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Reeder, Richard J. – Rural America, 2001
Changes in federal policy affecting rural development in economically distressed areas in 2001 include new markets initiatives, establishment of the (Mississippi River) Delta Regional Authority, and increased infrastructure funding. Infrastructure priorities include highway construction, airport improvements, public works grants, rural…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Facilities Improvement, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1994
This General Accounting Office (GAO) report addresses the concern raised by Senator Thad Cochran that revising counts of people in poverty (by adjusting the official poverty line for geographic differences in the cost of living) could significantly alter the allocation of federal aid to state and local governments. A concern is that a…
Descriptors: Costs, Economically Disadvantaged, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1989
Poverty affects many rural two-parent families, even with one or both parents working. High suicide rates, increased violence, families separated in order to find work, homelessness, and hunger afflict the rural and small town poor. This document contains testimony from poor and homeless rural people; the director of the Center on Budget and…
Descriptors: Hearings, Homeless People, Hunger, Low Income Groups
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
This report presents statements, letters and supplementary material submitted in favor of a bill renewing funding for Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Testimony describes how successful the program has been and suggests how the bill can be changed and the Chapter 1 program improved. Among suggestions made are the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Dropouts, Educational Finance
Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, CA. – 1985
The proceedings of a 1984 public hearing on finding solutions to race-related problems in South Central Los Angeles, California, are summarized in this report. The hearing focused on problems identified by the McCone Commission, which investigated the Watts Riots of 1965 and reported on what could be done to ameliorate the conditions that caused…
Descriptors: Blacks, Education, Employment, Government Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1987
This report of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources recommends that the Senate pass the Comprehensive Child Development Centers Act of 1987, S. 1542. The bill amends the Head Start Act to provide for the establishment of several child development centers designed to encourage supportive services for infants and young children from low income…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Involvement, Federal Programs
Carter, David G., Sr.; And Others – 1986
Thirty years after the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision, the United States has yet to adopt "all deliberate speed" in eliminating racial segregation, for courts have remained in protracted debate over desegregation in public schools. The legal concept of "intent" provides the distinction between "de…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Educational Change
National Archives and Records Administration, 2005
The Secretary issues regulations prescribing criteria to be used in selecting eligible members of the Armed Forces to participate in the Troops-to-Teachers program and receive financial assistance. These regulations implement section 2303(c) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (Act). The regulations also define the…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Federal Aid, Teacher Certification
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1983
These Congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the passage of the Community Volunteer Service Act of 1983. This bill would amend the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program to provide a more concrete mandate for the program; would have VISTA volunteers recruited locally and assigned to projects to alleviate poverty and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Hearings
Riddle, Wayne – 1988
Chapter 1, the Federal program of grants to local education agencies (LEAs) for the education of disadvantaged children, authorizes the distribution of assistance through both a basic and a concentration grant formula. Concentration grants are intended to provide additional assistance to areas with especially high numbers or proportions of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. – 1978
A hearing was held to consider S.2997, a bill which would provide financial assistance for school construction to local educational agencies educating large numbers of immigrant children born in Mexico. In opening remarks, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Texas, explained that 58,000 Mexicans immigrated to the US in 1977; towns along the American border,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Influences, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This document contains transcripts of hearings on employment and the social costs of unemployment. During the hearings, testimony and prepared statements were taken from persons involved with unemployment programs, with Black community leaders, union representatives, teachers' representatives, police officials, and research professionals about the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Div. – 1995
This report provides results of a General Accounting Office review of the Delta Teachers Academy, a program funded primarily by the federal Department of Education to upgrade the subject area knowledge and teaching skills of elementary and secondary teachers in the Lower Mississippi Delta region (involving rural areas of Arkansas, Illinois,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
