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Krejsler, John Benedicto – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
This article maps the genealogies of how California and Texas have dealt with school policy. The twin purpose is to shed light onto the dynamics governing the formation of K-12 education policy in two influential and different states, and visualizing the intensification of state-federal interaction that has gradually evolved into a national school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Public Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Henig, Jeffrey R.; Lyon, Melissa Arnold – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
All states value their distinct approaches to policy and to life and the U.S. Constitution embeds the idea of state rights and responsibilities as a core principle in the federal system. California arguably takes this further than most. This paper provides a new way to think about how national policies might complicate or augment the next state…
Descriptors: State Government, Federal Government, States Powers, Government Role
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Popham, W. James – Educational Research, 2009
Against a shifting set of assessment preferences in the US regarding whether educational assessment should continue to be a states rights game or become a federally dominated undertaking, the publication of five first-rate analyses about England's national curriculum assessment (NCA) is particularly propitious. Taken together, these five papers…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, States Powers, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries
Glenny, Lyman A.; Dalglish, Thomas K. – 1973
This study discusses four states: California, Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota considered by scholars to have provided their state universities with great autonomy from state government through their constitutions and matched them with four states: Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin, which have distinguished universities of a similar size…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Planning, Governance, Government Role
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Washington State Council for Postsecondary Education, Olympia. – 1975
Summaries of bills pertaining to higher education from the Washington State Senate and House of Representatives are presented. The legislation covers the following: library services to Indian tribes; acquisition of surplus EXPO facilities; creation of the Vocational Education Commission; renaming of the Council for Postsecondary Education;…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Higher Education
Groskin, Richard B. – 1981
To determine whether program evaluation will be an important tool for policymaking and management in the Reagan Administration, it would be helpful to consider what the Reagan administration expected and received from evaluation in California during the period 1971-1974. In California, program evaluation activities were frequently implemented on a…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal State Relationship, Information Utilization, Policy
Hill, Warren G. – 1976
The author addresses three questions: (1) How did states get into the education business in the first place? (2) How significant is the states' role? (3) What are the problems that are most critical--at the state level--and what can be done about them? The author traces the slow evolution of the state role in education up to the present where that…
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal State Relationship, State Agencies
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Goltz, H. A. Barney – Planning for Higher Education, 1976
The growth of government participation in higher education planning over the last two decades is discussed from the dual perspective of a college planning officer at Western Washington State College, and also a Washington state senator. It is noted that the state-federal planning establishment has flourished after the great growth period in U.S.…
Descriptors: Educational Demand, Educational Planning, Financial Support, Government Role
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1993
This guide provides an introduction to state government in North Carolina. It has three aims: to provide information about the organization and function of state departments and agencies; to provide content on ideas and issues relevant to democratic government; and to provide information that establishes a foundation for participatory citizenship.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Government (Administrative Body), Government Role
Stein, Jay W. – AGB Reports, 1976
A survey indicates that the state government has more influence on higher education than federal and local authorities together, but a growth of federal influence is foreseen. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Federal Government, Federal State Relationship
Oldaker, Lawrence Lee – 1991
The history of the 11th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and its current application to schools and universities are examined in this paper. The amendment, which seeks to protect the states by redefining judicial boundaries within the federal concept of government, is unclear and paradoxical, especially to claimants seeking federal relief from a…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Raphael, Jacqueline; McKay, Shannon – 2001
This report analyzes information from 12 Educational Flexibility Partnership Demonstration (EFD) program state reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Education in spring 2000. The EFD program helps schools and districts implement educational reforms and raise student achievement by providing increased flexibility in implementing federal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Pfnister, Allan O. – 1978
Three movements that have affected the structure of American postsecondary education are the development of governance by lay boards of control, the growth in power of state coordinating bodies, and the emergence of federal regulatory agency authority over postsecondary education. American postsecondary education has been characterized as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Government, Federal Regulation, Governance
Lennon, Donald R. – 1986
The paper discusses the political events and issues that affected North Carolina and the nation between 1776 and 1789. Attitudes and philosophies on government and its centralization form the foundation for North Carolina's traditional and firm opposition to centralization of power and changes in government structure. North Carolina's…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Federal State Relationship, Government Role, Governmental Structure
HALSTEAD, FRANCIS E. – 1966
A NATIONAL SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE RELATIONSHIPS OF SUBSTANTIVE (WRITTEN) AND COMMON LAW TO THE ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF NONPUBLIC U.S. COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. A MULTIPHASED PROCEDURE WAS EMPLOYED. INITIALLY, LITERATURE WAS REVIEWED TO TRACE THE HISTORICAL-LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF NONPUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.…
Descriptors: Colleges, Court Litigation, Court Role, Higher Education
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