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Peer reviewedVerstegen, Deborah A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) reduced and redistributed federal aid to education, moving funds from targeted areas of need to all areas regardless of need. States were unable to make up for significant losses in aid sustained by local districts. (TE)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid
Katzman, Martin T. – 1984
Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) provides small amounts of relatively unrestricted federal funds to state and local agencies on a noncompetitive, formulaic basis; thus it has been hailed as the harbinger of the "new Federalism." The lack of narrow constraints and the simplified application and…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate. – 1987
This document provides the text of Senate bill S. 373, reauthorizing the program of finance assistance to meet the special education needs of children of low-income families, children of migrant parents, Indian children, and handicapped, neglected, and delinquent children. Allocations and program requirements for the following types of programs…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, American Indians, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
