71. Highway safety, September 2, 1966... 72. Extension of the Peace Corps Act, September 13, 1966... 73. Shaw Junior High School in the District of Columbia, Sep- 77. Fiftieth anniversary of Brookings Institution, September 29, 1966- 78. Cultural and educational materials, October 14, 1966.. 79. Pago Pago, American Samoa, October 18, 1966. 80. American Education Week, 1966, October 26, 1966_ 86. District of Columbia Public Education Act, November 7, 1966. 88. International Conference on Education, November 25, 1966. 89. Educational television in the less-developed countries, November 414 90. Advisory Committee on the Vocational Student Guaranteed Loan Chapter V. Summary of the legislation. - 1. Bills reported from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare...... 2. Bills reported from other committees of the Senate.. Appendix: Text of major education and training laws as of December 1966 (acts amended by the 89th Cong., second sess.). 1. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.. 2. Public Law 815, September 1950, as amended. tion in areas affected by Federal activities) ___ 3. Public Law 874, September 30, 1950, as amended. (Financial assistance to local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activities and for the education of children of low- 4. Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. 5. Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, as amended. ENACTMENTS BY THE 89TH CONGRESS CONCERNING CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1. PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT The main purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive record of the enactments by the 89th Congress during its second session, 1966, concerning education and training. Besides giving the texts of the enactments, the report presents digests of these laws, with particular reference to their educational and training features or aspects. The report also cites related recommendations and statements by President Johnson, and summarizes the legislative histories of the enacted bills containing educational and training provisions of significance. The report incidentally includes some selected comments from the public press relative to action on some of these bills. 2. SCOPE OF THE REPORT This report covers legislation relating generally to "education and training." In the broadest sense, the former term includes the latter. It would be presumptuous, however, to attempt to define in this report precisely what legislation Congress would consider pertinent to or affecting "education." Since the report is intended to be comprehensive, it includes acts relating to "training" as well as those relating to "education," and acts concerning students, teachers, or educational institutions. Thus, the report covers a variety of legislation and legislative objectives. Apart from the omission of some appropriation measures,1 the aim is to include both legislation involving direct Federal financing and administration of educational and training activities, and legislation involving forms of Federal aid to States, localities, institutions, and individuals in these fields. In some instances the legislative provisions included are subsidiary parts of legislation principally concerned with other matters. In brief, what is here presented in a panoramic view of many highly diversified measures of current interest concerning education and training. 3. SOURCES The information brought together and summarized in this report has been obtained principally from the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, the daily Congressional Record, the Congressional Most of the departments and independent agencies of the Government administer some educational or training programs. This report includes certain appropriations for only the U.S. Office of Education and some of the larger programs of other agencies affecting education and training for the fiscal year 1967. 1 Directory, the Calendars of the House of Representatives, the Digest of Public General Bills and Selected Resolutions, the texts of the bills dealt with, the House and Senate hearings and committee reports on these bills, and the Statutes at Large. Some other sources are cited in footnotes. CHAPTER II. BILLS REPORTED FROM THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, which, as amended, is currently effective, lists "measures relating to education, labor, or public welfare generally" first among those activities to be referred to the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Other measures concerned with education and training which are named to be referred to that committee include those relating to vocational rehabilitation, education of veterans, and Howard University. However, the act requires that certain other measures which involve education and training be referred to other named committees of the Senate. For example, the act directs referral of bills relating to the education of Indians to the Senate Committee on Public Lands. In order to show to some extent the volume of education and training legislation considered by the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare in 1966, the following pages will list first, in chronological order of approval by the President, the enactments which, in the earlier forms of bills, were referred to that committee. The acts which in their earlier forms were referred to other committees of the Senate will be listed in a later chapter, likewise in the order of approval of the acts by the President. 1. EDUCATION AND OTHER BENEFITS FOR VETERANS OF SERVICE AFTER JANUARY 31, 1955 (Public Law 89-358, approved March 3, 1966) A. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY S. 9, a bill to provide readjustment benefits for veterans of service after January 31, 1955, was introduced on January 4, 1965, by Senator Ralph W. Yarborough, of Texas, for himself and other Senators. The bill was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Hearings on S. 9 were held before the Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs, of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on February 8, 18, 19, 24, 26, and March 1 and 9, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 510 pages. S. 9 was reported from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on June 1, 1965 (S. Rept. 269). It passed the Senate on July 19, 1965, and was referred to the (House) Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 20, 1965. Hearings on S. 9 and a number of House bills "to provide GI benefits for post-Korean veterans" were held before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on August 31 and September 1, 2, 7, and 15, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 218 pages. 3 72-954 0-67-pt. 1--2 |