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Download full textJohn E. Dicken; Melissa Emrey-Arras – US Government Accountability Office, 2025
About 19 million students were enrolled in nearly 3,900 degree-granting colleges across the U.S. during the fall 2022 semester. Many colleges have student health centers that provide health care to the students on their campuses. Among other things, student health centers may offer sexual and reproductive health care, which includes things such as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Agencies, Sexuality, Pregnancy
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2013
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Accountability
Sweet, Richard; And Others – 1990
This staff brief was prepared for the Wisconsin Legislative Council's Special Committee on Teenage Pregnancy Prevention and Related Issues. It presents information on teenage pregnancy, programs to deal with teenage pregnancy, and proposed legislation from the 1989-1990 Wisconsin Legislative Session. Part I of the brief provides pregnancy data for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy, Prevention
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1992
This document is a Congressional report about a proposed amendment to the Public Health Service Act to provide for a program to carry out research on the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES), to educate health professionals and the public on the drug, and to provide for certain longitudinal studies regarding DES. The amendment itself is presented in the…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Federal Legislation, Pregnancy, Prenatal Influences
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1990
This document contains the second in a series of Congressional hearings being held by the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families to examine substance abuse among pregnant and parenting women and to explore prevention and treatment strategies. In his opening statement, Committee Chairman George Miller expresses hope that testimony…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Drug Addiction, Hearings, Mothers
Peer reviewedNix, Lulu Mae – Young Children, 1979
Discusses the provisions of Public Law 95-626, federal legislation pertaining to a comprehensive program for the prevention of adolescent pregnancy and early parenthood. (CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Services, Federal Legislation, Pregnancy
Shivanandan, Mary – 1987
This document contains the testimony before Congress of a witness representing the New England Natural Family Planning Association and Natural Family Planning Education of Rochester, New York. The World Health Organization definition of natural family planning (NFP) is included which defines NFP as methods for planning and preventing pregnancies…
Descriptors: Contraception, Family Planning, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Ostrer, Mitchel E. – Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 1978
Gives particular attention to the Supreme Court's definition of "sex based discrimination" and its application of the "Griggs" effect-test. Asserts that the Court has adopted the most conservative available notion of equal opportunity. Available from Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Box 54, Columbia University School of Law,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Pregnancy
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This document provides witness testimony and prepared statements from two Congressional hearings called to consider the reauthorization of the Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects. Testimony is presented from two officials of the Department of Health and Human Services who are responsible for administering the law, representatives from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Early Parenthood, Family Life
Wisconsin Executive Committee on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Madison. – 1998
The Executive Committee and the Subcommittee on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention were charged to develop and provide leadership to implement a state plan to reduce adolescent pregnancy in Wisconsin. Both the negative outcomes for adolescent parents and their children and the cost to society are at issue. This document serves as a first step to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy, Prevention
Trotter, Richard; And Others – Personnel Administrator, 1982
This first part of a two-part article dealing with laws relating to working women and pregnancy examines the socio-legal developments preceding passage of the Pregnancy Disability Amendment, the basic provisions of the bill, and its impact on employers, employees, and unions in its first three years. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Employed Women, Federal Legislation, Fringe Benefits
Peer reviewedRumrill, Robert Bentley – Suffolk University Law Review, 1979
The Massachusetts court held that the exclusion of pregnant women from a disability program was facially discriminatory because pregnancy alone was the determinative criterion. Available from Suffolk University Law Review Office, 41 Temple Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114; sc $3.50. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Employed Women, Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy
Sweet, Richard; And Others – 1991
Wisconsin legislation on adolescent pregnancy prevention is discussed in this document. The 1991 Senate Bill 324 and Assembly Bill 630, identical bills which relate to adolescent pregnancy prevention, school district instruction in human growth and development, medical assistance services, and making appropriations, are discussed. Part I notes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Pregnancy, Pregnant Students
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The hearings before the Senate Committee on Human Resources regarding the Adolescent Health, Services, and Pregnancy Prevention and Care Act of 1978 are presented in full. The purpose of the bill is stated to be to establish a program for developing networks of community-based services to prevent initial and repeat pregnancies among adolescents,…
Descriptors: Abortions, Adolescents, Contraception, Federal Legislation
