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Download full textNorth Dakota State Dept. of Human Services, Bismarck. Div. of Children and Family Services. – 2002
This fact sheet offers information on North Dakota's Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which are federally-funded comprehensive child development programs for income-eligible children and their families. The primary target population for these programs is children between the ages of 0 and 5; 5,176 such children and their families received…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare, Children
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study obtained information on examples of county or local Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) or JOBS-like programs that emphasize job placement, subsidized employment, or work experience positions for welfare recipients. It also identified the extent to which county JOBS programs nationwide used these employment-focused activities and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedC de Baca, Mary Rose; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1991
The schoolwide project option of the 1988 Hawkins Stafford Amendments to Chapter 1 allowed a rural school serving a disadvantaged Native American population to restructure its compensatory and regular education services. Santo Domingo school (New Mexico) illustrates the ways modifications of federal law and policy benefit children. (SLD)
Descriptors: American Indians, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Policy
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
Job Corps, administered by the Department of Labor, is an employment and training program aimed at providing severely disadvantaged youth with a comprehensive array of services, generally in a residential setting. A study conducted meetings with Department of Labor (DOL) officials, analyzed national data on program participants, and visited six…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
PDF pending restorationPolicy Studies Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
This volume summarizes the third year of the 3-year Study of Chapter 1 Implementation and addresses how schools have responded to the changes in Chapter 1 created by the Hawkins-Stafford Amendments of 1988. Results are summarized of nationally representative surveys, collected during 1991-92 and the third year of Hawkins-Stafford implementation,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington, DC. – 1992
This paper analyzes the Bush Administration's budget request for homelessness programs, and argues that it promised little to alleviate the suffering of homeless people. The paper asserts that the proposal is the weakest in years, with overall spending down by 7 percent when adjusted for inflation. Programs hardest hit are new funding to increase…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Budgets, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1992
A hearing was held on education, training, and service programs that serve disadvantaged teens. Testimony was presented on recent research findings concerning these programs and on their implementation. The major lessons learned from the Summer Training and Employment (STEP) program were presented, including those of implementation and impact. A…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged
Rosica, Thomas C. – 1992
This report describes and evaluates Chapter 1 schoolwide programs in the School District of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) since the reauthorization of that legislation in 1988. A brief description of the history and philosophy of Chapter 1 legislation and of the Philadelphia district opens the document. This district serves a population that is 77…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Anderson, Judith I. – 1992
A study was done of which school districts and schools serve students in Chapter 1 programs. Using data from the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey, the analysis found the following: (1) over 90 percent of all public school districts provide Chapter 1 services, including 85 percent of the school districts in which no more than 1 in 10 students is…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Cahalan, Margaret; And Others – 1994
An interim report on the congressionally mandated National Study of Student Support Services (SSS) focuses on the characteristics of college freshmen program participants and on the level and type of services they receive. The federally funded grant program is designed to help economically disadvantaged students achieve success at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Cruz, Jose E. – 1991
An assessment of welfare-related experiences and perspectives of Puerto Rican Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients in New York City (New York), Newark (New Jersey), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) was conducted. Data were developed through 8 self-contained focus groups involving 63 participants. An additional focus group was…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Economically Disadvantaged, Family Problems, Family Programs
Smith, Marshall S. – 1986
This paper argues for two major changes in the selection of students and in the way that services are delivered under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. The first change would make available Chapter 1 funds only to schools with very high proportions of children whose families live in poverty. The second change…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Riddle, Wayne – 1988
Chapter 1, the Federal program of grants to local education agencies (LEAs) for the education of disadvantaged children, authorizes the distribution of assistance through both a basic and a concentration grant formula. Concentration grants are intended to provide additional assistance to areas with especially high numbers or proportions of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Gainer, William J. – 1989
The General Accounting Office (GAO) studied the implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act in six states (Arkansas, California, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) to determine if the funds are being used properly, to fulfill the objectives of providing vocational education to the disadvantaged and handicapped and…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1987
This testimony, from welfare reform hearings in New York City, was given before the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy. The hearings were held to gather information for new regulations regarding public monies for child support. The Senate is considering whether to reform the present welfare system or to replace it with a new…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
