ERIC Number: ED288950
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Sep
Pages: 108
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Compensatory Education: Chapter 1 Services Provided to Private Sectarian School Students. Briefing Report to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives.
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources.
This document reviews the impact of the Aguilar v. Felton Supreme Court decision requiring that Chapter 1 compensatory education services must not be delivered to students in private sectarian schools. The focus is on how these services have been implemented in such schools. Fifteen school districts were surveyed for demographic data, comments from school officials, types of service delivery methods, and the effects of the method on program participation. The findings yielded the following factors that affect Chapter 1 service delivery for private school students: (1) cost of the service; (2) availability of facilities; (3) amount of time the students may lose from their regular classroom work; (4) parent reactions, especially where safety is concerned; and (5) uncertainty about which methods are legal. The criteria for selecting Chapter 1 students remain as they were before the Aguilar decision, but the costs have increased. Case studies are presented in the appendix and data on individual locations are presented on tables. (VM)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Federal Legislation, Mobile Classrooms, Parent Attitudes, Private Schools, Program Costs, State Church Separation
U.S.; General Accounting Office, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 (1-5 copies free, additional copies $2.00).
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Education Consolidation and Improvement Act 1981
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