As COVID-19 cases continue to surge nationwide, the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines cannot come soon enough. Although higher education institutions (HEIs) are not at the top of the priority list to receive scarce early doses of the vaccine, colleges and universities should prepare for how they will handle vaccination on their campuses. In…

2021 was a great year for charter school students and families across the country. Several states passed legislation to allow more schools to open and promote fiscal equity. In other states, charter school advocates were able to defeat a number of bills that would have imposed significant and unnecessary burdens on charter schools. In our 2021…

Although private school choice has historically been a Republican priority, education reform organizations often use strategies intended to appeal to Democratic lawmakers and interest groups. Among 70 votes held on final passage for private school choice legislation, Democrats provided only 381 "yes" votes compared to 2,844 Republican…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate both the U.S. Department of Education's legal rationale for the 2020 amendments to the existing Title IX regulations and the impact of the regulations on the reliability and accuracy of campus sexual assault adjudications in the higher education context. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is…

NCAA athletic administrators and department personnel do not understand the three-prong test for Title IX compliance and incorrectly rely on proportionality as the only means to satisfy Title IX compliance. The inaccurate reliance, solely on proportionality, creates missed opportunities to satisfy Title IX law by adding varsity sports to an NCAA…

Over the last several decades, mathematics remediation has been studied with a focus on the impact it has had on other factors such as graduation rates, student academic growth, the potential income of students, students' self-perspective, placement tests and scores, effects on minority populations, and best practices (Bahr, 2007, 2013; Boylan,…

The U.S. Department of Education's (Department's) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) provides this resource to assist school communities with ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) is used in a nondiscriminatory manner in the nation's elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education consistent with federal civil rights laws.…

The federal McKinney-Vento Act broadly defines homelessness in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…

Federal data show that many girls are struggling across almost all measures of well-being--including substance use, experiences of violence, mental health, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Girls' well-being can be affected by their experiences in public schools, and the detrimental effects of removing students from the classroom for discipline…

In the U.S. education system, students of color experience multiple forms of marginalization at the intersection of markers of difference. These injustices manifest in multiple forms, such as higher rates of inappropriate referrals to special education, misidentification, conferring stigmatizing labels, and subsequently placing students of color…

How do special education-related professionals parenting children with disabilities experience the special education system? This qualitative exploratory study delves into the experiences of 25 mother-educators who are special education-related professionals navigating the special education system for their children with disabilities. Through…

I provide a broad frame for understanding racial disproportionality in special education by showing how the inequity is a byproduct of the educational debt. I used a single case study design that relied upon qualitative semi-structured interviews, document analyses, and school board meeting transcripts gathered from a mid-sized urban school…

California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) launched the five-year "Puedes! Caminos, Cariño, y Carreras in a Post-Pandemic Era" grant in Fall 2022 to enhance educational opportunity and attainment for Hispanic students in California's southern Central Valley. Building on the successes of Year 1, the project achieved notable…

This paper examines different state approaches to educational accountability in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act. Cluster analysis reveals three groups of states with similar indicator weights and rating systems, and principal component analysis identifies two dimensions underlying these clusters. We find that state-level demographics…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions of kindergarten through second grade early career teachers (ECTs) as it pertains to behavior management in elementary Title I schools and the supports they perceive they need to effectively manage disruptive behaviors of their students. This study was accomplished by a) holding a…