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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... pupils found in many of our rural areas . Their buildings may be adequate for the limited type of program now provided by staffs ranging from 5 to 15 teachers , but the program of instruction housed in most of them is obsolete and ...
... pupils found in many of our rural areas . Their buildings may be adequate for the limited type of program now provided by staffs ranging from 5 to 15 teachers , but the program of instruction housed in most of them is obsolete and ...
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... pupils each , and over a half mil- lion pupils were in classes of more than 40 pupils each . For the school year 1957-58 , 40 percent of a total of 883,438 elementary - school pupils who enrolled in the 18 urban school districts of ...
... pupils each , and over a half mil- lion pupils were in classes of more than 40 pupils each . For the school year 1957-58 , 40 percent of a total of 883,438 elementary - school pupils who enrolled in the 18 urban school districts of ...
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... pupil - teacher ratio were maintained . The $ 500 figure in the first year would represent about a 10 - percent raise in the present salary average of teachers . The average annual increse from State and local sources during the past 4 ...
... pupil - teacher ratio were maintained . The $ 500 figure in the first year would represent about a 10 - percent raise in the present salary average of teachers . The average annual increse from State and local sources during the past 4 ...
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... pupil - staff ratios as existed in 1958-59 . The figure currently used by the U.S. Office of Education for the total in - place cost of schools per class- room is $ 40,000 . This includes the cost of site purchase and improvement , the ...
... pupil - staff ratios as existed in 1958-59 . The figure currently used by the U.S. Office of Education for the total in - place cost of schools per class- room is $ 40,000 . This includes the cost of site purchase and improvement , the ...
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... pupils . I am sure some of you may want to debate whether we have a right to rigidify the number of children in the classroom on that basis , and perhaps we can get into that in the question period , but that does give us a measure ...
... pupils . I am sure some of you may want to debate whether we have a right to rigidify the number of children in the classroom on that basis , and perhaps we can get into that in the question period , but that does give us a measure ...
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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.