NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Office of Postsecondary Education, Washington DC. Student Financial Assistance Programs. – 1996
This package of training materials is intended for participants in a workshop for administrators at institutions of higher education involved in administering student financial aid programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. The workshop agenda is divided into two segments of 28 sessions over 5 days. Segment 1 consists of 11 sessions…
Descriptors: College Administration, Compliance (Legal), Eligibility, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Holod, Aleksandra; Johnson, Anna D.; Martin, Anne; Gardner, Margo; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2012
Background: The federal child care subsidy program, funded through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), is the nation's largest public investment in early child care. However, little is known about whether and how subsidy payment mechanisms relate to the stability of subsidy receipt or the stability of children's care arrangements.…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Child Care, Surveys, Federal Programs
Ebb, Nancy; And Others – 1990
This guide is designed to provide information about transitional child care (TCC) program policies and operations and to offer recommendations to policymakers and advocates. Transitional child care is a new federal child care program that every state must implement by April 1, 1990. Established by the Family Support Act (FSA) of 1988, TCC is…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Vouchers
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1986
Recognizing current changes in the labor force because of the increasing numbers of working mothers, this report examines the following options under which the government might provide dependent care assistance to federal employees: on-site care (setting up a dependent care facility at the employees' workplace); consortium care (several…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Pluviose, David – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Getting an appointment with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is challenging, and it's also a challenge to put Duncan in an ideological box. Though he champions education reforms favored by Republicans such as charter schools and teacher merit pay, his opposition to school vouchers and his solid working relationship with teachers unions keep him…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Student Loan Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Marshall, Will; Berg, Joel – 1989
This report examines the claims surrounding proposals to link student financial aid for postsecondary education with national service. As a background to the issue the paper looks at the Citizenship and National Service Act, introduced in January 1989 by Senators Sam Nunn and Charles Robb and Representative Dave McCurdy. The Nunn-McCurdy plan, as…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Trends, Equal Education, Federal Legislation