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McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2012
Before awarding waivers from core tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act to 11 states, the U.S. Department of Education ordered changes to address a significant weakness in most states' proposals: how they would hold schools accountable for groups of students deemed academically at risk, particularly those in special education or learning English.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement, Accountability
Glenny, Lyman A.; Dalglish, Thomas K. – 1973
This study discusses four states: California, Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota considered by scholars to have provided their state universities with great autonomy from state government through their constitutions and matched them with four states: Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin, which have distinguished universities of a similar size…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Planning, Governance, Government Role
HALSTEAD, FRANCIS E. – 1966
A NATIONAL SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE RELATIONSHIPS OF SUBSTANTIVE (WRITTEN) AND COMMON LAW TO THE ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF NONPUBLIC U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. A MULTIPHASED PROCEDURE WAS EMPLOYED. INITIALLY, LITERATURE WAS REVIEWED TO TRACE THE HISTORICAL-LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF NONPUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.…
Descriptors: Colleges, Court Litigation, Court Role, Higher Education
Delaney, Harold; And Others – 1980
Four articles on changing governance patterns of state colleges and universities are presented. In "State Control vs. Campus Autonomy: A Struggle for Balance," Donald E. Walters discusses the distribution of power in Illinois'"system of systems" governance structure. In Illinois several multi-campus university systems coexist;…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Centralization