This brochure provides guidelines for State governments seeking to recover the costs of services provided by central service-type activities to grantee State departments and the indirect cost of grantee State departments. As a prerequisite to such recovery, States must develop and submit to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a formal…

In a speech to a conference on education of the gifted, S. P. Marland, Jr., the Assistant Secretary of Education, expressed the unlikelihood of another Sputnik's giving similar impetus to American support of two million gifted students as support was given to science instruction through the National Defense Education Act. Urging federal, state,…

Federal health, education, and welfare programs for 1970 benefiting American Indians residing on Federal reservations are listed. The report is divided into 3 sections: (1) Federal Indian programs aimed at improving or providing Indian health services, tribal management services, housing, higher education, and conservation; (2) Federal programs…

Before meaningful structural changes in the federal role in education can be made, a new style of action must be developed that would include streamlining existing patterns of national intervention so that priority emphasis is unmistakably placed on those functions appropriate to the federal role and supporting and increasing the capacity of state…

A Michigan Competitive Scholarship and Tuition Grant Program survey of 1973-74 participants who also reported receiving Social Security Educational Benefits (SSEB) shows that reported educational utilization of SSEB is significantly higher than that expected by program assessment procedures. Implications for needs analysis theory and practice are…

Evidence suggests that the current public interest effort is limited mainly by the number of jobs available in that sector. Various methods of increasing the funding of that sector and thus, the number of jobs, are reviewed. (Author/WI)

The elimination of inadequacies and inequalities existing in state education financing cannot be accomplished at the state level. The situation demands one-third federal financing rather than the present one-fourteenth. (MJB)

Reports congressional action on the projected FY 1977 National Science Foundation (NSF) budget, the background and need for a federal science education policy, and probable emphasis in future NSF projects based upon the current proposed appropriations. (SL)

A job training program in rural Wyoming is described in which 86 percent of the disabled clients served in a two-year period (N=57) were placed in employment after receiving sheltered workshop training in one of 10 vocational training modules. Among data reported are wages, success rates for training, and length of training. (JW)

Thoroughly explains the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) and its probable implications for federal elementary, secondary, and higher education programs. Cancelling any portion of the authorized budget will reduce education program funding by 4.3 percent--compounding a 16 percent reduction during 1981-1986.…

The position statement defines and describes a regular education/special education initiative (RE/SEI) and offers recommendations for its implementation. RE/SEI is seen as a system of integrated planning, delivery, and evaluation of the effects of services to all students. (CL)

Argues that the United States Supreme Court's decisions disallowing direct aid to private, religious schools are inadequately supported by the Court's own opinions. (MD)

This document is comprised of presentation slides for overhead projection summarizing federal funding for child care since the 1996 changes in welfare and child care laws, and the status of reauthorization. The first slide provides a presentation overview; the remaining sheets cover the following: (1) two main sources of federal funds for…

A small federal program piloting tax credit bonds to support school construction, the Qualified Zone Academy Bond (QZAB), has existed since 1997--providing evidence of how tax credit bonds could work. This paper analyzes the results of QZABs to date in order to inform policymakers, advance the debate over federal school construction aid, and…

The After-School Alliance assessed the impact of a $400 million cut to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program proposed by President George W. Bush for fiscal year 2004. The assessment determined the effect the proposed cut would have on the availability of after-school programs in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.…