(1988). Legislative Needs Assessment Concerning Persons Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired. The report is a legislative needs assessment for persons who are blind and visually impaired in Mississippi. The first chapter presents an overview of the project. Chapter 2 summarizes federal legislation concerning persons who are blind and visually impaired. Chapter 3 reviews the methodology used to analyze state legislation and provides a brief summary of current Mississippi law. Chapter 4 presents findings and recommendations for legislative changes affecting services for this population. Recommendations are grouped into the following areas: administration, education, blindness registry, prevention of blindness, independent living, and blind-made products. Many recommendations include sample legislative texts from other states. Additional program areas not currently reflected in Mississippi laws are also recommended. These include children's services, professional preparation, information services, reader services, home services, the multi-handicapped blind, housing, facility…
(1986). Plan for Minority and Women Business Enterprise Contract Participation and Authorization To Amend Plan. This document outlines procedures for following the Chicago Board of Education procurement policy of providing fair and representative employment and business opportunities for minorities and women to remediate the adverse affects of historically discriminatory and exclusionary practices. These procedures are to be used in awarding contracts for goods and services, encouraging and providing for the greatest participation by business enterprises owned by minorities and women. This plan applies to all contracts funded in whole or in part with Board of Education funds. The document discusses the following: (1) policy; (2) application of the plan; (3) definitions; (4) certification; (5) participation goals; (6) set-asides; (7) credits; (8) demonstration of compliance in bid or proposal documents; (9) waiver and substitution; (10) monitoring of contracts; (11) noncompliance and sanctions; (12) Affirmative Action and technical assistance activities on the part of the Board of Education;… [PDF]
(1982). A Training Manual for Surrogate Parents: Rules and Responsibilities. The manual is designed for training surrogate parents in identification, evaluation, placement, and programing for the handicapped child in Arkansas. General guidelines for the surrogate parent are listed, including meeting the child before requesting to see any school records, presuming that the agency has the child's best interest at heart, and accepting responsibility for assuring that the child receive an appropriate education. Section 1 addresses the surrogate parent's role in relation to protecting the child's rights as mandated by P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, section 504. Subsections address agency and parent responsibilities for the following specific procedures: location and referral, evaluation/assessment, individualized education program (IEP) programing, annual review of the IEP, and reevaluation. Section 2 is designed to provide information on the rights of the surrogate parent as covered by P.L….
(1985). Review of the Alaska Statutes for Sex Discrimination. Findings of a project to review Alaska statutes for evidence of sex discrimination is divided into 14 sections. An introduction provides an overview of the project scope, history, organization, and research procedure. A section on insurance looks at gender-based insurance rates and conversion and continuation of health benefits. Under the category of dissolution/divorce, the following types of statutes are examined: separate residences, name changes, interim spousal support and attorney's fees during divorce, grounds for divorce, child custody, and dissolution proceedings. Under the category of parent-child relationship, the study looks at statutes on parent responsibility, failure of custodial parent to permit visitations with child, out-of-wedlock children, and housing discrimination on the basis of parenthood. A section on pregnancy and related issues considers pregnancy leave for state employees, registration of fetal deaths, abortion, and prenatal blood tests. Statutes related…
(1973). Justice, Deprivation and the Chicano. Aztlan, 4, 1, 123-36, Spr 73. The paper differentiates between relative and comparative deprivation by relating the first to distributive justice and the second to social justice. Examining Chicano health, housing, and education problems, the article concludes that, for Chicanos and Blacks, the "Administration of justice" means the perpetuation of injustice. (NQ)…
(1976). The Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Students in Connecticut Public Schools. Educational legislation (both state and federal) and court decisions relevant to student rights and responsibilities in Connecticut public schools are presented in this handbook. Chapters cover the right to suitable education free from discrimination; First Amendment constitutional rights of free speech, association, and religion; search and seizure; drugs, personal problems, and confidential communications; school services and personnel; school discipline; student records; the rights and responsibilities attained at age 18 and under; and examples of illegal student behavior. The task force that assembled this handbook intends to include policy recommendations in a separate document. (Author/DS)… [PDF]
(1977). Sexual Preference. This document considers sexual preference as it specifically relates to women. Divided into two parts, the document presents a fact sheet about lesbianism and contains a workshop resource guide on sexual preference. The fact sheet, arranged in a question-answer format, focuses on the following concerns: (1) lesbianism as a woman's issue; (2) legal problems and obstacles encountered (such as employment, housing, child custody, taxes, and credit); (3) the role of the media; (4) common myths and stereotypes; and (5) organizations and legislation currently available to support and help gay rights. The workshop resource guide lists resources and suggests guidelines for organizing a workshop on sexual preference, specifically lesbianism. The workshop is intended to provide an overview about issues lesbians face and to discuss ways to obtain protective legislation and to dispel myths and stereotypes. Included are a bibliography of books and films and other related material, a list of…
(1977). Toward Understanding the Persistence of Opposition to School Desegregation in Boston. In Boston a number of factors contributed to the prolonged community resistance to school desegregation and busing to achieve it. First, for ten years prior to 1974, Boston residents had been assured that their children had a right to attend neighborhood schools and that this right would never be abridged. Thus, the court order to utilize bus transportation in desegregation constituted a "disruption of expectations," a phenomenon which social scientists say is a cause of participation in social movements. Second, the anti integration movement in Boston had a strong organizational base. Politicians involved had extensive support networks and resources, including office space, phones, and personnel provided by the City Council. A third factor was the assignation of responsibility for the desegregation problem and its resolution to supra city institutions, especially the Federal government. These three factors interacted to encourage white parents to believe that the schools…
