offenders who are prosecuted and convicted, the types of sentences they receive, the amount of time they actually serve in prisons, and their rates of recidivism after release from prison. Data are presented which indicate…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Legislation, Federal Courts, Federal Legislation
Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. – 1999
This report describes the development of the juvenile justice system in the United States. It uses current data to look at where it is heading, and the recent trend of transferring certain juvenile cases to adult criminal court. Section 1 explains that the juvenile justice system was founded on the concept of rehabilitation through individualized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Court Litigation, Criminal Law, Delinquency
Jordan, June B., Ed.; Zantal-Wiener, Kathy, Ed. – 1988
The yearbook provides special education information including federal and state policy actions; important reports; statistical data on exceptional students served and personnel employed; and directory listings of key offices, officials, and organizations concerned with special education. In general, the yearbook covers reports issued from July…
Descriptors: Awards, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities
Holmes, Joyce B. – Florida Educational Research Council Research Bulletin, 1988
This study gathered information on services related to special education that are provided to meet the needs of students with disabilities. The study utilized an historical and legal approach, through analysis of: related services litigation at the judicial and state education administrative level; policy interpretations by the State Policy and…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Educational History
Liu, Richard; Liu, Rebecca – Online Submission, 2005
Equity in faculty salaries has always been a controversial issue facing institutions of higher education. As a bastion of academic freedom where faculty and students purse knowledge, it is almost anti-intellectual to find a gender gap in salaries. More importantly, there are laws, which ensure gender equity in salaries. Thus, salary equity has…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Teacher Salaries, Multiple Regression Analysis
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 2001
As a follow-up to an earlier ECS report on the extent to which states were prepared to implement President Bush's education plan, this report provides an in-depth examination of three major Bush plan initiatives: assessing student performance, motivating and assessing low-performing schools, and providing school-choice options. The report begins…
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Educational Planning, Educational Testing
Robbins, Rebecca L., Ed. – 1992
This publication presents 1992 higher education and National Education Association (NEA) facts and statistics, updating what appeared in earlier editions and including for the first time tables from three recent studies on faculty. The book arranges information in four sections. The first, "The Academy: A Statistical Profile," covers…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Trends