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Scott, Andrew P.; Jones, Katie; Smole, David P.; Labonte, Marc; Aussenberg, Randy Alison; Lewis, Kevin M.; Billings, Kara Clifford; Lindsay, Bruce R.; Boyle, Conor F.; Lowry, Sean; Colello, Kirsten J.; Lynch, Karen E.; Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.; Marples, Donald J.; Davis, Patricia A.; McCarty, Maggie; Dilger, Robert Jay; Mitchell, Alison; Dortch, Cassandria; Myers, Elizabeth A.; Driessen, Grant A.; Perkins, David W.; Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.; Perl, Libby; Fernandez, Bernadette; Peterman, David Randall; Forsberg, Vanessa C.; Rosso, Ryan J.; Fountain, Joselynn H.; Sherlock, Molly F.; Gravell, Jane G.; Skinner, Rebecca R.; Hahn, Jim; Stoltzfus, Emilie; Halchin, L. Elaine; Tang, Rachel Y.; Hegji, Alexandra; Topoleski, John J.; Isaacs, Katelin P.; Whittaker, Julie M. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Since March 2020, a number of laws have been enacted to provide relief to people and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These include the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136), both enacted in March 2020; the Consolidated…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Pandemics
Mishory, Jen; Walsh, Anthony; Granville, Peter – Century Foundation, 2020
About 19 million people submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) each year, making it one of the most commonly experienced federal administrative processes. The widespread reliance on the complicated form and underlying calculation of financial need have spurred efforts to simplify and improve the application process and…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Students, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Dallafior, Michelle, Ed.; Troe, Jessica, Ed.; Kayal, Michele, Ed.; Sasner, Conor, Ed.; Gomez, Olivia, Ed. – First Focus on Children, 2022
"Children's Budget 2022" finds that the share of federal spending on children climbed to a historic 11.98% of the U.S. budget in FY 2022, producing remarkable declines in child poverty, hunger and the rate of children without health insurance. The report finds that the share of U.S. domestic and international spending on children rose…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Aid, Resource Allocation, Children
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Kathleen A. Paciga; Christina M. Cassano – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2025
This article explores the critical role of phonological awareness (PA) in early reading development, with a focus on young multilingual children. PA, the ability to detect and manipulate sounds in spoken words, is essential for literacy acquisition and is highly responsive to instruction. The article delves into the complexity of PA, its…
Descriptors: Literacy, Education, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary Development
Mumphery, Darryn; Tegeler, Philip – Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2023
Poverty & Race Research Action Council's (PRRAC's) March 2021 policy brief, "Mixed income neighborhoods and integrated schools: Linking HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative with the Department of Education's Magnet Schools Assistance Program" (ED611507), highlighted an important opportunity for interagency collaboration, encouraging…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Public Housing, Urban Renewal, Federal Aid
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Berrigan, Patrick; Scott, Craig W. M.; Zwicker, Jennifer D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study assessed needs and outcomes for people with developmental disability (DD) to understand the socioeconomic status of this group prior to implementation of the Accessible Canada Act in June 2019. The 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) was used to analyze data for a sample of individuals with self-reported disability. Data related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Socioeconomic Status, Employment
McKey, Tania – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study was conducted in two phases. The first phase was a deep descriptive analysis of the schools who received the United States Department of Education Green Ribbon School (ED-GRS) award over the first three years of the program: 2012, 2013, and 2014. In addition to a descriptive overview, the Ecological Democracy for Whole School…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Programs, Education, Recognition (Achievement)
Carrington, William; Dahl, Molly; Falk, Justin – Congressional Budget Office, 2013
The federal government devotes roughly one-sixth of its spending to 10 major means-tested programs and tax credits, which provide cash payments or assistance in obtaining health care, food, housing, or education to people with relatively low income or few assets. Those programs and credits consist of the following: (1) Medicaid; (2) the low-income…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Tax Credits
Lauer, E. A; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2018
The "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" is a companion report to the "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium." The "Supplement" presents statistics on the same topics as the "Compendium," with additional categorizations by demographic characteristics including age, gender and race/ethnicity. In…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Statistics, Tables (Data), Incidence
New America Foundation, 2012
President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 13th, 2012. The budget request includes proposed funding levels for all federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2013 funding levels for programs subject to the annual appropriations process. It is…
Descriptors: Presidents, Federal Government, Budgets, Education
Delisle, Jason – New America Foundation, 2011
The fiscal year 2012 budget process has been anything but typical or predictable. While fiscal year 2012 starts in just a few weeks on October 1, 2011, the annual appropriations process is far from complete, and funding for federal education programs has not yet been finalized. Nevertheless, congressional action in the months that have led up to…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Budgeting, Budgets, Federal Aid
Burke, Lindsey M.; Sheffield, Rachel – Heritage Foundation, 2012
President Obama's FY 2013 budget request includes another major spending increase for the Department of Education--2.5 percent more than last year--to nearly $70 billion. American taxpayers are calling for spending restraint in Washington, yet President Obama's proposals would exacerbate the existing bureaucratic maze of federal programs and…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Budgets, Federal Programs, Outcomes of Education
US Department of Education, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Duncan are set on a "moon-shot" goal to get America on track and to return to being number one in the world in high school and college graduation rates, school readiness, academic achievement, college matriculation and retention, and completion rates. The "Obama Effect" and the American Recovery and…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
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Smarick, Andy – Education Next, 2010
For as long as there have been struggling schools in America's cities, there have been efforts to turn them around. But overall, school turnaround efforts have consistently fallen far short of hopes and expectations. Quite simply, turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems. Fortunately, findings from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Change, Public Education, Educational Improvement
National Council on Disability, 2009
In recent years, the National Council on Disability (NCD) Progress Report has been a retrospective review and analysis of Federal programs for people with disabilities. For this Progress Report, NCD members have chosen to depart from a retrospective approach, and, instead, will focus on the current status of the quality of life of people with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Public Policy, Federal Government, Federal Programs
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