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US Department of Education, 2010
This publication provides a nontechnical summary of the U.S. Department of Education's discretionary grants process and the laws and regulations that govern it. This document is intended for individuals and organizations that are interested in applying to the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) for discretionary grants and cooperative…
Descriptors: Grants, Grantsmanship, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Richmond, Eric – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
As the poor performance of U.S. high schools has been acknowledged and come to the forefront of education policy debates over the past several years, so too has a recognition of the need to improve graduation rate calculations and accountability for increasing those rates. A range of state, national, and federal efforts have been launched toward…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Legislation
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
A newly compiled analysis by the U.S. Department of Education and obtained by "The Chronicle" shows that 114 private nonprofit degree-granting colleges were in such fragile financial condition at the end of their last fiscal year that they failed the department's financial-responsibility test. Colleges that fail the test are subject to extra…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Institutional Survival, Fiscal Capacity, Financial Policy
Gambler, Rebecca – US Government Accountability Office, 2012
As of January 2012, more than 850,000 active foreign students were in the United States enrolled at over 10,000 U.S. schools. ICE, within DHS, is responsible for managing SEVP and certifying schools to accept foreign students. GAO was asked to review ICE's fraud prevention and detection procedures for SEVP. This report examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Investigations, National Security, Risk
Bulkley, Katrina E.; Burch, Patricia – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
Recent years have seen a shifting landscape around private engagement in K-12 public education, one that involves a reorientation of education policy and practice around the principles of the marketplace. In this article, we examine the roles of both not-for-profit and for-profit agencies, as distinct from government agencies, in this movement.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Nonprofit Organizations
Burris, Carol Corbett; Welner, Kevin G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The authors detail their summer long pointed discussion with the Obama Administration--via an exchange of letters and telephone conversations--over initiatives in New York and other states that tie the evaluations of teachers and principals to student performance on standardized tests. The authors assert such initiatives should await further…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Performance Based Assessment
Johnson, Kathleen Hoy; Bergren, Martha Dewey – Journal of School Nursing, 2011
Meaningful use (MU) of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is an important development in the safety and security of health care delivery in the United States. Advancement in the use of EHRs occurred with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provides incentives for providers to support adoption and use of EHRs.…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Child Health, Scientific and Technical Information, Delivery Systems
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2011
Federal officials plan to overhaul the reporting requirements for higher education-based teacher preparation in favor of leaner, outcome-based indicators of program quality, according to plans outlined in the president's fiscal 2012 budget request. To bolster the overhaul, the budget also proposes a $185 million new formula grant program, dubbed…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Accountability
National Archives and Records Administration, 2008
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is finalizing an alternative set of generator requirements applicable to laboratories owned by eligible academic entities, as defined in this final rule. The rule provides a flexible and protective set of regulations that address the specific nature of hazardous waste generation and…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Hazardous Materials, Laboratories, Environmental Standards
Graham, Richard; Hall, Richard; Gilmer, W. Gerry – Education and the Law, 2008
Misunderstanding of privacy laws and regulations impedes appropriate information sharing by post-secondary educational institutions under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 ("FERPA"). Post-Virginia Tech regulatory amendments allow institutions to "connect the dots" regarding a student's behavior and to be…
Descriptors: Colleges, Privacy, Information Dissemination, Federal Legislation
Amstutz, David Lee – Great Plains Quarterly, 2008
The state of Nebraska contributed to progressive thought in the 1880s. Like the other states in the Great Plains, Nebraska was heavily involved in the livestock industry. When contagious diseases threatened Nebraska's livestock, the state advocated a Federalist-Whig policy by requesting federal assistance. The national government's powers were…
Descriptors: Animals, Agribusiness, Federal Regulation, Public Policy
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2012
States and school districts receive funding through ESEA, IDEA, and national school meals programs. Some requirements for these programs are intended to help ensure program integrity and transparency, among other purposes, but questions have been raised about whether some federal requirements place an undue burden on states and school districts.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, State Government
Junge, Melissa; Krvaric, Sheara – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2012
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a federal program to provide additional assistance to academically struggling students in high-poverty areas, has long contained a provision called the "supplement-not-supplant" requirement. This provision was designed to ensure Title I funds were spent on extra educational services…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change
Walters, Amber; Long, Marilee – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2012
Objective: To determine whether differences in nutrition knowledge affected how women (a high-involvement group) interpreted intrinsic cues (ingredient list) and extrinsic cues ("all natural" label) on food labels. Methods: A 2 (intrinsic cue) x 2 (extrinsic cue) x 2 (nutrition knowledge expert vs novice) within-subject factorial design…
Descriptors: Expertise, Cues, Nutrition, Inferences
Nicholson-Crotty, Sean; Staley, Tucker – Educational Policy, 2012
The Race to the Top (RTTT) program, announced by the Obama Administration in 2009, represented the largest competitive grant in the history of U.S. education. Despite the amount of money available and the dire condition of most state budgets in that year, however, some states chose not to apply for funding and the remainder submitted applications…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Competition, Incentive Grants