Since 1974, New Jersey board of education members' responsibilities have increased in direct proportion to major legislative actions and mandates affecting the state's public schools. This revised pamphlet was written to help new board members carry out their responsibilities. The first chapter outlines board members' authority as elected state…

Three crucial factors which have inhibited past school improvement efforts are analyzed in this paper. These factors include: (1) promising more than can be delivered; (2) failing to effectively deal with the reality of limited resources; and (3) failing to recognize and initiate opportunities for collaboration and resource sharing. The paper…

Designed for service providers, the manual outlines policy and procedural requirements for implementing P.L. 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Following a review of policy requirements for local education agencies (LEAs) and state operated programs (SOPs), supplementary worksheets (which enable administrators to check the…

This paper explores the cultural images that underlie educational policy and regulation. Based on interviews with California officials involved in educational policy and governance, it argues that strategies for regulating education are limited by the commitment of officials and their publics to a language of individual benefits and individual…

Educators should become more personally active in getting to know legislators and in calling attention to the kinds of experiences, information, and personal contacts that would enable legislators to make better decisions about education. (Author)

Over the past five years, many states have modified their systems for providing aid to local school districts for current operating expenses, but few changes have taken place in states' support of local districts' capital outlay expenditures. However, the issues surrounding capital expenditures are somewhat different from those involved in current…

This report describes the development of a computer simulation intended to aid the South Dakota State Legislature in reforming the state school finance system. The report briefly describes the rationale for the simulation, the process by which it was developed, the policy assumptions on which it is based, and its major strengths and weaknesses.…

Article outlined the relationship between the States and the Federal Government in West Germany concerning the development of vocational education. (RK)

Chapter 2

Education in rural schools is alive, working to provide quality education through different organizational configurations, and experiencing many changes as it strives to meet the needs of all rural children for a quality education. In the nurturing of rural schools, the State must assist in making it possible to adequately finance justifiable…

Following issuance of an administrative policy statement detailing procedures for establishing long-term institutional relationships, the National Institute of Education (NIE) formally requested the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) to conduct a regionwide assessment of educational needs. Four major events are associated with the…

The first California school accounting manual for use by the school districts and officers of the county superintendents of schools was published in 1939. Since then many revisions have taken place. The accounting procedures outlined in this publication have been approved as the official manual for California public school accounting. The…

During the 1970s the states greatly increased their role in educational policy innovation at the expense of local school districts. Previously, the states had varied widely along the spectrum of centrist versus localist control; they had been strongest only in such traditional areas as attendance, accreditation, and school facilities regulation.…

A consortium for the purpose of collaboratively designing and facilitating the implementation of inservice education for teachers of young children and their supporting staff was instituted in the Florida Panhandle. Participating in this group collaboration were three teacher centers, three universities, two individual school districts, and the…

The second of a series of self-instructional learning modules designed to familiarize users with Oregon minimum standards for public schools, this document outlines and explains the publication "Elementary-Secondary Guide for Oregon Schools: Part II Suggestions," a 1977 State Department of Education publication. Part 2 of the guide…