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ERIC Number: EJ256392
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982-Jan
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The Block Grant Record: Lessons from Experience.
Hastings, Anne H.
Phi Delta Kappan, v63 n5 p330-32 Jan 1982
Evaluates the performance of federal block grants in health, law enforcement, peoplepower training, community development, and Social Security programs, to help forecast the effects of such grants in education. Finds that block grants did not improve local control, accountability, citizen participation, efficiency, targeting of funds, or program effectiveness. (RW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Block Grants, Citizen Participation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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