The publication presents program standards and performance objectives for industrial arts education as defined in the California State Plan for Vocational Education. It was designed for industrial arts teachers who wish to assist students in making meaningful occupational selections and to prepare them for enrollment in advanced vocational…

This report discusses the history and nature of State aid to education in Massachusetts. The report is both a summary and an update of information contained in four earlier studies that analyzed the economics of education in Massachusetts and the State's new equalizing education aid formula. The report recommends that the State adopt an…

This report, one of a series of eight, provides findings from a study of the Ohio pupil transportation system, a locally administered system partly regulated and financially supported by the State. After reviewing current transportation facilities for both regular and special education students, the study assesses various alternatives.…

Today local control over education seems to face the most serious challenge in its history. The movement to reform school finance raises the specter of the State assuming its formal consitutional powers and removing autonomy from the communities. Hence, it is argued, as the State takes over control of taxation and expenditures it will want to…

The major purpose of the study was to develop a process for assessing teacher competence in vocational and career education as required by California Assembly Bill 293, known as the Stull Act. The study collected data through: a questionnaire administered to teachers, administrators, and students; research site visits; interviews of administrators…

This conference report contains the texts of speeches delivered at a December, 1975 conference on Texas learning resource programs. Complete transcripts are provided for speeches on: (1) district and school site media programs; (2) guidelines for developing learning resource centers; (3) standards for learning resource programs; (4) the role of…

The Joint Committee on Educational Goals and Evaluation was created in 1970. In 1974 the committee was authorized to continue its study for three purposes: (1) to identify the goals and priorities of public elementary and secondary education as developed by local educational agencies; (2) to assist local educational agencies by recommending…

A federal system is better than one that is totally nationalized or left totally in the hands of the states and their districts. The principle undergirding that system is appropriateness. Responsibilities most appropriately handled at the state level ought to rest at that level. Responsibilities best met by the resources and reach of the national…

Several new factors in the governance and finance of education as a consequence of desegregation litigation have increased confusion over accountability. However, options are available for school districts and state government to exercise leadership, reduce the need for active court and federal involvement, and exercise control over their own…

By refusing for the last decade to meet rising educational costs, local citizens have permitted Ohio schools to become a disaster area. Discussed is the educational chaos in the state and the attempts to correct the situation. (Author/RK)

Traditionally California has relied on local boards to manage and control community colleges and maintain their responsiveness to local needs. This form of governance is threatened by the possibility of a dramatic shift in financial resources from the local to the state level. (LS)

Having teachers teach teachers was a highly successful approach to the problem of providing metric inservice training for over four hundred fifty secondary school teachers. Describes their training and five advantages to this approach. (Author/RK)

Proposes that quality programs of public education be generated with primary responsibility and leadership provided by state boards of education, state superintendents, and state departments of education. Education is regarded as a state function in most states and it is time state boards of education assume responsibility for program development,…

Describes Polish folk high schools, which provide free postsecondary leadership training for rural young people as organizers and instructors in community cultural-educational work and in physical education and sports. The training leads to employment in rural community centers and social and recreational clubs. (MF)