MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1972.

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

WITNESSES

J. MATTHEIS, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR SCHOOL

DUANE
SYSTEMS

PETER P. MUIRHEAD, EXECUTIVE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

THOMAS J. BURNS, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

ROBERT B. WHEELER, ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

DR. JOHN R. OTTINA, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR PLANNING, EVALUATION, AND MANAGEMENT

DR. JOHN W. EVANS, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR PROGRAM PLANNING AND EVALUATION

RICHARD L. FAIRLEY, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION

DR. HARRY L. PHILLIPS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF STATE AGENCY COOPERATION

RALPH J. BECKER, ACTING DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PLANS AND SUPPLEMENTARY CENTERS

LAWRENCE J. LaMOURE, ACTING DIRECTOR, PROGRAM PLANNING STAFF, BESE

LEE WICKLINE, DIRECTOR OF PLANS AND SUPPLEMENTARY

CENTERS

HARRIS L. KELLER, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, BUREAU OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

JAMES B. ROBERTS, EXECUTIVE OFFICER FOR SCHOOL SYSTEMS JOE G. KEEN, BUDGET OFFICER

MRS. SALLY H. BOND, DEPUTY BUDGET OFFICER

THOMAS MCNAMARA, BUDGET ANALYST

CHARLES MILLER, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY, BUDGET

Excludes $90,000 thousand in 1973 for activities transferred to Library resources. Comparable amounts for 1971 ($79.990 thousand). 1972 ($90,000 thousand) are included above.

Excludes $110, 905 thousand in 1973 for activities transferred to Educational renewal. Comparable amounts for 1971 ($43.184 thousand). 1972 ($107,525 thousand) are included above.

Excludes $1,413 thousand in 1973 for activities transferred to Salaries and expenses. Comparable amount for 1972 ($1,360 thousand) is included above.

Mr. FLOOD. Today we have Elementary and Secondary Education. The presentation will be made by Duane J. Mattheis, the Deputy Commissioner for School Systems.

Peter, how do you wish to handle this presentation?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Mr. Chairman, I would like to report to you, first of all, that following our very good opening with you last Friday, we are delighted to be back here again.

Mr. FLOOD. The witness is Peter Muirhead. He is the Executive Deputy Commissioner of Education. Yes, Peter?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. The Commissioner is in Dallas today, speaking before the Association of American Junior Colleges.

Mr. FLOOD. Yes; he advised the committee that he would be there. Mr. MUIRHEAD. As you know, the Commissioner is going to be at every session that he possibly can during the hearings.

Mr. FLOOD. I thought he was really good last week.
Mr. MUIRHEAD. We were tremendously pleased.
Mr. FLOOD. Especially when these people all say so.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. It was a great moment, it seems to me, when we had the great consensus here that it was a fine presentation.

Mr. FLOOD. I don't think he had any idea himself that he was that good.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. He walked out of here on air.

Mr. CONTE. That was a great statement. When I left here I had to go home and speak to my district. I had three or four speeches to make to colleges. I thought that it would be good to reread his statement. I read it over three times in the airplane. It was an excellent statement, one of the finest I have read.

Mr. FLOOD. I am sure he was delighted. Of course, you are always good. You and I are always good.

INTRODUCTION OF WITNESSES

Mr. MUIRHEAD. We have this afternoon, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Duane J. Mattheis, who is our Deputy Commissioner for School Systems. In that position, he says grace over quite a large congregation. Mr. FLOOD. What do you mean by "school systems?"

Mr. MUIRHEAD. We use that as a phrase for covering those programs that are directed at the elementary and secondary schools. Perhaps the best way to describe the title is just to mention the four bureaus. Mr. FLOOD. Will you develop that?

Mr. MATTHEIS. Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. FLOOD. I must ask these questions. If you are going to develop it, we will let it go until you are ready.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Mr. Mattheis is accompanied by the key members of his staff. If it meets with your pleasure we would like to introduce them to you at this time.

Mr. MATTHEIS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, there are some individuals present today who were introduced last Friday so I will not introduce them again.

The new members of the family who join us today are, in order of their listing on your sheet: Thomas J. Burns, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Elementary and Secondary Education; Robert B.

Wheeler, Associate Commissioner for Elementary and Secondary Education, one of our newest people in the Office of Education, coming to us from Kansas City. Dr. John R. Ottina, Deputy Commissioner for Planning, Evaluation, and Management; and Dr. John W. Evans, Assistant Commissioner for Program Planning and Evaluation, were introduced last Friday. Next Mr. Richard L. Fairley, Director, Division of Compensatory Education, title I primarily and Follow Through.

Mr. FLOOD. What is title I?

Mr. MATTHEIS. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Follow Through are the two programs under his jurisdiction. The next gentleman is Dr. Harry L. Phillips, Director of the Division of State Agency Cooperation. That Division deals primarily with title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, strengthening State departments of education. We also have Ralph J. Becker, Acting Director, Division of Plans and Supplementary Centers, who administers the State plan portion of title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Mr. FLOOD. Will you explain plans and supplementary centers? What is that?

Mr. MATTHEIS. That is title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Mr. Becker is then responsible to Mr. Wheeler.

Mr. FLOOD. What are supplementary centers?

Mr. MATTHEIS. That is title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which carried that in its title. It is really for developing innovative plans for local school districts around the States. It is the 85 percent State formula program of that title of the elementary and secondary.

Lawrence J. LaMoure, acting director, program planning staff, is the program planner in the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Eduaction. Dr. Don Davies isn't with us this afternoon. Harris L. Keller, executive officer, Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education; and James B. Roberts, executive officer for school systems, my executive officer.

Mr. FLOOD. That is quite a cast of characters.

Do we have a biographical sketch of you, Mr. Mattheis?

Mr. MATTHEIS. Yes, sir.

Mr. FLOOD. Are you a doctor of some sort?

Mr. MATTHEIS. No, sir. I am just an old-fashioned Mister.

Mr. FLOOD. Would you put a biographical sketch of yourself in the record and any of your people that you call on.

By the way, you fellows know you can volunteer. If he is not doing so well, it's all right for you to pop up and help out.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WITNESSES

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