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Phillip, Jendayi – Advocates for Youth, 2015
The Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (REHYA) (H.R. 1706, S. 2765) was reintroduced by Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) in March 2015 and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) in April 2016. REHYA would ensure that federal funding is allocated to comprehensive sexual health education programs that provide young people with the skills and information they…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Education, Decision Making, Health Behavior
Dortch, Cassandria; Skinner, Rebecca R.; Shohfi, Kyle D.; Hegji, Alexandra; Fountain, Joselynn H.; Dragoo, Kyrie E.; Collins, Benjamin – Congressional Research Service, 2020
In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, Congress and the Administration have taken several actions to support the continued education of elementary, secondary, and higher education students and to protect student loan borrowers and educational institutions from related economic hardship. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, COVID-19
Saunders, Katherine; Lower-Basch, Elizabeth – Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 2015
Half of all non-loan federal student aid is now offered as tax benefits for educational costs in the form of credits, deductions, and college savings accounts. These benefits help students and families offset the costs of their postsecondary education with tax savings. Yet, as explained in the 2013 report, "Reforming Student Aid: How to…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Low Income Groups, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Phillip, Jendayi – Advocates for Youth, 2012
The Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (S. 1782/H.R. 3324), introduced in November 2011 by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), would ensure that federal funding is allocated to comprehensive sexual health education programs that provide young people with the skills and information they need to make informed,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Sex Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Tollestrup, Jessica; Lynch, Karen E.; Bradley, David H.; Cornell, Ada S.; Morton, William R.; Napili, Angela; Sekar, Kavya; Shohfi, Kyle D. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
This report offers an overview of actions taken by Congress and the President to provide FY2022 appropriations for accounts funded by the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill. This bill includes all accounts funded through the annual appropriations process at the Department…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Federal Aid, Budgets
Tollestrup, Jessica; Lynch, Karen E.; Bradley, David H.; Cornell, Ada S.; Morton, William R.; Napili, Angela; Sekar, Kavya; Shohfi, Kyle D. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
This report offers an overview of actions taken by Congress and the President to provide FY2022 appropriations for accounts funded by the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill. This bill includes all accounts funded through the annual appropriations process at the Department…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Federal Aid, Budgets
Moore, James L., III, Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"African American Students in Urban Schools" offers readers a critical yet comprehensive examination of the issues affecting African American students' outcomes in urban school systems and beyond. Across disciplines including teacher education, school counseling, school psychology, gifted education, career and technical education, higher…
Descriptors: Evidence, Social Justice, African American Students, Urban Schools
Kauffman, James M., Ed.; Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States--by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a variety of legal issues. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Design
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1990
A House of Representatives subcommittee convened to consider legislation (H.R. 3677) to reauthorize the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 (ASHAA) that provides financial assistance to needy school districts in the form of loans and grants for asbestos-related activities. The hearing record contains the text of H.R. 3677, testimony, and…
Descriptors: Asbestos, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
This is a report of hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 13, 18, 19, and 25, 1980, on five federal youth employment and training bills: H.R. 4465, H.R. 4534, H.R. 5876, H.R. 6208, and H.R. 6711. H.R. 4465 proposes to combine immediate work and training and training opportunities with long-term changes in the institutions and programs…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Job Placement
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Armed Services. – 1982
These congressional hearings contain testimony given in Washington, D.C., in June 1981 pertaining to seven bills dealing with new educational assistance programs for military recruitment (H.R. 1400, H.R. 2579, H.R. 2399, H.R. 2790, H.R. 3340, H.R. 3713, and H.R. 3997). Included among those agencies/organizations represented at the hearings were…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1972
These hearings before the Committee on Education and Labor are on the Elementary Secondary Education Act, legislation to extend that act, and the relationship of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to other programs that would be authorized by pending legislation. In this respect, the committee is considering a number of bills, including…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1992
This publication is the text of the House of Representatives bill, H.R. 5600 introduced to the U.S. Congress and titled "Children's Initiative." This legislation is designed to promote family preservation and the prevention of foster care with emphasis on families where abuse of alcohol or drugs is present, to improve the quality and…
Descriptors: Adoption, Alcohol Abuse, Child Welfare, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
These congressional hearings contain testimony given in Washington, D.C. at nine hearings pertinent to the H.R. 6711 (Youth Act of 1980) and H.R. 6897 (Amendments to the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965). (These are bills to extend the authorization and improve youth training and employment programs, to extend the authorization of the…
Descriptors: Business, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Bray, Melissa A., Ed.; Kehle, Thomas J., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2011
With its roots in clinical and educational psychology, school psychology is an ever-changing field that encompasses a diversity of topics. "The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology" synthesizes the most vital and relevant literature in all of these areas, producing a state-of-the-art, authoritative resource for practitioners,…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Problem Solving, Delivery Systems, Cognitive Ability
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