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Direct linkJeremy Singer – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
In education, low-income and racially minoritized students in urban districts are often constructed as 'dependent' -- weak in their social positions but deserving of educational opportunity. This social construction of 'urban' students has been central to school choice politics and policymaking in the United States. In this study, I interrogate…
Descriptors: Urban Education, School Choice, Urban Schools, Low Income Students
Download full textCenter for Children's Initiatives, 2020
This briefing guide offers the latest data on the availability of child care and pre-K by legislative district as well as new documentation on affordability by county and median salaries for early childhood educators. Today 9 out of 10 families cannot afford quality child care. Further 4 out of 5 four-year olds outside of New York City have no…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Care, Educational Quality, Preschool Children
US Senate, 2015
This hearing serves as a first in a set of hearings focusing on early learning. In his opening statement, Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, strongly encouraged members of this committee on both sides of the aisle to hold roundtables and have discussions on early learning in their local…
Descriptors: Hearings, Laws, Legislation, Federal Government
US Senate, 2007
Statements were presented by: Honorable Tom Harkin, Chairman, U.S. Senator from Iowa, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Honorable Robert B. Casey, Jr., U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Honorable Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator from Georgia; Honorable Richard G. Lugar; Honorable Ken Salazar, U.S. Senator from Colorado; Kelly…
Descriptors: Obesity, Federal Legislation, Legislators, Nutrition
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. – 1985
This document contains hearings on the oversight of the Census Bureau. The Hon. Robert Garcia (chairman of the subcommittee) presided. The statement of the Hon. Robert T. Matsui, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, indicated a concern regarding what definition should be used to reflect accurately the extent of poverty in…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Hearings
American Indian Journal, 1979
In an interview, Senator Mark Hatfield discusses Indian concerns in the 96th Congress. He addresses the role and future of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Congressional attitudes towards American Indians, the Indian Health Service, the "Boldt" Supreme Court decision, the Warm Springs Tribe, and the Institute for American Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Economic Development, Federal Indian Relationship
Tangri, Sandra S.; Strasburg, Georgia L. – 1977
In order to formulate social policy which is responsive to needs of women and other minority groups, decision makers must be better informed about alternative options, incentives, and unintended as well as intended consequences of various policies. Social scientists can contribute to decision makers' understandings of social factors in numerous…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Decision Making, Disadvantaged, Discriminatory Legislation
