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Download full textEmrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program was established in 2007 and forgives borrowers' remaining federal student loan balances after they have made at least 10 years of qualifying loan payments while working in public service. Starting in September 2017, the first borrowers potentially became eligible for the PSLF program and began…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, Public Service, Loan Repayment
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
American Indian and Alaska Native students enrolled in public schools have performed consistently below other students on national assessments from 2005-2019. The Johnson-O'Malley (JOM) program provides academic and cultural supports, through contracts, to meet the specialized and unique educational needs of American Indian and Alaska Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, American Indian Education, Public Schools, Alaska Natives
PDF pending restorationCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Appropriations. – 1979
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on the abuse and mismanagement of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Programs and to determine if the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is making proper use of consultants. Among those testifying were Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, who discussed…
Descriptors: Consultants, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Hearings
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1994
This document records the oral testimony and written reports of witnesses who testified at a Congressional hearing on moving the United States toward a comprehensive employment training system. Witnesses included members of Congress, state officials, labor representatives, and association officials concerned with employment and training. At the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Job Training
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1989
Hearings were held on the reauthorization of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the extension of the Child Nutrition and National School Lunch Acts. Testimony on WIC concerns: the importance of and need for the WIC program; state and federal funding of the program; program effectiveness; experiences of…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Government Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
This congressional report presents amendments to the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 and recommends the amended bill's passage. The amended bill extends the authorizations for Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The bill repeals parts B and C of Title I, consolidating the authorities for the elementary…
Descriptors: Accountability, Costs, Deafness, Educational Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1990
This document reports the oral and written testimony of congressional representatives, officers of the branches of the active and reserve armed services, and college veterans' affairs officials on changes that need to be made to veterans' benefits. The testimony was given at a July 1990 House of Representatives oversight hearing on the Montgomery…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Higher Education
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1995
This report presents an assessment of the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the new Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP) by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (ACSFA), along with recommendations to help improve FFELP and FDLP. It found that congressional priorities and the…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Federal Programs, Higher Education, Information Systems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
A hearing was held for the purpose of receiving testimony on the reauthorization of the Head Start Act on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Head Start program, which was first implemented in 1965 to ensure that economically disadvantaged children begin school on an equal basis with their more advantaged peers. Opening remarks by…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Compensatory Education, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1994
In the fragmented federal system, over 150 programs provide employment training assistance to adults and out-of-school youth. Individually, these programs have well-intended purposes. Collectively, they raise four concerns: (1) they are difficult for job seekers and employers to access and for administrators to implement; (2) they overlap and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Adult Education
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1995
Research conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO) indicates that the current system of multiple employment training programs requires major overhaul to reduce costs, streamline the bureaucracy, and improve results. The current system of 163 different federal employment training programs wastes resources and confuses and frustrates clients,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1998
This document contains the text of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998. The following are among the aspects of Title I of the 1990 Perkins Act (Vocational and Technical Education Assistance to the States) that are addressed in the amendments: allotment and allocation (reservations and state allotment,…
Descriptors: Accountability, American Indians, Consortia, Demonstration Programs
