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Voyles, Lynda, Ed. – CEC Today, 2000
The eight issues for volume 6 of the "CEC Today," a newsletter exclusively for members of the Council for Exceptional Children, include the following featured articles: (1) "How To Set up a Classroom on a Tight Budget"; (2) "Survival Tips for First-Year Teachers"; (3) Get the Training You Need To Stay Ahead of the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Asperger Syndrome, Beginning Teachers, Behavior Modification
Aud, Susan L. – 1999
In 1991, Massachusetts passed an interdistrict choice law that gave parents the option of enrolling their child in any district they selected. Six years later, David Armor and Brett Peiser conducted a study to examine the social, racial, and financial impact of the choice program on participating districts, and to determine if the thesis behind…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Charter Schools, Competition, Cost Effectiveness
Newman, Robert E. – 2000
Urban Little Schools (ULS) is a model that presents an alternative to failing urban schools. In these schools, each student's education is planned and guided in trusting teacher-student relationships where students take responsibility for their own learning. Secondary ULS students work alongside people in their community to learn to be…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Education Work Relationship, Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies
Ravitch, Diane, Ed.; Viteritti, Joseph P., Ed. – 1997
Selections in this book, which grew from a seminar at New York University between 1994 and 1996, discuss the recent educational innovations of charter schools, contracting arrangements, and choice that are designed to liberate educators and raise the levels of opportunity for all students. The essays, which focus on the urban experience, explore…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Catholic Schools, Charter Schools
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1998
Question-and-answer format is used to provide guidance about the eligibility of public charter schools to receive funds, and the allocation of such funds, under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Part A provides federal financial assistance, through state education agencies (SEAs) to local education agencies (LEAs) to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Levin, Barbara B., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents a variety of field-tested examples that use problem-based learning (PBL) for teacher education in many professional development settings. It describes PBL activities for preservice, novice, and experienced educators at all levels. The eight chapters describe teacher educators' experiences using PBL in their…
Descriptors: Action Research, Charter Schools, Critical Thinking, Disabilities
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 2003
Community schools were created in Ohio to provide additional educational options for children in low-performing schools and to develop innovative teaching and management techniques that may be transferable to traditional public schools. In 1997 the Ohio General Assembly required the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO) to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Control, Community Schools, Diversity (Institutional)
RAND Education, Santa Monica, CA. – 2003
This research brief recaps a study of California charter schools. After a discussion of the key distinctions among charter schools, the brief focuses on the following questions: (1) Who attends charter schools? (2) How does student achievement in charter schools compare with that in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight do chartering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board of Education Policy, Charter Schools, Educational Environment
Cobb, Casey D.; Glass, Gene V.; Crockett, Carol – 2000
Among the major concerns surrounding school-choice programs is their potential to stratify students along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic class. The latest among four U.S. Department of Education national evaluations of charter schools reports no evidence that charter schools are predominantly white or that they segregate…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
"A Brief Profile of America's Public Schools" summarizes important findings from the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). This document looks at differences between public and private schools and also examines public schools, and how they differ by community type (urban, suburban, and rural), and by school level (elementary,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
Malone, John – School Business Affairs, 1998
The CFO (chief financial officer) performs the budgeting, accounting, and financial functions for a local education agency (LEA). The CFO of 1998 works in a very different environment from 25 years ago, due to changes in school funding sources (from local to state systems), information technology, and school district organization and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Artificial Intelligence, Charter Schools, Economic Change
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Ausbrooks, Carrie Y. Barron; Barrett, Edith J.; Daniel, Theresa – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
This article chronicles the evolution of legislation for Texas open-enrollment charter schools to their implementation by demonstrating how these schools have (or have not) used their freedom from state-mandated requirements to develop innovative learning environments as well as to bring innovative curricula into the classroom. The investigative…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Charter Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Teacher Persistence
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Hoffman, Lee; Sable, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report presents information about public elementary and secondary education for the 2003-04 school year. The data were provided by state education agencies through the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system, a universe data collection that includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Defense…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Enrollment
Solomon, Gwen – Technology & Learning, 2006
As state coffers continue to shrink this year, there is less money for education, and much of what is available is earmarked for mandates. Yet the money is out there if one knows how to find, create, or borrow it; the trick is to be creative. In this article, the author offers a dozen daring ideas for generating extra cash. The highest-profile…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Innovation, Financial Support, Fund Raising
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Aud, Susan, Ed.; Hannes, Gretchen, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
This publication contains a sample of the indicators in "The Condition of Education 2010." The indicators in this publication are numbered sequentially, rather than according to their numbers in the complete edition. Since 1870, the federal government has gathered data about students, teachers, schools, and education funding. As mandated…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Statistics, Educational Indicators, Enrollment
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