Criteria used to identify U.S. health manpower shortage areas (HMSAs) are reviewed. A detailed exposition is provided of the Interim-Final Regulations for designating HMSA. Literature directly related to the concepts used in the current HMSA designation criteria is also reviewed. These criteria are access, availability, need, and rational service…

This booklet contains a history of each federal department's regulatory actions and Presidential Executive Orders on Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Sections 504, 503, 502, and 501, from January 1974 through December 1982. It provides a chronological listing of the types and extent of regulatory and policymaking actions affecting…

In these remarks, the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, discusses the current Administration's policy and enforcement efforts on civil rights for the handicapped, particularly the blind. First, Reynolds stresses that the Administration's commitment to the principle of nondiscrimination in all areas…

A handbook to assist states in fulfilling requirements of Public Law 94-142 to provide a Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD) for special education staff is presented. The handbook is intended to help writers develop, review, update, and implement the CSPD, which is one section of the state plan submitted to the federal government.…

Traditional evaluation designs using standardized achievement tests are not sensitive to the specific skills taught to migrant children in summer programs. This report proposes principles for evaluating summer migrant education programs based on the Federal Register requirements. The paper also offers information for designing evaluation…

In order to examine the implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974 by federal government agencies, the General Accounting Office (GAO) examined organizational issues at 13 cabinet-level departments and the Veterans Administration and reviewed Privacy Act operations in detail at 6 of these agencies and 37 of their components. This study focused on…

This volume presents a transcript of discussion and statements presented at an oversight hearing before the House Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities. The hearing reviewed new enforcement policies of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which had the stated intent of increasing the litigation of individual cases of unlawful…

This guide is intended to assist Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program policymakers, planners, and program operators to understand the provisions and possibilities afforded by the JTPA. The first section provides an overview of the JTPA. Discussed next are the following aspects of the JTPA planning and administration system: federal funding…

This symposium for the general public was designed to foster citizen awareness and evaluation of and response to changes in the traditional availability of federal government information that limit public access. Following a list of acknowledgements and the program schedule, welcoming remarks by Maxine R. Haggerty, chair of the Utah Library…

Because of shifts in consumer tastes and preferences, demographics, technology, government regulation, and the expanding interdependence of world markets, the United States fruit and vegetable processing industries must operate in a constantly changing and uncertain economic environment. U.S. per capita use of processed fruits and vegetables is…

This paper describes and analyzes the internal consistency of the formal and informal legal frameworks governing certain aspects of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 Chapter 1 Program. A major focus is how these frameworks differ from those of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the program which…

Procedures are described for selecting field readers and awarding grants under the Women's Educational Equity Act Program, National Institute of Education, and Talent Search Programs. Information is provided for each on (1) the legislation, regulations, policy, and program directives that govern the grant award process; (2) how and by whom funding…

Selected legal problem areas for sectarian and nonsectarian private schools that have generated substantial litigation and frequent questions from nonpublic school administrators and faculty are discussed. Major topic headings include tort liability, constraints on student and faculty discipline, governing board liability, governmental regulation…

This book constitutes the proceedings of a symposium ("Science, Deviance, and Society") designed to provide a constructive response to the social problem of deviance in science (departures from the prescribed and proscribed norms of science). Individual papers are presented in five parts. These papers are (in part one) "The Games of Science:…

Regulations governing the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in Washington State, specifically Chapter 392-171 WAC, are printed here. The regulations cover the follow areas relating to education of handicapped students: definitions, membership and functions of the state advisory council, students' rights to special…