A major goal of public education is to provide all students an equal chance to achieve to their full potential regardless of background. To attain this goal, schools often must compensate for the disadvantaged backgrounds of some students who have needs that cannot be fully met by the regular instructional program. Compensatory programs represent…

Examines the necessity, availability, and feasibility of collecting and analyzing data on human and fiscal resources at the school level, based on the author's studies of Chapter 1 programs and New Jersey's school finance reform. Explores answerable questions; necessary data; collection challenges involving revenues and expenditures, staff,…

During the 1983-84 school year, 58 percent of the 27,700 private schools in the United States reported benefiting from publicly funded services. The source of these data is the National Survey of Private Schools, fall 1983, carried out by Westat, Inc., under contract with the Center for Education Statistics (CES). The survey supplemented the CES…

A profile of Oregon's Chapter 1 programs during the 1982-83 school year is provided. During that year, 8 percent of all Oregon students participated in Chapter 1 programs, and 21 percent of these belonged to an ethnic minority. Of the students who received Chapter 1 instruction, 59 percent had help in reading, 24 percent received help with math…

ESEA Title I, now Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, was designed to provide financial assistance to local education agencies to meet the special needs of educationally deprived children, with funds used to provide supplemental instructional support service. Starting with the 1979-80 school year, each state…

This report on public and private schools presents data on enrollment, program emphasis, 1986-87 graduates as a percentage of 1986 seniors, Chapter 1 services, free lunch, and state-by-state comparisons for public schools on selected data. National estimates are provided for all data, and state estimates for public schools on programs or services,…

This is the first of two volumes of a report summarizing participation and achievement information from the 1984-85 school year of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program. This volume presents participation information provided by state educational agencies. This school year was the first for…

The Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment of the New York City Public Schools evaluates the Chapter 1 Math Skills program annually. Objectives, which were set by the Division of High Schools, are that at least 50 percent of full-year program participants will demonstrate a normal curve equivalent (NCE) gain of at least 1 unit as measured…

This is the second of two volumes of a report summarizing participation and achievement information from the 1984-85 school year of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program. This volume presents achievement information provided by state education agencies. Because of language and mobility problems,…

A study was done to determine the extent to which children in public high and low poverty schools receive similar services and levels of supports, and whether public schools receiving Chapter 1 assistance appear to have more services and support than do similar non-Chapter 1 schools. The study used data from the base year Schools and Staffing…

Since 1969-70 the National Catholic Educational Association has published a statistical report on Catholic elementary schools and secondary schools in the United States. This year's report contains the core school enrollment and staffing data of the Association's historical file, and includes data from a survey on extended care programs and…

Since 1969-70, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has published a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This year's report contains the core school enrollment and staffing data of the NCEA historical file. Also included are data on Chapter 1 services, extended care programs, school…

Core school enrollment and staffing data are presented from the historical file of the National Catholic Education Association. Data are also presented for Chapter 1 services, extended care programs, and coeducational and single-sex schools. The first part of the report presents a summary of demographic trends with an impact on public and private…

This working paper examines funding to U.S. school districts and public schools in accordance with Chapter 1 of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended in 1988. The report discusses the background of the legislation, describes its provisions, and presents results from the Schools and Staffing Survey conducted in…