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Balancing Flexibility and Accountability: Grant Program Design in Education and Other Areas

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 11, 1998
Report No. T-GGD/HEHS-98-94
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Summary:

This testimony discusses balancing flexibility and accountability in federal grant programs, with particular attention to education programs. GAO previews the results of its comparative study of flexible grant programs--in transportation, health, social services, education, criminal justice, and employment--that will be completed later this spring. GAO's study covers all of the currently operating "block grants" plus other grant programs with similar characteristics. This testimony also draws on GAO's work on program evaluation and information issues and on the accountability and fiscal effects issues associated with block grants.

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