This report provides testimony on results of a General Accounting Office (GAO) study of Chapter 1 Compensatory Education programs, Chapter 2 Education Block Grant programs, and dropout prevention programs. The report covers the following: (1) Chapter 1 student selection; (2) Chapter 1 fiscal provisions; (3) Chapter 2 data collection and administration costs; and (4) local dropout prevention and reentry programs. The report also includes charts showing the following: (1) comparison of compatibility requirements under Title 1 and Chapter 1; (2) requirements for assuring comparability for responding states; (3) documentation used to show comparability in 44 states requiring recordkeeping; (4) characteristics of dropout program participants; (5) percentage of dropout youth having social, psychological, or academic problems; (6) factors reported by program administrators as having influenced program effectiveness; (7) services provided to dropout program participants; and (8) characteristics of selected dropout programs. (PS)