Who Should Control Voc.-Ed. Dollars Is a Hot Topic

By Meg Sommerfeld

Washington

Whether governors or state educational agencies should control how vocational-education dollars are spent is emerging as a prominent question as Congress tackles several bills designed to replace existing federal programs with block grants.

Noting that the leading measures pending in the House and Senate have a great deal in common, Victor F. Klatt, the education-policy coordinator for the House Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee, called the proposed changes "true reform of a scale that has not gone through this committee...