Some children living with life-shortening medical conditions may wish to attend school without the threat of having resuscitation attempted in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest on the school premises. Despite recent attention to in-school do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) orders, no assessment of state laws or school policies has yet been made. We therefore sought to survey a national sampl...

The school finance reforms (SFRs) that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the most dramatic changes in the structure of K–12 education spending in U.S. history. We analyze the effects of these reforms on the level and distribution of school district spending, as well as their effects on subsequent educational and economic outcomes. In Part One, using a newly co...

1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai 10th People’s Hospital, University of Tongji, Shanghai 200072, China 2Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 3School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China 4Health Promotion Service, Sydney Local Health Districts, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia 5Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney Scho...

In this policy brief, Allan Odden argues that it may be time to redesign state and district school finance systems to align them more closely to the standards-based education reform movement and the national goal of teaching all students to rigorous performance standards. Historically, a major focus of the school finance policy debate was the fiscal disparities across school districts within st...

Defining the Two Pathways For the purposes of planning for high school curriculum, Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) is setting forth two possible paths for high school mathematics: a traditional pathway and an integrated pathway. It is important to note that Indiana is not mandating either approach; however, IDOE encourages districts to carefully consider both options before making a deci...

1Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Shanghai 10th People’s Hospital, University of Tongji, Shanghai 200072, China 2Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia 3Health Promotion Service, Sydney Local Health Districts, NSW 2050, Australia 4Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia 5School of P...

JOSEPH L. GASTWIRTH Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA (This paper has been accepted, subject to minor editing, by Law, Probability and Risk) In 1994, the U.S. Congress rewrote the statute providing educational funds to towns and cities of the nation where the federal government owns substantial amounts of land, which cannot be taxed locally. Usuall...

PROVIDER COMMUNICATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HOUSEHOLDS LIVING IN HIGH AND LOW INCOME DISTRICTS OF MASHHAD Somayeh Fazaeli, Mehdi Yousefi, Zahra-Sadat Ershadnia, Saeed Fazaeli. Medical Records and Health Information Technology Department, school of paramedical sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Department of Health Economics and Management Sciences, School of Hea...

As school districts across the nation address societal demands and legislative mandates to prepare a workforce for the 2lst century, school leaders find themselves working to change curriculum within their schools. To achieve this challenging, sometimes controversial task of curriculum alignment and revision, school leaders must work with diverse constituencies to achieve the best balance of ne...