ERIC Number: ED145026
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 52
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A Study of ESEA Title I in Selected School Districts in New York State.
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Federal Education Opportunity Programs.
Prior experience with Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs has provided evidence that school districts are implementing supplementary programs funded by Title I which are separate and distinct from the base education programs. The focus of this study is on the relationship between the Title I supplementary programs and the base educational programs provided from state and local funds by the local school districts. It is based on questionnaire data and on two full-day conferences conducted in 1976. In order to define more clearly the reasons why this type of educational program was designed by local school districts and to document the attributes and significant characteristics of these compensatory education programs, the conferences explored, with local school district personnel, the three basic approaches used by school districts to deliver Title I services to children during the day. The primary issue identified was that the program's federal status, seemed to require the creation of a Title I program which is literally divorced from the program provided for children by the local school district since any blending of the two programs might cause the appearance of supplanting state and local funds with federal funds. These two characteristics of the federal statutes; that the Title I services could not supplant state and local funds and that the Title I services had to be supplementary, have, in fact, promoted a series of program designs which began a fragmented and often detrimental model of educational planning and instructional modalities. The implications of this situation are discussed. (Author/AM)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership.
Authoring Institution: New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Federal Education Opportunity Programs.
Identifiers - Location: New York
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I
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