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A Structure for the Examination of State-Level Higher Education Funding Policies
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Pro-poor education : an analysis of key policies guiding funding to basic education at a primary level in South Africa
… examines a key South African education funding policy, the 2006 Amended National Norms and Standards for School Funding, which has been promoted as one of the first pro-poor education funding policies in South Africa. We assess whether it is in fact aligned with the principles necessary …
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Territorialização e descentralização nas políticas de fomento à cultura como ferramentas de promoção da equidade social: Uma análise da implementação da Lei Aldir Blanc
… and territorialization drivers in cultural policies through the concept of territory. The study addresses the need to deepen discussions on the decentralization of cultural policies in Brazil, taking into consideration the specificities of each territory. It seeks to understand how the …
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The Impact of Pre-K Programs on Student Achievement and Instructional Leadership in Rural Mississippi School Districts
… reason for highly fragmented systems of state funding, policies, and regulations. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate whether differences exist between preschool groups in three North Mississippi school districts and to determine the degree to which stakeholders in the …
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Monitoring and evaluation practice to discern meaningful change in community-based early childhood development centres
… and be in a better position to inform public funding policies and investment decisions. The main research question asks how the quality of ECD that is delivered through community-based ECD centres can be improved either through the use of public funding other funding sources? Approaches to …
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"A Hospital Built By Them, For Them": The Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital Building Fund Campaign and the Evolution of Black Healthcare Traditions in Columbia, South Carolina
… decades of struggling against discriminatory funding policies and in-fighting within the black community, the city's two major African-American hospitals merged in the late 1930s to form the Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital (GSWH) in hopes of building a new, state-of-the-art healthcare …
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Essays on understanding post-secondary preparation and matriculation of high school students relative to differential public school contexts
… the first paper examines the results of school funding policies and the extent to which school funding is related to the postsecondary preparation and matriculation of students. The results suggest that per-pupil revenue is related to an increase in ACT math scores, likelihood of four-year …
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Relationship between Age and Pre-End Stage Renal Disease Care in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients
… implications of differences in interpretation of funding policies for dialysis services in Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Background: The growing burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a national public health concern, particularly within the aged population. It is estimated that more than …
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A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCES, PROCESS, AND TRANSITIONAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM
… Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), and existing funding policies should be reviewed. Also, they would benefit from vocational training, residential facilities, more funds, trained staff, and trained Education Assistants (EA). It is anticipated that the knowledge gained from this study will …
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Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction: Designing regulation for efficacious realisation of the right to reproductive health
… right to health does not necessitate public ART funding but justifies it. I show that a right to health approach addresses contemporary scepticism about ART funding. Based on an analysis ART funding regulation in the representative jurisdictions, I identify funding policies that are inconsistent …
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Communication and its impact on enterprise financial sustainability
… ,operating environment, policy position of donor funding states, donor funding policies, goals and objectives, structure of donor funding towards development programmes and projects and CEO charisma and communication attributes. The study followed a survey design, and employed Times Series as …
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A Study of the Discontinuance of Formula Funding of Institutions of Higher Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… Prior to the early 1990s recession, operational funding for institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth was derived from a framework for staffing guidelines, faculty peer-group benchmarks, and a student tuition policy. Revenue shortfalls caused by the recession were insufficient to fund …
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Essays on the Supply-Side of School Choice
… concerning the trade-offs surrounding recent policies that restrict for-profit management of charter schools. The second chapter develops and estimates an empirical model of how charter schools decide where to locate in a school district. This is motivated by the possibility that flat funding …
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Social makeup and public school funding effort and distribution in the United States
… is well documented that states differ in their funding for public schools, both in terms of the fiscal effort that is undertaken and the progressivity with which funds are distributed (e.g., the extent to which more funds are allocated to school districts whose demographic profiles suggest …