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Hale, Bryant – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In Illinois, Senate Bill 100 was known in the statutes as Public Act 99-0456, took effect September, 15, 2016. Illinois State Senator Kimberly Lightford and Illinois State Representative William Davis both sponsored Senate Bill 100. Senator Lightford said, "We're moving toward a disciplinary system that prioritizes educating students by…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, State Legislation, School Holding Power, Legislators
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Redford, Morag – Scottish Educational Review, 2017
This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford, 2016), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between February and August 2016. The following bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from September 2016 to January 2017.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parliamentary Procedures, Committees, Educational Legislation
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Ledford, Elyse; Berson, Ilene R.; Berson, Michael J.; Ledford, Alexander – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2019
This guided inquiry launched a year-long study centered on social justice issues and people who have championed change in our communities and nation. The article, offers resources and activities that highlight Patsy Mink's congressional achievements and experiences, and push young students to think about the institution of Congress with a gendered…
Descriptors: Legislators, Japanese Americans, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Lawrence, Natalia S.; Chambers, Jemma C.; Morrison, Sinead M.; Bestmann, Sven; O'Grady, Gerard; Chambers, Christopher D.; Kythreotis, Andrew – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
The value of evidence-based policy is well established, yet major hurdles remain in connecting policymakers with the wider research community. Here we assess whether a UK Evidence Information Service (EIS) could facilitate interaction between parliamentarians and research professionals. Fifty-six UK parliamentarians were interviewed to gauge the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Researchers
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Redford, Morag – Scottish Educational Review, 2018
This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2017), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Skills Committee between February 2017 and June 2017. The following bulletin covers the Education remit of the Education and Skills Committee from August 2017 to January 2018.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parliamentary Procedures, Committees, Educational Legislation
US Senate, 2023
Data shows that kids are months or even years behind where they would be in a typical year. And a deepening educational divide between majority white schools and majority black schools, between wealthier school districts and higher poverty districts. The results of this year's statewide exams made abundantly clear what other data is showing as…
Descriptors: Hearings, Best Practices, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences
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Sanjurjo, Pedro; Broeks, Miriam; Pardal, Mafalda; Leenders, Emma; Disley, Emma – RAND Europe, 2021
This case study analyses the events and debates between 2012 and 2016 leading up to the adoption of a Legal Framework for early childhood development in Brazil, focussing on advocacy efforts of the National Network of Early Childhood (RNPI), while recognising the active roles played by the Brazilian government's legislative and executive powers,…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Childrens Rights, Case Studies, Preschool Children
Butcher, Jonathan; Burke, Lindsey M. – Heritage Foundation, 2022
As Washington prepares to welcome a new Congress in January 2023, incoming policymakers who want to improve education for every student and give parents more control over where and how their children are educated have many policy options at their disposal. New Members of Congress who want to protect taxpayers and rein in college costs also have…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Legislators
Jenkins, Lynn; Johnson, Dianne – Grantmakers for Education, 2016
As 2015 came to an end, education funders in Texas were reflecting not only on the results of their grantmaking over the past year but also on what the state legislature had (and had not) accomplished during its most recent session. Thirty-four Texas funders felt a particular sense of satisfaction because they had helped shape some of the new…
Descriptors: Consortia, Educational Policy, Advocacy, Grants
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Catalano, Theresa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
Since June, 2014 when the U.S. government began to document an increase in unaccompanied/separated children arriving in the United States from Central America, these children have become a frequent topic in media discourse. Because rhetoric about immigration issues have been shown to affect schooling of these children, the present article aims to…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Migrants, Undocumented Immigrants, Discourse Analysis
Grandberry, Sandi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation is an exploratory case study of senior women who work at an unnamed State Legislature at all levels from clerical to elected legislator. The senior women explained why they remain in the workforce and how education impacts that decision. The older women in this study explain remaining in the workforce for one of two reasons:…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Age Differences, Older Adults, Females
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McShane, Michael Q. – Education Next, 2018
As public education secretary of New Mexico, Hanna Skandera dug in fast, set an ambitious agenda, and broke a lot of china. Her ability to inspire and subsequently ignore controversy is clear: from the outset, she was deemed so contentious that the state senate refused to confirm her for four years, during which she performed her duties as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Officials, Educational Policy, State Legislation
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Lafer, Gordon – Thought & Action, 2017
Higher education is under siege by a barrage of policy initiatives that aim to fundamentally transform the academy. The most visible and most sustained assault has come in the form of funding cuts. Nationally, funding for public higher education was 18 percent lower in 2016 than in 2008, amounting to a $10 billion total disinvestment. In many…
Descriptors: Unions, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Corporations
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Poulin, Russell; Straut, Terri Taylor – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
There is a gap in understanding between legislators, governors, and other leaders and those who actually manage the distance learning operations on the nation's campuses. Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE) Cooperative Study of Educational Technologies (WCET) took a systematic approach to gauging the opinions of distance…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Change, Costs, Educational Finance
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Tavalin, Kuna – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2016
This article describes how positioning an organization to be seen as trusted and expert on an issue requires careful relationship-building, patience, and an abundance of time. Such an effort often requires help, and so American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) and Washington Partners are working together to further AIHEC's goals.…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, American Indian Education, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
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