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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
State education agencies are allowed to retain up to 20 percent of the funds they receive from the federal government through the block grant provisions of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. A review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) of the United States of the uses to which these retained funds were put in California and…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Cooperstein, Rhonda Ann – 1986
This document reports the findings of the National Study of Local Operations under Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, the federal education block grant, concerning the legislation's effects on the provision of services to private school students. Data for the report came from national mail and telephone surveys…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Federal Aid
Peer reviewedKnapp, Michael S.; Cooperstein, Rhonda Ann – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1986
This paper reviews early research at the national level on the implementation and effects of the Department of Education's block grant, Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Findings are summarized under six topics: funds allocation, educational service delivery, program administration, program assessment, decision…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Educational Research
