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Download full textAdministration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1995
This fact sheet provides statistical information about Project Head Start. Data are presented for the following categories: (1) budget--actual for fiscal year 1994 and the 1995 appropriation; (2) enrollment; (3) number of sites; (4) average cost per child; (5) number of staff and volunteers; and (6) enrollment and congressional appropriates from…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Enrollment, Federal Programs, Home Programs
Rubin, Jeffrey – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Given growing demands for cutbacks in aid to programs for the disabled, it is essential to choose carefully designed policy that benefits many and seriously harms few and to document program effectiveness through unbiased economic analysis. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Economic Factors, Economic Research
Rehabilitation Services Administration (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
The fiscal year 1981 annual report of the Rehabilitation Services Administration's activities under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, is presented; program operations, program development activities, functions of the National Institute of Handicapped Research, and other provisions of the Act, are described. Program operations include:…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Affirmative Action, Blindness, Daily Living Skills
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1979
Presented are the proceedings of hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, concerning legislative proposals amending Title XX social services programs, AFDC foster care and child welfare service programs. Testimony is included from…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Johnson, Suzanne Clark; Baratka, Talley V.; Wood, Lisa – 1999
This White Paper on child care is the second of four to be published by the Action Alliance for Virginia's Children, and focuses on the affordability and availability of quality child care in Virginia. The paper states that despite federal attempts to simplify funding, funding remains complicated due to differences in the federal and state fiscal…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Children, Day Care, Disabilities
Florida State Legislature, Tallahassee. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability. – 1997
This report reviews the Exceptional Student Education Programs administered by the Florida Department of Education. Findings of the review indicate: (1) during the 1995-96 school year, Florida spent 1.75 billion for special programs, services, and facilities to serve 368,710 students with disabilities; (2) the number and percentage of children…
Descriptors: Classification, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – 1985
The first in a series of papers by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation on policy issues in early childhood care and education, this report describes the status of early childhood care and education in the United States in the 1980s, with emphasis on publicly funded programs. First presented are data from the October 1980 Current…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Levitan, Sar A.; Mangum, Garth L. – 1994
The antipoverty initiatives of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations were essentially continued and given increased funding during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. The Reagan and Bush administrations marked the regression of many employment, training, and welfare programs. Employment and training issues were given high priority…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
