A review of Indiana's current system of financing public vocational-technical education was limited to these concerns: the resource needs of vocational-technical education to keep the current delivery system up-to-date and the resources necessary to expand vocational-technical education services to those not being served. Although the current…

Designed to help rural officials, including tribal governments and community leaders, quickly identify sources of assistance for rural development, this guide catalogs approximately 440 sources of public and private national level technical and financial resource assistance. The sources of assistance listed generally focus on local governments and…

These proceedings of a dissemination conference on occupational research in Texas contain the texts of five reports and the abstracts of twelve research projects dealing with various aspects of vocational education. In the keynote address, on free enterprise and vocational education, the role of vocational education in preserving free enterprise…

In order to analyze the California system of community college finance within a national context, a review of recent literature was followed by an intensive study and survey of eight states, chosen to illustrate alternative solutions to California financing problems. National trends among community colleges that emerged included (1) the…

This booklet is a guide for those wishing to route Title XX money into the community programs for children. Part I discusses ways for child advocates to participate in four key stages of the Title XX planning process in their state: planning proposals, raising the 25% non-federal share of the funds required by Title XX, and publishing proposed and…

One of a series of special studies by Project Baseline, a national effort requested by Congress to gather information about vocational education and manpower training, the report traces the career education movement, beginning with a few isolated State and local activities in the mid-1960's and following it through the decade as it has become…

The aim of the Texas Child Migrant Program is that each school district develop a migrant program designed to meet the special educational needs of the children of that school system. All districts are encouraged to implement new ideas, activities, and changes which show promise of improving the education of migrant children. Objectives of the…

Meeting at Massachusetts state residential schools and centers for the mentally handicapped, the 15-man committee reviewed recommendations originally appearing in Massachusetts Plans for Its Retarded, A 10-Year Plan (1966). Forty-seven final recommendations for improving residential facilities for the retarded resulted; suggestions made for their…

The 11-member National Advisory Committee presents various reasons to urge reconsideration of the proposed amount of financial support for programs for handicapped children. The proposed limitation of federal funding for fiscal year 1970 which will deprive over 60% of the handicapped of special education services and which will drastically reduce…

The South Carolina Annual Program, Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), 1973-74, was originally developed on the basis of the interim funding level announced by the Office of Education at the beginning of the fiscal year. Following congressional approval of the Labor-HEW Appropriations Bill in December 1974, additional funds became…

A history clearly unlike any other region in the U.S., an indigenous population with unique cultural patterns, and a physical environment that can only be described with positive and negative superlatives, have all combined to influence the making of a complex tripartite educational system for a large portion of Alaska's people. Two parts of the…

The aim of the Texas Child Migrant Program is that each school district develop a migrant program designed to meet the special educational needs of the children of that school system. All districts are encouraged to implement new ideas, activities, and changes which show promise of improving the education of migrant children. Objectives of the…

Discusses results of "Electronic Learning's" 1986 survey of state departments of education to determine each state's computer education commitment, financial support, budget allocations, computer course or integration requirements in elementary and secondary education, and teacher certification requirements. Statistics are provided on…

Beginning with the assumption that children across the full spectrum of family income, family composition, and prior experience with child care would benefit from being in a well-implemented preschool at 3 and 4 years of age, this working paper focuses on finding a feasible way to finance universal preschool for 4-year-olds. The paper begins with…

This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1996, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. Section 1 contains chapters…