This paper summarizes a study of Title I regulations and related problems which local administrators in Jefferson County, Kentucky dealt with. More specifically, the study determined which, if any, regulations were significant factors which created problems in the desegregation process and what administrative actions were taken to overcome them.…

This survey was conducted during the 1975-1976 school year, in order to provide a description of the nature and extent of services provided for compensatory education by school districts using Federal Title I funds and/or State funds. Information in three broad areas was sought: fiscal, compensatory education practices, and recipient descriptions.…

The purpose of this study is to provide an assessment of the Follow Through organization and its major components in order to identify problems in functioning and to suggest possible organizational changes that would lead to improved functioning. Each of the major components of Follow Through - the Follow Through Office, the sponsors, local…

A study was conducted to examine how a broad combination of federal education programs (in operation in 1981-82) affected states' administration of federal and related state programs. Results did not confirm assessments of federal education programs as administratively burdensome and excessively restrictive at the state level. (Author/GC)

Examined how six states provide educational services to students with special needs. Focuses on program models, requirements, financial support, and control mechanisms. Contrasts state approaches to the federal approach to providing services to similar populations. (GC)

This document consists of three volumes representing a 3-year study of the Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program (MEP). The study used current and nationally representative data to address research questions related to program targeting, services, communications, and administration. Volume I presents study findings from mail questionnaires completed…

The Reading Strategy Project is designed for intermediate grade students who need assistance in the mastery of basic reading skills. The available data demonstrated that the Title I treatment group enhanced their average reading comprehension scores significantly. The gain exceeded the project objective of four normal curve equivalent points. The…

The Compensatory Education Demonstration Projects are a three-year study of the effects of changes in ESEA Title I fund allocation at the intra-district level. Thirteen Local Education Agencies (LEAs) are cooperating in this research. During 1975-76 these school districts conducted their Title I programs under current federal Title I guidelines.…

This is one of four papers prepared by the Legal Standards Project. It is concerned with whether the legal requirements for state administration of Title I are set forth with adequate clarity and sufficiency and whether the legal framework adequately interrelates different functions state educational agencies must perform in the process of…

This report is a comparative analysis of the administration and implementation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs in 32 local school districts in 8 states (un-named). The goal of the study was to explain and understand the major and diverse aspects of administrative behavior at the three levels of Title I program management…

Iannaccone has suggested that four different types of linkages may be identified between a state's legislature and its organized educational profession: (1) locally based disparate in which legislators and schoolmen primarily represent just their individual school districts; (2) statewide monolithic in which schoolmen speak with one, powerful and…

This study investigated the perceptions of 58 federal, state, and local administrators related to increasing regulatory flexibility in Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act, bilingual education, and special education. Interviewees perceived a number of benefits in consolidation, including more efficient use of resources, enhanced…

This paper examines compensatory education and bilingual education programs, outlines their general characteristics, and discusses their differences. The following kinds of information are provided: (1) the nature of the authorizing legislation including patterns in the distribution of funds, (2) the criteria used to determine which students and…

This Congressional report focuses on how States are implementing the largest of the Federal elementary and secondary grant programs, Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA). Much of the information provided in the report, which consists of eight chapters, was derived from interviews with State Chapter 1 directors.…

Program administrators for 64 Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) programs in New York City were asked to respond to a questionnaire rating scale concerning the helpfulness and quantity of information that had been provided to them by the program evaluators. The rating scale categorized areas of administrative decision making in five…