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No College Student Left Behind: The Influence of Financial Aspects of a State's Higher Education Policy on College Completion
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Titus, Marvin A. – Review of Higher Education, 2006
Using national data from various sources, this study investigates the influence of financial aspects of state higher education policy on college completion. It found that college completion is positively associated with total state grants as a percentage of appropriations of state tax funds for operating expenses of higher education and state…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Grants, Operating Expenses, Graduation Rate
Action Plan To Improve Access to Child Care Assistance for Low-Income Families in the South.
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Southern Inst. on Children and Families, Columbia, SC. – 2000
The report details an action plan developed by the Southern Regional Task Force on Child Care, comprised of appointees from 16 southern states including Oklahoma and the mayor of the District of Columbia, with additional appointees from the other agencies. The charge to the task force was to develop a plan to improve access to child care…
Descriptors: Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Eligibility
Everyone Is Still on Welfare: The Role of Redistribution in Social Policy.
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Abramovitz, Mimi – Social Work, 2001
The original article, published in 1983, applied Titmuss's framework of a three-tiered social welfare system. Based on new data and a more in-depth analysis, this article re-examines who benefits from and who pays for social, fiscal, and corporate welfare and concludes that all three systems continue to serve and favor the middle class, wealthy…
Descriptors: Corporations, Eligibility, Middle Class, Needs Assessment
Financing Education: Minnesota, 1983-84.
Minnesota House of Representatives, St. Paul. Education Committee. – 1984
An introduction to Minnesota's educational finance system as of school year 1983-84, this compilation describes various aid programs, defines relevant terms, and shows how funds are allocated. The first section defines the following: the Foundation Aid Program, the state's basic school financing mechanism, which includes state and local funds with…
Descriptors: Categorical Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Equalization Aid
Financing Education, Minnesota, 1984-85.
Minnesota House of Representatives, St. Paul. Education Committee. – 1984
An introduction to Minnesota's educational finance system as of school year 1984-85, this compilation describes various aid programs, defines relevant terms, and shows how funds are allocated. The first section defines the following: the Foundation Aid Program, the state's basic school financing mechanism, which includes state and local funds with…
Descriptors: Categorical Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Equalization Aid
Amendments to Social Services, Foster Care, and Child Welfare Programs. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1979
Presented are the proceedings of hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, concerning legislative proposals amending Title XX social services programs, AFDC foster care and child welfare service programs. Testimony is included from…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems