In 1981, administration and planning of drug abuse prevention and treatment programs shifted from federal state authorities through the enhancement of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grants. Reviews the funding status of drug prevention under this programmatic change relevant to prevention service programs and prevention…

This document reports on those aspects of the findings of the National Study of Local Operations under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, the federal education block grant, that are concerned with the relationships among the federal, state, and local governmental agencies charged with administering federal…

State education agencies are allowed to retain up to 20 percent of the funds they receive from the federal government through the block grant provisions of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. A review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) of the United States of the uses to which these retained funds were put in California and…

Examines the impact of the U.S. government's block grant fiscal policy on the funding policies and program services in drug and alcohol abuse prevention. Uses a case history of Pennsylvania's experience with block grant funding mandates to document the administrative and programmatic considerations affecting policy implementation at the state…

This document reports the findings of the National Study of Local Operations under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, the federal education block grant, concerning the legislation's effects on the provision of services to private school students. Data for the report came from national mail and telephone surveys…

Trends described in the planning and management of block grant programs are based on 13 states' implementation of seven block grants: (1) alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services; (2) community services; (3) education; (4) low-income home energy assistance; (5) maternal and child health services; (6) preventive health and health services;…

A study of the implementation of Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act in Tennessee revealed that administrative burdens have been reduced, distributive rather than redistributive purposes have been served, availability of resources for private schools has increased, and responsible, program-oriented local control has been…

This report evaluates how effectively four federally funded bilingual education block grant programs--Program Development and Implementation Grants, Program Enhancement Projects, Comprehensive School Grants, Systemwide Improvement Grants--used $163 million in fiscal year 2000 to serve children with limited English proficiency (LEP). There are four…

This report considers how local Title I administrators allocate time responsibilities, how burdensome and important they find the various Title I requirements, and what effects they expect the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act to have on paperwork and administrative burden. Data include mail questionnaires returned by a national sample…