Sentences with phrase «federal vocational education program»

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A proposal unveiled by the Clinton Administration last week would consolidate 23 separate vocational - education programs into a single grant, giving states greater flexibility over how to use the federal dollars.

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) IPEDS combines the surveys conducted by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to provide information on all postsecondary institutions as well as all technical and vocational schools participating in federal student aid programs or Title IV funding programs (NCES, n.d).

As debate over the reauthorization of federal vocational - education programs began in the Senate last month, groups representing state education agencies were lobbying to preserve a strong state role they say is threatened in the House version of the bill.

In contrast with partisan clashes elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Democratic and Republican lawmakers agreed last week on the need to streamline the tangled web of federal vocational - education and job - training programs.

With the Senate joining the House in advancing bills that would replace dozens of vocational - education and job - training programs with block grants, educators are trying to assess the likely impact of handing most authority over federal funding in those areas to states and their governors.

The bill would consolidate 11 federal programs under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 and the Adult Education Act of 1966 into a single program.

The report covers six federal programs: Title I, Part A; Reading First; Comprehensive School Reform (CSR); Title II, Part A; Title III, Part A; and Perkins Vocational Education State Grants.

ISDs typically levy taxes for special education and vocational education programs that they administer, and receive federal and state funding for them as well.

Supporters of the NDEA pointed to federal legislative precedents, such as the Morrill Act in 1862, which granted land to the states that they could then sell to finance the establishment of colleges, and the Smith - Hughes Act in 1917, which funded vocational agricultural education programs.

The Office of Vocational and Adult Education oversees federal funding to individual states and training programs.