Adult education has a rich history in Iowa of providing services that assist adults in improving their skills, achieving their educational goals, and transitioning to further education or employment. Instruction is designed for adults functioning at the lowest levels of basic skills and/or needing English language instruction to advance their…

As a condition of receiving federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds, states are required to operate Child Support Enforcement (CSE) programs. Families receiving TANF are required to participate in the CSE program; families not receiving TANF may also request CSE services. However, since 1994, an increasing number of states…

This project originally attempted to develop data tables depicting the amount of state reimbursement received by each local Illinois school district in each special education program category. It utilized state of Illinois data tapes for the 1979-80 school year. Because it was impossible to separate reimbursements by program, the original research…

This annual report reviews the role of the Alaska Day Care Assistance Program, which was established in 1976 and amended in 1977 to provide child care assistance to families with children under 10 years of age regardless of their eligibility to receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The report describes the financial support awarded to…

Information in the report is taken from FY 1973 annual vocational education reports submitted by States and major cities and from the 1970 census report. The material indicates the proportion of the States' population served by vocational education in the major cities and the expenditures that were made for vocational education. The total…

The Oklahoma Indian education program is financed and operated under a contract between the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, and the State Department of Education. Supervision of the program is the responsibility of the State Department of Education as authorized by the Johnson O'Malley (JOM) Act of 1936. To qualify for JOM…

To assist state policy makers concerning elementary and secondary special education, this handbook assembles information on what states have experienced and what research has found about special education funding, cost and service changes, and funding source management. Chapter 1 considers defining student eligibility for special education,…

The report contains, in table form, national summary data compiled from FY 1973 annual reports submitted by all States in the administration of vocational education with the exception of American Samoa and the Virgin Islands, whose reports were not received. The data presented include statistics relating to expenditures, enrollments, program…

This document consists of eight graphs/lists and nine tables summarizing the results of the National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium's second biannual survey of administrative practices for the state and territorial adult education offices. Data are presented on the following topics: state staffing patterns; state services…

Researchers conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of 750 Massachusetts families with one or more children under the age of 13 in an effort to: (1) quantify the current use of various forms of child care by such families; (2) identify regional differences in the use of child care; (3) estimate the need for child care services in 1995; (4)…

The 26th annual report (1973) of American Indian education programs in Oklahoma is presented. The Oklahoma education program is financed and operated under a contract between the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, and the State Department of Education. The supervision of the program is carried out entirely by the State…

Since the early 1970s, secondary vocational education (SVE) in Minnesota has been funded either by paying districts a flat percentage of eligible costs or by paying a percentage of eligible costs plus paying for certain excess costs. By the mid-1980s, a number of questions and concerns about SVE funding were emerging. Among the specific concerns…

The second annual progress report of the Massachusetts Occupational Information System (MOIS) describes the activities and strategies of the MOIS in 1977. The report is divided into seven sections. The Administrative and Organizational Information section considers the highlights of the year, contains a chart illustrating the growth of the system,…

Utah's school districts receive equalization aid under the state's school finance program. Funds are distributed on the basis of weighted pupil units and are allocated among a number of specific programs. This document consists of tables and graphs displaying the allocation of these funds to Utah's 40 school districts during the 1982-83 school…

The report contains a synthesis of vocational education statistics based on information submitted by the States on programs conducted under the approved State plan for vocational education in most cases for FY 1972 and FY 1973. Annual vocational education reports submitted by the States provide data on enrollments, program completions, and…