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Hastings, Anne H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Evaluates the performance of federal block grants in health, law enforcement, peoplepower training, community development, and Social Security programs, to help forecast the effects of such grants in education. Finds that block grants did not improve local control, accountability, citizen participation, efficiency, targeting of funds, or program…
Descriptors: Accountability, Block Grants, Citizen Participation, Elementary Secondary Education
Hastings, Anne H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Most district officials interviewed expressed satisfaction with the simplified application procedures and increased district discretion offered by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Perceived negative aspects included the amount of funding and possibility of a decrease, the potential neglect of research, the loss of federal…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Educational Finance
Download full textHastings, Anne H.; Bartell, Ted – 1983
The purpose of this report is to analyze how the administrative and paperwork requirements with which local school districts must comply have been affected by the consolidation of 28 federal education programs into the Chapter 2, Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) block grant. The information reported is based on interviews with…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Finance Reform
