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Download full textLanghauser, Derek P. – Maine Community College System, 2017
Because The Maine Community College System (MCCS) is aware of that fact that student veterans and those veterans seeking to enroll in college have specific needs, each of the colleges in the MCCS system is working to develop and strengthen target responses to meet those needs. The Maine Community College System is therefore providing this report…
Descriptors: Veterans, State Legislation, Committees, Community Colleges
US Government Accountability Office, 2016
Beginning in 2011, the Department of Education (Education) used its statutory authority to invite states to apply for waivers from certain provisions in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) through its Flexibility initiative. To receive Flexibility waivers, states had to agree to meet other requirements related to college- and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Nellhaus, Jeffrey – Massachusetts Department of Education, 2008
The "Report to the Legislature: School Leadership Academies Training Initiative" is submitted pursuant to Chapter 61 of the Acts of 2007, line item 7061-941. In FY 08, the legislature appropriated $1 million to support the second year of a program to develop and implement School Leadership Academies for principals and superintendents to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Leadership Training
Visher, Mary G.; Teitelbaum, Peter; Emanuel, David – 1999
This document reviews the relevant education literature to assess the evidence that reform strategies, such as those being used in New American High Schools, have affected educational outcomes, including school attendance, grades, skills attainment, graduation rates, and postgraduation activities. The overview focuses on 10 strategies: (1) raise…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Excellence in Education
Morra, Linda G. – 1994
This paper presents the testimony concerning special education reform and inclusion programs of the Director of Education and Employment Issues before a House of Representatives subcommittee. The speaker concludes that inclusion programs can work (as in districts in California, Kentucky, New York, and Vermont) but take tremendous effort and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Trends
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1997
At the request of the U.S. House of Representatives, this study identified problems confronting child protective service (CPS) units, which affect the system's capacity to protect children from abuse and neglect. State and local responses to these problems, and opportunities for the federal government to assist in improving the system's capacity…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1986
This study analyzes various measures of economic well-being to establish how these may have changed over time. It concludes that while most Americans have experienced progressively higher living standards in recent decades, an underclass group has emerged without the wherewithal to support itself or improve its economic situation. Government…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Employment Patterns
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1994
At least 154 employment training programs (ETP) providing approximately $25 billion in employment training assistance are currently administered by 14 federal agencies. Individually, these programs are all well-intended. Collectively, however, they have been described as bewildering and frightening to clients and confusing to those who operate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Change Strategies, Coordination
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1996
This hearing transcript presents statements regarding programs that facilitate involvement of marginal or absentee fathers in the upbringing of their children. Opening or prepared statements, reiterating the increase in paternal abandonment and its attendant social costs, are presented for Indiana Senator Dan Coats, Chair of the Subcommittee on…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 2002
This document contains the text of the Nurse Reinvestment Act, which amends the Public Health Service Act to address the increasing shortage of registered nurses by instituting a series of policies to improve nurse recruitment and nurse retention. Title I details two initiatives to boost recruitment of nurses. The first initiative includes the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Development, Career Ladders, Change Strategies
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1994
These Congressional hearings contain testimony regarding options for restructuring the federal employment and training system. Representatives of the following agencies and organizations provided testimony at the hearings: National Commission on Employment Policy; Health, Education and Human Services Division, Education and Employment Issues, U.S.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Heinrich, Janet – 2001
The General Accounting Office's (GAO's) director of health care-public health issues testified before Congress regarding growing concerns about the adequacy of the health care work force and lessons learned from the experience of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) in addressing the maldistribution of health care professionals. The following…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, Demand Occupations
