Statements, letters, supplemental materials, etc.-Continued Sharer, Robert E., president, Adult Education Association of the Sheats, Paul H., dean, University of California, telegram to Chairman Simpson, Roy E., superintendent of public instruction, State depart- ment of education, Sacramento, Calif., telegram to Chairman Per- Sinclair, Dorothy, Baltimore, Md., letter to Chairman Perkins__ Smith, J. Richard, assistant superintendent, Adult Education Branch, Los Angeles City School Districts, Los Angeles, Calif.: Two telegrams to Chairman Perkins. Solomon, W. E., executive secretary, Palmetto Education Association, Page 363 415 Squire, James R., executive secretary, the National Council of Teach- ers of English, Champaign, Ill., letter to Chairman Perkins enclosing a bulletin entitled "The National Interest and the Teaching of Eng- St. Germain, Fernand J., a Representative in Congress from the State of Rhode Island, letter to Chairman Perkins_. Starr, Helen, New York, N. Y., telegram to Chairman Perkins_ Stewart, Henry A., Sr., vice chairman, State Board of Education of Georgia, telegram to Chairman Perkins_ Taliaferro, Lewis, president, Memphis chapter, Foundation for World Literacy, Memphis, Tenn., letter to Chairman Perkins enclosing article in the Chattanooga Times of March 1, 1962, by Norman Bradley, entitled "The Glenn Story, Simply Written". Thornbrough, C. R., commissioner of labor, State of Arkansas De- partment of Labor, Little Rock, Ark., letter to Chairman Perkins__ Throckmorton, Del F., Kansas State superintendent of public instruc- tion, telegram to Chairman Perkins_ Tinglof, Mrs. Mary, member, Los Angeles City Board of Education, Tompkins, Ellsworth, executive secretary, National Association of Secondary-School Principals, Washington, D.C., letter to Chairman Trotter, T. O., president, Chattanooga Area Literacy Movement, Tubb, J. M., State superintendnet of education, State of Mississippi 415 416 Van Sant, Thomas A., assistant superintendent, Board of Education of the City of New York, letter to Chairman Perkins_ Walsh, Michael F., commissioner of education of Rhode Island, tele- "Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight New Jersey "New Jersey High School Equivalent Certificate," publication Letter to Chairman Perkins. Wetter, Dr. Allan H., Philadelphia, Pa., telegram to Chairman Whitaker, Mrs. Judith G., R.N., executive secretary, American Statements, letters, supplemental materials, etc.-Continued Willis, Margaret, Library Extension Division, Commonwealth of Kentucky, letter to Chairman Perkins.. Winget, E. Rue, assistant State superintendent, Utah State Depart- Woodcock, Leonard, vice president, International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Zinberg, Mrs. Dorothy, president, San Antonio Section, National Council of Jewish Women, San Antonio, Tex., letter to Chairman 416 ADULT BASIC EDUCATION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1962 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, GENERAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR AND SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D.C. The subcommittees met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 429, Old House Office Building, Hon. Carl D. Perkins (chairman of the general subcommittee on labor) presiding. Present: Members of the General Subcommittee on Labor: Representatives Perkins, Holland, and Joelson. Members of the Select Subcommittee on Education: Representatives Joelson and Hansen. Present also: Representative James Roosevelt; H. D. Reed Jr., counsel, General Subcommittee on Labor; Gertrude Moser, clerk. Mr. PERKINS. The committee will come to order. The hearings today are on H.R. 10143, as well as H.R. 10191, which has been introduced in order that witnesses may have a full opportunity to comment on some proposed changes to H.R. 10143. (The bills referred to follow :) [H.R. 10143, 87th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To assist in providing necessary instruction for adults unable to read and write English or with less than a sixth grade level of education, through grants to institutions of higher learning for development of materials and methods of instruction and for training of teaching and supervisory personnel and through grants to States for pilot projects, improvement of State services, and programs of instruction Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Adult Literacy Act of 1962”. DECLARATION OF PURPOSE SEC. 2. It is the purpose of this Act to initiate a program of furnishing instruction to adults who are unable to read and write English, as determined in accordance with regulations of the Commissioner, and adults who have not completed the sixth grade of school or achieved an equivalent level of education, as so determined, so as to help eliminate such inability and raise the level of education of such adults with a view to making them less likely to become dependent on others, increasing their opportunities for more productive and profitable employment, and making them better able to meet their adult responsibilities. TRAINING OF TEACHERS AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS AND MATERIALS SEC. 3. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and each of the four succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary for (1) grants to public or nonprofit private institutions of higher learning to assist them in the development of methods of, and materials for use in, instructing adults described in section 2, and (2) grants to such institutions of higher learning to assist them in providing specialized training for teachers of such adults and for supervisors of such teachers, including the establishment 1 and maintenance of traineeships with such stipends and allowances as may be determined by the Commissioner. (b) Payments of grants made under subsection (a) may be made by the Commissioner from time to time, in advance or by way of reimbursement, as he may determine. GRANTS TO STATES FOR ADULT LITERACY PROGRAMS SEC. 4. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, the sum of $5,000,000, and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years the sum of $10,000,000, for grants to States which have State plans approved by the Commissioner under this section. (b) Grants under subsection (a) may be used, in accordance with regulations of the Commissioner, to (1) assist in establishment of pilot projects by local educational agencies, relating to instruction in public schools of adults described in section 2, to (A) demonstrate, test, or develop modifications, or adaptations in the light of local needs, of special materials or methods for instruction of such adults, (B) stimulate the development of local educational agency programs for instruction of such adults in the public schools, and (C) to acquire additional information concerning the materials or methods needed for an effective adult literacy program; (2) assist in meeting the cost of local educational agency programs for instruction of such adults in the public schools; and (3) assist in development or improvement of technical or supervisory services by the State educational agency relating to adult literacy programs. (c) The Commissioner shall approve for purposes of this section the plan of a State which (1) provides for administration thereof by the State educational agency; (2) provides that such agency will make such reports to the Commissioner, in such form and containing such information, as may reasonably be necessary to enable the Commissioner to perform his duties under this Act; (3) provides such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the State under this section; (4) provides for cooperative arrangements between the State educational agency and the State health authority looking toward provision of such health information and services for adults described in section 2 as may be available from such agencies and as may reasonably be necessary to enable them to benefit from the instruction provided under programs conducted pursuant to grants under this section; and (5) sets forth a program for use, in accordance with subsection (b), of grants under this section which affords assurance of substantial progress, within a reasonable period with respect to all segments of the population and all areas of the State, toward elimination of the inability of adults to read and write English and toward substantially raising the level of education of adults with less than a sixth grade education. The Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any State plan submitted under this section, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State educational agency reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. (d) (1) from the sums appropriated under subsection (a) for a fiscal year the Commissioner shall reserve such amount, but not in excess of 1.6 per centum thereof, as he may determine to be necessary for allotment to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, according to their respective needs; and shall allot the remainder of such sums on the basis of the relative number of adults described in section 2 in each State, as determined by the Comimssioner on the basis of the best and most recent information available to him, including any relevant data furnished to him by the Department of Commerce. (2) The amount of any State's allotment under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required, for the period such allotment is available, for carrying out the State plan (if any) approved under this section shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during such period as the Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to such States under paragraph (1) for such year, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent reallotment to any State of any sum in excess of the amount which the Commissioner estimates it needs and will be able to use for such period for carrying out such State's plan |