the Virgin Islands reported no expenditures for administration, and a number of other States used a negligible amount for this purpose, Alaska, Kentucky, Maine, and South Dakota, as examples. The small amount actually used for State administration in relation to the amount actually available can probably be accounted for by the fact that many State plans were approved late in fiscal year 1966. (Table 2.) Of significance also is the fact that the 5 percent available for administration was, in many States, such a small amount that it was not sufficient for even one professional salary and State departments of education preferred to use the funds for acquisition. For example, 5 percent of the allocation for Alaska amounted to $5,942. It should also be noted that certain expenditures in the administration of ESEA title II could be covered in other Federal programs, for example, ESEA title V and NDEA, title III. TABLE 2.-Approval of ESEA title II State plans, fiscal year 1966 TABLE 3.-Funds available and funds expended for acquisitions and State administration, fiscal year 1966 Note.-American Samoa did not submit a State plan and its allotment of $22,200 was reallocated to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Reports have not been finally settled for 22 States and outlying areas. PROPORTIONS OF THE THREE CATEGORIES Among the three categories of eligible materials-school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials-most of the plans give priority to school library resources.1 In fact, 45 States al 1 School library resources are books, periodicals, documents, pamphlets, photographs, reproductions, pictorial or graphic works, musical scores, maps, charts, globes, sound lowed 50 percent or more of their allotment to this category. The following table summarizes the proportions determined by the States for the three categories of materials in the first fiscal year. In justifying emphasis on school library resources in State plans, the State departments of education indicated that highest priority was given to school library resources because of the critical need for these materials, particularly at the elementary level. Most State departments of education explained the low priority for textbooks on the basis that they were in more adequate supply than school library and other instructional materials. TABLE 4.-Percent of State allotments allocated to school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials 16 States made no categorical breakdown between school library and other instructional materials. CHILDREN-PROGRAM PARTICIPATION Table 5 provides data on the number of children and teachers participating in the ESEA title II program. Of the 46.2 million or about 89 percent of all children eligible to participate in the program, 43.4 million or 94 percent of eligible public and private school children participated in the program. It should be noted that not all public and private school children in the United States are included in column 4 of table 5, ADM or ADA in eligible agencies. State departments of education reported children enrolled in eligible schools; eligible schools were schools which provided elementary or secondary education as determined under State law, not beyond grade 12, and which comply with the State compulsory attendance laws, or recognized by some other procedure customarily used in the State. Schools, of course, must be in compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The percent of children participating in the program in relation to the total enrollment in elementary and secondary public and private schools is 89 percent (figure 1). recordings, including but not limited to those on disk or tape; processed slides, transparencies, films, filmstrips, kinescopes, and video tapes, or any other printed and published or audiovisual materials of a similar nature made by any method now developed which are processed and organized for use by elementary or secondary school children and teachers. "Other instructional materials" are the same as those listed above but are not processed and organized for use by elementary or secondary school children. 81-558-67-2 TABLE 5. Total number of agencies enrolling children eligible for participation; average daily membership or average daily attendance of eligible and participating children; and number of eligible teachers participating, by educational level and and type of school fiscal year 1966 1 No figures reported for number of private school teachers eligible; however, teachers were reported as participating for: California, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, and Wyoming. Figure 1.-43 MILLION OR ABOUT 89 PERCENT OF ALL SCHOOL A number of reasons account for the fact that there was not 100 percent participation in the title II program: materials are distributed on the basis of relative need, and some children and teachers in schools well provided with materials were not served in the first year of the program; some public and private school administrators decided against participation because they did not wish their schools to receive Federal aid: some children and teachers in schools not in compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act could not be served. The number of elementary school pupils who participated in the program, 28 million, is about 94 percent of the 29.8 million eligible elementary school pupils in public and private schools. For secondary school pupils, the 15 million who participated, comprised 93.1 percent of the eligible number of secondary school pupils in public and private schools. The fact that a larger number of elementary school pupils than secondary were served is mainly due to the larger total number of elementary school pupils. However, the fact that a somewhat higher percentage of elementary than secondary school pupils participated in the program may be accounted for by the higher priority given elementary school pupils in some State title II programs-Kansas and Ohio, as examples. CHILDREN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS Of 40.3 million public school children eligible to receive benefits in the title II program, 37.7 million, or 93.4 percent, actually participated in fiscal year 1966. These children were enrolled in 87 percent of the 86,000 public schools in which children and teachers were eligible to receive title II benefits. For private school children, the number participating was 5.7 million or 97.2 percent of the total eligible. The private school children participating were enrolled in 89 percent of the 18,000 private schools in which children and teachers were eligible to receive title II benefits (figure 2). Figure 2. PUPILS AND TEACHERS IN MORE THAN 91,000 CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BY REGION AND STATE 2 There is some variation among the regions in the percentage of eligible public school children who participated in the ESEA title II program. The percent of eligible public school children who participated ranges from 84.4 percent in region VI (Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) to 96.3 percent in region IX (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands).* * States comprising each region may be found in table 6. Excludes Iowa because only total children who participated was reported. |