Education Beyond the High School and Federally Impacted Areas: Hearing, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session on S. 4211, July 20, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 53 pages Considers legislation to authorize Federal aid to states for higher education RPD committees and to extend Federal aid to impacted areas for school construction and operation. |
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2-year period 81ST CONGRESS 90 days Act is amended amended by striking appropriation average daily attendance average per pupil bill BROWNELL Chairman College Commissioner Committee on Education COMMITTEE ON LABOR Congress CONLEY construction contribution rate CORNING Counting children defense plant Department of Health District of Columbia educational agency enrollment Federal activities Federal Government Federal payments Federal property federally connected children Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co fiscal Flight training schools funds high school housing property immigration increase inserting in lieu John Hay Whitney June 30 LABOR AND PUBLIC legislation lieu thereof 1958 LILLYWHITE LISTER HILL ment million needs number of children Occidental College Office of Education paragraph PAT MCNAMARA percent president President's Committee problem proposed Public Law 815 pupil local contribution purposes school district school facilities section 305 Senator HILL Senator MURRAY Senator SMITH subcommittee subsection tion United United States Senate
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Page 26 - States has placed financial burdens by reason of the fact that-- "1. The revenues available to such agencies from local sources have been reduced as the result of the acquisition of real property by the United States; or "2.
Page 3 - ... average per pupil expenditure" in a State, or in the United States, shall be the aggregate current expenditures, during the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the computation is made, of all local educational agencies in the State, or in the United States...
Page 1 - Act is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following : "or as grazing land".
Page 2 - ... who, while in attendance at such schools, either (1) resided on Federal property, or (2) resided with a parent employed on Federal property situated in whole or in part in the same State as such agency or situated within reasonable commuting distance from the school district of such agency...
Page 25 - We have to do in the educational system something very like what we have done in the military establishment during the past 15 years. We have to make a breakthrough to a radically higher and broader conception of what is needed and of what can be done. Our educational effort today, what we think we can afford, what we think we can do, how we feel entitled to treat our schools and our teachers — all of that — is still in approximately the same position as was the military effort of this country...
Page 14 - ... and institutions. But to lay before us all the problems of education beyond high school, and to encourage active and systematic attack on them, I shall appoint a distinguished group of educators and citizens to develop this year, through studies and conferences, proposals in this educational field. Through the leadership and counsel of this group, beneficial results can be expected to flow to education and to the Nation, in the years ahead.
Page 1 - ... (i) on the basis of information in his possession, it is likely that the urgency of the need of the local educational agency is such that it would have a priority under section 3 which would qualify it for payments under this Act when such priorities are established, and "(ii) the number of children in the increase under section 5 (a) is in large measure attributable to children who reside or will reside in housing newly constructed on Federal property...
Page 4 - Congress) to make permanent the programs providing financial assistance in the construction and operation of schools in areas affected by Federal activities...