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Download full textOffice of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2013
Section 107 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act), requires the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to conduct annual reviews and periodic on-site monitoring of programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act to determine whether a state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Vocational Rehabilitation, Compliance (Legal)
Lazarin, Melissa – Center for American Progress, 2012
In 2009 the Obama administration announced a focused commitment to turn around 5,000 of the United States' chronically lowest-performing public schools as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This commitment came with $3 billion in funding for the School Improvement Grant program, or SIG, along with new guidelines to ensure…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Financial Support, Competition
Direct linkJaquith, Ann; Mindich, Dan; Wei, Ruth Chung; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Forward (NJ), 2010
This report is the third of a three-phase research study of teacher professional learning opportunities in the United States. In this third phase of the research, the authors conducted case studies of four professionally active states to get a deeper look at the policy frameworks that support professional development in those states. These…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Participation, Accountability, Standards
Peer reviewedSchmidt, Stephen J.; Scott, Karen – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
In 1997, Vermont passed Act 60, which reformed its education finance system to achieve greater equality of spending. The reform encouraged wealthy towns to reduce spending; it was politically unpopular and was replaced, in 2004, by Act 68. We analyze the spending incentives created by the two acts and estimate the effects the change will have on…
Descriptors: Incentives, Taxes, State Legislation, Educational Finance
