GRANTS TO STATES FOR PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS-TITLE VI-A ESEA Legislation.—Public Law 89-10, title VII, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by Public Law 90-247 Purpose. To provide financial assistance to local educational agencies to develop and carry out new and imaginative elementary and secondary school programs designed to meet the special educational needs of children of limited English-speaking ability. For the purposes of the title "Children of Limited English-Speaking Ability" means children who come from environments where the dominant language is other than English. Fiscal year 1969.-25 percent of the authorization appropriated. Fiscal year 1970.-25 percent of the authorization recommended for funding. ADULT BASIC EDUCATION (Special Experimental Demonstration Projects and Teacher Training) Legislation.-Public Law 89-750, title III, section 309, Adult Education Act of 1966, $10 million (budget estimate) fiscal year 1970. Purpose. To encourage and expand basic educational programs for adults to enable them to overcome English language limitations, to improve their basic education in preparation for occupational training and more profitable employment, and to become productive and responsible citizens. 1 Amounts shown include both the State plan program and the sec. 309 program authorized by the Adult Education Act of 1966. : Transferred from OEO. * Budget estimate. Federal contribution.-Grants for special experimental demonstration projects which require a non-Federal contribution of at least 10 percentum of project costs wherever feasible. Stipends for teacher training of $75 a week plus $15 for each dependent. ADULT BASIC EDUCATION (State Plan Programs) Legislation.-Public Law 89-750, title III, Adult Education Act of 1966, $40 million (budget estimate) fiscal year 1970. Purpose. To encourage and expand basic educational programs for adults to enable them to overcome English language limitations, to improve their basic education in preparation for occupational training and more profitable employment, and to become more productive and responsible citizens. 1 Amounts shown include both the State plan programs and the sec. 309 program authorized by the Adult Education Act of 1966. 2 Transferred from OEO. Federal contributions.—Minimum allotment to States of $100,000 plus amount based on statutory formula. Matching is on a 90 percent to 10 percent basis, 100 percent contribution is made to specified outlying parts of the United States. (Public Law 89-329, as amended by Public Law 89-752 and Public Law 90-575) COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS Legislation.-Public Law 89-3429, title I, Higher Education Act of 1965. Purpose. To assist in the solution of community problems by strengthening community service programs of colleges and universities. Federal contribution.-75 percent matching through fiscal year 1967; 50 percent for the next 3 fiscal years. Basic amount to each State for developing and administering State plan, plus allotment based on statutory formula, taking population into consideration. These are the university extension programs, in large part administered through the land-grant college institutions which enable smaller communities as well as metropolitan centers to train municipal employees in areas such as fire-fighting, police in-service training. In addition, they enable isolated areas to form classes of university caliber to which the institution sends faculty for the purpose of holding courses in local high schools in the evening. Fiscal year 1969.-95 percent of authorization appropriated. TITLE II-COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSISTANCE AND LIBRARY TRAINING AND RESEARCH Purpose.-Title II of HEA is designed to improve college libraries and the quality of library service throughout the Nation by providing grants for: (1) acquisition of books, periodicals, and other library materials by colleges and universities; (2) training of all types of librarians; (3) research and demonstration projects, including the development of new ways of processing, storing and distributing information; and (4) aiding the Library of Congress to acquire and catalog additional scholarly materials. Authorization.-Authorization extends through fiscal year 1971. Principal Provisions: Part A-College library resources.-Provides grants on a matching basis to institutions of higher education, their branches in other communities, and combinations of institutions, for books, periodicals, documents, magnetic tapes, phonograph records, audiovisual materials, and other related library materials (including necessary binding). Eighty-five percent of the sum appropriated for any fiscal year is for basic and supplementary grants; the remaining 15 percent is for special purpose grants. Basic Grants of up to $5,000 may be approved by the Commissioner of Education provided that the institution maintains the previous level of expenditure for library programs, in addition to matching the grant money on a dollar-fordollar basis. New institutions may also apply for basic grants in the fiscal year before students are actually enrolled. Supplementary Grants-From the remainder of the 85 percent not used for basic grants, up to $10 per full-time student (or the equivalent) may be given in supplementary grants to institutions which have a minimum basic grant in excess of $1,500 (minimum stipulated by conferees in 1965 in H. Rept. 1178, p. 60). Special Purpose Grants are to be made by the Commissioner to help meet institutional, regional or national library needs, either in a single college or in combinations of colleges. Matching funds of $1 for every $3 of Federal money are required. There is also a maintenance of effort provision. An 8-member Advisory Council on College Library Resources is authorized to assist the Commissioner in establishing criteria for making supplemental and special purpose grants. Part B-Library training and research.-Sec. 223 provides grants to institutions for the training of persons engaged in or about to engage in the practice of librarianship in public, school, academic, or special libraries, supervisors of such personnel, and professional personnel to train librarians. Regular sessions, shortterm programs and institutes, with stipends and allowances for travel, subsistence and other expenses, are authorized. Beginning in fiscal year 1968, institutes for school librarians previously financed under the National Defense Education Act were transferred to this program. The Commissioner may make grants only upon application by these institutions and only upon finding that their library training programs will substantially increase nationwide library training opportunities. Grants may also go to institutions for the purpose of "establishing, developing, or expanding programs of library and information science." Sec. 224 provides research and demonstration grants to institutions of higher education and other public or private nonprofit agencies, institutions and organizations to improve libraries and library training, including development of new methods and equipment for processing, storing and distributing information. The Commissioner is authorized to appoint a Special Advisory Committee of not more than nine members, to advise him on matters of general policy concerning research and demonstration projects. Authorization fiscal year 1970_. Budget recommendation, fiscal year 1970- Decrease from authorization____ Authorization fiscal year 1969_. *$4,000,000 for training; $2,000,000 for research. $28, 000, 000 *6, 000, 000 $22, 000, 000 11, 550, 000 11, 250,000 Part C-Strengthening college and research library resources.-This section authorizes the Commissioner to transfer funds to the Librarian of Congress for the purpose of acquiring, so far as possible, all library materials currently published throughout the world which are of value to scholarship, and of providing and distributing catalog and bibliographic information promptly. Legislation.-Public Law 89-329, title III, Higher Education Act of 1965. Purpose. To provide funds to assist in raising the academic quality of developing colleges and universities through cooperative arrangements and teaching fellowships. Federal contribution.—Institutions: 100 percent. Fellowships: Up to $6.500 annually plus $400 for each dependent. This program is designed to permit academically strong institutions to work with small institutions who seek to achieve accreditation or to maintain accredited status which is threatened by such factors as insufficient numbers of faculty with advanced degrees, weakness in certain departmental offerings, and so forth. With such help, these schools can contribute greatly to meeting the student population pressures in the coming decade. This item, too, ought to be considered as a "capital investment" item. Fiscal year 1969.-83 percent of authorization appropriated. Fiscal year 1970.-43 percent of authorization proposed for funding. |