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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
The School Readiness Act of 1991 (S. 911) amends the Head Start Act to expand the availability of the comprehensive health, educational, nutritional, and social services of Head Start to all eligible children and their families by 1997. This senate report on S. 911 begins by affirming the effectiveness of high quality early childhood development…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Benn, Caroline – Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education, 1980
The author sees a return to elitism in the educational policies of Britain's present Conservative Government. She analyzes two Parliamentary bills designed to reverse the 1976 comprehensive schools act and, in the name of parent choice, to establish new selective secondary school entry rules and to subsidize private education. (SJL)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Access to Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Legislation
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 1989
The Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA) provides a means by which federal, state, and local governments can work systematically and comprehensively to provide the support people need to escape poverty. The act mandates that appropriate educational services be made available to at least some welfare recipients as part of the effort to help those…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change
