Critical Policy Analysis of Resource Allocation Reviews under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) | Chapter 3| New Ideas Concerning Arts and Social Studies Vol. 5

 

Background: The distribution of funding to schools can be a complex issue, as school systems have limited financial resources with which to advance their goals. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) introduced a new provision that requires state education agencies (SEAs) to review resource allocation in districts that serve a significant number of schools identified for continuous improvement and a significant number of schools implementing targeted school improvement plans.

 

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the intersection of state, local, and federal policy meant to engage school districts around allocating resources for the purpose of supporting high-need schools. This study examined the discord between policy and practice around the enactment of federal legislation centred around resource allocation through a critical policy lens aimed at assessing whether state and local guidance can promote implementation of the federal guidance on equitable and effective distribution of resources.

 

Methodology: The study reviewed publicly available data across 25 state education agencies and 10 school districts. These districts were randomly selected, but a focus was made on reviewing resources for large school districts. The study reviewed federal, state and local guidance on resource allocation pertaining to the ESSA.

 

Findings: The analysis identified examples of state and local efforts to guide the implementation of the new legislation. However, the findings also highlight the challenge that exists in implementing federal policy and the impact of those challenges across marginalised communities of poverty.

 

Conclusion: Over the past decade, numerous efforts have aimed to promote more equitable resource distribution, leading to state and local policies designed to improve allocation practices. The findings of this study may be used as a guidance tool for policy makers and educational leaders at the state and local levels as they continue to seek ways to support marginalised students. The findings have direct implications for current practitioners, parents, the community, and state/local school boards.

 

 

Author(s) Details

Carlas McCauley
Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, Howard University School of Education, Washington DC, USA.

 

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Pass-through Effect Analysis Using Vector Autoregression (VAR) with Exogenous Variables | Chapter 7 | Research Updates in Mathematics and Computer Science Vol. 7

 

This chapter presents a VAR analysis framework for pass-through effects emanating from macroeconomic shocks. The framework involves two critical steps. The first step involves estimating a VAR model parameter that helps in establishing the causal link among the variables. The estimated VAR model is utilized in structural analysis to determine the behavior of a variable in response to a shock given the causal link. In the structural analysis step; Granger causality, impulse response function and forecast error variance decomposition are considered. The framework is applied to analyze exchange rate pass-through in Kenya.

 

Author(s) Details

John K. Njenga

Department of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, P.O Box 13187 - 00200 Nairobi, Kenya.

 

 

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Development of Effective Policies and Regulations to Ensure Sustainable Off-grid Solar E-waste Management Systems in Kenya | Chapter 1 | Geography, Earth Science and Environment: Research Highlights Vol. 5

Off-grid solar systems provide clean and affordable energy sources. The adoption of off-grid solar energy is becoming increasingly popular in Kenya as a source of renewable energy, with an estimated 10 million people using off-grid solar power systems as of the end of year 2022. However, the rising off-grid solar systems technology uptake comes with a growing amount of solar e-waste, which can have harmful environmental and health effects if not managed properly. The main sources of e-waste from off-grid solar systems are batteries, solar panels, and appliances such as lamps. Current data on the exact amount of solar e-waste being generated in Kenya is unavailable and this amount will continue to rise with the expiry of many of these off-grid solar systems lifespans. The study used a qualitative research approach and adopted a triangulation research design method to assess. This study through stakeholder’s workshop and document review data collection and analysis approaches, established that Kenya just like many countries in the Global South has a robust general waste policy and regulation management framework. However, it lacks specific policies and regulations on off-grid-solar electronic waste management, a challenge that many countries in the Global North have made considerate steps to address. The absence of a definitive law on e-solar waste management is partly because solar PV power is a relatively new concept in the country.  In addition, there is a lack of awareness of the hazardous nature of off-grid solar systems’ e-waste components to both consumers and institutions of governance. There is a lack of adequate infrastructure and sufficient systems for off-grid solar e-waste management in the country. Enforcement and implementation challenges of the existing general waste regulations due to limited resources and capacity and corruption culture are major impending factors. This calls for the development of effective policies and regulations to ensure sustainable off-grid solar e-waste management in Kenya against the backdrop of the rising uptake of off-grid solar systems. Research and data management of solar e-waste are crucial for better response to emerging waste management challenges so further research is required to evaluate the impact of solar e-waste on the environment to support informed decision-making.

 

Author (s) Details

Kariuki David Mugendi|
Department of Spatial and Environmental Planning, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.

