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Bellotti, Jeanne; Rosenberg, Linda; Sattar, Samina; Esposito, Andrea Mraz; Ziegler, Jessica – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. Passed in response to the 2008 recession, the Act's purpose was to create jobs, pump money into the economy, and encourage spending. Through the Act, states received $1.2 billion in funding for the workforce investment system to provide…
Descriptors: Youth Employment, Focus Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities
Oliver, Barbara, Ed. – 1974
North Carolina has established programs and projects designed to meet the special educational needs of the children of migratory workers and has coordinated them with similar agencies. The State migrant program's priorities are regular school term and summer projects for interstate and intrastate migrants; staff development activities; a migrant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Enrollment, Migrant Education
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Edgar, Eugene; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1977
Analyzed were the results of 18 extended school year programs in the state of Washington.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Extended School Year, Handicapped Children
Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC. – 1995
This report provides an evaluation of the efforts each state and the District of Columbia are making to provide nutritious summer meals to children of low-income families. The evolution of the Summer Food Service Program for Children (SFSP), created by Congress in 1968 to provide funds for eligible sponsoring organizations to serve meals to…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Eligibility, Federal Programs, Lunch Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1989
The 1989 New York City Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) Summer Remediation Program met or exceeded each of its objectives. The program comprised basic skills and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, serving 12,785 students in 880 classes in the regular high schools and an unspecified number of students at 73 off-site…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, English (Second Language), High Schools
Oliver, Barbara, Ed. – 1975
During the 1974-75 school year, the North Carolina migrant program's priorities were program continuity; regular school term and summer programs for interstate and intrastate migrant children; staff development activities; Migrant Student Record Transfer System; migrant education program support team; and mobile vocational instructional program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Interstate Programs, Migrant Education
Singh, Anita; Endahl, John – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) was created to ensure that children in low-income areas could have access to nutritious meals during the summer months when school is not in session. During the school year about 15 million low-income children depend on the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and/or School Breakfast Program (SBP) for…
Descriptors: Child Health, Food Service, Nutrition, Low Income Groups
Garofalo, V. James – 1968
Central New York's 1968 migrant summer school programs were sampled and evaluated on the basis of meeting Crewson's objectives as stated in 1967: (1) improvement of self-concept; (2) development of language ability and vocabulary; (3) development of social and academic skills; (4) expansion of cultural experiences; and (5) establishment of sound…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Migrant Education
Parnell, Dale; And Others – 1968
The annual report and evaluation discusses education of the 2,929 migrant children who participated in Oregon's 1967-68 program (including students in both public and nonpublic schools). The report cites innovative projects implemented to meet the needs of students in the program. Among the projects described are the Migralab, a mobile van…
Descriptors: Achievement, Annual Reports, Attitudes, Community
Alvino, Peter – 1984
Since 1983 the Migrant Education Program Evaluation (MEPE) has collected data about migrant children in summer programs throughout the state of Illinois. Testing is done during the summer months with migrant students in grades 3, 5, and 7. Preliminary screening identifies students who are limited-English speakers, and they are excluded from…
Descriptors: Developmental Continuity, Educational Improvement, Evaluation Utilization, Migrant Education
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1970
Materials produced following a seminar held on the orientation to educational evaluation, conducted for ABE Summer Institute directors and allied staff, are provided. This material relates to common perspectives for effective evaluation that can become part of the evaluation methodology used by the summer institute directors. The planning for the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Conference Reports, Evaluation Methods
Lange, Drexel D., Comp.: And Others – 1975
During fiscal year 1975, 4 school attendance centers were operated: (1) Migrant Action Program, Mason City; (2) Reinbeck Community, Reinbeck; (3) Muscatine Community, Muscatine; and (4) Muscatine-Scott County, serving Muscatine and West Liberty schools. Although each local educational agency (LEA) approached the migrant child's educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Bilingual Education, Coordination
Garza, J. J. – 1976
During 1974-75, Oregon's migrant program emphasized the development of regular school year projects. Nine regular year projects provided diversified educational, health, nutritional, and social services to 3,693 students in kindergarten through high school. Seven summer projects, designed primarily for children ages 5-14, were directed toward…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness
Lange, Drexel D.; And Others – 1978
During the year, eight migrant educational programs were operational in Iowa. Six of these were conducted during the regular school year, and two were summer programs. Of the 178 children attending the regular school term, 109 were classified as speaking primarily Spanish. Of the 187 children in the summer programs, 113 were classified as having…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
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Oliver, Barbara, Ed. – 1976
North Carolina established programs and projects designed to meet the special educational needs of migrant children and coordinated them with similar agencies. During the 1975-76 school year, the migrant program's priorities were program continuity, regular school term and summer projects for interstate and intrastate migrants, staff development…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Cooperation, Ancillary Services, Community Involvement
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