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PDF pending restorationGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1997
This report provides an overview of efforts undertaken by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) in 1990 to review and report on federal program areas its work identified as high risk because of vulnerabilities to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. It reviews the current status of efforts to address these concerns. The six categories of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Fraud
Download full textSchenet, Margot A. – 1993
This report discusses recent changes in federal aid to postsecondary students enacted by Congress during 1992-93, focusing on the 1992 Amendments to the Higher Education Act and the 1993 Federal Direct Student Loan (DL) Program. The report reviews recent issues surrounding federal aid to postsecondary students, such as program accountability and…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Attitudes, Eligibility, Federal Programs
Kemple, James J.; And Others – 1993
One part of a study of the difference that services under Title IIA of the National Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) make in the employment, earnings, and welfare receipt of adults and out-of-school youths served by the program focused on the following: recruiting sites, monitoring the implementation of the research design, and describing and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Bass, Randall V.; Bass, Jo Ann F. – 1991
Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU), a program operating on funds from the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), was initiated at Arkansas State University in 1989. The 60-day program is targeted to economically disadvantaged 14- and 15-year-olds who are on grade level and have been identified as being likely to drop out of high school, but are not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Federal Programs, High Risk Students, High Schools
Pearce, Diana M. – 1993
A study analyzed the effects of Wider Opportunities for Women's (WOW) Nontraditional Employment Training (NET) Project. NET was designed to identify and demonstrate strategies to increase the number of women entering and succeeding at nontraditional training in the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) system. Three sites reflected differences in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs, Females
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the procedures used by various federal agencies to monitor the performance and effectiveness of their programs of employment training assistance to economically disadvantaged persons. The study revealed that, although most of the employment training programs had some form of oversight or monitoring…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Prather, Margaret Boyce – 1982
The final report of a five-year federally-funded bilingual education program in four schools of the the Sunnyside School District in Tucson, Arizona, is presented. The following areas are addressed: (1) student enrollment patterns, (2) the instructional program for kindergarten through fifth grade and its development, (3) staff development efforts…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Bilingual Education Programs, Community Organizations
Escutia, Martha M. – 1983
The principles espoused by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) may lead to a severe negative effect on Hispanic American participation rates. Decentralization erodes Federal oversight over targeting and monitoring efforts, thus endangering equal access to training programs by the disadvantaged and minorities. Hispanic, small, and minority…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Decentralization, Employment Programs, Ethnic Discrimination
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1989
This document comprises the first volume of a three-volume study, mandated by the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, on domestic and foreign tutoring programs for disadvantaged elementary and secondary students that involve college students. This volume summarizes the results of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Berney, Tomi D.; Stern, Lucia – 1990
Chapter I/Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs programs in English as a Second Language (ESL) served students at 78 high schools in New York City, supplementing tax-levy-funded ESL classes in those schools serving limited-English-proficient (LEP) students. Chapter I of the Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act funded ESL and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Compensatory Education, Eligibility, English (Second Language)
Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1990
Results of the 1989-90 product evaluation of the Chapter 1 prekindergarten program of the Saginaw, Michigan School District are reported. The purpose of the program is to provide educationally disadvantaged, inner-city 4-year-olds with an environment that will enable them to develop skills needed for success in school. In 1989-90, the program…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1988
This document records the testimony and prepared statements of members of Congress, officials of the Veterans' Administration, private vocational rehabilitation experts, and representatives of veterans' groups such as the Disabled American Veterans and the American Legion at a hearing regarding the Vocational Rehabilitation Program enacted under…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1983
This document is a transcript of a Congressional hearing conducted for the purpose of discussing the workings of the new federal Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) as it applies to veterans. Witnesses included various officials of veterans groups, especially Vietnam veterans from Massachusetts, state officials of Massachusetts, a representative…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Ludwig, Terry; And Others – 1984
The Admiral Corporation, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA), the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), the area administrative entity for the Job Training Partnership Act (JPTA), and Carl Sandburg Community College (CSCC) recently joined in an effort to provide training and jobs for unemployed workers in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development, Employment Programs
Hollinger, Judith A., Ed. – 1984
This booklet is intended to inform (not advise) older Kansans about eligibility requirements and benefits provided by state and federal programs. Financial assistance programs discussed are Social Security, railroad retirements, veterans' benefits, unrestricted general assistance, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, food stamps, Low Income…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, Eligibility, Estate Planning
