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Download full textSophie Zamarripa; Indira Dammu; Bonnie O'Keefe – Bellwether, 2024
Costs for transporting public school students have risen 33% from 2008 to 2018, reaching, on average, $1,152 per student transported. The reasons behind this shift include higher labor costs, various forms of school choice requiring longer commutes from students' neighborhoods, and environmentally friendly upgrades to bus fleets. As a result, some…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Barriers, Access to Education, Bus Transportation
Corbett, Julie – Academic Development Institute, 2011
This report describes the use of Lead Turnaround Partners (LTPs) in the current School Improvement Grant (SIG) program and provides the results of document review, surveys, and interviews with eight State Education Agencies and seven Lead Turnaround Partner organizations. The study focuses on the implementation of the transformation and turnaround…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Turnaround, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Crabtree, Robert K. – Compact, 1973
Describes how Massachusetts is overhauling its approach to the education of handicapped children. Discusses how things used to be, the push for change, and a new Massachusetts law that assigns to local school districts the responsibility for special education. Explains how to get education legislation drafted and enacted. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Educational Responsibility, Equal Education
Task Force on Children Out of School, Boston, MA. – 1970
The report by the Task Force on Children Out of School describes practices and procedures of exclusion which prohibit a minimum of 4,000 school age children from attending the Boston public schools. Children who are culturally different, physically different (both handicapped and pregnant), mentally handicapped, and emotionally disturbed are…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Responsibility
Arons, Stephen – Saturday Review (New York 1975), 1978
In 1978, the Amherst School Department rejected Peter and Susan Perchemlides' proposal for educating their eight-year-old son at home and cited them in court for failing to send the child to school. The author describes this controversy and reviews previous court cases on compulsory schooling. (SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Compulsory Education, Court Litigation, Educational Responsibility
Zia, Barbara – 1994
This study explored two mothers' and two teachers' beliefs about who was responsible for children's teaching and learning. Participants were two teachers at Adams Elementary, a public school in middle-class suburban Boston (Massachusetts), and the mothers of two kindergartners there. The children were a boy and a girl, both firstborn and…
Descriptors: Educational Responsibility, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Brint, Steven; Karabel, Jerome – 1989
Guided by a vision of an ideal educational system that is dedicated to the cultivation of a democratic citizenry, this monograph explores a number of questions about the growth and recent transformation of American junior colleges from liberal arts transfer institutions to providers of terminal vocational training. Chapter 1 examines the role of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, College Role, Community Colleges
