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Warren, Paul; Murphy, Patrick – Public Policy Institute of California, 2014
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Local Control Funding Formula are introducing major changes to California's K-12 system. Implementation of new curricula and instruction is under way at the district level, but California started its transition relatively late and it has taken a more decentralized approach than most other states.…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas, Capacity Building
Jennings, Jack – Center on Education Policy, 2011
During the 2010 election campaign, Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky demanded the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. "I am against any federal funding or control of education," he said. "Historically, education was funded and controlled locally" (Strauss, 2010). Another new Republican senator, Mike Lee from…
Descriptors: United States History, Federal Government, Leadership Styles, Political Attitudes
National Governors Association, 2013
The National Governors Association (NGA) and The Hunt Institute co-hosted the 2013 Governors Education Symposium. To inform participants and generate conversation about the themes of the symposium, the two organizations developed a set of issue briefs discussing four areas: (1) college- and career-training ready standards; (2) building coalitions…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Conferences (Gatherings), College Readiness, Career Readiness
Cutler, Ira M. – 1994
The well-being of a large portion of American children is distressingly low. Integrated service delivery--which provides the broadest range of education, health, housing, and social services--is viewed as one way to remedy the failure of public and private institutions to deliver effective services that can ameliorate or reverse these problems and…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community, Economic Factors, Educational Economics
Mingle, James R., Ed. – 1983
Findings of a Southern Regional Education Board study of management flexibility and state regulation in higher education are discussed in five chapters. James R. Mingle in "Management Flexibility and State Regulation: An Overview" outlines the scope of the study, which focused on administrators' and board members' views on management…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, College Administration, Educational Finance
Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2003
IMHE-Info is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme. This issue includes: Higher Education: The Keys to Sustainability. IMHE News, publications of interest and upcoming events are included.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Administration, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Dean, Robert L. – 1981
State educational support, full-time-equivalent (FTE) enrollments, and tuition charges at the public colleges and universities in Kentucky from 1971 to 1980 were studied, using a comparative indexing technique. Financial data are presented in actual and indexed values, and are shown in both current and constant dollars. State educational support…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Indexes, Educational Finance, Educational History