State and local educators encountered both opportunities and obstacles in their first year of implementing the School Improvement Grants (SIGs) funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In 2009, the ARRA, better known as the economic stimulus package, provided $3 billion for SIGs to help reform persistently low-achieving…

Special revenue sharing is one aspect of the Administration's response to the fiscal and administrative complexity of the present structure of federal categorical grants-in-aid to State and local governments. Because of some rather widespread misunderstanding about the nature and objectives of the six special revenue sharing proposals, this…

A proposal from the governor of Pennsylvania for financing all levels of education through a National Education Trust Fund (NETF) that would operate as the present Federal Highway Trust Fund does on a revolving, self-liquidating basis with the cost of an individual's education repaid through a progressive education tax on income. (JT)

"A Dropout Reduction Program" is Volume 5 in a series of 7 guides which were prepared by the Southeastern Education Laboratory to assist rural school districts -- especially in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, and Tennessee -- in planning and writing acceptable Title III proposals under the Elementary and Secondary Education…

The main focus of this ESEA Title I program review and forward look is on problem areas the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children has identified since its first report in 1966, which the Council feels seems to deserve the early attention of a new Administration and Congress. Major recommendations are as follows: (1)…

The purpose of this evaluation is to describe and assess the political, social, economic, and educational outcomes of the voucher demonstration, and the implications of these outcomes for public policy issues. The basic hypotheses of the Demonstration, the basic public policy issues, the major evaluation questions to be considered are set forth,…

In 1982-83, the 18 school districts and 1 tribe receiving Johnson O'Malley funds for American Indian education in Washington attempted to increase reading and mathematics proficiency, improve Native American high school graduation rates, and promote cultural awareness activities in schools with high Native American enrollments. By limiting their…

The Title III program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act called PACE (Projects to Advance Creativity in Education), is designed to encourage school districts to develop imaginative solutions to educational problems; to utilize research findings more effectively; and to create, design and make intelligent use of supplementary centers and…