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Education Resource Strategies, 2014
As the state of Georgia considers revising its K-12 funding formula, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) recommends the state implement a weighted student-funding formula (WSF) system in order to create resource use flexibility for districts and to remove the marginal inequity found in its current funding system. Additionally, such a change would…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Funding Formulas, Resource Allocation, Educational Resources
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Cosner, Shelby; Tozer, Steve; Zavitkovsky, Paul; Whalen, Samuel P. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2015
In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural "Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation" (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Educational Administration, Program Descriptions, Program Design
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Myint-U, Athi; O'Donnell, Lydia; Phillips, Dawna – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2012
This technical brief describes updates to a database of dropout prevention programs and policies in 2006/07 created by the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands and described in the Issues & Answers report, "Piloting a searchable database of dropout prevention programs in nine low-income urban school districts in the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Databases, Maintenance
Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. Div. of Development and Partnership. – 1986
Addressed to the Minnesota State Legislature, this report on Minnesota's Early Childhood Health and Developmental Screening Program discusses issues related to program goals and program implementation, overviews the program, and reports and summarizes statewide program results for 1985-86. Issues discussed concern responsibility for the program,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Policy Formation, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Scott, Robert A. – Business Officer, 1995
In a broad institutional planning exercise, Ramapo College (New Jersey) used charts to analyze the state of the college and brought in a theater and set designer to help assess the institutional context for its work. The technique has been used to explore organizational patterns in staff utilization, curriculum design and organization, space…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Curriculum, College Planning, Curriculum Design
Thomas, R. Murray – 1990
In October 1989, the government of New Zealand responded to results of a 1987-88 study on school management by passing legislation that shifted control of education from a central bureaucracy to local boards of trustees. Using a question-answer format, this document presents a model of the decentralization process as it analyzes the 1989 plan in…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Change Strategies
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Borna, Shaheen; Arndt, Terry – Higher Education Management, 1993
A portfolio model, using student evaluations and faculty publishing records, designed for classifying faculty at Ball State University (Indiana) is described, policy alternatives arising from the new method are examined, and a more general portfolio model using a variety of measures of teaching effectiveness and research activities is suggested.…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Administration, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation