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Hedger, Joseph; Potts, Abigail – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2022
Politically charged education issues roiled the 2022 races for seats on state boards of education, yet none of the boards flipped partisan control. However, majority parties expanded their representation on boards in Colorado, Kansas, and Utah so far. Of the 63 seats on the ballot for 12 state boards, 35 incumbent candidates were reelected. This…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Elections, School Budget Elections, State Boards of Education
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Kingsbury, Ian; Maranto, Robert; Karns, Nik – Urban Education, 2023
In response to concerns regarding school quality, state policy-makers reformed their charter school authorization processes to impose greater regulatory barriers to chartering. These barriers to market entry could impose substantial burdens for Black and Latino would-be charter operators, as well as independent operators, who may lack access to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Regulation, Educational Policy, Disproportionate Representation
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Gabriela López; Carrie Sampson – Theory Into Practice, 2024
The past few years have seen a rise in interest in local elected offices, specifically in school board seats. These seats hold unequivocal power over what school districts can do in terms of advancing equity and excellence in education. We explore one facet of what became a playbook of anti-equity efforts in school districts during the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Politics of Education, Elections, Political Issues
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Justice, Scot; Helms, Alex; Hermanson, Dana – Journal of School Choice, 2023
We survey 137 charter school administrators and 129 board members and find that U.S. charter school internal controls are perceived to be relatively strong overall. However, board independence, board communication of internal control responsibilities to school personnel, lines of communication between the board and school personnel, and reporting…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education
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Eadens, Daniel W.; Davidson, Frank D.; Eadens, Danielle M. – Education Leadership Review, 2020
The last three decades of board research has embarked on various aspects of school boards (Alsbury, 2008b; Delagardelle, 2008; Resnick & Bryant, 2010; Strauss, 2018) including characteristics of effective boards (Alsbury & Gore, 2015; Dervarics & O'Brien, 2016), importance of targeted school board trainings (Cook, 2014; Gann, 2015;…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Governing Boards, Leadership Training, Educational Benefits
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Griffo, Janelle; Nam, Kahyun; van der Mars, Hans; Kulinna, Pamela; Ross, Allison – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Children's health is affected by physical activity (PA) opportunities throughout the school day. Schools are a central venue for children meeting physical activity recommendations, and multiple areas, such as recess, have been established to protect against childhood obesity and overweight. Senate Bill 1083 is a law that addresses recess policies…
Descriptors: State Legislation, State Policy, Educational Policy, Recess Breaks
Pechota, Damion – Education Commission of the States, 2022
To best train and support school leaders in their evolving roles, they require high-quality preparation and in-service pipelines that both address the changing demands on their positions and acknowledge the cascading effects that well-prepared leaders have on both student outcomes and in school culture and retention. Including school leaders in…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, State Policy
Colletti, Gary – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2018
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) calls on states to take advantage of new opportunities to combat uneven access to quality instruction in world languages--a key component of a well-rounded education. This National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) policy update discusses ways state boards can bridge the divide between…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Access to Education, Alignment (Education), State Boards of Education
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Ramos, Gabriela; Hughes, Thomas – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2020
Schools across America are losing teachers at an alarming rate. Changing workforce demographics forecasted some level of loss decades ago. More recently, however, it has been noted declines are now reaching a crisis level across parts of the United States for a variety of reasons. Today the prevailing professional literature addressing public…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Discipline Policy, Faculty Mobility, Student Behavior
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Barrett, Brian; Bound, Arron M. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of "no promo homo" policies and their effects in US schools. "No promo homo"--short for "no promotion of homosexuality" (Eskridge, 2000, p. 1329)--polices have been adopted across nine states and several local school districts in the United States. They direct…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Homosexuality, School Policy, School Districts
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Puckett, Tiffany; Graves, Christopher; Sutton, Lenford C. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2019
Minority students and students with disabilities are disciplined disproportionately from their peers. Discipline has led to many negative consequences in the lives of youth in the United States, including the school-to-prison pipeline. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education issued guidance encouraging school districts to develop policies that…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Students with Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation, Punishment
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Marks, Susan Unok; Kurth, Jennifer A.; Bartz, Jody Marie – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2014
Although inclusive education has been increasing in frequency for students with disabilities in the United States, for many students, the opportunity to be educated with their peers without disabilities continues to be out of reach despite decades of efforts by those promoting the vision of inclusion. This exploratory case study used interviews…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Disabilities
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Barnett, Joshua; Ganesh, Tirupalavanam G. – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: Via the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), stronger accountability proponents are now knocking on the doors of the colleges of education that prepare teachers and, many argue, prepare teachers ineffectively. This is raising questions about how effective and necessary teacher education programs indeed are. While research…
Descriptors: Accountability, Schools of Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
Salaz, Daniel V. – Principal, 2011
Sierra Vista Elementary School is a Title I school located in south central Phoenix that serves 418 K-8 students, 90 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and live in homes where the primary language is not English. One-third of the student population is made up of English-language learners. Hispanic students make up 78 percent…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Federal Programs, Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators
Quillen, Ian – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Of all the recent budget cuts made by the Eagle County, Colorado, school district, none sparked as much anger or faced the same scrutiny as the decision to cut three foreign-language teaching positions and replace them with online instruction. At a spring school board meeting, supporters of the targeted programs in French and German, as well as…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Technology, Unions, Electronic Learning
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