Recounts the difficulties the citizens of Kaskaskia Island, Illinois, had with the federal Flood Insurance Agency in obtaining permission and funds to rebuild an elementary school destroyed in a flood. (IRT)

Discusses research on the cost and benefits of government-funded universal preschool education. (Contains 12 references.) (PKP)

Describes the concept of the universal school lunch program -- enlargement of the current scope of food services to include all school age children. (JF)

Describes how one federal form (Library General Information Survey IV) came to be created and the purposes for which it was designed. (IRT)

Schools can expect help in upgrading their energy-using systems through recently available federal funds. New systems make outdoor lighting more effective and less costly to operate and maintain, and should fall within the federal guidelines. (Author/IRT)

Experience in the health care industry indicates that increased federal aid results in a regulatory morass. (IRT)

Describes the effect of the President's impoundment of funds on allocation of Federal aid to education. (JF)

Reports on the annual meeting of the American Federation of Teachers and of the National Education Association. Both meetings were dominated by presidential politics and by federal-level concerns such as the Department of Education and federal aid. (IRT)

Presents a list of resolutions passed at the 31st annual convention of the National School Boards Association in April 1971. (JF)

Concludes that the Department of Education reflects an absence of new ideas about what ails education and that its establishment is merely symbolic action. (IRT)

A Rand Corporation study finds that an innovation is likely to fail if a school is in it for the money; however, if a school identifies a genuine problem and tries to solve it, the innovation is likely to succeed. (Author/IRT)

Discusses federal cuts in immunization programs and the probable consequences. (WD)

Several authors discuss block grants. The first author offers a brief overview of the history of federal grants in education and advances five arguments in favor of block grants. Others summarize the Reagan administration's proposals on block grants and note several arguments against such grants. (WD)

In spite of possible federal cutbacks in child nutrition programs, schools can start a breakfast program to ensure that students are getting the food they need in order to learn. Answers questions about starting a breakfast program. (MLF)