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Sands, Sara R. – Educational Policy, 2023
The research on education philanthropy typically characterizes foundations as practicing either "traditional" or "strategic" philanthropy. These labels are used to indicate divergent ways of thinking about the impact of grants and approaches to grantmaking between the two models. Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Grants, Sociology
Willis, Jason; Doutre, Sara Menlove; Krausen, Kelsey; Barrett, Tyson; Ripma, Tye; Caparas, Ruthie – WestEd, 2020
More than 725,000, nearly 12 percent, of California's public school students receive special education and related services. Although more than half of those students spend 80 percent or more of the school day in a general education classroom, California's special education funding system may not be as inclusive as California's classrooms. This…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Special Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Bell, Allison C.; Carnahan, Julie; L'Orange, Hans P. – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2011
This report, "State Tuition, Fees, and Financial Assistance Policies for Public Colleges and Universities: 2010-11", examines the philosophies, policies, and procedures that influence decision-making regarding public college and university tuition, student fees, and student financial aid programs. This report also provides information…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, State Agencies, Student Financial Aid
Moini, Joy S.; Zellman, Gail L.; Gates, Susan M. – RAND Corporation, 2006
The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to meeting the need for child care among military families. DoD supports the largest employer-sponsored system of high-quality child care in the country. Through accredited child development centers (CDCs), family child care (FCC) homes, youth centers, and other after-school programs, DoD currently…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, After School Programs, Child Care, Military Personnel
Illinois Libraries, 1987
This checklist outlines the basic steps to be followed from the time of the recognition of the need for a new building until the actual start of construction. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Building Plans, Check Lists
Washington Consulting Group, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
The third of a 17-module self-instructional course on student financial aid administration, this module offers a systematic introduction to the management of federal financial aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act to novice financial aid administrators and other institutional personnel. It teaches the administrator to…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Washington Consulting Group, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
With the ninth module in a 17-module self-instructional course on student financial aid administration, novice financial aid administrators are taught about financial aid award packaging. A fundamental understanding of management of federal financial aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education act is provided. After completing the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Silver, Howard J. – 1983
The impact of federal aid on state spending in general, and specifically on state spending for institutional support, private education, and two-year institutions was assessed through a telephone survey of 74 legislators in 47 states. Almost all of the legislators chair their legislature's committees responsible for higher education policy-making.…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Expenditures, Federal Aid, Federal State Relationship
Ryan, Joe; McClure, Charles R. – 1994
In December 1993, a Syracuse University (New York) School of Information Studies team conducted seminars with two groups of Internet users interested in the availability of federal government information over the Internet. Respondents were 76 participants at a conference on government sources on the Internet and 86 middle and senior managers from…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administration, Federal Government, Financial Support
Feiger, Helen Tina; And Others – 1984
In 1983, Santa Monica College (SMC) created a task force to assess the college's need for child care services and to devise possible service models for consideration. Subcommittees were formed to address student and staff child care needs; ways of funding child care services; criteria for possible child care facilities and sites which met these…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Child Development Centers, Community Colleges, Day Care
Boatman, Angela; L'Orange, Hans – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2006
This report, sixth in a series of updates by State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), is a comprehensive assessment of state policies related to public college and university tuition, fees, and financial aid. Significant variation was found among the states in the basic philosophy that guides decision making regarding tuition levels in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Public Policy, Policy Formation
Aring, Monika; Corbitt, Cathleen – 1996
This document, which is part of a toolkit for policymakers, donors, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and practitioners, presents the results of case studies of a group of 30 workforce development programs that were selected (during a 2-day workshop by a panel of 14 experts) as representing a balance among geographic regions served and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Definitions, Developed Nations