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Amy J. Heineke; Kristin J. Davin – Urban Education, 2025
The Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) is a language education policy adopted by states to recognize students' biliteracy. Originally implemented in high schools to recognize graduating seniors, the initiative also includes pathway awards, which can be implemented in earlier grades to promote lengthier language study and increase biliteracy attainment.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Program Implementation
Summer Mercier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative collective case study was to explore current paraprofessional training programs offered to support paraprofessionals working with students with disabilities (SWDs), including both pre-service and in-service training. Specifically, this study evaluated training offered by local school districts within Southern…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Students with Disabilities, Training, School Districts
Ruthie Caparas; Hannah Jarmolowski; Kelsey Krausen; Patrick McClellan – WestEd, 2025
While states are often impacted by cost pressures beyond their control, certain state policies can help stabilize school funding from year to year and help school districts maintain stable services during times of declining revenue. This report delves into some of the most pressing conditions contributing to current revenue volatility. It then…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, State Aid, School Districts
Margaret Trebilcock – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a gap in research focusing on how leaders implement complex policies such as Response to Intervention/Multitiered Systems of Support (RTI/MTSS). Response to Intervention/Multitiered Systems of Support (RTI/MTSS). To address this gap, this phenomenological case study examined school leaders' perceptions of their roles as leaders…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, School Districts, Response to Intervention
Samantha Cullum; Jeremy Singer; Katharine O. Strunk; Chanteliese Watson; Ariell Bertrand; Erica Harbatkin; Sarah L. Woulfin – Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 2024
School improvement is an iterative process through which districts and schools develop their capacity, implement and refine new policies and practices, and respond to new developments and needs over time. School improvement policy can also be considered an iterative process, with policy implementors learning from previous rounds of a policy.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, State Policy, School Turnaround
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A. Chris Torres; Sandy Frost Waldron; Jason Burns – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
This mixed-method study examines Michigan's Partnership policy for school turnaround, which positions the district and superintendents as key policy implementation actors. We first interviewed 21 of 35 Partnership superintendents/leaders across Michigan and surveyed teachers to understand the initial response to the turnaround policy and the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Superintendents, School Districts, School Turnaround
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Erin Henrick; Danny Schmidt; Steven McGee; Andrew M. Rasmussen; Lucia Dettori; Ronald I. Greenberg; Dale Reed; Don Yanek – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
This study analyzes the impact of the Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFÉCS) Research Practice Partnership (RPP) on the Chicago Public School (CPS) Office of Computer Science (OCS). Using a qualitative analysis drawing on data from leadership team meetings, published articles and presentations, and evaluation reports from 11…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Partnerships in Education, High School Students, Public Schools
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Barrett-Tatum, Jennifer; Ashworth, Kristen – Journal of Educational Change, 2021
What happens when a state's literacy reform policy allows for ownership and individualized diversification of the policy's instructional mandates at the level of district and school? How do systems and individuals experience the change in reform and respond to both the power and the pressures of having to design and implement their own literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Accountability, School Districts
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Bélanger, Nathalie; Dulude, Eliane – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Public education systems are often large, diverse, fragmented, and historically very hard to change. While previous reforms targeted primarily school staff, large-scale policies now include a broader audience including non-system organizations (e.g., knowledge brokering organizations) that may influence directly or indirectly policy…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Networks, Partnerships in Education, Universities
Lauren Yoshizawa – Educational Policy, 2023
The Every Student Succeeds Act's evidence requirements mandate the use of research in the selection of school improvement interventions, with the aim of ensuring that schools and districts invest their efforts and funding more wisely. This study of eight states presents three different approaches to the evidence requirements: using lists of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy
Amy Stornaiuolo; Laura Desimone; Morgan Polikoff – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study examines implementation of college-and-career-ready (CCR) education standards across five school districts in Ohio, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Drawing on the policy attributes theory, we found that the specificity of districts' approaches to two long-recognized policy levers, curriculum and professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Academic Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Akiba, Motoko; Howard, Cassandra – Educational Policy, 2023
The Race to the Top (RTTT) program incentivized states to use innovation for systemwide improvement of student outcomes, but little is known about how RTTT-funded innovation was sustained after the RTTT program ended. This mixed-methods study examined state and district approaches to sustaining an international innovation called "lesson…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Petra A. Liz-Morell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study explores the implementation of teacher evaluation models and federal education policies, particularly AchieveNJ, in an urban public school district in New Jersey. It focuses on principals' experiences and perceptions, uncovering their challenges and thoughts on the policy's effectiveness in enhancing teacher performance and student…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Models, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
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Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Allbright, Taylor N.; Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background: In recent years, school districts have experienced a complex policy environment with myriad reforms aimed at addressing longstanding and historically entrenched disparities in opportunities and outcomes between racially minoritized students and White students. One such reform is standards-based accountability, with its emphasis on…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Policy, Educational Policy, Racism
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Mandy Savitz-Romer; Tara P. Nicola; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon; Stephanie Carroll – Educational Policy, 2024
This study explores the prevalence and implementation of four key school counseling policies at the state level and to what extent they are monitored for positive impact on the school counseling profession. Drawing on an analysis of state school counseling policy documents and interviews with school counseling leaders from 30 state education…
Descriptors: School Counseling, State Departments of Education, State Policy, State Officials
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