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Celina Pierrottet – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2023
With more children and young adults experiencing mental health emergencies over the last 10 years, state and federal leaders made millions of dollars available to school districts for developing school-based mental health services and hiring and training school counselors, psychologists, and social workers. Yet schools still face considerable…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Child Health, Mental Health, School Health Services
Barnett, W. Steven; Hustedt, Jason T. – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2011
The care and education of young children in the United States is supported by nearly $40 billion yearly from a variety of sources at the federal, state, and local levels. Even so, about a quarter of 4-year-olds and half of 3-year-olds do not attend preschool, and many of those who do attend receive only poor quality services. Some programs are of…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Child Development, Preschool Education, Educational Legislation
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Messemer, Jonathan E. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2003
Responses from 45 of 50 state correctional education directors indicated that, following the ban on Pell Grants for inmates, 25 states still offered college programs, with funding from state and federal agencies, corporations, foundations, universities, and inmates. States most likely to have college programs had higher total population and higher…
Descriptors: College Programs, Correctional Education, Educational Attainment, Financial Support
Greenberg, Mark; Schumacher, Rachel – 2003
The two principal federal funding streams available to states for provision of child care services are the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant structure. Noting that funds from both of these can be used for child care and early education initiatives, this report summarizes what…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Financial Support, Program Descriptions
Schumacher, Rachel – 2003
This document is comprised of four Center for Law and Policy articles dealing with federal child care subsidies. The first discusses the proposed welfare reauthorization that includes an increase in Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding and an increase in the amount states can transfer from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Federal Legislation
Whisman, John D. – Appalachia, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Health, Program Budgeting
Coffin, Fai; Jacob, Stacie – 1972
This pamphlet describes what Title IV-A funding is, who is eligible for it, what Connecticut agencies administer it, and what some of the problems are. This information should prove invaluable to community groups who want to establish new day care programs, as the Federal government is willing to pay for 75 percent of the total cost of day care…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Day Care, Federal Legislation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
Two provisions in Title I--maintenance of effort (MOE) and supplement not supplant (SNS)--are designed to limit the extent to which federal funds can be used to replace state and local resources. To assess the quality of oversight of these provisions, the General Accounting Office (GAO) determined how Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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Physics Today, 1983
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCOR), a National Science Foundation-funded program is in the third year of its five-year grants to scientists in five states. Program objectives, financial support (including cost-sharing by states), state programs resulting from EPSCOR, and EPSCOR achievements are discussed. (JN)
Descriptors: College Science, Financial Support, Grants, Higher Education
Gettings, Robert M. – 1991
This report examines possible steps the State of Illinois might take to expand the availability of Medicaid support for services to persons with developmental disabilties. Stressed throughout are the importance of: (1) evaluating whether any given application of Medicaid funding is consistent with the State's goals for persons with developmental…
Descriptors: Administration, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities
Flanagan, Thelma G. – 1969
The need for a school food service was recognized at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, many such programs, some adequate and some inadequate, have been initiated. There has, however, always been the problem of inadequate financing to provide lunches for a full day's nourishment and sufficiently inexpensive for every student. In most…
Descriptors: Costs, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Financial Support
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Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1993
These state profiles provide brief descriptions of the target population, services, and participants of state-administered adult education programs that are supported in part by funds authorized under the Adult Education Act, as amended. Profiles based on information taken from 1990 census data and from information included in the 1991 annual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Mezey, Jennifer; Richie, Brooke – 2003
Since fiscal year (FY) 1997, states have used funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to supplement other funds in efforts to provide more child care assistance. This report provides an overview of the rules governing the use of TANF funds for child care. The report also describes how states used TANF funds to…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Care, Children, Employed Parents
Van Horn, Carl E.; And Others – 1983
This analysis is the fifth of a series of seven reports on the ways that the urban fiscal crisis has affected children. Children's services in New Jersey have not suffered unduly from recent Federal budget cuts, but the combination of depressed revenues, continuing inflation, state aid reductions and Federal budget cuts have had a negative…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Day Care, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Werger, Joanne – 1982
This paper summarizes and analyzes the program of Special Project Grants for public and community libraries in New Mexico. Funding for the program was by the New Mexico State Library through the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Title I from fiscal year 1972 to fiscal year 1981. Information on LSCA and the procedure for obtaining…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Grants, Library Cooperation, Library Expenditures
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