Education and Youth Policy

Background

Background on Education and Youth Policy

Latest News

HNR: Bill Increasing Pell Grants Awaits President's Signature (9/17/07)
HNR: Senate Enacts Student Lending Bill With Public Service Loan Forgiveness (7/23/07)
CDF: Protect Children, Not Guns (6/23/06)
HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06)
HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
HNR: State of the Union Address Foreshadows Fiscal 2007 Budget Proposals (2/3/06)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CAP: National Service and Youth Unemployment: Strategies for Job Creation Amid Economic Recovery (11/16/09)Pew Economic Mobility Project: Strengthening Community Colleges' Influence on Economic Mobility (October 2009)
Child Trends: What Works for Summer Learning Programs for Low-Income Children and Youth: Preliminary Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Social Interventions (September 2009)
NWLC: Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation (August 2009)
CLASP: Early Childhood Education in the ARRA: Opportunities for Helping Low-income Children and their Families (6/23/09)

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Government Resources

Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4525 (extends until 3/31/06 the Higher Education Act) (signed by President 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
House Appropriations Committee: H. Rept. 109-143 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/21/05)
Status of The School Readiness Act (HR 2123 - Head Start reauthorization) (Introduced 5/5/05)

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