 

Caleb Ombuor Mireri
Department of Environment and Natural Resource Management, Africa Nazarene University, Nairobi, Kenya.

Martin Korch Enevoldsen
Kobra Advice, Charlottenlund, Denmark Correspondence Kariuki David Mugendi, Department of Environment and Natural Resource Management, Africa Nazarene University, P.O. Box 53067, Nairobi 00200, Kenya.

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Environment Code Embodying Climate Action: A Qualitative PESTEL Analysis of Ilocos Sur | Chapter 5 | Science and Technology - Recent Updates and Future Prospects Vol. 6

The study sought to assess the Code to determine if the current ideals of mitigating the causes of climate change are precisely aligned to the attainment of the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), and realization of Sustainable Development Goals 13 - Climate Action (SDG). The process of the study is to derive a situational understanding and implementation analysis of the Code, to develop a matrix of proposed policies as the basis for creating guidelines for restoring the forest and coastal conditions of the locality. The study used qualitative thematic and PESTEL analyses particularly the hybrid approach via structural and value types of coding. The themes necessitate the occurrence of a triangular effect that brings forth a reflexive identity for the amendment or development of the Code to a more responsive policy towards sustainable climate conditions. The immediate management implications to PGIS are inherently implied in the weaknesses of the Code, which are seen in the lack of necessary provisions that call for immediate action and the improvement of the implementation process. The primordial recommendation is to research and examine the remaining Articles of the Code to gain a holistic understanding of the needed inclusions prior to appropriate actions by PGIS legislative officials. This will provide an all-inclusive scrutiny of the areas of weaknesses, strengths, opportunities, and threats of the Code, and unleashes the best approach to fighting climate change

 

Author (s) Details

 

Bensen Alex Urbano Pola
Department of Social Sciences, Mariano Marcos State University CASAT, Currimao, Philippines.

 

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Teachers’ Perceptions in Shaping Education for Sustainability and Building a Unified School Culture | Chapter 4 | Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 2

 A inclusive approach to Education for Sustainability (EfS) remains absent in many instructional settings, with educators frequently working to the side within their disciplines. Education be necessary to involve social, environmental, cultural and economic approaches, accordingly achieving interdisciplinarity, but too the shaping of life stances, values and ideologies. This member aims to explore the role of assistants’ perceptions in advancing a collective school culture towards EfS. In this branch, Nine in-service teachers complicated in European environmental protection programmes were interviewed concerning their experiences, challenges, and advice for improvement. The Findings suggest that private educational policies and scholarships limit the extensive adoption of EfS. There is a pressing need for a exact alignment 'tween EfS teacher education hypothesis, curricular approaches, and implementation before formulating or out for policies.

Author(s) Details:

Amalia Filippaki,
Department of Primary Education, Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences, University of Crete, P.O. Box: 74100, Rethymno, Greece.

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The Power of Transdisciplinary Research for Business Innovation: The Case of Rooibos as a Potential Ergogenic Sport Drink| Chapter 2 | Current Aspects in Business, Economics and Finance Vol. 8

 Background: The Centre for Sport Business and Technology Research (CSBTR) and the Applied Microbial and Health Biotechnology Institute (AMHBI) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) are administered to conduct excellent research accompanying a strong multi- and transdisciplinary focus. Based of the joint expertise of these two research individuals a transdisciplinary approach was adopted to best facilitate the study.Research objective: To examine whether Rooibos accompanying its singular bioactive compounds modulates oxidative stress and potentially aids improved material performance, accompanying an application as an ergogenic sport drink. Due to the character of this singular scientific-business cooperation, various advantageous social-business-related outcomes were expected.Methodology: Two experimental studies were transported, the first included thirty-two male members and the second 30 male participants, two together studies were randomized in a blinded, cross-over reserved trial in which participants swallowed standardized Rooibos or a fake pill drink. The first study involved an superior body maximum fatiguing elbow flexion/enlargement exercise test entailing 5 sets of 15 duplications of maximum voluntary shortenings separated by 10-second rest pauses on a Biodex System 3 at a speed of 60º per second. The second study involved a lower body changed sub-maximum test and then periodic sprints on a Wattbike cycle-ergometer. Ethical authorization was granted for two together studies.Results: During exercise tests on both the superior and lower body preliminary results demonstrated that after ingesting Rooibos differing improvements in physical depiction were observed, especially the generation of larger peak torque in the above body test and upgraded endurance all along the lower body test, in addition to modulation of oxidative stress.Implications: There is an hope to develop a scientifically confirmed sport drink, which commit beneficiate the Rooibos industry and the sport/appropriateness community accompanying a high worth product. Furthermore the television and marketing moment to promote Rooibos in the public prominence sport drink industry could support increased income generation. These happenings can ensure better business-related and social sustainability of the area and also support fuller responsibilities in agreements of the fair and equitable giving of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of native biological money.

