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Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. – 1983
The Indiana State Board of Education's 1984 legislative program focuses on seven broad aspects of education. Concerning early childhood education, section 1 recommends the expansion of Project Primetime (a program reducing the size of kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade classes) and the establishment of an incentive system encouraging…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Continuing Education
Packard, Richard D.; Dereshiwsky, Mary I. – 1990
The focus-group interview format was used to investigate the existence, interrelationship, perceived strengths, and indicators of insufficiency in the implementation of the Career Ladders (CL) teacher-incentive program in a rural Arizona school district. Two interviews were planned for each of the following groups: school board members; CL…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Boards of Education, Career Ladders
Beckham, Joseph C. – 1990
This is the 12th in a series of monographs designed to summarize judicial decisions on elementary and secondary education issues. The cases included in this edition were selected from judicial decisions found in federal and regional reports in the period from June 30, 1989, to June 30, 1990. The cases were selected on the basis of their relevance…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining
Wilson, James L. – 1986
This report describes how successful statewide programs of educational standards and assessment are established and briefly discusses causes of program failure. Four key stages characterize effective program establishment: (1) planning, (2) development, (3) implementation, and (4) monitoring. Planning involves interaction among all parties, for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Role, Cooperative Planning
Loehr, Peter – 1986
Relationships between classroom teacher preemployment interview scores and performance during the first 6 months of employment were investigated in an Ohio school district. Permanently employed teachers were the target of the study, which used data from 4 aspects of interview scores and 13 performance criteria to study relationships between 2…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship
Ohio Board of Regents, Columbus. – 1984
For the first time, a state has developed standards for noncredit continuing education. The model developed by the state of Ohio measures achievement in terms of goals and objectives rather than in terms of fixed characteristics. It also emphasized institutional self-study and self-assessment. The standards are intended to enable noncredit…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Programs, Continuing Education, Credentials
Boose, Robert E. – 1984
Maine law allows parents to arrange with local school boards to have their children educated outside a public or private school, if the student will receive "equivalent instruction." If the proposed program of instruction is "equivalent" within the meaning of the law, it must be approved by local school officials. Parents are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Elementary and Secondary Education. – 1983
The Ohio State Board of Education is required by state law to "formulate and prescribe minimum standards to be applied to all elementary and secondary schools in the state." This document, the first in a series, presents the revised minimum standards (effective September 1983) established by the State Board of Education for Ohio schools,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Core Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1983
Decisions by the Pennsylvania Secretary of Education contained in this publication are on appeals made by 33 professional school personnel against actions taken by their school boards. For each case, the employee (appellant) and district (appellee) are cited with a teacher tenure appeal number, the reason for the appeal, findings of fact that…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Board of Education Policy, Career Change, Competence
DeFigio, Nicholas F.; Elsberry, Michael J. – 1982
The extent of any community's citizen involvement in education depends largely on its administrators and school board. Pennsylvania's Long Range Planning for School Improvement identifies six reasons for desiring community involvement, including providing citizens the opportunity to understand school board operating plans and giving the board the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1984
The Maryland Board for Higher Education's consolidated capital and operating budget for fiscal year 1986 for higher education institutions and agencies is presented. Recommendations of the Board are summarized, and the status of higher education funding is briefly discussed. Methods of funding institutional budget requests for the capital and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Faculty, Enrollment Trends
Crim, Kenneth; And Others – 1986
Faced with declining enrollments and the recommendation to combine two middle schools, the Tipp City, Ohio, school board contacted consultants to examine the school facilities, focusing on current and future use, and look closely at past and current demographic data to project school enrollments. Data from the United States Census and from…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Board of Education Policy, Census Figures, Cohort Analysis
New Mexico State Commission on Postsecondary Education, Santa Fe. – 1983
The 1983 report of the New Mexico State Commission on Postsecondary Education first outlines the statutory responsibilities of the Commission and the Board of Educational Finance, and then provides brief descriptions of the state universities, community and junior colleges, vocational and technical schools, and four-year private colleges and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Budgeting, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), College Planning
Beckham, Joseph C. – 1985
Cases involving public elementary and secondary education that were decided in state and federal courts from July 1984 to June 1985 are summarized in this review. The cases were selected on the basis of their relevance to contemporary problems in public schools, their definitiveness as articulations of existing law, and their reliability as guides…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Civil Liberties, Collective Bargaining
Arends, Jane H. – 1987
Conducted by the Council for Educational Development and Research, a national survey asked educators representing the nation's 8,889 small, rural school districts to indicate which of 40 items/issues facing rural, small schools needed improvement. The 4,364 respondents (827 school board presidents, 1,251 district superintendents, 1,283 principals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education, Cognitive Processes
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