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Pike, Daniel W.; And Others – 1988
This document comprises the results of the 1987 Basic Activities Surveys, which measure the opinions of certified staff, classified staff, and parents concerning the instructional performance of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Participants were chosen using a stratified random sample technique to insure proportional…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Renfroe, William; Weisbender, Leo – 1987
This document comprises a report of the postgraduation plans of seniors in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and their opinions about their high school education. A sample of 20,131 seniors, (response rate of 77 percent) responded to a three-part, 59-item questionnaire. Findings are arranged in the following order: (1) total group;…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, High School Seniors, High Schools
Middle Cities Education Association, MI. – 1988
This two-part report comprises a description of an urban school improvement project in Michigan and the final evaluation report of the project. The Project for Secondary School Improvement was a 3-year program designed to assist secondary schools in 19 Michigan districts in implementing improvement models based on the research on effective schools…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Inservice Teacher Education, Management Development
Edwards, Nancy; And Others – 1990
This evaluation of the 1988/89 compensatory education program for neglected or delinquent youth in Houston found that all youth referred to the program had been tested for eligibility but not all those eligible received services. The program is funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act and offers tutorial services…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Neglect, Compensatory Education, Delinquency
Gordon, Randy – 1990
The 1989/90 In-School Suspension (ISS) program of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District provided an in-school setting for the suspension of students in 15 secondary schools for infractions of the discipline code while continuing their educational program and focusing on the offending behavior through counseling activities.…
Descriptors: Counseling, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Guerrero, Frank; Abbott, Lori – 1990
This fourth volume of a four-volume evaluation of the 1988-89 New York City School Community Education Program (also known as the Umbrella Program) comprises reports evaluating six innovative projects that offered a variety of educational experiences to participants. Three of these projects were designed for prekindergarten children; the other…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Awareness, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Grannis, Joseph; And Others – 1987
This interim report examines the second-year implementation of dropout prevention programs in the 42 public schools that are part of the New York Dropout Prevention Initiative (NYDPI). Evaluators employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in gathering data on the 29 middle school and 13 high school program sites, and on the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Newman, Arlene; Baum, Judith – 1989
After two semesters of implementation, Project SCOPE (School and College Organized to Promote Excellence) has created a viable structure of collaboration between Public School 152 and Brooklyn College (New York) and has undertaken a range of activities which have already had positive influence on the morale and performance of parents, students,…
Descriptors: College Role, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1989
The Chancellor of the New York (New York) public schools proposes a 1989/90 budget of $6.405 billion, including a base budget of $5.734 billion and an increase of $671.3 million (11.7 percent) for discretionary programs, school facilities improvement, and mandatory increases. These funds are needed to continue initiatives begun in prior years and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Earthman, Glen I. – 1984
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPISU) offered in Richmond (Virginia) a cooperative graduate program to prepare inservice administrators to act as change agents in Richmond-area schools. This paper considers the program's purposes, development, implementation, and future. Section I reviews the program's development, discussing…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Thompson, John A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1986
To help educators understand the Hawaiian system of school finance, this article reviews previous studies, describes the state government's role in the budgetary process, and discusses statewide funding impacts in comparison with other urban school districts and states having similar per capita income and student achievement ratings. Includes two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Mead, Sara – Progressive Policy Institute, 2005
In this report for the Progressive Policy Institute's 21st Century Schools Project, the author examines charter schooling in Washington, D.C., including the region's unique history of charter schooling and the challenges these schools face. She is optimistic about the future of the District's charter school movement, but argues that District and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Change
Roza, Marguerite; Miles, Karen Hawley – 2002
Reform efforts involving school finance have focused on the state's role in equalizing expenditures across all districts within a state. Despite these efforts, little attention has been given to differing expenditures among school within districts. In analyzing differences in spending across schools and students in Cincinnati, Seattle, and…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Pisapia, John – 1994
The challenge today in implementing educational technology is no longer one of acquiring equipment, but rather one of improved adoption, diffusion, and use of computers. Effective implementation requires effective planning and action to ensure equity of access to resources, coordination of resources, and developing infrastructures for information…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
Dolan, Lawrence J. – 1992
This report examines five models of school-based integrated human service programs to evaluate the effects of the programs in light of the growing support for and implementation of these programs. The study examined the following programs: (1) school-based health clinics in Baltimore (Maryland); (2) Success for All (an elementary school-level…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Counseling Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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