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Download full textOffice of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2013
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1988
Presented is a report of congressional hearings on the child support enforcement program, authorized under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. The hearings, which took place in three sessions, focused on interstate enforcement, paternity establishment, improvement of collections and enforcement, and the future of the child support enforcement…
Descriptors: Court Role, Federal Government, Financial Support, Hearings
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2010
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV" or "Perkins") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1983
This document contains public testimony, prepared statements, and letters from the Congressional hearing on parental kidnaping. Following an opening statement by the committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, public testimony is given by representatives of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, the Criminal Investigative Division of…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Child Rearing, Court Litigation, Crime Prevention
Peer reviewedNichols-Casebolt, Ann – Child Welfare, 1988
Discusses the claim that little has been done by health, social work, and educational professionals to speak up about the fact that children born out-of-wedlock lack the economic and psychological benefits that attach to the right to legal paternity. (RWB)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Children, Fatherless Family, Illegitimate Births
Peer reviewedMann, Judy – Young Children, 1991
Discusses background of congressional passage of $22 billion in funding to help low-income families get care for their children while adults work. Bipartisan support for funding increased in 1988. In 1989, debate about finances stalled legislation until Children's Defense Fund and child care advocates across country formed national grassroots…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Day Care, Employed Parents, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1983
This document contains prepared statements and witness testimony from the Congressional hearing on child support enforcement legislation. Statistical data on family composition, divorce and separation trends, living arrangements for children, poverty status, welfare support, and child support are presented. The content of proposed bill H.R. 3545…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Federal Legislation, Financial Support, Law Enforcement
Zirkel, Perry A.; Gluckman, Ivan B. – Principal, 1996
A Florida student suicide case alleging administrative and school board negligence had mixed results. School officials must be vigilant about the possibility of student suicide and put appropriate procedures into place. The connections to school may include confidential communications, curricular linkages (educational films and student journals),…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Court Litigation, Intermediate Grades, Legal Problems
Peer reviewedPunger, Douglas S. – School Law Bulletin, 1984
Provides guidelines and suggestions for schools faced with legal problems associated with children from nontraditional families. Sections are included on children with changed surnames, access to school records for noncustodial parents, policy conflicts between spouses over children's schooling, and attempts by noncustodial parents to remove…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Divorce, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Problems
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1983
This document contains administrative and public witness testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing on the tax refund offset program. Descriptions of the child support enforcement program and of S. 150 (the Collection of Student Loans in Default Act of 1983) are presented. The testimony and prepared statements by…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Finance Reform
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1985
This report details findings of the Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee concerning the strengths and weaknesses of current and proposed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) work programs for promoting self-sufficiency among poor women; the role of support services such as day care; successful innovations in State…
Descriptors: Day Care, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Females
National Inst. for Child Support Enforcement, Chevy Chase, MD. – 1986
The Child Support Enforcement Amendments of 1985, the most significant child support enforcement measures taken by the United States Federal Government since the Child Support Enforcement Program was created in 1975, are discussed in this document. Also discussed are the history of enforcing child support payments and methods for dealing with…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Children, Childrens Rights, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Judiciary. – 1980
This record of a Congressional subcommittee hearing on parental kidnapping begins with an introduction to the problems of approximately 25,000 children, who are abducted each year by a parent in violation of child custody and visitation court orders following divorce proceedings. Various legal technicalities are noted, including that parents are…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Court Litigation, Court Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1987
This transcript is from the third in a series of hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy focusing on whether the present welfare system should be reformed or replaced. A series of public officials, child and family advocates, and other interested parties testified on the issue of enforcement of child support…
Descriptors: Family Status, Federal Programs, Incentives, Law Enforcement
