ERIC ED128490: New York State 75 ESEA pdf

ERIC ED128490: New York State 75 ESEA

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The data contained in this document, summarized from local educational agencies’ (LEAs’) reports, provide an overview of the descriptive characteristics of the projects at the statewide level. During fiscal year 1975, 796 projects approved by the New York State Education Department were conducted in 725 districts. There were 512,755 reported project participants receiving supplementary activities. The activity participants included 364,945 in mathematics, and 34,166 in aural/oral facility in the spoken English language for pupils whose first language was not English. Approximately 61 percent of the monies budgeted for projects was directed at remedial reading. Nearly 66 percent of the budgeted resources were directed at pupils in the elementary grades (1-6). The State obligated or expended approximately $200 million of fiscal 1974 carry-over and 1975 ESEA Title I monies for supplementary instruction for low income youngsters. The effort purchased the services of 649 administrators, 10,819 teachers and 16,159 para- or nonprofessionals.

Among the staff, about 36 percent or slightly over 10,000 received some form of inservice training. Overall, about one-half million educationally disadvantaged youngsters received supplementary remedial activities from the efforts of about 27,000 staff. (Author/AM

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1975
• Year: 1975
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Compensatory Education, Data Analysis, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation, Federal Programs, Fiscal Capacity, Inservice Education, Minority Group Children, Participant Characteristics, Program Budgeting, Program Content, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Remedial Reading

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