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Washington State Board for Community Coll. Education, Olympia. – 1981
In response to a legislative inquiry, a study was conducted by the Washington State Board for Community College Education (SBCCE) to determine the adequacy of policies and laws governing the state funding classification of community college courses. During the study, the SBCCE examined the extent to which the colleges were financing courses with a…
Descriptors: Classification, Community Colleges, Courses, Federal Aid
Download full textWashington State Board for Community Coll. Education, Olympia. – 1976
The governance and management of the community college system in the state of Washington is based upon a division of responsibilities between the 22 district boards of trustees and the State Board. In 1967, a formal division of responsibilities between the district boards and the State Board was enacted by the state legislature. Later reports of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, College Administration
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1974
This booklet presents a model for use by any size or type of school district in developing an affirmative action plan. The model is intended to give districts a clear idea of what affirmative action requires and what type of program must be implemented for affirmative action to be successful. Separate sections of the booklet discuss numerical…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Washington State School Directors Association, Olympia. – 1975
This booklet is intended to help familiarize Washington school board members with their legal powers and limitations. In nontechnical language, it summarizes relevant Washington laws, gives the legal reference for each, and quotes illustrative court decisions and attorney general opinions. The table of contents can be used as a key to look up…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Ewen, Danielle; Matthews, Hannah – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2007
This paper explores the range of ways in which school districts are using Title I funds for early education through kindergarten and examines how the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has impacted those investments. It also makes recommendations for local education agencies (LEAs) interested in creating Title I-funded early education…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Young Children
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007
The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This Washington edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Yearbooks, State Standards
Center on Education Policy, 2009
This year the Center on Education Policy analyzed data on the achievement of different groups of students in two distinct ways. First, it looked at grade 4 test results to determine whether the performance of various groups improved at three achievement levels--basic and above, proficient and above, and advanced. Second, it looked at gaps between…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Low Income, American Indians, African American Students
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1992
This paper presents the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board's determination of approved educational costs intended to serve as the basis for general tuition and operating fees for the ensuing biennium of 1993-95. The report first explains the background of the statutory responsibilities for tuition and fee determination, followed…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Costs
Washington State Board of Education, Olympia. – 1992
The 1992 Washington State Legislature gave the State Board of Education (SBE), in conjunction with the Governor's Council on Education Reform and Funding (GCERF), responsibility for completing a review of certification policies to develop an outcome-based certification system for teachers. To accomplish this task, the SBE/GCERF Professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Beginning Teachers, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Change
Johnson, Jackie M. – 1980
Information is presented on policies and administration of professional leave activity in the public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education in Washington State. The survey of a sample of 1979-81 leaves sought information on selection criteria, purposes, and evaluation of accomplishments. Questions provided data on the following:…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria
Symposium. Vocational Education's Role in a Changing Economy. (Spokane, Washington, April 26, 1978).
VanAusdle, Steven, Ed. – 1978
The symposium reported here was held to provide representatives from business, industry, labor, agriculture, government, and education an opportunity to examine the present and future role of vocational education in the state of Washington. First, this report presents the opening remarks regarding vocational education's role in a changing economy…
Descriptors: Accountability, Conference Reports, Conferences, Economic Development
Washington State Legislature, Olympia. – 1971
Hard data related to recidivist rates in the State of Washington are not available but testimony offered to a legislative subcommittee suggests that they may be as high as 70 percent. Given this almost desperate situation, the Joint Committee on Education decided in 1969 to investigate the education programs operated in the correctional…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Counseling, Coordination, Correctional Education
O'Shea, Daniel; King, Christopher T. – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the first significant attempt to retool the nation's workforce development programs since the early 1980s. Titles I-V of the WIA do the following things: (1) establish the purposes, goals and operational framework of a workforce development system designed to increase participants' employment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1981
Intended to answer questions regarding public schools in Washington, this handbook provides an overview of the organization and financing of the state's public school system, grades K-12. Included are brief descriptions of the Basic Education Act, the basic education allocation formula, how state and local funds are included in this formula, and…
Descriptors: Budgets, Buildings, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Elementary Secondary Education
Knape, Lawrence E. – 1973
This report, the third in a three-volume study evaluating day care in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, contains a profile of various day care characteristics and an estimate of the potential impact of the proposed federal day care requirements on current day care costs in the four states. The profile includes data describing the definitions…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Caregivers, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care
