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99 CIS S 4319
TITLE: Educating the
Disadvantaged
CIS-NO: 99-S431-9
SOURCE: Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-23
DATE: Mar. 16, 1999
LENGTH: iii+75 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-23
MC-ENTRY-NO: 99-16572
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND:
1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Hearing to examine issues involved in the reauthorization of Department of
Education compensatory education assistance programs for low-income and
disadvantaged elementary and secondary students under Title I,
Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of
1965, which were most recently reauthorized and revised under the Improving
America's Schools Act (IASA) of 1994.
Supplementary material (p.
70-75) includes submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Compensatory educ programs reauthorization issues
DESCRIPTORS:
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION;
COMPENSATORY EDUCATION; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND
SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT; IMPROVING AMERICA'S SCHOOLS ACT
99-S431-9 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Mar. 16, 1999 p. 9-70
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
RIDDLE,
WAYNE (Specialist, Education Finance, Domestic Social Policy Division, CRS)
BAROUDI, DAVID (State Director, Title I Programs, Vermont
Department of Education)
FORD, LULA M. (School Leadership
Development Official, Chicago Public Schools)
TAYLOR,
WILLIAM L. (Vice Chair, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights)
BERGESON, TERRY (State Superintendent, Washington State
Department of Public Instruction; also representing Council of Chief State
School Officers)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Background and review of issues related to reauthorization
of ESEA Title I, Part A programs; review of successful use of Title I funds in
various cities and States, including Chicago, Ill. and Washington State;
findings of Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights report on implementation of
Title I reforms under IASA; issues regarding ESEA reauthorization.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Compensatory educ programs
reauthorization issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH
SERVICE; CHICAGO, ILL.; WASHINGTON STATE 
