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Successful California Schools in the Context of Educational Adequacy
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Perez, Maria; Anand, Priyanka; Speroni, Cecilia; Parrish, Tom; Esra, Phil; Socias, Miguel; Gubbins, Paul – American Institutes for Research, 2007
This report presents the results from a seven-month study of successful schools in California performed by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). It explored some of the concepts underlying the "successful schools" approach to defining education adequacy and considered their implications for analyzing educational adequacy in California. The…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Finance, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Effects of the Implementation of Proposition 227 on the Education of English Learners, K-12: Findings from a Five-Year Evaluation. Final Report for AB 56 and AB 1116
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Parrish, Thomas B.; Merickel, Amy; Perez, Maria; Linquanti, Robert; Socias, Miguel; Spain, Angeline; Speroni, Cecilia; Esra, Phil; Brock, Leslie; Delancey, Danielle – American Institutes for Research, 2006
In June of 1998, Proposition 227 was passed by 61 percent of the California electorate. The initiative was intended to significantly alter the ways in which the state's English learners (ELs) are taught. Proposition 227 requires that ELs be taught "overwhelmingly in English" through sheltered/structured English immersion (SEI) programs during "a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
State Special Education Finance Systems, 1999-2000. Part II: Special Education Revenues and Expenditures
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Parrish, Thomas; Harr, Jenifer; Wolman, Jean; Anthony, Jennifer; Merickel, Amy; Esra, Phil – American Institutes for Research, 2004
The Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF) provides policymakers and administrators at all governmental levels with data, analyses, expertise, and opportunities to share information about special education finance issues. One of CSEF's major activities is the periodic collection and dissemination of information on state funding systems for…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Disabilities, State Surveys, School Accounting
Educating Students with Disabilities: Comparing Methods for Explaining Expenditure Variation. Report 7
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Chambers, Jay G.; Perez, Maria; Socias, Miguel; Shkolnik, Jamie; Esra, Phil – American Institutes for Research, 2004
Because of the limitations of the traditional approaches to classifying a child's characteristics, a number of authors have proposed to describe children on the basis of a defined set of functional skills or abilities rather than by etiological or deficit category (Bailey et al. (1993); Holt (1957); Linden (1963)). Building on this earlier work,…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Disabilities, Classification, Student Characteristics
English Language Acquisition Program Evaluation Report: A Report from the Study "Effects of the Implementation of Proposition 227 on the Education of English Learners, K-12"
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Perez, Maria; Esra, Phil; Parrish, Thomas B.; Spain, Angeline; Anand, Priyanka; Socias, Miguel; Brock, Leslie; Graczewski, Cheryl; Linquanti, Robert – American Institutes for Research, 2004
In June of 1998, Proposition 227 was passed by 61 percent of the California electorate. Intended to change how the state's English learners (ELs) are instructed, Proposition 227 required that ELs be taught "overwhelmingly in English" through sheltered/structured English immersion (SEI) programs during a transition period and then transferred to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, State Legislation, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
State Special Education Finance Systems, 1999-2000. Part I
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Parrish, Thomas; Harr, Jenifer; Anthony, Jennifer; Merickel, Amy; Esra, Phil – American Institutes for Research, 2003
The Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF)--housed in the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and one of several research centers funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education--provides policymakers and administrators at all governmental levels with data, analyses, expertise, and opportunities to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Funding Formulas, Clearinghouses