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Maintenance Required: Charter Schooling in Michigan. Education Sector Reports: Charter School Series
Direct linkMead, Sara – Education Sector, 2006
Michigan is no stranger to the effects of competition. The auto industry was forced to adjust to an onslaught of foreign competition in the 70s and 80s. Now, Michigan's public schools face their own competition in the form of public charter schools. Since 1993, when Michigan became one of the first states in the nation to enact charter…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Universities, Maintenance
Download full textHarr, Jenifer J.; Parrish, Tom; Chambers, Jay; Levin, Jesse; Segarra, Maria – American Institutes for Research, 2006
The ways in which the needs of special populations--students in poverty, English learners, and particularly special education students--have been addressed in studies measuring educational adequacy vary widely. This paper analyzes how these populations have been treated across various adequacy studies, with its major focus on special education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Quality, Special Education, Educational Assessment
Flynn, Margaret; Hayes, Cheryl D.; Uyeda, Kimberly; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2002
This report explores strategies for financing school-linked early learning initiatives. It is meant to help county agencies, school systems, and community organizations coordinate and expand their respective resources. The overall approach relies on partnerships and collaborations to meet the financing challenges faced by individual agencies and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Counties, Community Organizations
Cline, Frederick; Johnstone, Christopher; King, Teresa – National Accessible Reading Assessment Projects, 2006
The National Accessible Reading Assessment Projects (NARAP) is a collaborative effort that is conducting research to make large-scale assessments of reading proficiency more accessible for students who have disabilities that affect reading. There are two projects that comprise the NARAP partnership, Designing Accessible Reading Assessments (DARA)…
Descriptors: Definitions, Focus Groups, Reading Achievement, Expertise
Manasevit, Leigh M.; Lovitch, Karen S.; Plagata-Neubauer, Christine – 1997
This manual is designed to help state and local administrators, school board members, and other education advocates understand the complex requirements of the newly reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Without legal jargon, this manual provides step-by-step instruction on IDEA's administrative and procedural…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Discipline Policy, Due Process
Hodge, Bonnie M., Ed.; Preston-Sabin, Jennie, Ed. – 1997
This book is a product of an ongoing project which is identifying teaching strategies and/or accommodations for college students with disabilities. The strategies have proven practical and successful by teaching practitioners who responded to a survey of members of the National Association for Developmental Education. The first chapter introduces…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Blindness
Orkwis, Ray; DeCarme, Judi; Glover, Jeanne – 1998
The five-volume directory describes more than 1,200 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into sections representing the seven program areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments (1997), Part D. This…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Intervention, Education Work Relationship
2000
This document explains how employers can participate in creating a new workforce investment system that is market driven, comprehensive, portable, accountable, customer focused, responsive, flexible, and customized. The guide details immediate and future steps employers can take at the state and local levels to influence the process of creating a…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Cooperative Planning, Definitions, Delivery Systems
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Special Education Section. – 2001
This manual represents a revised version of the original 1999 Idaho Special Education Manual which is a set of guidelines to assist Idaho school districts in carrying out the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 and its implementing regulations, which were published on March 12, 1999. Additions to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Confidentiality, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Berlin, Gordon L. – 2000
The Minnesota Family Investment Program, the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project, and Milwaukee's New Hope Project are three antipoverty programs that were undertaken in the 1990s to end dependency on welfare by "making work pay." The impacts of all three programs were reviewed and compared to those of the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
Council of Administrators of Special Education, Inc. – 1998
This resource guide is designed to assist practitioners in implementing the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as they make decisions regarding the education placements of students with disabilities who exhibit dangerous behaviors. In addition, suggestions are included to assist schools in developing plans to…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making
National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice, Rockville, MD. – 1999
This document presents the findings of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice regarding the role, education, and supply of clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). The first section of the report examines the following eight background issues: (1) early development of the CNS; (2) current CNS supply; (3) roles and impact of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Conventional Instruction, Curriculum
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, Boston, MA. – 1999
This document contains three commissioned papers and other materials from a 2-day conference. "Politics, Policy, Practice and Personal Responsibility: Adult Education in an Era of Welfare Reform" (Deborah D'Amico) examines the relationship between literacy, poverty, and welfare reform and the implications of those relationships for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Case Studies
Binion, Mary, Ed. – 1993
This compilation of presentations from RESNA's conference proceedings focused on the progress and potential of assistive and rehabilitation technology for individuals with disabilities and ways that RESNA members could help these ideas to be realized. Papers were presented on the following topics: (1) service delivery and public policy issues; (2)…
Descriptors: Adults, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Binion, Mary, Ed. – 1994
Papers in this conference proceedings focused on the progress and potential of assistive and rehabilitation technology for individuals with disabilities and ways that RESNA members could help these ideas to be realized. Presentations were delivered on the following topics: (1) service delivery and public policy issues; (2) personal transportation;…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled)
