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Eureka Project, Sacramento, CA. – 1988
Student financial aid is a major education industry. Three papers by educational professionals are presented as points of comparison. "Student Financial Aid Policies and Programs in Texas and California: A Comparison" (Stephen Janes) states that Texas and California have much in common; demographics in the two states are not radically…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
Martin, Susan Forbes; And Others – 1988
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) provides for the legalization of undocumented aliens through several programs. IRCA established the State Legalization Impact Assistance Grants (SLIAG) "to alleviate the financial impact on States and local governments that may result from the adjustment of immigrant status" through…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Attainment, Employment Level, English (Second Language)
Bird, Ronald E. – 1981
Chapter One of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) distributes compensatory education grants on the basis of a formula that considers population and cost factors for each of the nation's 3,128 counties. The focus of this report is the effectiveness of that formula in meeting the stated purpose of the legislation to provide aid…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Simulation, Economic Status, Educational Economics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
In preparation for 1989 reauthorization hearings, the General Accounting Office (GAO) examined how well the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 is being implemented. The GAO reviewed the vocational education activities in six socioeconomically diverse states, visiting 20 vocational education institutions and observing 70 local…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Albany, NY. – 1984
The use of communications technology as an influential educational tool to meet such pressing concerns as increased academic requirements and shrinking financial resources will be tested in one of the most geographically remote areas of rural New York State. The pilot laboratory will consist of an 18-member school district consortium that is…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation
Walsh, Jack – 1977
To acquaint project administrators at the local level with potential funding sources available to them, this booklet examines how funds were obtained to support a number of work and service educational projects currently in operation and funded from multiple sources. The material is organized into three parts. Part 1 is an overview of the projects…
Descriptors: Community Services, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1978
The Alabama Student Assistance Program, a state/federal cooperative aid program to provide financial assistance to residents of the State of Alabama for undergraduate postsecondary education at institutions within the State of Alabama, is described in this annual report for the 1977-78 academic year. A total of 15,710 applications for aid were…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, College Students, Educational Finance, Eligibility
Hensley, Gene, Ed.; Buck, Dorothy P., Ed. – 1968
Five papers discuss cooperative work-study agreements between schools and vocational rehabilitation services in the western states. Areas discussed include the advantages of cooperative agreements, the forms and disadvantages of third party agreements, basic concepts of the programs, and an outline form to use when applying for matching funds; the…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Problems, Communication Problems, Cooperative Education
Bystrom, John – 1966
The Federal Communications Commission in 1938 set aside AM radio assignments for future educational stations. In the 1960's it made additional assignments for education: long-range FM radio, multiplex sub-carrier channels; and UHF, VHF, and Instructional Television Fixed Service channels for statewide ETV broadcast service. Such networks aid the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Broadcast Industry, Communications Satellites, Coordination
Havlik, Robert J.; And Others – 1967
A three part approach was taken in this situation report on the role of the special libraries in the United States. First, several background papers were prepared about the definition and state-of-the-art of the field of special librarianship. These papers are: (1) Shera, Jesse H., "Special Libraries--Why 'Special'?, (2) Ash, Lee,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Information Centers, Information Services, Labor Needs
Abel, Frederick P. – 1975
On-site evaluation visitations were made to seven institutions participating in fiscal year 1974 Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) 553 and 554 cooperative arrangement programs under the auspices of the Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education. A three-part evaluation instrument was designed and administered to project…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Evaluation Criteria, Postsecondary Education, Professional Continuing Education
Sanders, Jean E. – 1977
In New England, school districts often look toward cooperative agreements as alternatives to further consolidation or "bigness." Cooperatives and collaboratives in Massachusetts are viewed as a politically acceptable alternative to further reorganization through consolidation. The emergence of collaboratives and the enactment of six…
Descriptors: Centralization, Cooperatives, Delivery Systems, Education Service Centers
Burkheimer, Graham J.; Davis, Junius A. – 1973
A questionnaire survey mailed to all U.S. undergraduate institutions in October 1971 was conducted as part of an evaluation of support service programs for disadvantaged students funded through the Higher Education Amendments of 1968. The inventory contained 14 items that sought summary information about the institution's budget, number of…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1967
The Federal Government has been providing financial aid to all levels of education through categorical rather than general aid. Categorical aid shifts decision power from State and local governments to the Federal level. In addition, it tends to be crisis oriented and short run. Such grants have been accepted by educational communities as a means…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Jaeger, Richard M. – 1970
A new Joint Comprehensive Evaluation System for the assessment of 15 different federal programs has been developed by the U.S. Office of Education. In this system these diverse program services will be thought of as resources available to meet the needs of critical target groups. Using this approach, a set of nine crucial questions that need to be…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Data Collection, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
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