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Watkins, Lucy R. – Equity and Choice, 1991
Chapter 1 legislation provides additional resources to schools with a certain percentage of low-income students to help ensure that all children learn. Calls on parents and legal service advocates to take an active role in ensuring accountability for Chapter 1's application in schools, and provides questions to help parents better understand and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advocacy, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textDavis, Alan; Quilling, Mary R. – 1990
Schoolwide projects may use Chapter 1 resources to improve the entire educational program of a school. In this respect they differ from other Chapter 1 projects in which resources are used to provide additional services only to students identified as educationally disadvantaged. It is possible that educationally disadvantaged students, who are the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedHess, G. Alfred, Jr. – Educational Policy, 1994
Addresses Clune's school finance adequacy model from a practitioner's perspective, outlining six concerns: adequacy as a new structure or a federal categorical program; adequacy's legal basis; the chances of increasing federal Chapter 1 spending from $6.3 billion to $25 billion; program funding versus compensation focus; adequacy model control…
Descriptors: Accountability, Costs, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy
Peer reviewedFox, Barbara J. – Journal of Reading, 1990
Argues that an increased federal government emphasis on accountability will have a great impact on reading teachers in the 1990s. Explains the changes brought about by the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary Education Improvement Amendments of 1988. Explores the possibilities for responding to a strengthened federal focus on accountability.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Jennings, John F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
In April 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, the Hawkins Stafford School Improvement Amendments, restoring the federal government's position as a true helper in educational reform. Besides raising spending ceilings for various educational programs and authorizing numerous initiatives, the law substantially enlarges Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Accountability, Block Grants, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education. – 1991
Testimonies, prepared statements, and supplementary materials presented at a hearing on the role of business in educational reform and implications of the Hawkins-Stafford Amendments of 1988 are compiled in this document. Findings from a survey of state Chapter 1 coordinators are provided, as well as information about the American Business…
Descriptors: Accountability, Business Responsibility, Cooperative Education, Corporate Support
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1987
Local Education Agency (LEA) administrators (principals and superintendents) and State Chapter 1 coordinators representing all 50 states were surveyed regarding their reactions to House Omnibus bill (HR 5), which would significantly change Chapter 1 programs. Over 3,600 school districts responded. The respondents were asked to indicate their level…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Coordinators, Educational Finance
Pechman, Ellen M.; Turnbull, Brenda J. – 1995
This report examines the effects of early efforts to link the Elementary Secondary Education Act's (ESEA's) Chapter 1 (now Title I) programs to state and district education reforms, which are standards-based. The report focuses on how Chapter 1 standards and accountability requirements connect with new state-level standards, curricula, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Ligon, Glynn – 1993
This paper examines whether the Title I/Chapter 1 tradition of leading the way in educational evaluation will continue or whether Chapter 1 will change its role by delegating decision-making authority over evaluation methodology to state and local school systems. Whatever direction Chapter 1 takes, states, school systems, and schools must be held…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Petro, Janice Rose – 1996
Chapter I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the largest federally-funded program designed to provide services to elementary and secondary students to meet the special needs of educationally deprived students who reside in areas with high concentrations of low-income families. The 1994-95 school year is the last year of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Martinez, Carlos – 1991
Identification of schools for improvement of Chapter 1 Programs raises the challenge of selecting the best technical procedures meeting the law and usefully guiding improvement efforts. Failure to demonstrate gains in student achievement has been operationalized on two levels: aggregate performance and desired outcomes. Aggregate performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Rating, Compensatory Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
A study was done to assess implementation of the Chapter 1 program improvement provisions of the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988. Chapter 1 is the largest federal education program for educationally deprived school children, and the Hawkins-Stafford Act was designed to ensure that individual schools…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Div. of Compensatory Education. – 1989
This guidebook was developed to assist local school districts in Kentucky with the implementation of the program improvement section of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, Chapter 1. The emphases of the reauthorization of Chapter 1 are accountability and program effectiveness. Each local district must now identify Chapter 1 schools…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Compliance (Legal), Educational Change
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Accountability and Assessment. – 1992
This paper describes: the development and implementation of Schoolwide Projects (SWPs) in the School District of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania); evaluation models permitted by Chapter 1 regulation and policy; ways these models were used in Philadelphia and results that were obtained; and approaches that are sensitive to the effects of SWPs. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Glenn, Charles – 1987
In order to improve desegregation of the elementary schools, and the low achievement level of elementary schools with high concentrations of poor and minority students, the Massachusetts Board of Education placed a coordinated approach to improving urban schools first among its objectives. The following educational objectives were set for each…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Quality, Educationally Disadvantaged
