Districts and schools are receiving once in a life-time funding through the American Recovery Plan (ARP) to address the learning needs of students over the next few years, especially those who have been most impacted by a year of remote or hybrid learning. State education agencies (SEAs) including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, outlying…

Over the past 20 years, home visitation has emerged as the flagship program through which many states and communities are reaching out to new parents.The presence of bills to advance home visitation in Congress and in state and local legislatures, and the fact that several states and counties are moving forward with comprehensive plans and…

The document is a copy of Public Law 93-508 enacted by the 93rd Congress, December 3, 1974 to amend title 38, United States Code. Cited as the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, it provides for: increased vocational rehabilitation subsistence allowances, educational and training assistance allowances, and special allowances…

Head Start, the federally funded, comprehensive child development program for low-income preschool children, was reauthorized by Congress in 1990 with a sufficient increase in funding to serve all eligible children by 1994, and to strengthen the Head Start program in general. The National Head Start Association mailed 1,800 surveys to Head Start…

Senate bill S.1885, "Act for Better Child Care Services of 1988," is designed to provide for a federal program for the improvement of child care. The bill aims to strengthen the role of the family by ensuring that parents are not forced by lack of available programs or financial resources to place a child in unsafe or unhealthy child…

Identifies issues that Congress and the general public will very likely be concerned with in considering future vocational education legislation and discusses issues the American Vocational Association basic state grant study team have identified within the basic state grant program. (LRA)

Discusses the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion that will conduct an in-depth study to make recommendations on how to ensure that all Head Start programs provide high-quality services. Examines legislation having an impact on Head Start programs, including efforts to reduce the federal budget. (TJQ)

Senate bill S.2270, "Smart Start: The Community Collaborative for Early Childhood Development Act of 1988," is designed to provide financial assistance to states and localities for high quality early childhood development programs for prekindergarten children. The first and second purposes of the act are to make widely available to…

With minor exceptions, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program is working well and is meeting its legislative mandates. The public-private partnerships that have emerged at the local community level and the strong leadership role assumed by the private sector representatives on the State Job Training Coordinating Councils and Private…

This report, prepared in response to a requirement in the Academic Research Facilities Modernization Act, proposes a plan for the modernization of general research facilities in which academic research is conducted, including research buildings, research laboratories, support rooms, and other institutional or departmental facilities in scientific…

Federal support for research in vocational education dates from the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. However, only one substantial study of vocational education research has been undertaken. In 1974, the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council was awarded funds from the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education for a two-year examination…

The education finance bill recently passed by the federal government has changed the funding of many programs within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Budget lines that gained or lost are traced, with some explanation of the changes. Prospects for the 1993 federal education research budget are reviewed. (SLD)

A study examined the activities and the impact of allocations made under Subpart 3 (Program Improvement and Supportive Services) and Subpart 4 (Special Programs for the Disadvantaged) of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. Covered by the study were 1,352 allocations made to California secondary school districts and 520 allocations made to…

To aid the United States Congress in its analysis of alternative for federal aid to libraries, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the two largest federally funded programs, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) Title II and the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), to assess their effectiveness in meeting…

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS, PANELISTS, AND WORKSHOPS WERE ASKED TO FOCUS ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE 45-PLUS AGE GROUP AND TO MAKE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS ON PUBLIC POLICY, LEGISLATION, AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESEARCH, PROGRAM AND ACTION. IN ADDITION, STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH WERE IMPLICIT IN THE PROCEEDINGS WERE INCLUDED. UNDER EACH SUB-HEADING,…