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Download full textTennessee Univ., Knoxville. State Agency for Title I. – 1976
Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 was enacted by Congress to provide Federal funds to strengthen the community service capability of colleges and universities to assist the people in the solution of community problems, with particular emphasis on urban and suburban problems. Tennessee's major program emphases under Title I since 1972…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Colleges, Community Services
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1984
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 provides for annual federal incentive payments to states if they improve foster care programs by (1) avoiding unnecessary removal of children from their homes; (2) preventing extended stays in foster care; and (3) reunifying children with their families or placing them for adoption. To be…
Descriptors: Adoption, Eligibility, Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship
Johnson, Joseph E. – 1978
The topic of state reappropriation of federal funds for higher education is addressed in this summary of a speech that sought to distinguish between reasonable program control by state legislatures and disruption of needed programs. The issue of a state legislature appropriating federal funds entering the state is before a number of legislatures.…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Federal State Relationship, Financial Policy
O'Shea, Daniel; King, Christopher T. – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the first significant attempt to retool the nation's workforce development programs since the early 1980s. Titles I-V of the WIA do the following things: (1) establish the purposes, goals and operational framework of a workforce development system designed to increase participants' employment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Bellott, Fred K.; And Others – 1986
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982 is a federally funded program for, and directed by, the states and provides that the governor of the state is the official recipient of JTPA funds. A study was conducted in Tennessee to identify and document a generalizable formula for determining eligible funds used to match JTPA expenditures to…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Federal Legislation
Perroncel, Carol B. – 1990
This report was compiled by the Appalachian Educational Laboratory (AEL) to provide information on child care services in the AEL Region. An initial overview addresses the topics of: (1) what child care is; (2) child care and early education; (3) state involvement in child care and early education; (4) the purpose of this report; (5) sources of…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Day Care
