EDUCATION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1972 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Roman C. Pucinski (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Pucinski, Ford, Meeds, Quie, Bell, Ruth, and Peyser. Staff members present: John F. Jennings, counsel; Toni Painter, secretary; and Charles W. Radcliffe, minority counsel for education. Mr. PUCINSKI. The committee will come to order. The General Subcommittee on Education is beginning today extensive hearings on the financing of elementary and secondary education. The purpose of these hearings is to secure action by the Federal and State Governments assuring a quality education to every American youngster. A year ago I introduced the National Partnership in Education Act as one means to assure this quality education. That bill calls for the assumption by the Federal Government over a 3-year period of onethird of the cost of elementary and secondary education, thus hopefully enabling local school districts to maintain a floor of $1,200 or thereabouts or as the minimum to be spent on the education of every student. Since I introduced that bill, most of the national education organizations have endorsed the concept of a one-third partnership by the Federal Government. And I was particularly pleased to learn yesterday that Commissioner Marland has now endorsed the idea that the Federal Government ought to provide at least one-third of the cost of education and that there ought to be a national floor guaranteeing that an equal amount be spent on the education of every child. But at this very hour and in this very building, the House Judiciary Committee is also beginning hearings, hearings on a constitutional amendment barring busing to achieve racial balance in the schools. I believe that the controversy and divisiveness surrounding that amendment have caused us as Americans to lose sight of what ought to be a fundamental national goal: making available a quality education to every American child regardless of his race and regardless of where he lives. I sincerely believe that if we were ever to attain that goal, pressure for excessive busing solely to achieve racial balance would wither away. Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.-Continued Scott, Hon. Robert W., Governor, State of North Carolina, statement of.. Selden, David, president, American Federation of Teachers: Desmond, John E., president, Chicago Teachers Union, letter to "Educational Needs of Cleveland, Ohio," an article entitled_ Riordan, Mary Ellen, president, Detroit Federation of Teachers, "What New York City's Schools Need," an article entitled_ Page 398 142 142 142 134 129 141 536 537 APPENDIX Bozeman, C. Howard, attorney, Knoxville, Tenn., letter to Chairman Page Perkins, dated February 24, 1972. Brownell, John A., chairman, ESEA title III State advisory council, department of education, State of Hawaii, letter to Chairman Perkins, dated April 21, 1972, enclosing a resolution___ Cohen, David, et al., Harvard Graduate School of Education: Statement of.. "The Effects of Revenue Sharing and Block Grants on Education," a report entitled.... 832 833 791 792 Cordell, George A., director, Somerset Regional Supplementary Educational Center, Somerset, Ky., letter to Chairman Perkins, dated April 19, 1972, enclosing a resolution.. Davis, Mitchell, chairman, State advisory council, title III, ESEA, department of education, Frankfort, Ky., letter to Chairman Perkins, dated March 27, 1972, enclosing a memorandum 834 834 Fobert, Rudolph J., chairman, ESEA title III, Massachusetts Advisory Letter to Chairman Perkins, dated February 29, 1972. 839 "What ESEA Title III Has Accomplished in the U.S.," a fact sheet entitled_ 840 Henry, Elizabeth J., Knoxville, Tenn., letter to Chairman Perkins, dated 842 Johns, Roe L., director, National Educational Finance Project, "Excerpts from Alternative Programs for Financing Education,' a publication entitled_ 655 Laverne, Hon. Thomas, Senator, New York State Senate, letter to Jack National School Boards Association, statement on behalf of. Robinson, Dorothy S., chairman, President's National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services, letter to Chairman Perkins, dated March 23, 1972.. Shields, Roscoe, Jr., chairman, ESEA title III state advisory council, Lincoln, Nebr., letter to Chairman Pucinski, dated February 22, 1972, enclosing a resolution_. Shapp, Hon. Milton J., Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Wills, Jane (Mrs. Robert), Worthington, Ohio, letter to Hon. Chalmers 842 794 825 843 844 801 844 EDUCATION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1972 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Roman C. Pucinski (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Pucinski, Ford, Meeds, Quie, Bell, Ruth, and Peyser. Staff members present: John F. Jennings, counsel; Toni Painter, secretary; and Charles W. Radcliffe, minority counsel for education. Mr. PUCINSKI. The committee will come to order. The General Subcommittee on Education is beginning today extensive hearings on the financing of elementary and secondary education. The purpose of these hearings is to secure action by the Federal and State Governments assuring a quality education to every American youngster. A year ago I introduced the National Partnership in Education Act as one means to assure this quality education. That bill calls for the assumption by the Federal Government over a 3-year period of onethird of the cost of elementary and secondary education, thus hopefully enabling local school districts to maintain a floor of $1,200 or thereabouts or as the minimum to be spent on the education of every student. Since I introduced that bill, most of the national education organizations have endorsed the concept of a one-third partnership by the Federal Government. And I was particularly pleased to learn yesterday that Commissioner Marland has now endorsed the idea that the Federal Government ought to provide at least one-third of the cost of education and that there ought to be a national floor guaranteeing that an equal amount be spent on the education of every child. But at this very hour and in this very building, the House Judiciary Committee is also beginning hearings, hearings on a constitutional amendment barring busing to achieve racial balance in the schools. I believe that the controversy and divisiveness surrounding that amendment have caused us as Americans to lose sight of what ought to be a fundamental national goal: making available a quality education to every American child regardless of his race and regardless of where he lives. I sincerely believe that if we were ever to attain that goal, pressure for excessive busing solely to achieve racial balance would wither away. |