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99 CIS S 43132
TITLE: ESEA: Title
VI and Class Size Reduction
CIS-NO: 99-S431-32
SOURCE:
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-101
DATE: June 23, 1999
LENGTH: iii+70 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-101
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Hearing to examine
elementary and secondary education innovative programs and
class size reduction initiatives, in connection with upcoming reauthorization of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
Examines ESEA Title VI program providing aid to State and local agencies for
innovative program strategies for reform of elementary and
secondary education.
Supplementary material (p. 64-70) includes a
witness's written replies to Committee questions and correspondence.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary educ aid programs,
extension and revision
DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL AID TO STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
99-S431-32
TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 23, 1999 p. 2-24
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MARTIN, EARIN M.
(Senior Director, Contracts and Grants Administration, Texas Education Agency;
representing Title VI National Steering Committee)
MCNAMARA, ROBERT (Director, Policy, Planning, and
Operations, Vermont Department of Education)
ERICKSON,
SANDRA J. (Associate Superintendent, Instruction, Howard County, Md., Public
School System)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Support for reauthorization of ESEA Title VI innovative
education programs, with recommendations; importance of Title VI funds for State
and local educational reform initiatives.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ aid programs, extension and
revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
TITLE VI
NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
99-S431-32 TESTIMONY NO: 2
June 23, 1999 p. 25-64
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
HANUSHEK, ERIC A. (Director, W. Allen Wallis
Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester)
ROSS, RANDY (Vice President, Los Angeles Annenberg
Metropolitan Project)
WINTERS, LYNN (teacher; representing
National Education Association)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Perspectives on class size reduction as an education
improvement strategy; arguments for increased teacher quality rather than lower
pupil-teacher ratio; need to reduce class size in elementary
school; views on education reform.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ aid programs, extension and
revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NATIONAL
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 
