The two principal federal funding streams available to states for provision of child care services are the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant structure. Noting that funds from both of these can be used for child care and early education initiatives, this report summarizes what…

The Seamless Summer Food Waiver is a federal initiative to help school food authorities reach a larger number of hungry children in low-income areas during the summer months, by reducing paperwork and administrative burdens associated with operating the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). This issue brief describes the SFSP and the impact of the…

Although the 1996 federal welfare reform law exhorts states to reduce teen and out-of-wedlock births, preliminary field research has found few links between welfare reform and pregnancy prevention, and the ones that do exist are often tenuous, hard to believe, and difficult to assess. States have established new and stronger connections between…

This report presents data on federal government aid to state and local governments by state and U.S. Outlying Area. Coverage is restricted to federal government expenditures for grants and other financial assistance to state and local governments for which data are available by state and outlying area. For fiscal year 2003 (October 1, 2002, to…

Presents a series of viewpoints on current educational issues, in particular on educational finance. Equitable school financing is seen as having an uncertain future in light of the Rodriguez decision and the failure of Oregon's school finance plan. The cutback of federal impact aid has created problems for school districts in the education of…

Proposes a trust fund for children that would allow 75 cents for every child in the country under 18. Each State would receive its allocation based on the number of children under 18 and the number of children receiving aid to dependent children in that State. (Author/JN)

Three part article includes: 1) the case for full state funding; 2) the local school district's role; 3) the case for more federal funding. (Editor)

Gathering of the reins of power in Washington is neither the most efficient nor an effective way to govern. (Author)

The Fleishmann Commission wants the government to use the schools to end racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination; but the government is not in a position to do this because the people would not allow it. (Author)

Article discusses the implications of the decision by the California Supreme Court that school financing through property taxes violates the Fourteenth Amendment. (SP)

Education can no longer rely on local property taxes and a patchwork of State aid programs, but must push for complete state financing. (RA)

The article states that significant social change does not take shape in experimental colleges but in the community colleges and state universities. (IR)