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Download full textMerkel-Keller, Claudia – 1982
The future role and importance of educational evaluation are analyzed in terms of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act (1981), a block grant whose provisions minimize planning, reporting, evaluation and accountability requirements to ensure that national goals are met. The background in federal and state evaluation programs is…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Henderson, Anne T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Discusses implementation issues surrounding the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (Chapter 2), which consolidates 28 programs, including the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), the major federal desegregation program. Major concerns include reduced eligibility requirements, distribution of funds, administrative responsibility,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Block Grants, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Equity (Finance)
McNutt, Ross; Wexler, Henrietta – American Education, 1983
Gives information necessary to begin the process of applying for funding under individual federal education programs. Includes information on block grants, how to apply for funding, participation of private school students, and deadlines. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Block Grants, Educational Finance
Pattie, Kenton; Ernst, Mary – School Library Journal, 1983
Discusses use of federal funds for school libraries provided by Chapter II Block Grants created by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Increased spending for such items as library materials, instructional equipment, and microcomputers is enumerated. Five ways for librarians to obtain and monitor funds are outlined. (EJS)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Worthington, Robert M. – 1983
According to a General Accounting Office study, virtually no money is being spent on consumer education, although consumer education has been authorized under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 and under the Education Amendments of 1976. The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 authorizes state and local…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Block Grants
Hansen, Kenneth H. – 1981
The responsibilities and prerogatives of state departments of education regarding the allocation of federal funds authorized under provisions of the draft version of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 are clarified in this report, and the resulting policy options available to state education agencies are examined. The law…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Hearn, Norman E. – 1982
The consolidation of 42 federal education programs into block grants, under the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, will have varied effects that might help or hurt rural or small schools. Legislatures and district superintendents are presently unsure what to do with the block grants, since they are used to more specific federal…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Consolidated Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Doyle, Denis P.; Hartle, Terry W. – 1983
Assessing the Reagan Administration's first 3 years in office, this paper evaluates the administration's inability to enact its education agenda, which included reductions of federal regulations, cuts in education spending, tuition tax credits, prayer in the public schools, and abolishing the Department of Education. The consolidation of programs…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Corbett, H. Dickson; And Others – 1983
Based on data from document reviews and interviews from 12 school districts in 3 states, this interim report presents findings from the first year of implementation of Chapter 2 of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981. The initial section of the report examines the redistribution of federal funds to local districts, the…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Budgeting, Case Studies, Categorical Aid
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Planning, Research, Evaluation and Dissemination. – 1982
The guidelines presented in this publication replace all guidelines previously issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for programs funded and consolidated under Chapter 2 of the Federal Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981. These new guidelines provide the materials and information necessary for local educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Wallace, Sherry; And Others – 1984
This report contains administrative summaries for program evaluations of these 11 1983-84 Chapter I, Chapter II, and state compensatory education programs in the Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. The programs evaluated are the Elementary Resource Teacher/Aide Program; the Chapter I Parochial Reading and Mathematics Program; the…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correctional Education
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1983
This is the report of a hearing on the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981. ECIA established Chapter 1 and 2 block grants which transferred almost total authority for the largest elementary and secondary school Federal assistance programs in the United States to State and local education agencies. These programs had formerly…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Civil Rights, Compensatory Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Gray, Peter J.; Smith, Nick L. – 1983
Over 30 professional evaluators in five state departments of education and 5 large school districts were interviewed periodically over a 10-month period in 1982 to find out how the Education Consolidation Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) was affecting program evaluation activities. Preliminary findings on the impact of ECIA Chapter 1 (compensatory…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compensatory Education, Decentralization, Educational Change
Hill, T. Susan – 1981
To help local school officials implement the federal Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981, this handbook offers a step-by-step walk through the new law and presents recommendations for local policies concerning the law. ECIA replaces most categorical programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with block grants…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Block Grants, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
