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99 CIS S 43144
TITLE: ESEA:
Improving Uses of Funds
CIS-NO: 99-S431-44
SOURCE: Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing
Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-185
DATE: July 20, 1999
LENGTH: iii+63 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.106-185
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Hearing to examine allocation and use of
Department of Education assistance to State and local agencies for
elementary and secondary education programs, in connection with
upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act (ESEA).
Supplementary material (p. 55-63) includes
submitted statements and a witness's written replies to Committee questions.
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;
GOVERNMENT SPENDING; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION ACT
99-S431-44 TESTIMONY NO: 1
July 20, 1999 p. 3-55
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
SAMPIERI, ROBERT A. (Director, K-12 Education,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
REES, NINA S. (Senior Education
Policy Analyst, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation)
WATSON, MICHAEL W. (President, Arkansas Policy Foundation;
representing Murphy Commission)
PRESTON, BETTY (President,
Missouri Board of Education; representing National Association of State Boards
of Education)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Analysis of local education agencies education assistance
expenditure patterns; recommendations for allocation of Department of Education
funds to State and local education programs; support for improved accountability
from State educational agencies to ensure proper use of Federal education funds;
elaboration on issues related to allocation of Federal education funds.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary educ
aid programs, extension and revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 
