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Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
As part of both the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) and the recently passed 2021 Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA), the U.S. Department of Education (USED) made available almost $4.2 billion for the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER). Governors across the nation…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, COVID-19, Pandemics
Shaul, Marnie S. – Government Accountability Office, 2006
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLBA) requires districts with schools that have not met state performance goals for 3 consecutive years to offer their low-income students supplemental educational services (SES), such as tutoring, if these schools receive Title I funds. SES are provided outside of the regular school day by a state-approved…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Technical Assistance, Pilot Projects, State Programs
Ashby, Cornelia M. – Government Accountability Office, 2006
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) requires districts with schools receiving Title I funds that have not met state performance goals for 3 consecutive years to offer low-income students enrolled in these schools supplemental educational services (SES), such as tutoring. This testimony discusses early implementation of SES, including: (1) how SES…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Eligibility, Academic Achievement, Educational Legislation
Doyle, Denis P., Ed.; Cooper, Bruce S., Ed. – 1988
This document presents the recommendations of a national group of policy analysts on strategies for improving compensatory education and the Educational Improvement and Consolidation Act (ECIA) Chapter 1. The historical context of the Federal and state roles in providing compensatory education programs is presented, old assumptions are reviewed,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance
Coe, Pamelia; And Others – 1995
A 5-year qualitative study of implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) analyzes the effects on four rural school districts of large-scale changes in state policy. This annual report of the project focuses on five key KERA "strands." First, KERA mandates that grades K-3 be replaced with an ungraded primary program…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Legislation
Phoenix Union High School District, AZ. Research Services. – 1983
This is a report of the testing results of the 1982-83 Chapter 1 program in the Phoenix Union High School District, Arizona. The average Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE) gains in the District's Chapter 1 Programs showed the students gained more knowledge in each subject than similar students across the nation. However, in some subjects the students…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
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Orland, Martin E.; Apling, Richard – Journal of Education Finance, 1986
Explores the impact of budget changes on the intensity of program services received by students in federal compensatory education programs under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (1981). Results show that moderate budget cuts translated into service intensity declines, implying that Gramm-Rudman impacts could be worse.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
This document reports on the third of a series of hearings on the reauthorization of expiring federal elementary and secondary education programs. Four school administrators gave testimony regarding the block grant programs funded under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, Chapter 2. Testimony suggested the following: (1) the proposed…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Case Studies, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Pepe, Thomas J.; Tufts, Alice L. – Legal Memorandum, 1984
As school budgets face serious problems, one area under examination is the cocurricular activities section of the school budget. Many districts are charging user fees to students participating in school sports, band, drama, and even elective courses. Since no direct reference is made to education in the United States Constitution, education is a…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Budgeting, Court Litigation, Educational Finance