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Download full textHedger, Joseph; Potts, Abigail – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2022
Politically charged education issues roiled the 2022 races for seats on state boards of education, yet none of the boards flipped partisan control. However, majority parties expanded their representation on boards in Colorado, Kansas, and Utah so far. Of the 63 seats on the ballot for 12 state boards, 35 incumbent candidates were reelected. This…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Elections, School Budget Elections, State Boards of Education
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2012
In times of economic uncertainty, community colleges have consistently turned to the experience of past generations as an avenue toward innovation and the modernization of their programs and services. Community colleges have been able to continuously reinvent themselves to serve the ever-changing needs of society. With President Obama's increased…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Data Collection, Listening
Direct linkAarons, Dakarai I. – Education Week, 2010
Spurred both by fiscal realities and momentum from the U.S. Department of Education's agenda for school improvement, local and state education leaders are moving forcefully and quickly to make big changes to districts and schools that have long struggled with low test scores and graduation rates. In Kansas City, Missouri, the school board voted…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Charter Schools, Graduation Rate, State Legislation
Schachter, Ron – District Administration, 2009
Mayoral control of public schools is nothing new. Boston pioneered the practice in 1992, replacing elected school committee members with mayoral appointees. Since then, a dozen urban districts--including Cleveland, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C.--have undergone a similar change in school governance that has shifted some or most of…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, Public Officials, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Greene, Brenda Z. – Updating School Board Policies, 1984
As a result of the National Commission on Excellence in Education report and other recent studies, an increasing number of governors and state legislators have sought to establish new requirements and minimum standards statewide. Addressing the potential threat that these requirements represent to local school boards in their efforts to maintain…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Community Control
Millard, Richard M. – 1977
Relations between colleges/college governing boards and statewide coordinating boards, and alternatives to coordination, are considered. The history of statewide coordinating boards is briefly sketched, and it is suggested that current conditions and trends require both state and institutional responses. Among the issues are declining enrollments…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Planning, College Role, Cooperative Planning
Muller, Jane, Ed. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1977
Background data pertaining to postsecondary education in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio are presented as part of a seminar on statewide concerns about the future of public higher education, which was part of an inservice education program. For each state the following is included: demographic and fiscal information, a description of the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Curriculum, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends
Franken, Marion E.; Earnhart, Joan – 1976
This comparative study was conducted for the Wisconsin Advisory Council on Vocational Education in an effort to identify strengths and weaknesses of program delivery and accomplishments of several States--Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio--with a view towards making recommendations that would improve Wisconsin's total program…
Descriptors: Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Educational Administration
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2006
On July 28, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the putative benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education. Four experts presented written statements to the Commissioners that assessed the social science literature on this issue. They also addressed whether or not…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation, Secondary Education
