PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1634 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE EDUCATION OF ALL TYPES TO REGULATE ITS EXPENDITURE TO PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in room 357, Senate Office Building, Senator Claude Pepper presiding. Present: Senators Pepper (chairman) and Murray. Senator PEPPER. This hearing is for the purpose of hearing those who desire to be heard on Senate bill 1634. We are glad to see so many here and we want every one to have a fair opportunity to express their views about this measure. (The bill is as follows:) [S. 1634, 75th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide for the education of all types of physically handicapped children, to make an appropriation of money therefor, and to regulate its expenditure Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, APPROPRIATION SECTION 1. For the purpose of enabling each State to establish, extend, and improve services for educating physically handicapped children, the sum of $11,580,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Commissioner of Education of the United States, State plans for such services: Provided, That no funds so allotted under this section shall be used directly or indirectly to purchase, preserve, erect, or repair any building or buildings or for the purchase, rental, or maintenance of any lands or buildings. ALLOTMENTS SEC. 2. The Commissioner of Education of the United States shall, out of the sum of $11,580,000 appropriated pursuant to section 1 hereof, for each fiscal year allot (a) To each State the sum of $40,000, which shall not be required to be matched, which sum shall be used to establish, extend, and improve services for educating physically handicapped children, as hereinafter provided, especially in rural areas. (b) The sum of $9,000,000 to the States on the basis of the ratio of the number of their inhabitants aged five to twenty years, inclusive, to the total number of inhabitants aged five to twenty years, inclusive, of all the States as determined by the most recent United States census. Such pro-rata amount allotted to each State annually shall be used for carrying out the provisions set forth in section 1 in paying the cost of services for the education of physically handicapped children over and above the cost of educating physically normal children in the public schools of the State and subdivisions thereof, and for the training of teachers of such children: Provided, That the annual report filed by the State on or before September 1 of each year shall show at least an equal amount to have been ex 1 |