Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Achieving the Goals: Goal 4 Teacher Professional Development - August 1996

Miscellaneous Programs

* - designates programs that have a particular usefulness at the school or school district level

Education for Homeless Children and Youth-State Programs*

Provides assistance to establish an office in each state to coordinate education for homeless children and youth and to provide services to homeless children and youth in local education agencies. Professional development designed to heighten the understanding and sensitivity of school personnel to the needs of homeless children and youth is allowable under the subgrants to local school districts under this program.

For more information, contact the state education agency for the program contact or:

Patricia McKee
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Compensatory Education Programs
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Room 4400, Portals Building
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 260-0991

Fund for Improvement of Education*

The Fund provides support for nationally significant programs to improve the quality of education, assist all students in meeting challenging state content standards, and contribute to the achievement of the National Education Goals. A wide variety of specific activities may be funded under this program. State and local education agencies; institutions of higher education; and other public and private agencies and organizations.

Lois Weinberg and Beverly Farrar
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Room 522G
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 219-1496 or (202) 219-2147, respectively

Innovative Education Program Strategies*

In addition to formula grant funds that the program provides to school districts, the program (Title VI, ESEA) provides funds to state educational agencies to support: local education reform efforts that are consistent with and support statewide reform efforts under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act; state and local efforts to accomplish the National Education Goals; implementation of promising education reform strategies; innovative and educational improvement, including support for library services and instructional and media materials' and programs to meet the special educational needs of at-risk students. The state educational agency determines the areas in which the state set-aside is to be used, and whether to fund activities through a discretionary grant program or through other means.

For more information, contact the state education agency or:

Zula Toney, Director
U.S. Department of Education
School Effectiveness Division
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Room 4500, Portals Building
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Phone: (202) 260-1907
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