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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. – 1982
This document provides transcripts of testimony presented in a congressional hearing held to evaluate drug abuse in high schools, with a focus on Ohio. Testimony from Ohio residents is presented, including the Mayor of Mansfield, Ohio; a principal; a teacher; a sheriff; students who have used drugs; concerned parents; and police and Ohio county…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Drug Abuse, Hearings, High School Students
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1976
This volume records the text of the 1976 hearing held to examine the process and results of court-ordered school desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Presented is testimony from public school students, educators, administrators, government officials, and representatives of public and private agencies and community organizations. Also…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Desegregation Effects
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1975
This volume records the text of the 1975 hearing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights held to examine the program and plans for the desegregation of Boston's schools. Developments surrounding the implementation of Phase I as ordered by the Federal district court in 1974 are discussed. Also explored are the plans for the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Peer reviewedRebell, Michael A.; Murdaugh, Anne W. – Journal of Law and Education, 1992
Describes judicial attitudes toward the needs of linguistic minorities in the 1960s and 1970s and the shift during the last decade from mandating national standards to emphasizing local community discretion. Explores the implications for the national-value/community-value distinction for bilingual education and for current controversies concerning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Attitudes, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This report presents the transcript of Congressional committee hearings on a resolution urging continuation of Federal support for child nutrition programs, in view of proposals by the Reagan administration to turn responsibility for such programs over to the States. The report includes texts of statements, letters, and supplemental materials…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRebell, Michael A.; Murdaugh, Anne W. – Journal of Law and Education, 1992
Discusses the issue of gender equity in the schools from the perspective of a national values/community values distinction. An overview of the major U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex discrimination issues is presented followed by a detailed analysis of the implementation of legal mandates regarding sex equity in program access, athletics, and…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Athletics, Community Attitudes, Court Litigation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Judiciary. – 1981
This is the record of a series of Congressional subcommittee hearings on the progress, problems, and effectiveness of desegregation efforts in public schools. Included are statements and testimonies of educators, social scientists, legal scholars, public officials, and parents on the relative advantages and disadvantages of various desegregation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Civil Rights, Community Attitudes, Constitutional Law
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1980
The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs met July 1, 1980, to take testimony on Bill H.R. 6850 which proposed specific statutory authorization for the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), transferred administrative control from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB), and reserved the BIA educational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC. – 1975
Arguments on the application of the Alabama Educational Television Commission (AETC) for license renewal of eight educational television stations were heard before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Individuals from Black Efforts for Soul on Television and the National Association of Black Media Producers opposed the renewals, claiming…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Audiences, Broadcast Television, Civil Rights Legislation
