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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
Federal Education Project Newsletter, 1984
The President has recently signed a package of technical amendments for Chapters 1 and 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Among the new provisions are a number which restore some of the targeting flexibility authorizations lost with the creation of Chapter 1. One of the most significant new provisions requires State…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Disadvantaged, Expenditures, Federal Aid
Download full textBarro, Stephen M. – 1991
In the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, Congress directed the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to conduct a study of methods used to allocate federal elementary and secondary education grants among the states. This document, the final report on that study, assesses grant distribution funding…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Simon, Paul – 1985
The effects of cuts in the federal education budget during the Reagan Administration and the outlook for the future for education programs during the next 4 years are discussed in this speech by a U. S. Senator. The current status of the following programs is compared to their status in 1980: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, bilingual education, vocational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Educational Trends
Rezmovic, Victor; Keesling, J. Ward – 1982
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…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Educational Administration
Merkel-Keller, Claudia – 1986
This paper traces the evaluation requirements of the Title I/Chapter 1 Program since 1966 to the present, discusses the implications of the evaluations, and reports on the evolution of evaluation during this 20 year period. The evaluations are described in four phases: (1) from a nadir of low quality, utility and precision (1966-1974); (2) to a…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Equity (Finance)
Gaffney, Michael J.; Schember, Daniel M. – 1982
Drawing selectively on data from a study of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that included questionnaires sent to 2,000 randomly selected local Title I directors, structured interviews and document reviews in 100 representative Title I districts, and indepth studies in 40 specially selected Title I districts, this…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
