This annual report of the recently established Alaska Day Care Assistance Program describes the system of state subsidies instituted to encourage local government participation in the delivery of day care services. Established to aid low-income families in providing for adequate child care, the program is administered by the state Department of…

Alaska is a state of geographic and cultural extremes. In order to improve the standard of health and to provide broader educational opportunity, especially in rural communities, the ATS-6 communications satellite has been used to compensate for remoteness and transportation difficulties. The Health/Education Telecommunications Experiment has…

This is the third volume of a three volume final report for the Health/Education Telecommunications Experiment. This volume is a continuation of the appendix, and it includes communications that took place between the contractor, the office of the Governor of Alaska, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington, D.C. The…

This is the second volume of the three volume final report for the Health/Education Telecommunications Experiment. This appendix is a collection of documents which further elucidate the planning and construction of the communications facility. It includes a chronology of funding and contracting events, and copies of the actual grants and contracts…

This report describes and evaluates a system of day care for 659 children in seven southern states (75 percent of the children were preschoolers and infants in center programs, 12 percent were preschoolers in family day care homes, and 13 percent were school-age children, primarily in center programs). Most of the families served were low-income.…