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Lockette, Tim – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
In a nation where education is funded largely by local property taxes, schools in wealthy communities have plenty of funds to spend on programs that get their kids ready for college. Schools in poor communities scrimp and save to get the job done--or hope that funding from the state will help fill in the gap. This article describes how students…
Descriptors: Social Class, Low Income Groups, Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education
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Bakalis, Michael J. – Integrated Education, 1972
Descriptors: Desegregation Plans, Equal Education, School Desegregation
Brown, Kathleen Sullivan; Mullin, Christopher M.; White, Bradford R. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2009
This longitudinal study focuses on a new generation. Members of the high school class of 2002 were born in the years 1983 and 1984. In order to situate their lives in historical context, it is helpful to think back to some of the major events in the lives of these young Illinois citizens. This analysis of the cohort of 2002 provides leaders of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Equal Education, Females
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Reynolds, Laurie – Journal of Education Finance, 2008
The Illinois Supreme Court has permitted the General Assembly to create a system of public school funding that is widely disparate and disadvantageous to students in school districts with low-property wealth. In this Article, I argue that the court has not adequately considered the nexus between the Uniformity of Taxation provision and the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Funds, Funding Formulas, Taxes
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Garth-McCullough, Ruanda – Negro Educational Review, The, 2007
While reform options such as creating new schools seem tempting, they challenge the ills of public schools with new school creation under the same system. Of interest are the lessons that can be gleaned from teachers at a new small school that serves a Black American population. A theory on declining institutions was used to explore teachers'…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Small Schools, Educational Quality, African American Students
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, Dept. of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1982
The report, presented to the Planning and Policy Committee of the Illinois State Board of Education, summarizes public comment (public hearings, letters, briefings, and research reports) concerning a preliminary report of instructional mandates for handicapped children in Illinois. Eight major issues are considered in terms of preliminary report…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Boltz, Paul W. – Planning and Changing, 1973
Examines the dispersion of assessed valuation per pupil in Illinois and evaluates some proposals that might reduce this dispersion. The major proposal considered by the author is removal of industrial and commercial property (I & C) from local rolls. The conclusion is drawn that removing I & C from the property tax base has little or no…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Equal Education, Property Taxes
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Haycock, Kati; Crawford, Candace – Educational Leadership, 2008
Schools and districts rarely have a fair distribution of teacher talent. Poor children and black children are less likely to be taught by the strongest teachers and more likely to be taught by the weakest. Several districts have implemented programs to reduce the teacher quality gap. Hamilton County, Tennessee, launched an initiative that included…
Descriptors: African American Students, Equal Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Physicians
Soto, Lourdes Diaz, Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Latinos in the United States have fought hard to attain equality, especially in the field of education. "The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S." focuses on this fight for equal educational access and represents a significant addition to American educational literature. The contributors to this volume reveal that many Latino…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students
Taylor, Jason L.; Kirby, Catherine L., Bragg, Debra D.; Oertle, Kathleen M.; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Khan, Sadya S. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2009
This guide begins with background information useful to understanding Illinois' framework for implementation and evaluation of Programs of Study. It starts with a visual depiction of the relationships between activity at the federal, state and local levels that evolved to the creation of Illinois' Career Cluster Model. This Model, which is based…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Minow, Martha, Ed.; Shweder, Richard A., Ed.; Markus, Hazel Rose, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
Educators and policymakers who share the goal of equal opportunity in schools often hold differing notions of what entails a just school in multicultural America. Some emphasize the importance of integration and uniform treatment for all, while others point to the benefits of honoring cultural diversity in ways that make minority students feel at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Equal Education, School Choice
Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Murnane, Richard, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of rising inequality affect the educational attainment and life chances of low-income children? In "Whither Opportunity?" a distinguished team of economists,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Community Characteristics, Neighborhoods, Behavior Problems
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Barrow, Lisa – Economics of Education Review, 2006
Using data from Illinois, I examine relationships between the number of private schools and characteristics of the public schools and surrounding population. I find positive, statistically significant relationships between number of private schools in 1998 and public school 3rd grade class size, the percent college educated, and the percent over…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Location, Grade 3, Class Size
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2006
In 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka," the South Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side was home primarily to Polish and Czech immigrants. In the decades since, South Lawndale has undergone dramatic change. Eastern Europeans moved out, and people of Mexican…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Strikes, School Construction, Equal Education
Hickrod, George Alan Karnes; And Others – 1985
The school finance equity efforts that began in Illinois in the early 1970s collapsed during the early 1980s, partially as a result of poor economic conditions affecting the entire state budget. This monograph opens with a review of the school finance reform events that have unfolded in Illinois since 1973, when major reforms were first enacted…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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