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Download full textSkinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The primary source of federal aid for elementary and secondary education is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--particularly its Title I-A program, which authorizes federal aid for the education of disadvantaged students. This report provides an overview of major provisions of the ESEA. It also includes a table showing annual…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
The primary source of federal aid to elementary and secondary education is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--particularly its Title I-A program, which authorizes federal aid for the education of disadvantaged students. This report provides a brief overview of major provisions of the ESEA. It is organized by title and part of the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Schmidt, Rebecca Anne; Caspary, Kyra; Jonas, Deborah – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2016
Nationally, 28 percent of all public elementary and secondary schools were in rural locations in 2013-14, serving 18 percent of all K-12 students (U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics 2015). Rural schools serve students in sparsely populated areas and have smaller overall populations than schools in other…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Federal Programs, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education
Ayers, Jeremy – Center for American Progress, 2011
The public usually thinks of large urban schools when it considers reforms to the American education system. But rural students account for a large and growing segment of the school-age population, and their needs have too often been overlooked in school improvement efforts. Policymakers and the public must make rural education a priority if the…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Rural Education, Educational Change, Urban Schools
Christensen, Gayle S.; Amerikaner, Ary; Klasik, Daniel; Cohodes, Sarah – US Department of Education, 2007
This study focuses on flexibility provisions in the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) provision of NCLB. Specifically, it addresses REAP Flex, a program that allows rural districts additional control over how to spend portions of their federal funding. REAP Flex is part of a series of NCLB flexibility initiatives aimed at rural schools.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Grants, Educational Technology, Teacher Effectiveness
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Direct linkArnold, Michael – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Rural education scholars may be biased advocates of small schools or they may accept the values of the scientific community. An analysis of a rural Pennsylvania district's failure to receive Reading First funding did not provide enough information to determine why the proposal was rejected. The article's arguments about "privatization"…
Descriptors: Bias, Criticism, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Nganga, Lydiah; Kambutu, John – Online Submission, 2005
Background: Public schools in the United States are still segregated along cultural and racial lines 50 years after the 1954 Supreme Court's ruling. For example, Orfield and Lee, 2004; and Orfield, 2001) indicated that White student in the United States attended schools that were 80 percent White. Ethnic minority children (children of color),…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Racial Discrimination, Public Schools, Teaching Methods
