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Hickrod, G. Alan; And Others – 1982
It is proposed that federal block grants to Illinois be distributed to school districts according to four characteristics of those districts. Funds will be distributed inversely proportional to property valuation per pupil, directly proportional to percentage of minority children, directly proportional to percentage of poverty children (Title I…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Block Grants, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1976
These documents contain narrative analyses and tables of data pertaining to student enrollment and enrollment trends in Illinois public community colleges for fall 1975, spring 1976, and fall 1976. Data presented in tabular form include: comparison and trends in enrollment data from 1965 through 1975, enrollment data for fall 1975 relating to…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment
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Scott-Jones, Diane – American Journal of Education, 1991
Illinois birth records in 1985 provide information about the educational levels of black, white, and Hispanic-American adolescents aged 15 to 19 years having first and second births. Age and ethnic differences exist in the relationship of first and second births to educational levels of young parents. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Birth, Black Students
Kozol, Jonathan – 1991
This book examines what is happening, in the context of segregated and unequal public education, to children from poor families in the inner cities and less affluent suburbs, and describes how children of poor families get less real education, less hope, and less concern than children from rich families. Chapter 1 of the book examines the causes…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Welfare, Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1992
Low graduation rates and excessive time to degree have cost implications for students, institutions, and the state and raise fundamental questions about priorities. This report examines graduation and time-to-degree rates at 10 Illinois public college and universities; the potential factors affecting graduation and timely completion; and the issue…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Black Students
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1993
This report presents recommendations for Illinois' Board of Higher Education's approval in the areas of: (1) general policies for health professions education, (2) the adoption of immediate program priorities to implement the general policy directions in health education programs, and (3) specific recommendations for adjustments in Health Services…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Singley, Yvonne – 1992
Special population grants to Illinois public community colleges fund services, special programs, and instruction that assist academically and socially disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, and minority students to succeed in college. In fiscal year 1991, grants totaling $9.7 million enabled the Illinois community colleges to provide…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Ancillary School Services, Block Grants
Lindstrom, Duane – 1975
This is a report prepared by the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. It deals with how local, state and federal officials, as well as private individuals and groups, have dealt with Cairo, Illinois' racial and economic problems. The areas addressed are employment, housing, health, and law enforcement. It…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Black Education, Black Employment, Black Housing
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Hoxby, Caroline M.; Rockoff, Jonah E. – Education Next, 2005
Supporters believe that the flexibility granted these new public schools allows them to be more innovative and responsive to student needs than traditional public schools are. But do students in charter schools learn more than their counterparts in traditional public schools? In order to answer this question, the authors have analyzed established…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Innovation
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1992
This report analyzes the progress made in implementing the Illinois Board of Higher Education's policies on undergraduate education, with particular attention to the status of policy implementation concerning student achievement, scholarship, and general education. The report examines recent trends in the number of Illinois high school graduating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Board of Education Policy
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1992
Part of a series of reports on undergraduate education in Illinois, this report focuses on transfer and articulation. The first section examines trends in transfer and after-transfer retention to baccalaureate degree completion of students who transferred from public community colleges to public universities. The second section traces the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1989
Data on the characteristics of faculty and staff at Illinois public community colleges are presented and analyzed for fall 1986, 1987, and 1988. Tables provide statistics on numbers of faculty and staff by employment classification; full-time faculty and staff by employment classification, gender, and ethnic origin; full-time teaching faculty by…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1989
Since the enactment of state legislation designed to address the underrepresentation of minorities, women, and the handicapped, Illinois institutions of higher education have developed many programs to address this problem. These efforts include a range of approaches from those focusing primarily on motivating students and strengthening their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Community Colleges
Sexton, Patricia Cayo – 1966
The major issue in urban education is class conflict. The polarity of the "haves" and "have-nots" limits the schools' services to the latter group because of the generally moderate stance of most liberal school board members and their insufficient zeal in pressing the grievances of the have-nots. Bureaucratic resistance and the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Board of Education Role, Bureaucracy, Conflict
Center for the Study of Education Policy, 2005
The high school diploma is no longer the credential for a lifetime and it has not been for decades. Since the 1970s, there has been a growing consensus that training or education beyond high school is necessary to qualify for "family wage" jobs, jobs that pay enough for a family to live reasonably comfortably. Despite this widespread…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Low Income Groups, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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