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Semiannual Report to Congress, No. 80. October 1, 2019-March 31, 2020
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Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2020
The Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-452), as amended, requires that the Inspector General report semiannually to the Congress on the activities of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the 6-month periods ending March 31 and September 30. This Semiannual Report presents the activities and accomplishments of the U.S. Department…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Government, Public Agencies, Hearings
Staff Perceptions of the School Bonding Strategies Employed at a Pennsylvania Urban Charter High School as Part of a Federally Mandated School Turnaround and Race to the Top Grant
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Miles, Keith, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Between 2011 and 2015, K-12 education experienced an infusion of funds by the U.S. Department of Education going directly to school districts that implemented reforms in key areas to address truancy, dropout and achievement in our nation's most severely underperforming schools. There is limited research studying truancy reduction, relationship…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, High Schools, School Turnaround
Redefining the School District in America. Part Three of a Three-Part Series
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Smith, Nelson – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2015
In "Redefining the School District in America," Nelson Smith reexamines existing recovery school districts (RSDs)--entities in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan charged with running and turning around their state's worst schools--and assembles the most comprehensive catalog of similar initiatives underway and under consideration…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, School Turnaround
The Philadelphia School District's Ongoing Financial Crisis
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Caskey, John; Kuperberg, Mark – Education Next, 2014
This article describes the budget crisis that the School District of Philadelphia has faced for the past few years. Three specific events triggered the 2012 crisis: an abrupt reduction in federal and state funding, the inability of the district to cut many of its costs, and political pressures on the district to spend available revenues in a given…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Financial Problems, Public Schools
Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar--A Snapshot of Federal, State, and Local Action
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Farbman, David – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2011
The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), an organization dedicated to redesigning and expanding school time to improve opportunities and outcomes for high poverty students, and the Education Commission of the States (ECS), with a mission to foster both the exchange of ideas on education issues among the states and long range strategic…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Educational Change
Pennsylvania Cyber School Funding: Follow the Money
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Carr-Chellman, Alison A.; Marsh, Rose M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
Cyber charter schools are public charter schools which are entirely online and typically serve all grades from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Pennsylvania implemented widespread charter school legislation as early as 1997. This has offered a great number of Pennsylvanians options in their public schooling. One of these options has been…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Computer Uses in Education