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RCED-94-213R 1 (1994-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackoi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AIX United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-257291 May 19, 1994 The Honorable Dale L. Bumpers Chairman The Honorable Thad Cochran Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Richard J. Durbin Chairman The Honorable Joe Skeen Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives As requested by the Senate and House conferees for the fiscal year 1994 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) appropriations act (Public Law 103-111), we reviewed the Delta Teachers Academy program, which is funded in part by the Department. This program is intended to improve the quality of teaching by elementary and secondary teachers in the seven-state Delta region--Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. The Department began funding the Academy's efforts for the first time in March 1994. While the Academy's sponsor has hired the necessary university professors to work with teachers in the program, identified almost all of the locations where faculty- teacher sessions are to occur, and initiated some teacher development sessions, it is too early to assess these efforts in much detail. Therefore, this correspondence provides an overview of the Delta Teachers Academy's activities, expenditures, and implementation efforts to date. Because USDA's involvement with this program is less GAOIRCED-94-213R, Delta Teachers Academy

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