TABLE 16.-Number of employees and expenditures for State administration of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 as amended, fiscal year 1967-Continued State agency staff positions (full-time equivalent) whether headquarters or regional, and whether or not currently filled as of June 30, 1967. Staff positions for the direct operation of any school, college, university, or similar direct service are excluded. Not available. State Department of education does not administer program. 'Inapplicable. Program summary-Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, as amended Amount expended from Federal funds for State administration in fiscal year 1967 - Amount expended from State funds for State administration in fiscal year 1967 ... Grand total.... Number of State agency employees engaged in program activities as $4, 454, 226 461, 392 4, 915, 618 652, 0 564. 0 1 State agency staff positions (full-time equivalent) whether headquarters or regional, and whether or not currently filled as of June 30, 1967. Staff positions for the direct operation of any school, college, university, or similar direct service are excluded. TABLE 17.-Summary: State department of education (SDE) administration of Federal programs analyzed, fiscal year 1967 1 FEDERAL PROGRAMS IN RELATION TO ALL OPERATIONS OF STATE DEPARTMENTS REPORTING Federal funds for the programs analyzed in this section ranged from 13 percent to over 70 percent of the total administrative expenditures for State departments of education in the 30 States for which resource data for fiscal year 1967 have been supplied (see table 18). The average was 29 percent; that is, more than $1 in every $4 spent for State administration was for conducting the Federal programs. When the matching provisions of some of the programs are considered, it is evident that about $1 in every $3 spent by State departments of education was used for this purpose. TABLE 18.-State administration: Expenditures and personnel of State education agencies for 30 States, fiscal year 1967 ! Some program data were not available for most States, so the totals in this column are incomplete. State agency staff positions (full-time equivalent) whether headquarters or regional, and whether or not currently filled as of June 30, 1967. Staff positions for the direct operation of any school, college, university, or similar direct service are excluded. TOTAL IMPACT OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS ON STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION The criteria employed in identifying and briefly analyzing the Federal programs treated in this chapter do not reveal the entire impact of Federal legislation for education on State departments of education. The following program and service areas, although the list is not complete, will give some indication of the kinds of other activities in which State departments of education are engaged as a direct consequence of Federal legislation: Civil rights School lunch program School operation and maintenance in federally affected areas Special milk programs State research coordination for vocational and technical education Surplus agricultural commodities program Surplus property program Veterans' education Some of these programs and service areas draw heavily upon the resources of State departments of education; for example, more than 400 persons employed by these departments, professional and nonprofessional, were engaged in fiscal year 1966 in conducting programs for school lunch, special milk, and surplus agricultural commodities distribution. This study does not undertake to set forth quantitative data on the impact of these Federal programs, but it is now quite evident that there are few employees of State departments of education who are not in some way touched by one or more Federal programs. In many of the smaller States, there are almost as many Federal programs and service areas that could draw upon the resources of State departments of education as there are professional employees in these departments. |