(1969). Pupils. Yearbook Sch Law 1969, 233-284, 69. Chapter 8…
(1981). Fact Sheets from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, 1981. Fifteen fact sheets–two page overviews of issues in special education developed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children in 1981–are presented. The fact sheets address topics in a question and answer format and provide references as well as resources on each subject. The following titles are included, \The Administrator's Role in the Education of Gifted and Talented Children\; \The Cost Effectiveness of Special Education\; \Advocacy and Self Advocacy for Disabled Persons\; \Learning Related Visual Problems\; \Serving the LD Student in a Vocational Education Classroom\; \Careers in Special Education\; \The Argument for Early Intervention\; \The Arts and the Handicapped Child\; \Rights of the Handicapped\; \Educational Rights of American Indian and Alaska Native Handicapped Children\; \Procedural Safeguards\; \Individualized Education Program\; \Children on Medication\; \Parents' Rights and Responsibilities\; and \Parents of Handicapped Children.\ (CL)… [PDF]
(1978). Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, No. 76-811, in the Supreme Court of the United States. (Special College Admissions Procedures for Disadvantaged Applicants). The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case in the U.S. Supreme Court and background information on the previous cases in California are presented. Allan Bakke is a white male who applied to the Davis medical school in both 1973 and 1974 and was refused admission even though admission slots under the college's special admissions program were unfilled and he was highly qualified. The state trial court found the program operating as a racial quota and ruled that the college could not take race into account in admissions decisions; however, Bakke's admission was not ordered. The Supreme Court of California affirmed the trial court's decision and further ordered Bakke's admission. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the California court order admitting Bakke and invalidating the college's special admissions program but reversed the decision prohibiting the college from taking race into account in future admission decisions. Separate opinions are presented concurring in part…
(1976). Report of the Public Hearings on the Status of Women in Education in Santa Clara County. The report is the result of public hearings conducted in 1975, in Santa Clara County, California, to study the conditions which demonstrate sex discrimination or prejudice in educational institutions. The purposes of the hearings were to provide public awareness of specific instances of sex bias in education and to determine the extent to which such sex discrimination exists in the schools of Santa Clara County. The report is divided into four parts. Part I describes the history of federal and state legislation affecting sex discrimination in education. Part II provides a brief explanation of the efforts made by the hearing panel to involve the public in the examination of conditions relating to sex discrimination in the schools of the county. Part III is a synopsis of the testimony presented to the hearing panel and part IV is a series of recommendations made by the hearing panel to eliminate the conditions relating to sex discrimination in the schools. Also included are several…
(1979). Women in American History: A Series. Book Two, Women in the Ages of Expansion and Reform 1820-1860. The document, one in a series of four on women in American history, discusses women in the ages of expansion and reform (1820-1860). Designed to supplement U.S. history textbooks, the book is presented in six chapters. Chapter I describes the \true woman,\ an ideal cultivated by women writers, educators, and magazine editors. The four virtues were piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Chapter II focuses on women in the economy. The diary of Frances Kemble, mistress of a plantation in Georgia, describes the physical sufferings of her female slaves. The roles of women in the industrial revolution, professions, and organized labor are also discussed. Chapter III, \Women and the Spirit of Reform,\ depicts the works of Frances Wright and Dorothea Dix in slavery, criminal, and mental health reform. Pioneers in education for women are also portrayed. Chapter IV concerns women in the abolition movement. The chapter contains sections on the activities of white and free black women… [PDF]
(1979). Standards for Foster Family Services Systems for Public Agencies. Revised Edition. The standards presented here, a revision of the standards published in 1975, are intended to serve as uniform, national criteria by which public agencies can develop and assess the adequacy of their foster family services system. Major changes from the earlier standards include reduction of the number of standards, combination of the basic and goal standards to formulate a single standard, development of additional standards, adoption of new terminology, and publication of a separate users' guide. Aspects addressed in the standards are: (1) comprehensive legal base, (2) administration and service support system, (3) planning and review of the foster family services system, (4) staff, (5) prevention of a placement, (6) rights of foster children, their parents, and foster parents, (7) service planning and case review, (8) preplacement, placement, and postplacement services, (9) purchase of services, (10) standards development and licensing, (11) recruitment, selection, and development…
(1965). REPORT ON PROGRESS IN 1965 ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. THE NATION'S CONCERN FOR THE STATUS OF WOMEN WAS RAPIDLY TRANSLATED INTO ACTION DURING 1965. PROGRESS WAS REPORTED IN THE AREAS OF EDUCATION, HOME AND COMMUNITY, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR STANDARDS, SECURITY OF BASIC INCOME, LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN, AND THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ACTION OF WOMEN. THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE STATE COMMISSIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN 45 STATES ARE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED. UNPRECEDENTED PROGRESS WAS MADE IN THE 89TH CONGRESS WITH THE ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION TOUCHING ON EVERY RECOMMENDATION IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION MADE BY THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES WERE MADE IN HEALTH SERVICES, COMMUNITY SERVICES, CHILD CARE SERVICES, HOMEMAKER SERVICES, HOUSEHOLD EMPLOYMENT, AND MOBILIZATION OF VOLUNTEERS. ADVANCES IN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN IN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE EQUALLED THOSE IN THE FEDERAL SPHERE IN 1964. THREE STATES — DELAWARE, INDIANA, AND MARYLAND — ENACTED MINIMUM WAGE LAWS FOR THE FIRST TIME. WOMEN IN THE STATE… [PDF]