Author(s) Details:

Simeon E. H. Davies,
Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Business and Management Science, The Centre for Sport Business and Technology Research (CSBTR), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

Jeanine L. Marnewick,
Applied Microbial and Health Biotechnology Institute (AMHBI), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

Oiva Kamati,
Applied Microbial and Health Biotechnology Institute (AMHBI), Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

Dirk J. Bester,
Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

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Global Health Resilience Building: A Population Health Equity Approach to the Agro-Pastoralist Community in Drought Affected Ethiopia | Chapter 5 | Current Overview on Disease and Health Research Vol. 1

Africa has been plagued by devastating droughts for many years. Ethiopia is the worst-hit nation since livestock and rain-fed agriculture make up the majority of its GDP. Nearly 85% of the nation's income comes from the agricultural sector. Over 15 million agro-pastoralists, who manage the bulk of Africa's cattle, have had their health and agricultural economies jeopardised by the drought. Foreign help may provide a short-term respite, but the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction places a higher priority on proactive action to build resilience in those who are impacted. By investigating the factors, their effects on the varied health outcomes for the population sub-groups, and tackling health disparity, a population health equity approach can serve the goal of enhancing the general health of the population. The disadvantaged agro-pastoralist population in Ethiopia needed effective policies and interventions to increase health resilience, therefore our goal was to identify the key population health outcomes, underlying causes, and actionable lever points. We used the PRISMA and Hamilton tools, respectively, to compile the data and judge its quality. To assemble the data, we used the WHO's frameworks for socioeconomic determinants of health and health equity as well as disaster vulnerability. Our results demonstrated that researchers looked at socioeconomic, political, and cultural backgrounds to identify policy and leverage areas for efficient population health interventions. The primary determinants of health, such as access to the market economy, dependency on livestock, household productivity or income, infrastructure, health systems, disaster preparedness, and food security, affect a wide range of health concerns. These characteristics are influenced by the social, political, and cultural settings. Even in the face of significant vulnerability and health disparities, current public health field methods have produced some policy solution possibilities. The suggested interventions may be influenced by an interdisciplinary community health strategy to have the maximum impact on health resilience. Evidence from the worst drought niche in Africa can assist in addressing similar drought-related health issues in other regions of the continent.

Author (s) Details:

Selim M. Khan,
Interdisciplinary Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 25 University Private, Ottawa, Canada.

James Gomes,
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 25 University Private, Ottawa, Canada Correspondence: Selim Khan, Interdisciplinary Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 25 University Private, Ottawa, K1N 7K4, ON, Canada.

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Model and Practice of Strategic Policy Process in Indonesia: Case Study in Indonesian Central Government| Chapter 10 | New Innovations in Economics, Business and Management Vol. 6

The Indonesian government has used a Strategic Management method since 1998, according to Government Regulation No. 108/200, however it has not analysed the strategy's efficacy. President Yudhoyono's administration, on the other hand, adopted a new approach called Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah (RPJMD) - Medium Term Development Planning – in 2009. The government's compliance with this strategic plan is an intriguing subject. Is the strategic strategy being implemented, to put it another way? Both writers examine their experiences attempting to implement the Strategic Management paradigm and practise in the Indonesian public sector, with a focus on process and tools, in this study. In this historical and descriptive study, the casual loop model of the system dynamics technique was applied. The government's strategic planning model, according to the report, was a linear process model linked to essential success criteria like leadership, professional coordination among governmental entities, and monitoring of the entire process and its instruments: planning, implementation, and assessment.

Author(s) Details:

Achmad Nurmandi,
Department of Government Affairs and Administration, Jusuf Kalla School of Government, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia.


Mohammad Jafar Loilatu,
Department of Government Affairs and Administration, Jusuf Kalla School of Government, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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Implementation of Performance Appraisal Policy: Theory and Practice | Chapter 7 | New Innovations in Economics, Business and Management Vol.1

 The process of determining and conveying to an employee how he or she is performing on the job, as well as developing a plan for improvement, is known as performance evaluation. Performance appraisal, when done correctly, not only informs employees about their performance but also determines their future level of effort and task directions. As a result, this paper collected data from research articles, policies, and other sources to develop a practical performance appraisal policy that provides an appropriate, clear, and consistent framework for assessing employees' performance in the context of work improvement, self-evaluation, and development planning.

