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Sullivan, Hannah; Zhang, Ying; DeBoer, Aubrey – National Charter School Resource Center, 2020
A school facility's quality and accessibility have important impacts on schools' functionality to serve as places of high-quality education. While these challenges are familiar to most schools in the United States, charter schools are responsible for acquiring and paying for their educational facilities, a responsibility that local school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Facilities, Public Schools, Financial Support
Gottfried, Michael A.; Stecher, Brian M.; Hoover, Matthew; Cross, Amanda Brown – RAND Corporation, 2011
U.S. educators and policymakers are concerned about the poor performance of the public schools, particularly schools that serve students from low-income families. Although education is primarily a state function, the federal government also has a longstanding interest in improving education for disadvantaged students, and it targets funding to…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Change
Taylor, Steven J.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1981
The article discusses the feasibility of developing small living alternatives with Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded funds. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Mental Retardation
Trohanis, Pascal; And Others – Exceptional Parent, 1981
The article provides a review of state services for young handicapped children. Section one contains a description of legislation for preschool handicapped education. Part two describes federal programs that relate to special children from birth to mandatory school age. Teacher certification requirements are reviewed in the third section. The…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Federal Programs, Preschool Education, State Legislation

Butler, Stacy E.; Crudden, Adele; Sansing, William K.; LeJeune, B. J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2002
This article discusses the underemployment of individuals with visual impairments and technological barriers to employment. It then presents an overview of legislation, public and private rehabilitation agency programs, and federal agency programs that have an impact on the distribution and use of assistive technology to individuals with…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Assistive Technology, Employment
Statewide Educational Dissemination Capacity: A Review of Recent Literature and Current Information.
Hood, Paul D. – 1978
This report reviews the dissemination of information on educational programs and information services through a combined literature synthesis focusing on the total dissemination context, configurations, and capacity of major agencies and networks of agencies in the United States. Relevant literature is reviewed as it relates to national and state…
Descriptors: Diffusion, Federal Programs, Higher Education, Information Dissemination

Davidson, Philip W.; Adams, Elizabeth – Mental Retardation, 1989
As required by Public Law 100-146, states must submit to the Administration on Developmental Disabilities data concerning services to persons with developmental disabilities. This paper reviews relevant literature to establish a theoretical framework, definitions, and suggestions for extent, scope, eligibility requirements, and measures of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Rutenberg, Taly – 1986
In the absence of Federal job initiatives, over 14 million people cannot find full or part-time work. According to a report issued by the Full Employment Action Council and the National Committee for Full Employment, they are casualties of shifts in the economy and of deficit spending that favors the affluent and the military over the poor and the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Federal Programs, Government Role

Merisotis, Jamie P. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1989
Creative ideas recently emerging to help families cope with rising educational costs are reviewed, including state and federal level savings plans, alternative loan programs, guaranteed access plans, and public service proposals. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Federal Programs, Financial Services, Higher Education
Behrman, Richard E., Ed.; Lewit, Eugene M., Ed. – Future of Children, 1992
The articles in this journal issue provide an overview of ways in which health services are presently delivered to children, youth, and pregnant women; the means by which these services are financed; and some of the major deficiencies in meeting the health needs of these groups. In the first article, the Center for the Future of Children presents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Federal Programs

Neilson, Robert E. – Computers in Human Services, 1985
Presents the roles of the federal government, business, professional organizations, state and local governments and the "information entrepreneur" in advancing the state-of-the-art in social service systems applications. Federal government will continue to act as catalyst for systems development but information entrepreneurs and others will play…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Government Role

Szymanski, Edna Mora; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1989
Differences between state and local special education programs and the state-federal vocational rehabilitation (VR) program are highlighted, through discussion of the history of the state-federal VR program, the differing definitions of disabilities, operation of the VR program, funding differences, and resultant differences in evaluation…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Definitions, Disabilities, Federal Programs

Lewit, Eugene M. – Future of Children, 1998
Reviews the basic decisions states must make when implementing State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs and reports on the decisions states participating in this federal program have made, as reflected in the plans they submitted to the Health Care Financing Administration. Sources of information about the program are included.…
Descriptors: Children, Federal Programs, Health Insurance, Health Maintenance Organizations
Petr, Christopher, G.; And Others – 1990
This document begins with an annotated outline of Public Law 96-272, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, which encourages states to prevent unnecessary removal of children from their homes and to reunify foster children with their families. The document discusses reasons for the law's enactment, the law's provisions, its…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Disabilities, Eligibility
Porter, Kathryn H. – 1990
This report synthesizes some of the most significant research findings on job training programs. It relates them to the decisions faced by states as they implement the Jobs Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Programs mandated by the Federal Family Support Act of 1988, which must be structured to meet the needs of recipients of Aid to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Compliance (Legal), Family Programs, Federal Legislation