June 9, 1999
Education Week, Vol. 18, Issue 39
Education
Legislative Update
The following is a summary of states' final school budgets for fiscal 2000 and highlights of education-related action in legislatures. The totals for K-12 education include money for state education administration, but do not include federal, flow-through dollars.
School Choice & Charters
Study Highlights Benefits, Shortcomings of Magnet Programs
Schools may help with desegregation, but they also can "cream off" better-educated, more affluent families, concludes a study that takes a close look at long-established programs in Cincinnati and St. Louis.
Education
Bilingual and Immigrant Education
'Safety Net' Programs: The federal government has moved to fill a void that immigrant and civil rights advocates say has left many immigrant families and their children without needed health and nutrition programs.