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SNAP, 2024
This "Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) Plan Guidance" provides instructions for designing, operating, and reporting on all State nutrition education and obesity prevention grant program operations. It describes the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Obesity
Hagan, Katherine; Jarmolowski, Hannah; Roza, Marguerite – Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2019
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that state education agencies (SEAs) conduct periodic resource allocation reviews (RARs) in districts that serve low-performing schools. The mandate represents a new opportunity for states and districts to examine the connection between resource allocation and academic outcomes, but the language of…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Resource Allocation, Guidelines, Educational Legislation
Doocy, Sean; Kim, Yoonjeon; Montoya, Elena; Chávez, Raúl – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
As California policymakers start to chart a path forward beyond COVID-19, it is important to first understand and reckon with the pandemic's impact on child care programs and individual educators. This research paper presents findings from a survey of 953 California ECE programs and providers in June-July 2020. The results provide an in-depth view…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, 2020
The purpose of the National AEM Center's Quality Indicators with Critical Components for Higher Education is to assist institutes of higher education, both at the system and campus level, with planning, implementing, and evaluating dynamic, coordinated systems for providing accessible materials and technologies for all students who need them. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Accessibility (for Disabled), Educational Quality
Reform Support Network, 2015
How can States address the continual and extraordinary challenge of sustaining and adapting the reforms they have implemented to improve student outcomes? What steps can States take to do so in the face of inevitably evolving conditions--such as a change in resources (for example, the end of a grant), leadership (a transition in personnel or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, State Departments of Education, Outcomes of Education, Resource Allocation
Regional Resource Center Program, 2011
This brief is intended to provide State Education Agency (SEA) and Local Education Agency (LEA) educators with a brief overview of key components of GraduateFIRST, a Georgia program targeting issues impacting school completion for students with disabilities. Georgia's GraduateFIRST program has redefined the state's approach to raising graduation…
Descriptors: Disabilities, School Readiness, Technical Assistance, Individualized Education Programs
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1972
To serve as a basis for establishing compatibility among the states in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and services for persons with special needs and in reporting enrollments and other pertinent information, this pamphlet provides specific requirements of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, and classification systems for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Classification, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
McCormick, Fred C.; And Others – 1981
This report details a project to develop a system to distribute federal funds under the Education Amendments of 1976 to all eligible recipients on the basis of annual applications. The first section describes the pertinent federal and state legislation, project scope, and guidelines used to develop the new system. Data sources and the criteria…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Planning, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Bureau for Vocational Education. – 1985
This publication provides an overview of the Vocational Education Act (VEA) of 1984 and guidelines for compliance and proposal development. Section I describes why the legislation was enacted and the five titles of which the Act consists. Funding is compared for fiscal years 1984-85 and 1985-86, and funding priorities and eligibility for VEA…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged
System Sciences, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 1979
This document contains the four state-of-the-art papers that serve as planning materials for construction of the planning guide for the project, Accessibility to Vocational Education Programs and Facilities for Handicapped Persons. The first paper suggests techniques by which school administrators can identify barriers to vocational education…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Disabilities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1982
A number of recommendations regarding federal educational legislation are made in this 1982 edition of a New York State publication that discusses key statutory, budget, and regulatory issues of concern to the state. The document begins with a general examination of the federal role in education and then suggests guidelines for federal education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Mangum, Garth; Mangum, Stephen; Sum, Andrew; Callahan, James; Fogg, Neal – 1999
The effectiveness of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 was critiqued. WIA was praised for providing an avenue for communication among state and local agencies during development of workforce development plans, potentially allowing individuals to choose from a wider array of services and service providers, spreading the concept of one-stop…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Career Centers, Delivery Systems