Before undertaking their teaching duties, members of the Teacher Corps will be provided training by institutions of higher education or State educational agencies. For this period of training (up to 3 months), the Teacher Corps member will be paid stipends consistent with prevailing practices under comparable federally supported training programs. Teacher interns will, while working in local schools, participate in in-service training programs carried out by experienced teachers in cooperation with institutions of higher education.

Costs of the arrangements with local educational agencies (including salaries for Teacher Corps members) will be paid entirely by the Federal Government to the local school district. Members of the Teacher Corps will not be Federal employees but locally paid and supervised teachers. An experienced teacher who is not leading a teaching team will be paid a rate equal to a teacher with similar training, experience, and duties in that agency. An experienced teacher who is leading a teaching team will be compensated at a rate to cover his supervisory and training responsibilities. A teacher intern shall be paid a salary equal to the lowest rate paid by such agency for full-time teachers in that school and grade.

Members of the Teachers Corps will be under the direct supervision of the appropriate official of the local educational agencies to which they are assigned.

Part C. Fellowships for Teachers.-Authorizes the Commissioner to award 4,500 fellowships in fiscal year 1966 and 10,000 fellowships in each of fiscal years 1967 and 1968. These fellowships will enable persons pursuing or planning to pursue a career in elementary or secondary education to undertake 2 years of graduate study leading to a master's degree or its equivalent.

Experienced teachers and other experienced personnel in elementary and secondary education, recent college graduates, and college graduates engaged in other occupations who wish to enter or reenter elementary or secondary education are eligible to receive fellowships. Fellowships must be allocated so as to provide an equitable distribution throughout the States, except that the Commissioner may give preference to programs designed to meet an urgent national need.

Fellowship recipients will receive stipends consistent with prevailing practice under comparable federally supported programs. The Commissioner will pay the institution of higher education at which the fellowship recipient studies an amount equivalent to $2,500 per academic year less any tuition charged the recipient.

The Commissioner is authorized to make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education to develop graduate programs that will substantially further the objective of improving teacher

education.

Title VI. Financial Assistance for the Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction.

Part A. Equipment.-Makes available to institutions of higher education funds for the acquisition of laboratory and other special equipment, including audiovisual materials and equipment and printed materials (other than textbooks) suitable for use in undergraduate instruction in science, mathematics, foreign languages, history, geography, arts, humanities, government, English, or education.

Also authorizes funds to be used by institutions of higher education for the acquisition of television equipment and materials for instruc

tion in the above fields and for minor remodeling necessary for the use of such equipment. Sets aside funds for administration of the State plans approved under this part.

One-half of the authorized funds will be distributed among the States on the basis of the ratio of students in institutions of higher education in each State to the number of students in institutions of higher education in all States. The remaining one-half will be allocated among the States by an allotment ratio based on relative per capita income.

A State desiring to participate in the program must designate or must establish a State commission to administer the program, and this commission must submit to the Commissioner of Education a State plan setting forth basic criteria for determining the relative priorities of eligible projects.

The Federal share of approved projects will be up to 50 percent of the cost except that the State commissions may increase such share to 80 percent in the case of institutions which otherwise would have insufficient resources to participate in the program. The application of an institution of higher education must provide assurance that the institution will maintain its level of expenditures during the preceding fiscal year for the same purposes.

Part B. Faculty development programs.-Authorizes $5 million for fiscal year 1966 and for each of the two succeeding fiscal years for the operation of short-term workshops or short-term or regular-session institutes for individuals preparing to use educational media equipment in teaching in institutions for higher education or individuals preparing to become specialists in educational media or librarians or other specialists using such media.

Each person attending such an institute will receive a stipend of $75 per week plus $15 per week for each dependent. No stipends may be paid for attendance at workshops.

Title VII-Amendments to the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963. Increases authorizations for title I (grants to construct undergraduate academic facilities) from $230 to $460 million for fiscal year 1966. Removes categorical restrictions on the types of facilities to be constructed. Increases the title II authorization (grants for construction of graduate education facilities) from $60 million to $120 million.

Allows the Commissioner authority in his discretion, to transfer allotments for public community colleges and technical institutes to other public institutions and the allotments for 4-year institutions to public community colleges and technical institutes in States where the demand for one of the categories is not sufficient to use the appropriated funds.

Fixes interest on loans for construction of academic facilities under title III at a maximum of 3 percent.

Provides that the Federal share for construction grants to public community colleges and public technical institutes shall be a percentage as determined under the applicable State plan but not in excess of 40 percent.

Title VIII-General provisions.-Stipulates that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction,

administration, or personnel of any educational institution, or over the selection of library resources by any educational institution.

Stipulates that nothing contained in this act or any other act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the membership practices or internal operations of any fraternal organization, fraternity, sorority, private club or religious organization at an institution of higher education (other than service academies) which is financed by funds exclusively derived from private sources and whose facilities are not owned by such institution.

W. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1965

(PUBLIC LAW 89-333, APPROVED NOV. 8, 1965)

S. 1525, a bill to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, was introduced by Senator Lister Hill, of Alabama, on March 15, 1965. The bill was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Hearings on the bill were held before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on March 29 and 30, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 751 pages.

On March 18, 1965, Representative Edith Green, of Oregon, introduced H.R. 6476, a bill to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. The bill was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. On April 13, 14, 28, and 30, 1965, hearings were held before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor on H.R. 6476 and similar bills to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 168 pages.

H.R. 8310, the Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1965, was introduced on May 20, 1965, by Representative Dominick V. Daniels, of New Jersey. This bill was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. It was reported from that committee on May 28, 1965 (Rept. No. 432). It passed the House on July 29, 1965. It was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on September 30, 1965 (Rept. No. 806). It passed the Senate, amended, on October 1, 1965. On October 7, 1965, the House asked for a conference. The Senate agreed to the conference on October 15, 1965. The conference report was filed on October 21, 1965 (Rept. No. 1204). The Senate agreed to the conference report on October 21, 1965. The House agreed to the conference report on October 22, 1965. The act was approved by the President on November 8, 1965, and became Public Law 89-333.

The principal provisions of the act are designed:

(1) To liberalize the Federal financing of the vocational rehabilitation program, so that, in securing non-Federal funds, the State vocational rehabilitation agencies, private and public local agencies, and, in fact, the disabled persons of the Nation, are not adversely affected by the higher Federal shares now provided for various other grant-in-aid programs;

(2) To encourage the development of new programs of rehabilitation services; especially programs of services for those suffering particularly severe or catastrophic disabilities;

(3) To permit the extension of rehabilitation services to greater numbers of disabled, particularly severely disabled persons;

(4) To assist in the construction and operation of new rehabilitation workshops and facilities;

(5) To provide for improved training opportunities in existing workshops and rehabilitation facilities;

(6) To initiate a concerted effort to remove architectural barriers to the rehabilitation of the handicapped;

(7) To provide expanded training opportunities for persons entering the field of vocational rehabilitation;

(8) To permit more flexibility with respect to the State administration of the programs; and

(9) To establish an intramural research program and data processing service in the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.

Following is a digest of the act.

Authorizes specific appropriations for fiscal 1966-68 for existing programs of grants to the States for vocational rehabilitation. Liberalizes Federal financing of vocational rehabilitation programs. Authorizes the use of Federal funds for new vocational rehabilitation services and projects.

Liberalizes existing requirements with respect to State administration of vocational rehabilitation programs.

Broadens the existing definition of vocational rehabilitation services to include determination of rehabilitation potential.

Authorizes grants to the States for construction of rehabilitation facilities and workshops and for the improvement of existing workshops.

Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a 12-member National Policy and Performance Council to advise the Secretary on policy matters and to make recommendations with respect to workshop improvement.

Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a 15-member National Commission on Architectural Barriers to Rehabilitation of the Handicapped to determine architectural barriers which impede handicapped persons.

Lists a number of fields in which grants for training and traineeships may be made.

Provides for special programs and comprehensive planning to expand vocational rehabilitation services and raises the time limitation on training.

Establishes an intramural research program and data processing service in the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.

CHAPTER III. BILLS REPORTED FROM OTHER

COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE

Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, enactments concerning education and training which, in the earlier form of bills, were reported from committees of the Senate other than the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare included the following-in chronological order of approval by the President.

A. INCREASE OF AUTHORIZATION FOR INDIAN ADULT VOCATIONAL

EDUCATION

(PUBLIC LAW 89-14, APPROVED APR. 22, 1965)

H.R. 4778 was introduced by Representative James A. Haley, of Florida, on February 10, 1965. The bill was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

A similar bill, S. 1570, was introduced by Senator Lee Metcalf, of Montana, on March 18, 1965. This bill was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. It was reported in the Senate on April 8, 1965 (Rept. No. 151).

H.R. 4778 was reported in the House on March 22, 1965 (Rept. No. 192). The bill passed the House, under suspension of the rules, on April 5, 1965. It passed the Senate, in lieu of S. 1570, on April 9, 1965. The act was approved by the President on April 22, 1965, and became Public Law 89-14.

The act increases the amount authorized for Indian adult vocational education from $12 million to $15 million.

B. AMENDMENT OF LAW RESPECTING RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS

(PUBLIC LAW 89-51, APPROVED JUNE 15, 1965)

H.R. 7762 was introduced on April 29, 1965, by Representative F. Edward Hébert, of Louisiana. The bill was referred to the Committee on Armed Services. On May 5, 1965, Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on Armed Services held hearings on the bill. It was reported from that committee on May 13, 1965 (Rept. No. 348). It passed the House on June 7, 1965. It was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Armed Services, on June 11, 1965 (Rept. No. 315). It passed the Senate on June 15, 1965. The act was approved by the President on June 28, 1965, and became Public Law 89-51.

The act makes certain technical changes in the law respecting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

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