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Sharron, W. Harvey, Jr. – 1974
The community college is uniquely qualified by virtue of its comprehensiveness to serve as a recipient of many funds for programs and services which are relevant to its local needs. This report discusses the local situation, the state level, and the private sector as realistic avenues for funding. Basically, the most viable source for receiving…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Services, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Braddock, David, Ed. – 2002
This 6th edition volume presents a detailed report on the growth of programs for persons with disabilities at the federal level and in the states. The two chapters of part one provide a cross-disability perspective, "An Institutional History of Disability" (David Braddock and Susan Parish) and an empirical study across federal, state,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Management Systems. – 1977
This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
MacDonald, Mia – 1994
The decline in Federal funding for state-provided social services during the 1980s triggered a transformation in the states' roles in family policymaking. This booklet documents four state initiatives designed to bring about systems change: (1) Healthy Start (California); (2) the Governor's Families and Children Initiative (Colorado); (3) the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Thomas, J. Alan, Ed.; Wimpelberg, Robert K., Ed. – 1978
This monograph is based on a conference that was held under the sponsorship of the Midwest Administration Center, Department of Education of the University of Chicago, in February 1977. The conference centered on varying interpretations of the role of the school, the home, and the state in the governing and financing of education in Illinois and…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Gladieux, Lawrence E.; Hauptman, Arthur M. – 1995
This volume analyzes government policies for helping students pay for education beyond high school and was developed as a result of an October 1994 gathering of policymakers, analysts, and practitioners convened to review federal student assistance and to consider policy alternatives for the Clinton Administration. Chapter 1, "A Fifty-Year…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Finance, Educational History, Educational Quality
Sherman, Joel D., Ed.; And Others – 1982
Fifteen papers commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education's School Finance Project are contained in this volume. The papers examine the changing dimensions of the federal-state partnership in education. The volume is organized into four sections. The first section is devoted to state educational policy concerns, including various state…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Liebschutz, Sarah F., Ed. – 2000
This book analyzes the responses of five states (Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin) to challenges posed by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to alter state welfare programs and management systems. Using case studies, the book highlights similarities and differences in the states'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Case Studies, Change, Comparative Analysis
Lazerus, Scott; Mangum, Garth; Mangum, Stephen; Tansky, Judith – 1998
The impact of one-stop career centers on the U.S. Employment Service (ES) program was examined through case studies of one-stop initiatives in the following states: Georgia; Ohio; California; Iowa; Oregon; Massachusetts; Texas; Utah; and Wisconsin. Of the nine case study states, only Georgia had not begun instituting a one-stop career center…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Centers, Case Studies, Coordination