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Schlieman, Gina – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
This toolkit contains practical resources to introduce charter support organizations (CSOs) to the benefits and advantages that leading federal Charter Schools Program (CSP) activities can bring to their state. With a practical set of tools to assist CSOs with CSP engagement, this toolkit focuses on the CSP grants to state entities, which enables…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Guides, Grants, State Agencies
Blabolil, Glen J. – 1976
Needss asessment is here to stay as shools wishing to apply for grants under the competitive titles of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), must now justify their requests. However, quality assessment data cannot be obtained in the majority of school districts nationally without federal or state budgetary allocations for Local…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Needs Assessment, Program Administration, Program Design
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1995
A study obtained early information on the effects of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 on states' efforts to develop and implement effective systems of school-to-work transition. Systems in eight states were studied: California, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. State leaders understood the need…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Development, Federal Aid
Hill, Paul T. – 1987
This paper analyzes design alternatives for Federal elementary and secondary education programs. It identifies the range of program strategies available and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The proper design for any program depends upon the following factors: (1) goals; (2) the availability of Federal funding to pay for necessary services…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Cooper, Bruce S. – 1978
The Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP, formerly the Anacostia Community School Project) provides an opportunity to study the adoption, implementation, and institutionalization of plans for improvement of a group of schools in the District of Columbia. The related theory and research on the implementation of change in organizations is…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Educational Finance
Herschbach, Dennis R.; And Others – 1992
This report examines the problem of implementing and sustaining vocational education and training (VET) programs in developing countries. It is intended to provide U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officers with operational guidelines for the development of future projects. In conducting the study, over 50 projects conducted by…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Lurie, Irene; Hagen, Jan L. – 1993
During summer 1991, a study reviewed efforts of local agencies to implement the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program. Three local sites in each of 10 states were examined. The field research showed that formal client flowcharts designed by the states and local sites were not yet fully operational and often did not describe actual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Coordination
Smith, Marshall S. – 1987
The Chapter 1 program of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act would be made more efficient and effective by implementing the following recommendations: (1) improve the targeting of funds; (2) let good educational practice rather than accounting practice shape Chapter 1 programs; (3) establish systems of output accountability for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
McDonnell, Lorraine M.; Grubb, W. Norton – 1991
A study analyzed the role of state governments in implementing federal education and job training policies and in designing and implementing their own policies. A framework was developed for understanding policy instruments used to promote education and training objectives: mandates, inducements, capacity-building, and system-changing. Each type…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Barfield, Susan C.; Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1994
The partial immersion program at Key Elementary School (Arlington, Virginia), where half the day is taught in English and half in Spanish, continued to be successful in its eighth year. Reasons for success include: dedication and in-depth understanding of immersion philosophy among principal, coordinator, teachers, and staff; innovations in both…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Federal Aid
Barfield, Susan – 1995
The partial immersion program at Key Elementary School (Arlington, Virginia), where half the day is taught in English and half in Spanish, continued to be successful in its ninth year. Reasons for success include: dedication and in-depth understanding of immersion philosophy among principal, coordinator, teachers, and staff; innovations in both…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Federal Aid
Hagen, Jan L.; And Others – 1993
As part of a 3-year study of the implementation of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program, front-line workers were surveyed in all 10 states and in 29 of 30 sites included in the overall study. Their perceptions of the agencies' organizational environments suggested a rather lukewarm agency context for implementing JOBS. Workers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Attitudes, Basic Skills
New Educational Directions, Crawfordsville, IN. – 1977
A project involved the compilation of recommendations appearing in the final performance and evaluation reports of eighty-one career education programs funded by the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) during 1976. After undergoing four reviews, 475 recommendations which were project specific were eliminated and the remaining 230 recommendations were…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Career Education, Consultants
Crawford, Reva – 1980
The Mississippi Choctaw Parent Child Development Program (PCDP), initially funded by the BIA in 1973 as a pilot project, has had a reservation-wide impact in each of its four main areas of focus: health and nutrition; education; social services; and staff and parent development. There has been a measurable decrease in early childhood infectious…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Williams, Barbara I.; And Others – 1987
This study documents the ways in which Chapter 1 services are delivered across the nation at the local school district level. Data were collected by mail and telephone surveys of district and Chapter 1 administrators in 2,200 nationally representative school districts. The following topics are discussed: (1) profile of Chapter 1 districts; (2)…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid