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99 CIS H 341101
TITLE: Chicago
Education Reforms and the Importance of Flexibility in Federal Education
Programs
CIS-NO: 99-H341-101
SOURCE: Committee on Education
and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Apr. 19, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+127 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-28
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial
No. 106-28. Hearing in Chicago, Ill., before the Subcom on Oversight and
Investigations to examine the need for flexibility in administration of Federal
aid to elementary and secondary education, and to review recent
reforms in Chicago public schools.
Hearing was held in connection
with upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act.
Supplementary material (p. 51-127) includes
witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Educ
flexibility issues and Chicago school reforms, review
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS, EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE. HOUSE;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; EDUCATION REGULATION;
FEDERAL AID TO STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION;
LOCAL GOVERNMENT; CHICAGO, ILL.; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; ELEMENTARY AND
SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-H341-101 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Apr. 19, 1999 p. 4-11
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
HASTERT, J. DENNIS (Rep, R-Ill)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Views on improving
elementary and secondary education.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Educ flexibility issues and Chicago school
reforms, review
99-H341-101 TESTIMONY NO: 2
Apr. 19, 1999 p. 12-29, 69-94
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
VALLAS, PAUL (CEO, Chicago Public
Schools)
BENNETT, WILLIAM J. (former Secretary, Department
of Education)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Need for increased funding and greater flexibility in
Federal aid programs for elementary and secondary education, in
light of Chicago school reforms (related materials, p. 80-86); views on Federal
educational assistance and related issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Educ flexibility issues and Chicago school reforms, review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
GOVERNMENT SPENDING
99-H341-101 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Apr.
19, 1999 p. 29-49, 95-126
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MCGEE, GLENN (Superintendent of Education, Illinois Board
of Education)
LOUCKS, HAZEL (Deputy Governor, Education,
Illinois)
BARRON, CYNTHIA K. (Interim Principal, William
Jones Academic Magnet High School, Chicago)
MICELI,
WILLIAM C., SR. (Teacher/Programmer and Athletic Director, William Jones
Academic Magnet High School)
RIAS, VALENCIA A.
(Chairperson, Local School Council, William Jones Academic Magnet High School)
WALLS, ASHLEY (student, William Jones Academic Magnet High
School)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Perspectives on school reforms in Illinois and flexibility
in Federal educational assistance.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Educ flexibility issues and Chicago school reforms, review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR'S
OFFICE; STATE GOVERNMENTS; ILLINOIS 
