THE JOINT COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM, OF ALLAMAKEE, HOWARD AND WINNESHIEK COUNTIES, Hon. JOHN C. CULVER, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. CULVER: I am writing to you to help identify the federal programs that have served education well over the years in our area and are deserving of your continued support. One of these programs is Title II of the Elementary-Secondary Education Act which has provided crucial library materials for elementary and secondary pupils in both the public and private schools in Iowa. Our Area I Media Center serving six counties has an inventory of approximately 1200 16mm films and approximately 30,000 library books available to each and every boy and girl of our 31,000 elementary and secondary boys and girls, public and private, in Area I. This entire program of resource materials was made available to our six counties of Area I through the allocations of Title II federal funds channeled through our State Department of Public Instruction. As sub-agency chairman of our Area I Title II ESEA program, I urge that this program be continued so as to retain its unique character, so successfully developed over the past six years. Our Area I Media Center is also providing additional valuable materials and services as a result of the Title II federal funds that have been allocated to our area. This program, undoubtedly, is one of the best and most productive educational programs ever made available to our boys and girls in Iowa. Thank you for your support of this valuable program. Sincerely, Hon. CARL D. PERKINS, ABNER A. HENDRICKSON, SOUTH MORELAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, House Education and Labor Committee, The House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR SIR: In the very serious problem of securing adequate funding for public education I call to your attention the importance at the local level of the existing programs that have meant so much to districts such as ours and ask your support that these programs may be adequately funded for the coming fiscal year. Specifically, the Title II Program of the E.S.E.A. has made it possible for our District to increase the number of volumes in our libraries by nearly one third more than we have been able to secure from our general fund expenditures alone. We are approaching the immediate goal of ten volumes per pupil but with the increased costs of the materials, need this program if we are to upgrade the library offerings to meet the childrens' need. The Title III program of the National Defense Education Act has been truly a categorical aid that has had a strong impact upon the curriculum within our District. We have been able to develop more meaningful programs for students in the areas of science, mathematics, English, languages, social studies, industrial arts and this year hopefully the fine arts. I do express the sincere appreciation of our local Board of Education and of our District for your efforts in developing the above mentioned programs. Please give consideration to these existing programs as you work with the funding of Federal Programs for the coming year. Very truly yours, J. GORDON NEVIN, Superintendent. Hon. SPARK M. MATSUNGA, Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C. STATE OF HAWAII, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 18, 1972. DEAR REPRESENTATIVE MATSUNGA: Several months ago, the Hawaii ESEA Title III Advisory Council contacted you regarding changes planned by the U.S. Commissioner of Education for the admnistration of ESEA Title III Programs, more specifically, use of the Commissioner's 15% discretionary reserve, Sec. 306. We are now satisfied that the amendment to the Higher Education Act submitted by Senator Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), together with later changes tentatively proposed by the Commissioner, will preserve the intent of Title III with respect to future use of the Commissioner's Title III ESEA discretionary funds. We wish to express our gratitude for your efforts made to support our concern. Recently, however, we were apprised of certain aspects of the Education Revenue Sharing Act, currently pending before Congress, which appear to threaten future conduct of the entire Title III Program in Hawaii. This Act proposes to consolidate 33 Federal sources of educational funds while repealing existing Congressional legislation. Most of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended, including Title III, would be repealed by such action. We are particularly concerned that the Education Revenue Sharing Act, as currently drafted, could eleiminate funds for the support of innovation programs in education by its failure to stipulate the need for such programs. As you know, funds now received under ESEA Title III by the State DOE, have enabled Hawaii to effect comprehensive statewide curriculum reforms and as such, have provided Hawaii's student population with outstanding educational improvements. We would hope to be able to continue this initiative and achieve ment in the future. The National Association of State Advisory Council Chairmen (NASACC) has asked for the support of all ESEA Title III State Advisory Councils regarding preservation of the intent of Title III in this year's Congressional draft legislation. After careful analysis, the Hawaii ESEA Title III Advisory Council adopted the attached resolution regarding amendment to the Education Revenue Sharing Act submitted by the Nixon Administration for Congressional enactment. We urge you to review our resolution with close consideration and hope that you will support our attempt to make these views known by communicating with the appropriate members of Congress. Thank you again for your efforts on our behalf. JOHN A. BROWNELL, Chairman, ESEA Title III, State Advisory Council. It is hereby resolved, That the Elementary and Secondary Education ActTitle III Advisory Council for the State of Hawaii acknowledges the need to preserve the intent of Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended, within the Education Revenue Sharing Act and all subsequent Federal legislation for education. Further, the Hawaii ESEA Title III Advisory Council urges that members of Congress amend the Education Revenue Sharing Act to stipulate that: (a) Federal funds be used to supplement rather than supplant existing State appropriations to education, and; (b) The same percentage of Federal funds currently devoted to support programs in educational innovation be at least maintained within the context of this Act. It is also resolved, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to members of the Board of Education of the State of Hawaii, and to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to the United States Commissioner of Education, to each member of the Senate Subcommittee on Education, to each member of the House Committee on Education, to each member of Congress from the State of Hawaii, and to each member of the Education Committee of the Hawaii State Legislature. CATALOCED OVERSIGHT HEARING ON OLDER HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON INVESTIGATION OF THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT OF 1965, TO 60-329 HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 10, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1971 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR EDITH GREEN, Oregon CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota EDWIN D. ESHLEMAN, Pennsylvania EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION JOHN BRADEMAS, Indiana, Chairman PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii New York OGDEN R. REID, New York ALPHONZO BELL, California EARL F. LANDGREBE, Indiana ORVAL HANSEN, Idaho EDWIN D. ESHLEMAN, Pennsylvania JACK F. KEMP, New York PETER A. PEYSER, New York (II) OVERSIGHT HEARING ON OLDER AMERICANS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1971 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 2 p.m., pursuant to call, in room 2261, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. John Brademas (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Brademas, Mink, Meeds, Scheuer, Clay, Chisholm, Reid, Peyser, Quie, and Steiger. Staff members present: Jack G. Duncan, counsel; Marty LaVor, minority legislative associate; Gladys Walker, clerk; and Christina Orth, assistant clerk. Mr. BRADEMAS. The Select Subcommittee on Education, of the Committee on Education and Labor, will come to order for the purpose of an inquiry in the nature of an oversight hearing into certain aspects of the operations of the Administration on Aging in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The Chair wants to particularly extend a warm welcome on behalf of all the members of the subcommittee to a number of our visitors on Capitol Hill today. Most particularly Mrs. Mary Kochka, who is president of the District of Columbia unit of the National Retired Teachers Association, and to Mr. A. E. Casgrain, the president of the National Capital Chapter 100 of the American Association of Retired Persons. It is the Chair's understanding that there are in Washington today 20 members from throughout the United States of the NRTA and AARP Legislative Council who are here meeting in Washington for their annual conference. Indeed, the distinguished ranking minority member of this subcommittee, Mr. Reid, of New York, earlier today addressed a number of you on the subject matter of our hearing. The Congress established the Administration on Aging in 1965 because of a feeling in the House and Senate that with the changes in American society and the changes in the demography of our country brought about in large measure by advances in health care, there had come into being a very large number of citizens of this country whose interests required that there should be established in the Federal Government an agency with particular concern for their interests. Of course I refer to the some 20 million older Americans, nearly 5 million of whom now live in a condition of poverty. The Chair would observe that this later figure he understands is a climbing one for the number of the aged living beneath even the low |