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Meredith P. Richards; Cheyenne Phillips; Alexandra E. Pavlakis; J. Kessa Roberts – Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
In August 2017, the Houston area was ravaged by one of the costliest natural disasters in history--Hurricane Harvey. In this brief, the first in a two-part series, the authors examine the effects of Harvey on student homelessness in the Houston Independent School District (Houston ISD). The authors find that student homelessness in Houston ISD…
Descriptors: Housing, Natural Disasters, Homeless People, School Districts
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2022
This study explores the ways in which local students experience housing instability--and how cross-sector strategies can better identify and serve these students. The report accompanying this brief considers a rich set of school administrative data, collected over the course of three school years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic: 2016-17 through…
Descriptors: Housing, Homeless People, Place of Residence, Counties
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Mann, Bryan; Saultz, Andrew – AERA Open, 2019
Despite the strong relationship between geography and education policy, educational research tends to draw from other fields of inquiry such as economics, political science, and history. This special topics collection centers the usefulness of geography and place in educational policy research. The introduction explains the rationale for the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Geography, Policy Analysis, Educational Research
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Jones, Peter A. – Journal of Education Finance, 2018
Since Minnesota passed the first charter school law in 1991, charter schools have become one of the most prominent school reforms in the U.S. While charter schools educate a small portion of public school enrollments, their existence has prompted various responses from traditional public school (TPS) districts. This paper explores education…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Competition, School Districts, Public Schools
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Javier Leung – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
The EdHub Library is an online teacher professional development platform that serves 250 school districts as part of the Network for Educator Effectiveness in Missouri. It has a collection of more than 300 online activities. This design case describes the efforts of re-developing EdHub due to technical and usability issues of the first generation…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, School Districts, Electronic Libraries, Usability
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Kallemeyn, Leanne M.; DeStefano, Lizanne – NHSA Dialog, 2010
Two purposes for early childhood assessment systems are informing program development and providing accountability. Based on findings from a case study of a local Head Start program implementing the National Reporting System (NRS) in 2004-2005, we provide 5 lessons learned from experiences with the NRS that may have implications for other…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Program Development
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Allison, Gregory S.; Honegger, Steven D.; Johnson, Frank – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This handbook has been designed as the national standard for state and local education agencies to use in tracking and reporting financial data for school districts to use in preparing their comprehensive annual financial reports (CAFRs). The purpose of the handbook is to ensure that education fiscal data can be reported in a comprehensive manner.…
Descriptors: Program Costs, State Schools, Financial Audits, Private Schools