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What May Be: Financing Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Services and the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Perspectives
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Muenchow, Susan; Pizzo, Peggy Daly – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
A $2.37 billion increase in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) provides an opportunity to address the mental health needs of young children in child care. While the CCDBG increase is the largest ever, states must navigate many legitimate and competing claims for these funds, particularly those set aside to improve quality. One…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Child Care, Grants, Mental Health
Early Childhood Funding at the Community Level: A Case Study from Illinois
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Lloyd, David; Joseph, Larry – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2013
The Early Childhood Block Grant (ECBG) distributes state funding for preschool and birth-to-three programs in Illinois. The authors conducted a case study in Evanston, a city in north Cook County, Illinois, interviewing community representatives and analyzing ECBG program data to discern how ECBG funds are used to provide early childhood services.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Case Studies, Community Support, Interviews
Dual Language Learners: A Demographic and Policy Profile for Illinois. Fact Sheet
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Park, Maki; O'Toole, Anna; Katsiaficas, Caitlin – Migration Policy Institute, 2017
This fact sheet provides demographic information for the young Dual Language Learner (DLL) population in Illinois, based on Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data pooled over the 2011-15 period. DLLs, defined as children ages 8 and under with at least one parent who speaks a language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Limited English Speaking, Preschool Children
Tracking Federal Dollars. Categorical Grants, Block Grants, and the Issue of a Fair Share for the Poor of Illinois.
Sparks, Mary; Markowitch, Anne – 1985
This study tracks Federal block grant monies and their impact on the poor of Illinois. The hypothesis prompting the study was that the state has distributed a smaller proportion of its Federal block grant funds to those counties with the highest proportion of the state's poor as compared with the proportional distribution of Federal dollars under…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Federal Aid, Poverty
Illinois Education for Employment System Director Perceptions of the Federal Role and Federal Block Grant Proposals in Vocational Education.
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Scherbaum, John M. – 1995
A study solicited perceptions of 60 Illinois Education for Employment (EFE) system directors regarding proposed changes in federal funding for vocational education programs; 88 percent responded. Its more specific focus was the changing role of the federal government in vocational education and the proposed federal block grant financing of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Block Grants, Federal Aid
A Proposal for the Distribution of Federal Block Grant Funds in Illinois.
Hickrod, G. Alan; And Others – 1982
It is proposed that federal block grants to Illinois be distributed to school districts according to four characteristics of those districts. Funds will be distributed inversely proportional to property valuation per pupil, directly proportional to percentage of minority children, directly proportional to percentage of poverty children (Title I…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Block Grants, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance