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Juliet Squire; Kelly Robson Foster; Lynne Graziano; Andy Jacob – Bellwether, 2025
Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) offer parents a publicly funded, government-authorized savings account they can draw on for certain K-12 educational expenses. As these programs have expanded in recent years, they have become a flashpoint in education policy debates. For some, ESAs are an extension of existing private school choice programs'…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance, Private Schools
Jianjun Wang – Online Submission, 2024
A 50-cent-per-pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products has been endorsed by California voters to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance with the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on revenue spending, this report delineates evaluation…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Child Health, Well Being, Early Childhood Education
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2023
California voters decided to collect a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products and use the money to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance to the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on the revenue spending, this report…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Taxes, Early Childhood Education, State Legislation
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2022
For more than two decades, California has been charging a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products and using the money to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In response to the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA), this report delineates…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Early Childhood Education, State Aid, Accountability
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2020
This report delineates evaluation findings from 43 programs that received over $8 million of state investment through Proposition 10 to support early childhood services in Kern County, California during Fiscal Year 2018-2019. To address results-based accountability of the state investment from a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, State Programs, Parent Education
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2021
California ranks on top of the nation for supporting health and wellbeing of young children with statewide comprehensive programs. As part of the backbone support, voters passed Proposition 10 in 1998 to fund early childhood services with a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products. This report delineates evaluation findings…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Health, State Legislation, Program Evaluation
Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2019
This paper reports results from a fiscal analysis of Pennsylvania SB 299, a proposal to expand the state's two tax-credit scholarship programs. Pennsylvania currently has two programs in operation, the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) Program. This paper is organized as follows.…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Tax Credits, Scholarships, State Programs
Delaney, Jennifer A.; Kearney, Tyler D.; Hemenway, Bradley – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
As tuition levels rise, predictability is an increasingly important consideration of college financing. In this article, the authors explore contemporary policy tools intended to enhance tuition predictability. They specifically consider guaranteed tuition plans. The authors begin their discussion by considering the prevalence of guaranteed…
Descriptors: Tuition, At Risk Students, Educational Policy, Student Costs
Randall, Katie Weaver; Ward, Justin – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2018
The 2013 Washington State Legislature enacted legislation (Revised Code of Washington [RCW] 28A.165.100) requiring additional data reporting for the Learning Assistance Program (LAP). Under the guidelines provided in the law, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) produces an annual report to the Legislature summarizing the…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Mathematics Education, Supplementary Education, Learning Problems
Louisiana Board of Regents, 2016
The Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (subsequently renamed the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, or TOPS) was created via ACT 1375 during the 1997 Regular Legislative Session. The first college freshman class to receive TOPS awards entered postsecondary education in the fall of 1998. ACT 1202 of the 2001 Regular Legislative Session…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, State Programs
Barger, Kenna; Murray, Renee; Smith, Janie – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Through the "Strengthening Statewide College/Career Readiness Initiative" (SSCRI), Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) has collaborated with states on state policy goals and actions needed to improve high school students' academic readiness for postsecondary study and reduce the need for remedial work. SREB created and implemented…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Programs, Transitional Programs
Rheinheimer, David C.; Grace-Odeleye, Beverlyn; Francois, Germain E.; Kusorgbor, Cynthia – Learning Assistance Review, 2010
A longitudinal research study was conducted at a public university in Pennsylvania on a sample of 129 at-risk students from a state-funded program (Act 101) designed to provide support services for economically and educationally disadvantaged students. This research employed a non-experimental, ex post facto methodology to assess the impact of…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Credits
EdSource, 2007
The 1999 Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) created a system for summarizing performance on state standardized tests and an intervention program to help schools that were not meeting state-set goals. California's test scores have improved substantially since then, but state-led interventions programs have had little overall effect on this…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, State Legislation, Intervention, Educational Improvement
Chung, Ruth R. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
Over the last decade, teacher performance assessments (TPAs) have begun to find appeal in the context of teacher education programs and teacher licensing for their innovative ways of assessing teacher knowledge and skills but primarily for their potential to promote teacher learning and reflective teaching. Studies of preservice teachers who have…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Credentials, Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment
Hiday, Virginia Aldige'; Scheid-Cook, Teresa L. – 1987
The North Carolina State Legislature made outpatient commitment (OPC) criteria less restrictive than involuntary hospitalization criteria, provided an enforcement mechanism, gave facilities and staff immunity from liability, and allocated funds for OPC patients. Data collected in a state-wide study of civil commitment respondents in North Carolina…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Human Services, Mental Disorders, Program Effectiveness