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Download full textShaul, Marnie S. – 2002
In order to promote low-income parents' job preparation and work efforts, states were given greater flexibility to design programs using federal funds to subsidize child care for low-income families. At Congressional request, this report from the General Accounting Office describes how states set reimbursement rates and calculates the extent to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Care, Government Publications, Low Income Groups
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2000
In 1998, an estimated 3.4 million uninsured children were of high school age. Among highly populated states, there were wide differences in the percentage of these uninsured children, ranging from 28 percent in Texas to 6 percent in Massachusetts. Ten states and the District of Columbia require high school students to have health insurance before…
Descriptors: Athletics, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Publications, Injuries
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2002
Over the past decade, a new kind of entity has emerged in public education: the for-profit provider of education and management services. This is a report on a study of the effectiveness of the programs of three such companies-Edison Schools, Mosaica Education, and Chancellor Beacon Academies-operating in 10 charter schools in the District of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Charter Schools
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2003
As mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the Government Accounting Office was charged with examining how school districts defined and spent Title I funds on administrative activities, and with reviewing Title I expenditures in at least six school districts. This document reports on how five studies defined Title I administrative…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2002
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 directed the U.S. General Accounting Office to determine whether the Department of Defense (DOD) overseas teachers' compensation package is adequate to recruit and retain qualified teachers. The Act also required GAO to determine whether or not any revisions to the law governing DOD…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Dependents Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Recruitment
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2003
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) established 2 flexibility demonstration programs--State- and Local-Flex--that allow up to 7 states and 80 school districts to redirect up to 100 percent of certain NCLBA programs funds. The General Accounting Office (GAO) was asked to determine factors that affect states' and districts' decisions about whether…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2002
This is a report of a study by the U.S. General Accounting Office for the U.S. Congress. Using data from the 2000-01 school year, the study focused on per-pupil spending, factors influencing spending, and other similarities and differences among selected high-poverty inner-city elementary schools and selected suburban elementary schools. From 42…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Finance, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
