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Rodriguez, Olga; Hill, Laura; Payares-Montoya, Daniel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
Assembly Bill 705 (AB 705) sought to increase successful completion of transfer-level math and English courses by addressing systemic problems in traditional placement policies and curricular structures. The law requires colleges to maximize the probability that students who enroll in credit English as a second language (ESL) courses complete…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Moriarty, Thomas E. – 1984
Any conclusions that community education concepts are "alive and well" were not supported in a study of the impact of state education policies on rural school districts with total enrollments of 350 students or less in the Great Plains Region (Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota). Survey…
Descriptors: Certification, Community Schools, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum
Texas State Board of Education, Austin. – 1987
All students need to develop essential academic skills and to acquire a knowledge base on which to build lifelong learning. To this end, Texas has implemented sweeping reforms of the state's public education system in the form of House Bill (HB) 72. This legislation essentially revamped every aspect of public education. This report gives a summary…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Involvement, Curriculum, Educational Finance
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Research and Evaluation. – 2002
This report describes the status of public education in Texas, as required by Texas law. It contains an executive summary and 14 chapters on the following topics: (1) state performance on the academic-excellence indicators; (2) a summary compilation of overall student performance on the state performance assessments and a study of the correlation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Gains, Charter Schools