Article is the transcript of a speech by Dr. John Barcroft, Director of the Division of Public Programs for the National Endowment for the Humanities, given at the National Meeting of State-Based Committees in Washington during May of 1973. (GB)

The rapid growth of community education has been evident through advances on a number of action fronts. Of particular significance has been the increasing support of community education by the Federal and State governments, by professional associations, and by other important interest groups. (Author/JH)

Reviewed and questioned are present methods of financing special education, and proposed are several alternative funding approaches. (DB)

The author proposes the adoption of a program of full state funding of education in order to furthur equality of education among the various school districts within a state. (AN)

Describes Illinois's three-part program to give $30 million in direc t aid to parents of non-public school students. Contends that all major st ate programs to give financial aid to non-public schools throughout the nat ion may hang in the balance, pending the outcome in the courts of the Illi nois program. (RJ)

Many libraries are now at the edge of disaster, and their needs for continued seed and incentive money at a reasonable level is an urgent one. (Author)

Criticizes plans for public support of church related schools. (MK)

Discusses the consequences of teenage childbearing on the educational, economic, and marital attainment of the teenage mother. (SS)

Responses from 45 of 50 state correctional education directors indicated that, following the ban on Pell Grants for inmates, 25 states still offered college programs, with funding from state and federal agencies, corporations, foundations, universities, and inmates. States most likely to have college programs had higher total population and higher…

Describes the provisions, development, and future of the Independent-Living Initiative. Discusses its implementation at federal and state levels, and also the plans of the state of Illinois to establish a departmentwide task force to develop a system of services for youths who will be leaving foster care. (RJC)

Model early education programs in Brattleboro, Vermont, and Leadville, Colorado, identify ingredients for success: serve families as well as children, collaborate with social service agencies, secure diverse funding, have universal eligibility, make programs part of the school system, seek parent input, and deal fairly with competitors. (SK)

A new provision of the Perkins Act is targeted funds for special populations at a limited number of sites with greatest need for improvement and highest concentrations of special needs. These assurances encourage state and local agencies to provide special programing. (SK)

The functional approach to workplace literacy does not address a number of critical issues: aims and purposes, nature of stakeholders, worker participation in program planning, basis for distributing limited funds, consistency of state and federal guidelines, and congruence between program emphases and industry/worker needs. A more worker-centered…

A comprehensive national portrait of employment and income status of adults with developmental disabilities was estimated through secondary analyses of the 1990/91 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Results indicate that the majority of adults with developmental disabilities had very limited economic resources, even when earnings from…

The following provisions of the 1990 amendments to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act are described: establish a new funding authorization level; create new programs; change allocation of funds between states and localities; specify substate allocation of funds; remove most set-asides; and require performance standards and measures. This…