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Download full textHunt Institute, 2021
The Build Back Better (BBB) framework would create an ambitious $400 billion early childhood initiative -- funding both universal prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds and initiatives designed to improve affordability, quality, and compensation within the child care arena. On November 19, 2021, The Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376) was passed in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedLevin, Henry M. – Economics of Education Review, 1985
Reviews national interests in education and considers the effectiveness of different forms of federal grants in addressing those interests. Concludes that providing equalization aid is the only appropriate purpose for block grants since such grants do not encourage state and local agencies to concern themselves with national priorities. (PGD)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Equalization Aid
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Inst. of Museum Services. – 1983
At five public hearings in San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Boston, and Cincinnati, representatives of state and local governments and of public and private education systems and other interested witnesses were asked for their viewpoints on three questions: (1) the role of the federal government in American education; (2) the effects of Chapter…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal State Relationship
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1985
Trends described in the planning and management of block grant programs are based on 13 states' implementation of seven block grants: (1) alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services; (2) community services; (3) education; (4) low-income home energy assistance; (5) maternal and child health services; (6) preventive health and health services;…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Federal State Relationship
Direct linkMallett, Christopher A.; Allen, Benjamin L. – NHSA Dialog, 2005
The "new federalism" paradigm offers an explanation why the federal government has devolved much of its administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, formerly AFDC) and Medicaid (through managed care) programs. A review of child and family outcomes data resulting from these devolutionary changes in TANF and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Federal State Relationship, Federal Government, Welfare Recipients
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 2001
This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record of a hearing to gather input regarding the Strengthening Working Families Act of 2001, which was drafted to provide the assistance needed by former welfare recipients and other poor working parents to remain employed and advance in the labor market. The…
Descriptors: Adoption, Block Grants, Child Care, Conflict Resolution
