United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1999-05-05 monographic deposited born digital 24 p. GA 1.13:T-HEHS-99-117 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117 P0b002ee180393c63 f:he99117t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117 T-HEHS-99-117 Teacher education Education or training costs Teachers Aid for education Performance measures Redundancy Educational standards GSA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Dept. of Education Eisenhower State Grant Program NASA Aerospace Education Services Program Dept. of Education Fund for the Improvement of Education Program EPA Environmental Education Grants Program Dept. of Education Class-Size Reduction Program Goals 2000 Dept. of Education Title I Program Testimony HEHS Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its work concerning federally funded teacher training programs, focusing on the: (1) number of agencies and the programs they administer that support teacher training, along with some general characteristics of these programs; and (2) funding provided by these programs. GAO noted that: (1) GAO's preliminary results indicate that 13 agencies administer 87 programs, which support teacher training to varying degrees; (2) the Department of Education administers the majority of these programs; (3) the programs support training in a variety of ways, including paying for training-related materials, such as books on teaching strategies, and teachers' travel expenses associated with attending conferences; (4) federal funding for teacher training is estimated to exceed $1.5 billion during fiscal year 1999; (5) Education's programs account for 87 percent of total funding; (6) over $579 million will be provided by programs that agencies classified as focusing exclusively on supporting teacher training; (7) over $945 million will be provided by programs that agencies classified as supporting teacher training to a significant degree; (8) for example, according to Education, teacher training is an important activity of the title I program, but the program's primary purpose is broader--to provide services to educationally disadvantaged children; (9) funding estimates are generally unavailable for programs where teacher training is an allowable but not a significant activity; (10) the number and diverse nature of programs--as well as the number of agencies responsible for administering them--create challenges in determining whether the programs are achieving national goals; (11) coordination among programs and agencies as well as the conduct of program evaluations are essential, given the diversity of existing programs; (12) the Government Performance and Results Act can provide a structured approach to such coordination and evaluation activities and help measure progress toward achieving national goals; and (13) agencies' annual performance plans can provide important information on how agencies are tracking and evaluating program results. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117/html/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117.pdf GAO/T-HEHS-99-117 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-99-117 Testimony GAO/T-HEHS-99-117; Teacher Training: Over $1.5 Billion Federal Funds Invested; Teacher education Education or training costs Teachers Aid for education Performance measures Redundancy Educational standards GSA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Dept. of Education Eisenhower State Grant Program NASA Aerospace Education Services Program Dept. of Education Fund for the Improvement of Education Program EPA Environmental Education Grants Program Dept. of Education Class-Size Reduction Program Goals 2000 Dept. of Education Title I Program