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99 CIS H 341126
TITLE:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Educating Diverse
Populations
CIS-NO: 99-H341-126
SOURCE: Committee on
Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: July 15, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+156 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-59
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial
No. 106-59. Hearing before the Subcom on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families to
examine Department of Education assistance to State and local agencies for
various elementary and secondary education programs, in
connection with upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA).
Supplementary material (p. 31-156)
includes witnesses' written statements and submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary educ aid programs,
extension and revision
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON EARLY CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES.
HOUSE; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL
AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY
AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-H341-126 TESTIMONY NO: 1
July 15, 1999 p. 4-29, 35-131
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
SELLS, RICHARD E. (Senior Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF))
NORLEN, THOMAS M. (Educational Liaison, Homeless
Children's Initiative, Bucks County, Penn., Schools)
REIS,
SALLY M. (President-Elect, National Association for Gifted Children)
QUIGLEY, CHARLES N. (Executive Director, Center for Civic
Education)
HINCKLEY, JUNE M. (President, MENC: the
National Association for Music Education)
KEMP, JOHN D.
(President and CEO, VSA arts)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Description of RIF initiative to provide books to at-risk
children (related materials, p. 48-59); importance of educational programs for
homeless children and youth; support for reauthorization of ESEA grant programs
for gifted and talented students.
Merits of ESEA funding
for music instruction and other arts education programs in
elementary and secondary schools; issues involved in ESEA
reauthorization.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and
secondary educ aid programs, extension and revision
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL; READING;
HOMELESSNESS; ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES; CHILDREN; YOUTH; STUDENTS
