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Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2018
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2018 through 2022 describes the focus and direction of OIG's operations over the next five years, establishes their organizational goals, and outlines the strategies they will employ to reach those goals and the measures they will use to…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Public Agencies, Organizational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
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Bloshchynskyi, Ihor – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
Professional training of future US border guard officers at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center using e-FLETC Online Campus has been substantiated in the article. Special attention has been paid to revealing such topical areas of Online Campus computer-based training modules (crime scene, driver training, drugs, firearms, health,…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Police Education, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Saultz, Andrew – Peabody Journal of Education, 2017
In 2011, Washington was one of only eight states that did not have a charter school law in state policy heading into the Race to the Top (RTTT) competition. The RTTT competition incentivized local education agencies not only to allow charter schools, but also to increase or eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools that a state allowed to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Policy, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
In recent years, two-year colleges have tried various strategies to improve student outcomes and remediate skill deficits in order to promote academic and employment success. Promising approaches include career pathways, dual-enrollment, competency-based credentialing, sectoral strategies, wrap-around services, and acceleration. Taken together,…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Acceleration (Education), Community Colleges, Educational Innovation
Fox, Lauren; Kazouh, Ashley; Wagner, Lindsay; Lee, Emma Swift – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2019
The 2019 Local School Finance Study examines data from the 2016-17 school year. The purpose of this annual study is to isolate local spending from state and federal spending to examine the capacity and actual effort of counties to support public schools. The Local School Finance Study focuses not only on the amount that counties spend on schools,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Government, State Government, Public Schools
US House of Representatives, 2019
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor that was held to discuss the inappropriate use of seclusion and restraint practices in classrooms. The statements presented in this report discuss the Federal Government's role in protecting the health and safety of students and school staff. Member…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
US House of Representatives, 2019
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment, Committee on Education and Labor that was held to discuss how chronically underfunding public education is affecting students, parents, teachers, and communities. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Susan A. Davis,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Hearings, Educational Finance
Potter, Halley; Nunberg, Miriam – Century Foundation, 2019
As schools of choice, charter schools typically have the flexibility to enroll students from across an area, rather than being bound to a neighborhood attendance zone. And as schools usually created from scratch, charters can build diversity into their design, choosing educational models designed to appeal to a wide range of families. In practice,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Socioeconomic Status
Amselem, Mary Clare – Heritage Foundation, 2019
The proposed College Affordability Act calls for a massive uptick in federal spending on higher education and increased access to federal student aid (which has been shown to inflate tuition), while easing the criteria for federal loan forgiveness, leaving the bill to American taxpayers. Americans need solutions that will drive down the price of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Federal Aid
Berlin, Gordon L. – MDRC, 2016
Over the last decade and a half, during a period defined in the public consciousness by political partisanship, the legislative and executive branches have quietly forged a bipartisan consensus around the need to build evidence of effectiveness that would ensure high rates of return on investment for the nation's social programs. The establishment…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Evidence, Barriers, Policy Formation
Collins, Benjamin – Congressional Research Service, 2016
Apprenticeship is a job training strategy that combines on-the-job training with related instruction, typically provided in a classroom setting. This report answers frequently asked questions about apprenticeship and the federal activities that support this training approach. This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) report focuses on the Registered…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Job Training, Government Role, Federal Government
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San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2022
During the past several decades, historians have investigated various aspects of the Chicano movement. In most of these studies, the important role that moderate liberal activists have played in promoting significant social change during the same period has been slighted. By moderate liberal activists, I mean those who depended on the federal…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Civil Rights
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2022
This is the "43rd Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2021." Section 664(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities
Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2018
In December 2007, the Head Start program was reauthorized and modified through the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007, Public Law 110-134. One of the provisions of this law added subsection 649(m) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9844) (Act), entitled "Program Emergency Preparedness," to address the preparedness of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Emergency Programs
New America, 2021
In spring 2020, New America and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) partnered on a year-long research project to understand the effect of the confluence of the pandemic, economic crisis, and racial reckoning on America's colleges and universities. We interviewed over 100 college leaders from across higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Federal Government
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