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Peer reviewedRadigan, Winifred M.; Carmody, Helen – Clearing House, 1988
Argues that categorical funds should be available with few restrictions so that local education agencies can make decisions on how to add the funds to the tax-levy base. Claims that this type of funding could provide a variety of instructional programs to meet the needs of targeted students, without segregating them or contributing to their…
Descriptors: Categorical Aid, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
National Council of La Raza, Washington, DC. Office of Research Advocacy and Legislation. – 1987
The School Improvement Act of 1987, H.R. 5, has been approved in the House of Representatives. This bill reauthorizes 14 existing federal elementary and secondary programs and creates a new program for gifted and talented children's education. The majority of the programs in H.R. 5 are designed to improve services for educationally disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Kober, Nancy – 1991
Chapter 1, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) is the largest Federal program aiding elementary schools and secondary schools. Some 51,000 schools, including over 75% of the nation's elementary schools, receive Chapter 1 money, which they use to prove supplementary educational services to low-achieving students in…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Download full textRotberg, Iris C., Ed.; And Others – 1993
The Rand Institute on Education and Training, in consultation with the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives, undertook an analysis of federal policy options to improve education in low-income areas. This analysis focuses on Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the federal program for…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Doyle, Denis P., Ed.; Cooper, Bruce S., Ed. – 1988
This document presents the recommendations of a national group of policy analysts on strategies for improving compensatory education and the Educational Improvement and Consolidation Act (ECIA) Chapter 1. The historical context of the Federal and state roles in providing compensatory education programs is presented, old assumptions are reviewed,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance
PDF pending restorationRMC Research Corp., Portsmouth, NH. – 1996
This guide, which includes both English and Spanish versions, discusses parent involvement policies, which explain how the school district or the school itself supports the important role of parents in the education of their children. Every school district that receives money from Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act, the federal aid…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
RMC Research Corp., Portsmouth, NH. – 1996
This guide, which includes both English and Spanish versions, explains that a school profile is like a report card for a school. It tells how students are achieving and what the school is doing to help all students achieve. Each school that receives money under Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act, the Federal aid program that provides…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Rotberg, Iris C. – 1994
The RAND Institute on Education and Training conducted an analysis of Federal policy options to improve education in low-income areas. The analysis focuses on Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the nation's program for assisting educationally disadvantaged students. After a quarter century of Chapter 1 efforts, it is…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedHess, G. Alfred, Jr. – Educational Policy, 1994
Addresses Clune's school finance adequacy model from a practitioner's perspective, outlining six concerns: adequacy as a new structure or a federal categorical program; adequacy's legal basis; the chances of increasing federal Chapter 1 spending from $6.3 billion to $25 billion; program funding versus compensation focus; adequacy model control…
Descriptors: Accountability, Costs, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of the Under Secretary. – 1995
This biennial report is the 22nd report to the Congress on federally funded education programs and the 13th such report submitted by the Department of Education in fulfillment of a Congressional mandate. For FY 1993-94, there is information on 154 programs administered by the Department. Programs are grouped according to the administering office…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance
