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Download full textLiberman, Akiva – Urban Institute, 2012
High rates of truancy at some DC schools are receiving considerable attention. The Family Court cannot realistically be a primary response to the chronic truancy of thousands of chronically truant high-school students, Senior Fellow Akiva Liberman of the Justice Policy Center told the City Council. Liberman commented that family-based…
Descriptors: Truancy, High School Students, High Schools, Courts
Nevada Department of Education, 2008
With the recent enactment of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, Congress has demonstrated overwhelming bipartisan support to continue the country's federal investment in career and technical education. This document, the "Nevada State Five-Year Plan for the Carl D. Perkins Act of 2006," referred hereinafter…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Hearings, Federal Legislation, Program Improvement
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
Massachusetts Department of Education, 2008
The "Report to the Legislature on School Redesign: Expanding Learning Time to Support Student Success" is submitted to the Legislature pursuant to Chapter 61 of the Acts of 2007, Section 2, line item 7061-9412. The School Redesign: Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative began in FY 06 when planning grants were first included in the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grants, School Schedules, Academic Achievement
Jones, Arnold P. – 1988
This document presents the testimony of Arnold P. Jones, Senior Associate Director of the United States General Accounting Office, before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The Act established a legalization program that permits undocumented aliens to become permanent…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Foreign Nationals, Hispanic Americans, Program Budgeting
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1988
This general program evaluation framework provides a wide range of criteria that can be applied in the evaluation of diverse federal progams. The framework was developed from a literature search on program evaluation methods and their use, the experiences of the United States Government Accounting Office (GAO), and consideration of the types of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Federal Programs
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1982
The legislative mandate for bilingual education in Illinois was analyzed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the mandate. Questions were addressed concerning the desired outcome of the mandate, the actual outcomes, and potential alternatives for bringing about the desired outcome. The history of the mandate for bilingual education and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Board of Education Policy, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Veterans Administration, Washington, DC. – 1984
The first interim report focuses on administration of the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act, which established an emergency program of job training assistance for unemployed Korean Conflict and Vietnam-era veterans. It describes implementation processes undertaken by the Veterans Administration and the Department of Labor and their outreach and…
Descriptors: Employers, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Incentives
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
The reauthorization of the Follow Through Program (FT), a program designed to reinforce gains made by low income children in preschool, is the subject of this hearing report. Testimony includes a rationale for reauthorizing the program; information and comments concerning the accomplishments and future prospects of FT; a brief historical…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Hearings, Intervention
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1987
On June 9, 1987, a hearing was held for the purpose of receiving testimony about family preservation programs that aim to keep children out of foster care by strengthening troubled families. Testifying were program providers, a juvenile court judge, and families who have benefited from family preservation services. Testimony focused on the…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Costs, Family Problems, Family Programs
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2003
Noting that the federal government spends more on Head Start than on any other early childhood education and care program, this report was requested by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to describe how Head Start fits into the array of early childhood education and care programs available to low-income children and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Compensatory Education, Cooperation, Early Childhood Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
These proceedings of the Subcommittee on Human Resources deal with the effectiveness of juvenile restitution programs and review the progress made by a number of such federally funded programs during the past 2 years. Testimony is presented that includes the experiences of four juvenile participants in restitution programs and several project…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Court Litigation, Delinquency Prevention
PDF pending restorationWestern Association of Schools and Colleges, Aptos, CA. Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. – 2002
This document details the accreditation standards set forth by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The four standards are as follows: (1) Institutional Mission and Effectiveness. Each institution has a statement of mission that defines the institution's broad…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1985
The report highlights eight children's programs found to be fiscally effective by evaluations completed in the last 5 years. Each of the programs is addressed in terms of evaluation findings from specific studies. The following eight programs are examined (sample findings in parentheses): (1) WIC-Special Supplemental Food Program for Women,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Employment
Wagner, Marsden – 1978
This document describes Denmark's 10-year (1965-75) program of cost-effective provision of social services to crisis families with children under the Danish 1964 Child and Youth Welfare Act. The program, voluntary and open to all families, provided preventive psychosocial services for children based on a family support system. The background to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Crisis Intervention, Family Programs, Innovation
