This paper poses and responds to 10 questions about the policy issues affecting state education agencies raised by the federal government's plans to reduce expenditures for education and to consolidate several categorical aid programs into two major block grants. These 10 questions focus on the shifting relationships among and responsibilities of…

The responsibilities and prerogatives of state departments of education regarding the allocation of federal funds authorized under provisions of the draft version of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 are clarified in this report, and the resulting policy options available to state education agencies are examined. The law…

Recent block grant legislation requires both state and local education agencies to provide private school students a range of services equivalent to that provided public school students. These requirements pose administrative and operational problems for state agencies, since these agencies must simultaneously avoid relationships with religiously…