Policy and Legislation

This Web site provides American Indian and Alaska Native communities with culturally appropriate information about best and promising practices, training opportunities, and other relevant informati

This toolkit was written to help schools and local education agency staff better understand and apply the Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law that protects privacy

This report explains how several states have financially altered their juvenile justice systems to make them more effective and less damaging for youth.

This report documents the public costs of teen childbearing at both the national and state level, including increased costs for health care, foster care, and incarceration.

This national, nonprofit organization is composed of law enforcement leaders and violence survivors, and works to promote research-based, early education crime prevention programs.

This report examines two competing approaches to measuring school quality and improvement as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act, and discusses their limitations on making high-stakes decision

This report focuses on the components of anti-bullying polices on a state level.

This dissertation discusses the theories underlying responses to the problem of failing schools, including parental choice and government interventions. It examines New Zealand's experience with failing schools and intervention strategies in underperforming schools in California.

This Web site provides key definitions of site-based management policies at the school-building level and summarizes state policies.

This annual series compiles statistical information of the U.S.