PRESENTED ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF 18 TYPICAL PROJECTS IN VERMONT WHICH WERE DEVELOPED WITH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT TITLE I FUNDS. ARRANGED BY CITY OR TOWN, EACH BRIEF PROJECT RESUME PRESENTS A STATEMENT ABOUT THE NEED AND SUBSTANTIATION (BASELINE DATA), TITLE, PROJECT DESCRIPTION, PROPOSED EVALUATION METHODS, AND COST. OVERALL, THE…

THIS REPORT REVIEWS AND EVALUATES THE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED IN TWO WASHINGTON COUNTIES. SECTIONS OF THE REPORT DESCRIBE THE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL'S ROLE IN TITLE I, THE INTENT OF TITLE I, AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WHO CONSTITUTE THE TITLE I TARGET POPULATION. STATISTICAL DATA ARE PROVIDED ON…

The 26th annual report (1973) of American Indian education programs in Oklahoma is presented. The Oklahoma education program is financed and operated under a contract between the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, and the State Department of Education. The supervision of the program is carried out entirely by the State…

Recent increases in the cost of food and labor, while affecting individual families across the Nation, are also affecting food programs supported by the Federal Government. In response to concerns regarding the impact of these increases on the School Lunch Programs, particularly, the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of this Select Committee…

THE ENACTMENT OF THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963 PROVIDED A NEW PHILOSOPHY IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WHICH IS RESULTING IN A MAJOR EXPANSION AND REDIRECTION OF THE PROGRAM ACROSS THE NATION. THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROGRAM HAS EVOLVED INTO A SYSTEMATIZED APPROACH AND PROCEDURE WITH SIGNIFICANT FEEDBACK INTO THE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE CONSTANT…

Two Senate Subcommittees conducted joint hearings in October and November, 1981, on federal vocational education and job training programs for youth. The Committees sought answers to the question of how the federal government should participate in building an effective and efficient work force. Witnesses who spoke at the hearings included Governor…

These congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the continuation of funding for the Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) and the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). (Modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, the YACC and the YCC are youth conservation programs that provide jobs to youth in such areas as tree planting, trail…

The New Economy Work (NEW) Scholarship is a proposed scholarship designed to reform federal training programs and to make them universally accessible to dislocated or disadvantaged workers. NEW Scholarships would accomplish the following things: (1) make access to training for dislocated workers as universally available as access to college; (2)…

These Congressional hearings contain testimony regarding options for restructuring the federal employment and training system. Representatives of the following agencies and organizations provided testimony at the hearings: National Commission on Employment Policy; Health, Education and Human Services Division, Education and Employment Issues, U.S.…

This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…

Selected state and local experiments in developing/supporting workplace-centered training programs were analyzed to identify issues relevant to developing a national policy for workplace training. Intensive case studies of state economic development/training programs in California and Illinois and the employment and training programs provided by…