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A Plan for Advancing Quality and Excellence by the Organization and Management of Public Education

Author : Massachusetts. Governor's Commission on School District Organization and Collaboration

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Page : 206 pages

File Size : 27,76 MB

Release : 1974

Category : Education

ISBN :

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... "This Commission was charged by the Governor with reviewing the way elementary and secondary education is organized in the Commonwealth."; "Key points of the charge to the Commission cite the needs to: a. Prepare and recommend a comprehensive plan for school district organization, collaboration, cooperation and state assistance. ... b. Review the present status of school district organization and delivery of educational services in the Commonwealth with particular attention to the authority of the Board of Education to achieve improvement in school district organization ... c. Assure that the process of developing the plan includes extensive participation of citizens from communities of all sizes and locations in the Commonwealth in such a manner as to present to them a variety of alternatives to achieve satisfactory and economical educational programs and to elicit from them their preferences and ideas for possible new approaches to school districting. d. Recommend the necessary processes and resources for assuring the implementation of the provisions of the plan ... e. Give careful consideration to ways and means of bringing urban and suburban children and youth together for common education experiences."; sections include: What is a School District? // The Present Organizational Dilemma of School Districts // School District Consolidation // The Structure, Enrollment and Finance of Public Elementary and Secondary Education // Measures of School District Inequality // Fiscal Crisis in Local School Districts // How Many School Districts are "Too Small?" // Urban and Metropolitan Organizations // Occupational Education // Proliferation of Inadequate Programs // Vocational Offerings, Alternatives and the Student (Limited Choices for Girls, Admission to Regional Vocational-Technical School) // Management Problems in Small School Districts // Citizen Involvement and the Management of School Districts // The Changing Department of Education // Other Reports Related to the Commission's Work // The Commission's



The School Improvement Planning Handbook

Author : Daniel Linden Duke

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 32,11 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Education

ISBN : 1610486315

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Developing and updating school improvement plans is an annual ritual for virtually all school principals and their school improvement committees. Still, large numbers of schools continue to produce disappointing outcomes. The authors believe that part of the problem is the result of plans that focus on the wrong targets and that rely on ineffective strategies for improvement. To help principals and their school improvement committees develop and implement plans with a greater likelihood of success, the authors offer a step-by-step process for school improvement planning. They go on to pinpoint specific school improvement goals, including raising reading and mathematics achievement, building robust school cultures, addressing the needs of English language learners, improving instruction, and reducing absenteeism and dropouts. For each goal, a variety of objectives and proven strategies is presented along with sample school improvement plans. The book addresses the differences in planning to turn around a low-performing school, planning to sustain improvements over time, and planning to move a good school to a great school.



New Jersey Comprehensive Statewide Master Plan for Alcoholism, Tobacco and Other Drug Abuse

Author : Joseph P. Miele

Publisher : DIANE Publishing

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 47,73 MB

Release : 1998-05

Category : Alcoholism

ISBN : 0788148990

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Abuse of alcohol, tobacco, & other drugs is of critical importance to the health of New Jersey's citizens & the economic stability of the state. This master plan systematically addresses the problem by setting priorities for science, social, & governmental commitment. It examines issues of addiction prevention & intervention, outlines program coordination & development priorities, focuses on planning & coordination of abuse of alcohol, tobacco, & other drugs abuse services among state departments & agencies, inventories current programs & their budgets, & explores ways to set measurable goals & evaluate the effect of current programs.



Framework to Develop a Master Plan for Education

Author : California. Legislature. Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education-Kindergarten Through University

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Page : 72 pages

File Size : 28,99 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Education and state

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Other People's Children

Author : Deborah Yaffe

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 14,46 MB

Release : 2007-11-15

Category : Education

ISBN : 0813543932

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In 1981, when Raymond Abbott was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader in Camden, New Jersey, poor city school districts like his spent 25 percent less per student than the state’s wealthy suburbs did. That year, Abbott became the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action lawsuit demanding that the state provide equal funding for rich and poor schools. Over the next twenty-five years, as the non-profit law firm representing the plaintiffs won ruling after ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court, Abbott dropped out of school, fought a cocaine addiction, and spent time in prison before turning his life around. Raymond Abbott’s is just one of the many human stories that have too often been forgotten in the policy battles New Jersey has waged for two generations over equal funding for rich and poor schools. Other People’s Children, the first book to tell the story of this decades-long school funding battle, interweaves the public story—an account of legal and political wrangling over laws and money—with the private stories of the inner-city children who were named plaintiffs in the state’s two school funding lawsuits, Robinson v. Cahill and Abbott v. Burke. Although these cases have shaped New Jersey’s fiscal and political landscape since the 1970s, most recently in legislative arguments over tax reform, the debate has often been too abstract and technical for most citizens to understand. Written in an accessible style and based on dozens of interviews with lawyers, politicians, and the plaintiffs themselves, Other People’s Children crystallizes the arguments and clarifies the issues for general readers. Beyond its implications for New Jersey, this book is an important contribution to the conversations taking place in all states about the nation’s responsibility for its poor, and the role of public schools in providing equal opportunities and promising upward mobility for hard-working citizens, regardless of race or class.