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The Federal Regulatory Process: An Overview and Prognosis.
Tilles, Roger – 1983
The General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) was created in 1968 to take into consideration the specific concerns of education as they relate to the federal regulatory process. Setting down standard procedures for education regulation, the GEPA has created enforcement problems, turf battles, and mountains of regulations. In a major revamping of…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Child Welfare: Complex Needs Strain Capacity To Provide Services. United States General Accounting Office Report to Congressional Committees.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
In response to proposed reforms designed to replace many federal child welfare programs with block grants to states, this report describes a study of recent trends foster care, resources for foster care and child welfare services, and state responses to current foster care and child welfare service needs. The study reviewed research on foster care…
Descriptors: Adoption, Block Grants, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Education Block Grants: Introduction to the Debate.
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Wedeman, Sara Capen; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1985
Discusses the significance of the shift in federal educational policies marked by the adoption of the block grant approach to federal aid in Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Reviews several general findings of case studies of the first year of Chapter 2 grant implementation. (PGD)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United State Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2325.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1982
This congressional report contains testimony given in relation to the passage of the Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act (S. 2325). (The Vocational and Adult Education Consolidation Act is legislation designed to consolidate existing federal vocational and adult education programs, to simplify requirements for states and other…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Block Grants, Educational Finance