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Adam Jones – Boston Foundation, 2025
Family child-care programs (FCCs) are a unique and vital part of the Massachusetts child-care and education system. FCC owners tend to serve some of the highest-need children and families in the Commonwealth, yet the owners and assistants who run these programs often take home some of the lowest wages among educators. While much research has been…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family Programs, Child Care Centers, Financial Support
Alexandra Hegji – Congressional Research Service, 2024
In early 2020, in response to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump Administration declared a public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act, a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and a nationwide emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Congress and the U.S.…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics, Debt (Financial)
Meg Grigal; Clare Papay; Caitlyn Bukaty; Belkis Choiseul-Praslin; Cate Weir; Chelsea VanHorn Stinnett – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Background: Since 2010, there has been significant growth in the United States in the number of students with intellectual disability accessing higher education, driven by federal legislation and funding. Currently, over 340 institutions of higher education provide programs of study for students with intellectual disability. Of these programs, 134…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Finance, Inclusion, Postsecondary Education
Vega, Blanca Elizabeth – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how I--and many other students--became first-generation college students (FGCSs) by exploring the rise and retraction of TRIO. Originally, TRIO was a set of three college access and retention programs created in the 1960s to address the needs of a population designated as academically and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Poverty Programs
Federal Student Loan Forgiveness and Loan Repayment Programs. CRS Report R43571, Version 17. Updated
Alexandra Hegji; Elayne J. Heisler; Sylvia L. Bryan – Congressional Research Service, 2024
Service-contingent student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs enable borrowers to have all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid in exchange for work or service in specific fields or professions. In both loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs, borrowers typically qualify for benefits by working or serving in certain…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Loan Repayment
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2023
States are seeking alternative means to identify low-income students for supplemental funding, as many schools no longer need to verify household income to determine students' eligibility for free and reduced-price meals. Instead, states can identify students whose families participate in social service programs with income criteria at or near 200…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Identification, Educational Finance, State Aid
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2024
Research Connections developed this document in collaboration with the Tribal Child Care Capacity Building Center for use during the OCC National Tribal Conference 2024 on April 9-11, 2024. This resource list highlights sample resources from the Research Connections library on the Conference topic areas. It also includes links to additional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, American Indian Education, Tribes, Tribally Controlled Education
Alexandra Hegji – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program is the single largest source of federal financial assistance to support students' postsecondary educational pursuits. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that in FY2025, $93.1 billion in new loans will be made through the program. As of the end of the third quarter of FY2024,…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Educational Finance, Federal Programs
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2023
The Charter Schools Program (CSP) is the nation's only source of dedicated federal funding to support the creation, expansion, and replication of public charter schools. Since FY2019, the CSP has been flat funded at $440 million. The CSP amounts to less than 1% of federal spending on K-12 education, however, it has a substantial impact on the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, Program Effectiveness
Billings, Kara Clifford – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other institutional settings. The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Lunch Programs, Nutrition, Federal Programs
Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2021
The Head Start Act mandates that each Head Start recipient receive a monitoring review at least once every 3 years; each newly designated recipient be reviewed after the completion of its first year (and then at least once every 3 years thereafter); and all recipients that "fail to meet the standards" receive Follow-up reviews. Reviewers…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Federal Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2021
The purpose of this flash report is to share with the U.S. Department of Education (Department) observations made by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) concerning grantees and subgrantees inconsistently reporting audit data on Department subprograms, or unique components of a program, to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC), the designated…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Grants, Audits (Verification), Financial Audits
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
About half of the more than $1 trillion in outstanding federal student Direct Loans are being repaid by borrowers using IDR plans. Some borrowers in IDR plans are now potentially eligible for forgiveness of their remaining loan balances after 20 or 25 years of payments. GAO was asked to review IDR forgiveness. This report examines: (1) how many…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment
Adam Goldstein; Charlie Eaton; Amber Villalobos; Parijat Chakrabarti; Jeremy Cohen; Katie Donnelly – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
This study considers socially stratified take-up of income-driven repayment plans among federal student loan borrowers with high-debt payment obligations. Qualitative analyses of borrower complaints from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are used to document borrowers' experiences of administrative burden in the federal loan repayment…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Programs, Loan Repayment, Income Contingent Loans
US Senate, 2022
This hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions examines COVID-19 and going back to school safely. Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Lamar Alexander, Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and (2) Honorable Patty Murray, Ranking Member, a U.S. Senator from the State of Washington.…
Descriptors: Hearings, COVID-19, Pandemics, Reentry Students