In 1974, the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) created the National Diffusion Network (NDN) in order to bring together representatives of federal, state, and local agencies to promote widespread adoptions of new and innovative programs within and across state boundaries. This goal is accomplished through use of State Facilitator (SF) and…

The Guidelines for Educational Program Auditors in Utah were prepared to help educational program auditors (EPAs) deliver high quality services with a minimum of effort; they were intended to serve as a text for EPA training sessions, as a handbook and policy guide for EPAs and their assistants, and as a standard for judging the quality of EPA…

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Based on the premises that there is a legitimate federal role in education, that federal education programs need to be simplified, that federal aid must pass through states to the local school districts, and that state and local agencies should be accountable for using federal resources, this paper offers specifications to suggest ways to…

This report presents, discusses, and analyzes major findings of a 1981 survey on school health education conducted by the Education Commission of the States (ECS). The purpose of this study is to document state level support for activities in school health education. The survey focuses on the state education agency's role in the development of…

In response to legislative mandate, this report examines the compliance of the California community college districts with Section 84363 of the California Education Code, which requires the districts to spend 50% of their current expense of education for salaries of classroom instructors. The report first traces the legislative history of the…

This model was prepared for the purpose of assisting school district personnel in Ohio to develop graded courses of study. A course of study is mandated by Ohio law to ensure commonality and continuity in the educational programs available to students within all school districts. Through identification of skills and concepts teachers are…

Hawaii's Interscholastic Athletics program involves 38 high schools in a voluntary program designed to develop athletically talented students and to foster student and community identity with the schools. Although the ten-year old program offering sixteen team and individual sports has been successful, several issues remain unresolved in the areas…

Based upon a study of North Carolina, its population, and its fiscal support for schools, this report summarizes the Commission's twelve recommendations. The recommendations are related to: (1) equal opportunity for all children; (2) a comprehensive programmatic method of funding local programs; (3) allocation of State aid through a weighted…

During the week of July 11, 1977, the Illinois Office of Education (IOE) hosted a consulting/linkage skills awareness workshop in Springfield, Illinois. The workshop was part of a reorganization process that began in 1975 when IOE planners determined to separate the regulatory functions from the service functions of the agency. As a result, the…

The study reviewed the impact of state (California) and federal paperwork mandates in special education through an analysis of the paperwork of 37 agencies and interviews with 120 special educators. Among findings of the study were the following: the special education agency was required to collect at least 75 data items on each student; agencies…

A study comparing the degree of satisfaction with the Indiana Division of Instructional Media's administration of the ESEA Title IV-B program during the 1979-80 school year reveals that both the public and nonpublic school systems showed a high level of satisfaction with the division's IV-B activities. Two separate questionnaires were designed and…

Local school control will endure only if school boards can meet the needs of the future. Seven factors tend to weaken this control: (1) Ineffective board members, (2) ineffective superintendents, (3) teacher militancy, (4) public reluctance to support the school systems, (5) failure to meet the needs of disadvantaged youth, (6) federal government…

This study attempts to design a grant-in-aid scheme incorporating transfer of resources in a manner which compensates for differences in the ability of the subordinate government units to finance desirable service levels (equalization). Results indicate that where the bulk of State aid-to-education funds are distributed through flat grants based…