Author(S) Details

Abdijabbar Ismail Nor
Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Somali National University, Somalia.

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Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Assessment of the Marine Living Resources (MLR) Legislative Framework of South Africa: Implications for Effectively Regulating Harvesting of MLR Such as Wild Abalone (Haliotis midae) | Chapter 8 | Challenging Issues on Environment and Earth Science Vol. 1

This is a short review of the current fisheries legislative mechanisms in South Africa. The thesis discusses the various marine legislative mechanisms and determines how these laws relate to the efficient management of South African fisheries. The main focus is on marine species that are endangered, especially abalone. South Africa's Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA) was adopted in 1998 with the primary objective of protecting marine fishing nations, including endangered species. The country has since developed policies and actions intended to improve the MLRA. These policies include South Africa's Small Scale Fisheries Sector (SSFP) regulation, which was implemented in 2012. In May 2014, the Marine Living Resources Amendment Act, Act No. 5 of 2014, was passed to improve the MLRA and allow for the SSFP to be enforced. The introduction of the MLRA and its supporting policies is driven by the need to achieve protection of marine resources, promote economic development in the marine industry and protect endangered marine life by implementing anti-poaching legislation and minimising marine pollution. South Africa has faced a range of obstacles in achieving this goal and most of the programmes have not been implemented successfully so far. While regulations were placed in place to support such an initiative, a community of fishermen (subsistence and artisanal fishermen) remained neglected and ignored in the fishing rights allocation process. However, there is hope for small-scale fisheries, provided that the government is preparing to follow a co-management strategy centred on the community, which will see fishing rights allocated to small-scale fishing communities and co-manage fisheries with the government.

Author (s) Details

Dr. Cliff Sibusiso Dlamini
Center for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), Plot 4701, Station Exit Road Private Bag 00357, Gaborone, Botswana.

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How a Crowded Emergency Department Became Non-crowded and Crowded Back within 10 Years: Is It an ED Leadership Failure or a Hospital Leadership Failure, or Maybe Both? | Chapter 14 | Current Topics in Medicine and Medical Research Vol.3

 Background: from 1993 until 2013 our Emergency Department (ED) went through three periods, with

different ED manager each. Although the number of beds, visits and admissions during these three
periods didn't change significantly, a change in the ED’s policy, without a change in the hospital’s
policy, converted a very crowded ED to a non-crowded one within few weeks. However, a change in
the ED policy and that of the hospital management policy rendered a non-crowded ED an
overcrowded one back within, 6 months.

Objectives: to describe how we rendered a very crowded ED into a non-crowded one within few
weeks, to try to explain why it turned back to become crowded again, and to suggest some advice
from our experience.

Methods: It is an epidemiolocal cross-sectional retrospective study. all data about the ED and other
departments activities were collected by our hospital’s computerized business intelligence (BI)
system.Because of lack of some data, the study includes 3 equal periods: period “A”, period “B” and
period “C”(1997 -2001, 2001-2006 and 2007-2011 respectively). For statistical comparison of
averages of the different periods, we used the unpaired student T-test.

Results:The average length of stay (LOS) of patients in the ED during period "A", was 5.05 + 0.98
hrs. It dropped to 2.45 + 0.21 during period "B" (P< 0.001).The percent of patients boarding in the ED
more than 10 hours dropped from 11.5 + 2.4% (period “A”) to 2.6 + 0.7% (period “B”) within three
months (P< 0.01). Despite a gradual increase in the number of admissions to the GMD`s, there was a
gradual decrease in the average LOS during period "B", compared to period "A" (6.1 vs. 5.5 days) (P<
0. 5). The death rate among patients in the ED and in the GMD`s decreased significantly during the
period "B" (P< 0.1). During period "C", after both the CEO and the ED manager retired, all these
changes were reversed within a few months.

Conclusions:Rendering a crowded ED into non-crowded, needs the assertiveness of the ED
Managers in implementing their policy, with the personal full backing of the hospital CEO, as a must
condition before managing the ED.

Author(s) Details

Fuad Basis
Chair of Emergency Medicine Division, Medical and Research Development, Israel.

Moshe Michelson
Chair of Emergency Medicine Division, Medical and Research Development, Israel.

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