The mission of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) rehabilitation program is to assist injured workers, covered by Federal Employees' Compensation Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, to return to gainful employment through vocational rehabilitation services. Information that certified counselors who work…

This publication is intended to help postsecondary schools understand FY 1999 draft cohort default rate data. It explains how the Department of Education calculates cohort default rates, the effect of cohort default rates, and how to read the cohort default rate loan record detail reports. Also, it reviews electronic reports available from the…

This video illustrates one of the key components of the Environmental Protection Agency's "Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools" (IAQ TfS) process--the school walkthrough. Videotaped at a North Carolina school built in 1999, hosts Keith Flippen and Debra Terry describe what schools in Nebraska, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa found…

"Work incentives" encourage and support individuals with disabilities in their efforts to seek employment and have been formalized in federal legislation and regulations, including the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (TWWIIA). In October 2000, Utah received a 4-year federal grant to change the state's systems of work…

This report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance evaluates Medicaid reimbursements to schools for health services provided to children. The report addresses: (1) the extent to which school districts and states claim Medicaid reimbursement for school-based health services and administrative activities; (2) the appropriateness of methods states…

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 expanded universal support to eligible schools and libraries. To administer the universal service program for schools and libraries, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) directed the creation of the Schools and Libraries Corporation (Corporation). As a start-up operation, the Corporation has had to develop…

This guide is designed to assist schools with their Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL) and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) Program cohort default rate. The guide is a reference tool in understanding cohort default rates and processes. This guide incorporates two former guides, the "Draft Cohort Default Rate…

This report reviews auctions used by various federal agencies to examine the feasibility of using similar auctions to determine interest rates for student borrowing through the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. The review identified 31 different auctions, divided into two major…

In fiscal year 2004, the Congress appropriated $6.8 billion to serve 919,000 poor children through 1,680 Head Start grantees nationwide. Recent reports of financial improprieties at a number of Head Start programs around the country raised questions about the effectiveness of the oversight provided by the Department of Health and Human Services?…

The Navajo-Hopi Long Range Act and the War on Poverty, had much in common in terms of assumptions and patterns of interaction between reformers and those being reformed: part of this consistancy may be attributed to a failure on the part of the reformers to examine and profit from the experiences of previous reformers. (Author/JM)

Discusses the practical considerations that face Indian communities as they begin to move toward transforming the rhetoric of "Indian control" into the reality of quality education. (Author)

OE's office of legislation groups 24 pieces of federal education legislation according to the fiscal year of scheduled termination. (Editor)

Describes a community education center at Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C., whose purpose is to develop and expand community education for the deaf through leadership development services, promotion and dissemination services, and consultation services. (Author/DN)

The question of who has the legal responsibility for providing educational services to American Indians and how this responsibility is reflected in policy is discussed. (FF)

A report of the Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, reading improvement project at the Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) is presented. (FF)