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Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1981
The report examines Illinois mandates affecting special education, as part of a five part study to eliminate unnecessary or unproductive mandates and increase local decision making, while still safeguarding equal educational opportunity. The first section outlines the major study assumptions, mandate questions, and research methodology.…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Peary, Marjorie E.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of the study discussed in this paper was to determine the existence of both a simple wealth neutrality and of a conditional wealth neutrality in special education finance in the state of Illinois. These two concepts are used to determine the presence of equity in public school funding. The research design involved the classifying of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Funkhouser, Janie E.; Riley, Derek L.; Suh, H. Jenny; Lennon, Jean M. – 2002
This guide suggests strategies to help states, districts, and schools overcome barriers that keep homeless children and youth from getting the education to which they are entitled, presenting approaches for helping them achieve the same high standards expected of all children. The promising practices all come from states and districts that have…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Children, Educational Legislation
Sunderman, Gail L.; Kim, Jimmy – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
This report examines the implementation of No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) supplemental educational service provisions in eleven urban districts--Mesa Public Schools and Washington Elementary District Schools, AZ, Fresno Unified School District and Los Angeles Unified School District, CA, Chicago Public Schools, IL, Buffalo Public Schools and New…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, School Districts, Supplementary Education, Administrator Responsibility
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Maher, Michael J.; Sever, Linda M. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
Previous research indicated that Catholic high schools in the United States were not addressing the topic of homosexuality in any significant and systematic way prior to the mid-1990s, though practitioners in Catholic high schools have begun to address the topic in recent years. This study, in sampling seven Catholic schools in the greater Chicago…
Descriptors: Social Bias, School Culture, High Schools, Catholic Schools
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Fetterman, David M. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
This article presents a study of a program in Peoria, Illinois, for the gifted and talented that serves as a national test case for gifted education and minority enrollment. It was concluded that referral, identification, and selection were appropriate for the program model but that inequalities resulted from socioeconomic variables. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equal Education
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 2003
This annual report presents information on minority, female, and disabled students and staff in Illinois higher education. It seeks to explain and track recent changes in representation among these groups and highlights state and institutional efforts to improve representation. As part of a change in reporting format, this year's report is divided…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Annual Reports, Black Students, Enrollment
Kohler, Paula; Zumwalt, Cindy – 1998
Gender role stereotyping and gender bias limit educational choices and opportunities for students. The impact of gender role stereotyping and gender bias on teaching and counseling methodologies, educational and career choices, violence in schools, communication, and other aspects of education has not been taken routinely into consideration in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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McKillip, Jack – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2001
A performance audit examined immediate, intermediate, and long-range effects of two minority graduate fellowship programs sponsored by the state of Illinois, the Illinois Minority Graduate Incentive Program (IMGIP) and the Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program (ICEOP). Findings show the diversification of minority doctoral study…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Equal Education, Graduate Students
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Haddad, Monica A.; Alsbury, Thomas – Planning and Changing, 2008
State policies to equalize educational spending, cap bond and levy rates, require common teacher salary schedules, and consolidate school districts are geared toward improving quality and attempting to resolve problems of inefficiency. However, despite the use of state policy to equalize educational quality, educational gaps persist. Yu and Lau…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Case Studies, State Policy
Brown, Kathleen Sullivan; Mullin, Christopher M.; White, Bradford R. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2009
The Illinois High School Class of 2002 is part of the third generational wave of American students following the landmark Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka," which outlawed segregation in public education. This longitudinal study allows the authors to examine the long-term impacts of this monumental…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Policy, Racial Differences, Postsecondary Education
Hickrod, G. Alan; And Others – 1982
Based on a definition of equity that includes both equality in expenditure per pupil and fiscal neutrality, this paper examines equity in Illinois school finance and makes recommendations for its improvement. Following a brief introduction outlining deterioration of equity since 1977, part 2 describes further reasons for this deterioration. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Illinois State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield. Advisory Committee on School Finance. – 1972
This paper (1) defines the concept of equalization as it has been used in school finance, (2) examines some selected problems in the measurement of the concept of equalization, and (3) applies the concept of equalization to current State educational fiscal policy matters. The definitional problems are investigated by posing what are believed to be…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
Wall, Allen – Wests's Education Law Quarterly, 1993
Examines several state supreme court cases that bear on school finance litigation in Illinois. Suggests that the Illinois plaintiffs have an opportunity to establish a new litigation strategy. When school finance schemes are challenged on the basis of educational quality, courts have the opportunity to define a basic standard of education that…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
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Chapman, Thandeka K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2005
Much of the scholarship on urban children and families has focused on ways to increase the involvement of parents of colour in the education of their children. However, these suggestions for increasing parental involvement ignore the long tradition of activism in the courts as families have fought through the legal system for equal educational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Court Litigation, Activism, Parent Participation
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