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Download full textHeller, Helen C. – 1981
In testimony presented at hearings on New York City's public school budget, the Educational Priorities Panel (EPP), which represents 25 special interest groups, commented on the budget proposal, shared lessons EPP has learned that bear on the budget process, and identified the priorities resulting from EPP's research and consensus activities. EPP…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Citizen Participation, Community Organizations, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
The Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor met to hear the need for miscellaneous and technical amendments to the Vocational Education Act Amendments of 1976. The discussion focused on the question of how much in Federal funds ought to be used for support of State and local…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1976
This volume records the text of the 1976 hearing held to examine the process and results of court-ordered school desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Presented is testimony from public school students, educators, administrators, government officials, and representatives of public and private agencies and community organizations. Also…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Desegregation Effects
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This report recommends that the House of Representatives pass the School Dropout Prevention and Basic Skills Improvement Act of 1990. The bill would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve secondary school programs for basic skills improvement, dropout prevention, and dropout reentry by strengthening reporting…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Organizations, Community Services, Compensatory Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1977
Provided are the statements presented to the United States Congress in February and March, 1977, on the proposed extention of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. Included is testimony on the progress of the child abuse prevention and treatment effort and recommendations from representatives of private and public agencies and institutions…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Community Organizations, Exceptional Child Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1976
Topic headings in the bill are declaration of policy and purpose, program authorization, contract provisions, special conditions, definitions, and authorization of appropriations. (WL)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Educational Legislation, Educational Programs, Employment Opportunities
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. Student Services Section. – 1989
This report contains the Oregon state plan for educating homeless children and youth required by the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. Data on the number and location of homeless children and homeless youth in the state and the barriers they face in obtaining a free public education are discussed. Section 1 provides an overview…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Organizations, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation
Knuti, David; And Others – 1986
This guide is intended to assist community-based organizations (CBOs) in developing Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs that will provide needed services to their constituents. First, the history and implications of JTPA are summarized from a CBO viewpoint. Discussed in a chapter on JTPA funding categories are such topics as allocation…
Descriptors: Accountability, Check Lists, Community Organizations, Economically Disadvantaged
Akers, James T. – 1984
Although many school boards' policies on public use of school district facilities are deliberately vague and allow administrators great flexibility in their interpretation, this paper advocates well-defined regulations. It presents a sample policy, discusses legal concerns, and suggests essential provisions of facility-use policy. The policy…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Board of Education Policy, Community Centers, Community Organizations
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
Second in the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families' national child care initiative, this hearing explored the entire range of issues surrounding child care in order to develop a set of specific recommendations for Congress. Appearing before the committee were representatives of corporations and voluntary agencies in Texas that have…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Certification, Child Caregivers, Citizen Participation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1977
The summer food service program for children, authorized by the National School Lunch Act is one of several childfeeding programs which the Congress authorized to safeguard the health and well-being of the nation's children. Serious abuses, criminal as well as administrative, have occurred in the summer feeding program. Most have involved private…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Role, Community Organizations, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
On July 31, 1978, the U.S. Senate Committee on Human Resources held a hearing in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the problem of youth unemployment. In particular, the effectiveness of the CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and YEDPA (Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act) programs concerned the Committee. Following an opening…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Compensatory Education. – 1989
This report contains the California state plan for educating homeless children and youth required by the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. The plan is designed to raise the level of awareness of schools and school districts to the needs of homeless children and to provide ideas and suggestions for meeting those needs. It is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Organizations, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation
National Manpower Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
This report reviews legislatively mandated linkages between prime sponsors and local education agencies (LEAs) in providing employment, education, and training for youth. The legislation discussed includes (1) the 1977 Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), (2) the Young Adult Conservation Corps, (3) the Youth Incentive…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
De La Rosa, Denise – 1989
Testimony by the education policy analyst for the National Council for La Raza (NCLR) gives an overview of demographic facts and population trends among the Hispanic community in the United States; examines critical literacy and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction needs in the Hispanic community, including both basic literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Community Organizations
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