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Download full textHerpin, Sharon – National Charter School Resource Center, 2022
This report explains how State Entity (SE) Program grantees are using or proposed to use the technical assistance (TA) set-aside portion of their Charter School Programs (CSP) funds for these activities. This report also describes SE activities to ensure subgrantees are equipped to meet the needs of all students, and specifically students with…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, State Aid, State Programs
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2019
From 2016 through 2019, 10 states strengthened their career readiness systems through the New Skills for Youth initiative (NSFY), a $75 million national investment by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to enhance state efforts to increase the number of learners across the country who are prepared for success in both college and career. As part of this…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, State Programs, Vocational Education, Equal Education
Aragon, Stephanie – Education Commission of the States, 2015
The first charter school law surfaced in Minnesota in 1991, and since then, 42 additional states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have passed laws governing charter schools. Yet still today, the details within those state laws vary significantly, and seven states do not have a law at all. Legislation permitting charter schools was…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Legislation, Comparative Analysis, Accountability
Mehrotra, Sarah; Morgan, Ivy S.; Socol, Allison – Education Trust, 2021
While new teachers bring energy and passion into their classrooms and schools, they can find themselves incredibly challenged as they learn how to plan and implement lessons, collect, and use data to inform their instructional practices, build relationships with students and families, manage classroom behavior, and meet the varying academic,…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Educational Quality, Teacher Competencies, Beginning Teachers
Goss, Adrienne C. – Online Submission, 2020
The Rhode Island Education Policy Primer provides an overview of how public education operates in Rhode Island. The Introduction offers context on the inequitable origins of Rhode Island's public school system, as well as the role that activism has played in expanding educational opportunities. The At a Glance section provides a quick look at…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Public Education, Equal Education
Education Resource Strategies, 2013
Four organizations with promising practices in teacher Professional Growth & Support have significantly raised outcomes for low-income students. The charter management networks, Achievement First and Aspire Public Schools, and the two reform organizations, Teach Plus and Agile Mind, have successfully increased student achievement with a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Low Income, At Risk Students, Case Studies
Education Resource Strategies, 2013
One of a series of Education Resource Strategies (ERS) publications and tools, this paper explores important ways to organize and invest in Professional Growth & Support that strengthen teaching capacity and effectiveness at the system level. It draws on research, ERS experience with urban school systems nationwide, and detailed analyses of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Schools, Holistic Approach
Kleiman, Neil; Forman, Adam; Ko, Jae; Giles, David; Bowles, Jonathan – Center for an Urban Future, 2013
With Washington trapped in budget battles and partisan gridlock, cities have emerged as the best source of government innovation. Nowhere is this more visible than in New York City. Since taking office in 2002, Mayor Bloomberg has introduced a steady stream of innovative policies, from a competition to recruit a new applied sciences campus and a…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Innovation, Public Policy, Local Government
Wong, Kenneth K. – Center for American Progress, 2011
Reforming the way a state distributes its funding to local school districts is clearly a challenging task. This paper presents the Rhode Island story on school funding reform. First, the paper begins with a short history of Rhode Island's school finance system and the key factors that called for school funding reform. Second, the paper discusses…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Charter Schools, Leadership Effectiveness, State Aid
Hergert, Leslie F.; Gleason, Sonia Caus; Urbano, Carole – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2009
This document presents a summary of the report, "How Eight State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Identify and Support Low-Performing Schools and Districts." This larger report describes and analyzes how eight state education agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Focus Groups, State Departments of Education, Interviews
Hergert, Leslie F.; Gleason, Sonia Caus; Urbano, Carole – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2009
This report describes and analyzes how eight state education agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Vermont) identify and support low-performing schools and districts under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Data collection for the report…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Focus Groups, State Departments of Education, Accountability
Peer reviewedDeMoss, Karen – Peabody Journal of Education, 2003
Presents four case studies from Rhode Island (lifelong legislative deference); Washington (popular elections, judicial turnover, and case outcomes); Illinois (fighting changes in state ideologies); and Vermont (political aftermath of judicial decisions) which offer a sampling of the politics of court and state contexts involved in holding…
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Henderson, Anne, Ed. – 1983
The effects of Chapter 2 block grants on fund distribution, programs, and school district spending, and the role played in Chapter 2 implementation by parents and citizens were investigated. Interim findings include the following: (1) there has been a massive redistribution of Federal funds away from States serving large numbers of poor nonwhite…
Descriptors: Accountability, Block Grants, Case Studies, Citizen Participation
