Statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.—Continued Landry, Kenneth C., administrator, Department of Public Services, the American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C., statement Lay, Jesse D., superintendent, Knox County schools, Barbourville, 526 Manch, Dr. Joseph, superintendent of schools, Buffalo, N.Y., state- 476 Mathews, Joseph L., Joseph L. Mathews & Associates, South Bend, McCormick, Dr. Bernard J., deputy superintendent of schools, McLeod, John W., FAIA, McLeod, Ferrara & Ensign, architects, 200 Minor, Bluford F., assistant superintendent of schools, business 247 Moore, William H., director, school plant services, Arkansas State Radoslovich, Michael L., FAIA, remarks by. Reichenstein, Harry S., city clerk, Newark, N.J., letter to Committee 276 480 329 545 Renfroe, Carl G., superintendent, city schools of Decatur, Decatur, Rose, Oscar V., superintendent of schools, Midwest City, Okla., 228 Rubin, Max J., New York, N.Y., letter to Congressman Scheuer, 320 Saunders, Harry, consultant on school buildings, Philadelphia, Pa., 482 Spinnenweber, Mrs. Thelma, supervisor, Bond Service, outstanding indebtedness of the public schools of Arkansas, June 30, 1965, Summary of H.R. 10080 (O'Hara) and H.R. 10105 (Ford, William) to 231 Taylor, Richard, superintendent, Widefield-Security Schools, Colo- 254 Tobin, William G., associate superintendent, the School Committee 334 Turner, Marie R., superintendent, Breathitt County Schools, Jackson, 502 Willis, Benjamin C., general superintendent, Chicago public schools: Building and facilities program-including colleges-- Windowless classrooms, excerpt from National Council on Schoolhouse 72 SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION, 1965 TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1965 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, GENERAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, at 10:05 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 2257, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Carl D. Perkins (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Perkins and Brademas. Also present: Hartwell D. Reed, Jr., counsel to the subcommittee. Mr. PERKINS. The subcommittee will come to order. A quorum is present. The 89th Congress has made a great stride forward in placing a floor under educational opportunities throughout the Nation. This has been accomplished by the enactment of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Public Law 89-10, which recognizes a national need for improved educational programs at the elementary and secondary level, in those school districts in which there are concentrations of children coming from extremely low income families. The funds provided under that act for such programs, however, while envisioning a wide variety of special educational programs and a strengthening of existing educational programs to serve the special needs of such children, are inadequate to enable the construction of new classroom and other educational facilities in the school attendance areas in which these programs will operate. Of course, in some instances, the construction of facilities is authorized by title I of Public Law 89-10 as well as under title III. However, situations are limited in which the urgent needs of educationally deprived children will give any priority to the construction of facilities which are, nevertheless, urgently needed. In some respects I have the feeling that we may have placed the cart before the horse in authorizing funds for programs before providing funds to adequately house such programs. Many of our school facilities today are themselves stark examples of poverty and it is difficult for the best education programs to meet the needs of disadvantaged children in overcoming poverty in a setting of poverty. If a real breakthrough is to be achieved in providing educational opportunities in the poorest areas of our Nation, it is essential that school facilities be up to date, safe, healthy, modern, and thoroughly conducive to impressing upon the students the importance with which the Nation regards the educational process and academic achievement. It is little wonder to me that our dropout rates are high in low-income areas when we have placed so little value on the educational process as to house this most important activity so poorly. 1 Let me at this point summarize the major provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education School Construction Act of 1965, H.R. 9948, which I introduced and which we will be considering during the course of these hearings. Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Chairman, let me read this summary of the major provisions of your bill, H.R. 9948. Mr. PERKINS. Proceed, Mr. Brademas. Mr. BRADEMAS. Distribution of funds under title I: Title I of the bill would distribute funds to local public educational agencies on the basis of a formula similar to the formula contained in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 89-10, with the modification that each school district would be entitled to receive 50 percent of the average per pupil expenditures in the State or 50 percent of the average per pupil expenditure of all the States, whichever expenditure figure is higher, for each child coming from a low-income family. Uses of funds under title I: A local educational agency could use funds granted pursuant to this title for the construction of school facilities of the local educational agency which are designed to serve school attendance areas having high concentration of children from low-income families including facilities for special projects conducted by the local educational agency in which children from such areas who are enrolled in nonpublic elementary or secondary schools may participate as authorized by title I of Public Law 89-10. The Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Education is required to establish basic criteria to be applied by the State educational agency in approving applications by local public educational agencies for the use of funds under title I of the bill. Such basic criteria shall include priorities given to projects which provide for (1) The replacement or restoration of hazardous or unsafe facilities; (2) Consolidation of school facilities; (3) The modernization or replacement of facilities which are antiquated or functionally obsolescent; and (4) The modernization or replacement of facilities to provide innovative facilities or equipment. Other uses of funds under title I: In those local schools districts where a maximum effort is being made by the local public educational agency to provide broadened educational opportunities for children in school attendance areas where there are concentrations of educationally deprived children the local public educational agency could use construction grants provided by title I for the construction of any needed school facility in the district. Such maximum effort must be evidenced by (1) The local educational agency is eligible for special incentive grants under section 204 of title I of Public Law 89-10; and (2) The facilities in the school district for carrying out the provisions of section 205 of Public Law 89-10 relating to education programs for educationally deprived children, are adequate and appropriate. These determinations are to be made by the State educational agency under broad criteria prescribed by the Commissioner of the U.S. Of fice of Education. The State educational agency also makes the de termination with respect to the need for the construction of a facility other than one to carry out the program authorized by section 205 of Public Law 89-10 in the event that the local educational agency qualifies for this special use of funds granted pursuant to title I of the bill. Distribution of funds for construction under title II: Title II of the bill would amend section 301 of title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by adding additional authorizations for the purpose of constructing facilities to house programs authorized by title III of such act. Authorizations for construction grants for this purpose would be as follows: In addition, authorizations for regular program operation under title III of Public Law 89-10 would be as follows: General provisions: The language under title I of the bill would become a permanent title II of Public Law 815 of the 81st Congress, title I of which upon the enactment of H.R. 9948 would deal with school construction in areas affected by Federal activities and title II would deal with school construction in areas where there are concentrations of educationally deprived children. That concludes the summary, Mr. Chairman, of the major provisions of the Elementary and Secondary School Construction Act of 1965, H.R. 9948. Mr. PERKINS. Thank you for summarizing the legislation. At this point in the record, without objection, there should be inserted in the record a print of H.R. 9948 and tables showing the distribution of construction funds this bill would authorize. (The documents referred to follow :) [H.R. 9948, 89th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To increase educational opportunities throughout the Nation by providing grants for the construction of elementary and secondary schools and supplemental educational centers and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Elementary and Secondary School Construction Act of 1965". TITLE I-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCHOOLS SERVING CHILDREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES SEC. 2. The Act of September 23, 1950, Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, as amended (20 U.S.C. 631-645), is amended by inserting: "TITLE I-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION IN AREAS AFFECTED BY FEDERAL ACTIVITY" immediately above the heading of section 1, by |