Multiple Teacher Training Programs: Information on Budgets, Services, and
Target Groups (Fact Sheet, 02/22/95, GAO/HEHS-95-71FS).

As employment in the United States changes from low-skilled assembly
work to occupations that require management of complex tasks and
continual updating of job skills, schools and teachers are increasingly
responsible for teaching students to learn and think critically.
Congress has created many teacher-training programs that fund preservice
(preparation for teaching) and in-service (continuing professional
training for teachers) educational activities for the nation's teachers.
Each program was created to meet a specific need; however, collectively
they constitute a patchwork of programs that may not make the most
efficient use of resources.  This fact sheet discusses (1) the total
number of federally funded teacher-training programs (excluding student
loans and grants that could be used for teacher training), (2) total
budget obligations for teacher-training programs, (3) the number of
teachers trained by the programs, and (4) differences in services across
the programs.

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 REPORTNUM:  HEHS-95-71FS
     TITLE:  Multiple Teacher Training Programs: Information on Budgets, 
             Services, and Target Groups
      DATE:  02/22/95
   SUBJECT:  Teachers
             Employment or training programs
             Education or training
             Education or training costs
             Educational programs
             Budget obligations
             Educational grants
IDENTIFIER:  Dept. of Education Indian Vocational Education Program
             Bilingual Education Training Grant
             Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
             Dept. of Education Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and 
             Science Education Program
             Dept. of Education Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program
             
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