Federal Grants to States for Elementary and Secondary Schools: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 2 [and Others] ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 528 pages |
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... important to nurture the flower of our educational plant , it is vital that we water the roots . That is the purpose of this hearing , as I see it . Out West , on the irrigated farms , when a stream threatens to run dry the smart farmer ...
... important to nurture the flower of our educational plant , it is vital that we water the roots . That is the purpose of this hearing , as I see it . Out West , on the irrigated farms , when a stream threatens to run dry the smart farmer ...
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... important integral changes in the reorganization of social life , including the economic and the political orders , rather than the pursuance of a policy of drift . It is time to halt that drift , and I believe we can start right now ...
... important integral changes in the reorganization of social life , including the economic and the political orders , rather than the pursuance of a policy of drift . It is time to halt that drift , and I believe we can start right now ...
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... important educational purposes or to purposes other than education . S. 6 would authorize the appropriation of $ 1 billion for each 2 succeeding fiscal years , beginning July 1 , 1959 , for allotment to the States on the basis of ...
... important educational purposes or to purposes other than education . S. 6 would authorize the appropriation of $ 1 billion for each 2 succeeding fiscal years , beginning July 1 , 1959 , for allotment to the States on the basis of ...
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... importance of the teacher in our national life . However , we have fundamental reservations with respect to the provisions of these bills . Teachers ' salaries constitute a major portion of the cost of education in every State , and we ...
... importance of the teacher in our national life . However , we have fundamental reservations with respect to the provisions of these bills . Teachers ' salaries constitute a major portion of the cost of education in every State , and we ...
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... important and fundamental problems facing our Nation today is the provision of adequate financial support for our public schools . The solutions to this crucial problem do not come easily . The action this committee and the Congress ...
... important and fundamental problems facing our Nation today is the provision of adequate financial support for our public schools . The solutions to this crucial problem do not come easily . The action this committee and the Congress ...
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adequate administration allocation American amount assistance average bond issue budget cation Chairman Chamber of Commerce classroom shortage Commissioner committee Congress cost Council of Chief debt service commitment DERTHICK economic educa educational agency elementary and secondary enrollment expenditures fact Federal aid Federal control Federal Government financing fiscal funds Governor WILLIAMS grants gross national product high school increase interest rate legislation loan meet ment million municipal bonds Murray-Metcalf bill National Education Association needy school districts obligations Office of Education payments percent population problem proposed public education public elementary public school pupils qualified reasonable tax effort responsibility revenues salaries school bonds school building school construction school facilities school system school-age secondary schools Secretary FLEMMING Senator CLARK Senator MCNAMARA Senator MURRAY Senator YARBOROUGH State-local statement subcommittee teachers teaching testimony tion U.S. SENATE United West Virginia
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Page 154 - ... will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act...
Page 8 - State educational agency" means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Government or by State law.
Page 125 - State, subject only to the two restrictions, that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State...
Page 33 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin, or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Page 156 - The court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Commissioner or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of the court shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28, United States Code.
Page 38 - The Commissioner is authorized to delegate any of his functions under this Act, except the making of regulations, to any officer or employee of the Office of Education.
Page 23 - Act until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied, he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State...
Page 150 - States and of the continental United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. Such promulgation shall be conclusive for each of the two fiscal years in the period beginning July 1 next succeeding such promulgation...
Page 35 - The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes and other obligations issued hereunder and for that purpose he is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under that Act, as amended, are extended to include any purchase of such notes and obligations.
Page 36 - Islands, which is less than $5,000) shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining States under the preceding sentence, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any of such remaining States from being thereby reduced to less than that amount.