Providing health care services for foster children, who frequently have significant health care needs, can be challenging. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) oversees foster care, but state child welfare agencies are responsible for ensuring that these children receive health care services, which are often financed by Medicaid. In…

States and other educational entities receiving Part B funding under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) submitted their Annual Performance Reports (APRs) and Section 618 Table 6 data together to the U.S. Secretary of Education on or before February 1, 2009. These reports may have been modified during the following few months,…

This article reports on a 1973 national survey by the Privileged Communication Committee of the American School Counselor Association to determine the extent of any expansion taking place in this area. Rapid growth in the past five years in legislation relating to testimonial privileged communication is reported. (Author/PC)

This directory is a compilation of Massachusetts' programs for gifted and talented students reported by survey in 1984. Programs are organized alphabetically by title within four major topic areas: local school programs, academic regional programs, vocational-technical regional programs, and a special project at Southeastern Massachusetts…

This study investigated the relationship between the stressfulness of each state's social environment, smoking, and mortality rates for respiratory cancer. It was based on a health behavior model which assumed that under conditions of high stress some people fail to exercise normal prudence in either protecting their health or engage in practices…

This survey describes 40 periodicals which are published in South Dakota. Bibliographic information for each title is provided along with an annotation describing the usefulness of the publication. The publications reveal the uniqueness of South Dakota's rural and agricultural life style in addition to its growing business climate and flourishing…

This directory replaces the 1975 West Virginia Library Association listing of special libraries. It is divided into four sections: (1) alphabetical listing of libraries; (2) geographic listing by city or town; (3) alphabetical listing of librarians; and (4) keyword subject index. Entries provide information gathered from a statewide survey of…

Concludes that state laws affecting access to government records vary in their degree of openness but tend to support the concept that government should operate in the public view. (RB)

This supplement to the "Bibliography of the History of Libraries in New York State" contains primary and secondary sources, in English or translated, completed or published from 1968 to 1972. Documents are concerned with functions and activities of individual New York State libraries and/or systems, and library development on a statewide…

The report to the state legislature examines the status of culturally disadvantaged mentally gifted minors in California. The report is preceded by sections of the education code which outline report requirements and criteria for identification of the culturally disadvantaged, underachieving mentally gifted. The report provides data on the…

This paper discusses responses to a survey paralleling a national study of trustees in North Carolina. Conducted in 1968, the survey was aimed at 1600 trustees; some 800 responded. The remarks deal principally with findings of importance to the trustees themselves, and answered 4 general questions: (1) who are North Carolina's trustees; (2) how…

State offices of mental retardation were surveyed to determine current methods used to estimate the prevalence of mental retardation. (Author)