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COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

EDITH GREEN, Oregon

CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman

FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey
JOHN H. DENT, Pennsylvania
ROMAN C. PUCINSKI, Illinois
DOMINICK V. DANIELS, New Jersey
JOHN BRADEMAS, Indiana
JAMES G. O'HARA, Michigan
AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS, California
WILLIAM D. FORD, Michigan
PATSY T. MINK, Hawaii
JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York
LLOYD MEEDS, Washington
PHILLIP BURTON, California
JOSEPH M. GAYDOS, Pennsylvania
WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY, Missouri
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, New York
MARIO BIAGGI, New York
ELLA T. GRASSO, Connecticut
LOUISE DAY HICKS, Massachusetts
ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky
HERMAN BADILLO, New York

ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota
JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio
ALPHONZO BELL, California
OGDEN R. REID, New York
JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois
JOHN R. DELLENBACK, Oregon
MARVIN L. ESCH, Michigan

EDWIN D. ESHLEMAN, Pennsylvania
WILLIAM A. STEIGER, Wisconsin
EARL F. LANDGREBE, Indiana
ORVAL HANSEN, Idaho

EARL B. RUTH, North Carolina
EDWIN B. FORSYTHE, New Jersey
VICTOR V. VEYSEY, California
JACK F. KEMP, New York

PETER A. PEYSER, New York

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OVERSIGHT HEARING ON ELEMENTARY

AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1972

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR,

Minneapolis, Minn.

The committee met, pursuant to call, at 9 a.m. in the GSA Conference Room, Fort Snelling Federal Building, Honorable Carl D. Perkins of Kentucky (chairman), presiding.

Present: Representatives Perkins, Quie of Minnesota, and Steiger of Wisconsin.

Staff members present: H. D. Reed, Jr., general counsel; and Charles W. Radcliffe, minority counsel for education.

[Notice of Hearings]

EDUCATION AND LABOR COMMITTEE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3, 1972.-The Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold hearings in Room 564 of the Fort Snelling Federal Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Tuesday, January 11, 1972, and in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 13 and 14, 1972, on the 18th Floor of the Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Representative Carl D. Perkins, Chairman of the Committee, announced today. Each day's hearings will begin at 9 a.m., local time.

Perkins said the hearings will be directed to determining from school administrators and other witnesses priority needs for elementary and secondary education. The hearings will cover present operation of programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the views of witnesses on future direction of Federal support for elementary and secondary education. At the Minneapolis hearings the views of educators from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota will be heard.

At the Lexington hearings educators and other public witnesses from the States of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky will be heard.

Further hearings will be held at other locations to be announced at a later date.

(Texts of H.R. 44, H.R. 981, H.R. 1491, H.R. 6179, H.R. 7796, and H.R. 12695 follows:)

[H.R. 44, 92d Congress, first sess.]

A BILL To increase educational opportunities throughout the Nation by providing grants for the construction of elementary and secondary schools and supplemental educational centers, and for other purposes.

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 "Elementary and Secondary School Construction Act of 1971".

TITLE I-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCHOOLS SERVING CHILDREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES

SEC. 101. The Act of September 23. 1950, Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, as amended (20 U.S.C. 631-645), is amended by inserting: "TITLE I— (1)

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION IN AREAS AFFECTED BY FEDERAL ACTIVITY" immediately above the heading of section 1, by striking out "this Act" wherever it appears in sections 1 through 10, inclusive (other than where it appears for the first time in the third sentence of section 9), and inserting in lieu thereof "this title", and by adding immediately after section 10 the following new title:

"TITLE II-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCHOOLS SERVING CHILDREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES

"DECLARATION OF POLICY

"SEC. 201. In recognition of the special educational needs of children of lowincome families and the impact that concentrations of low-income families have on the ability of local educational agencies to support adequate programs for the construction of facilities for their public elementary and secondary schools, the Congress hereby declares it to be the policy of the United States to provide financial assistance (as set forth in this title) to local educational agencies serving areas with concentrations of children from low-income families to construct, reconstruct, renovate, and improve elementary and secondary school facilities (including preschool facilities) so as to meet more effectively the special educational needs of educationally deprived children.

"DURATION OF GRANTS

"SEC. 202. The Commissioner shall, in accordance with the provisions of this title, make payments to State educational agencies for grants to local educational agencies for the period beginning July 1, 1971, and ending June 30, 1976.

"GRANTS-AMOUNT AND ELIGIBILITY

"SEC. 203. (a) (1) From the sums appropriated for making grants under this title for a fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve such amount, but not in excess of 2 per centum thereof, as he may determine and shall allot such amount among Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands according to their respective need for such grants. The maximum grant which a local educational agency in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be eligible to receive shall be determined pursuant to such criteria as the Commissioner determines will best carry out the purposes of this title.

"(2) In any case in which the Commissioner determines that satisfactory data for that purpose are available, the maximum grant which a local educational agency in a State shall be eligible to receive under this title for any fiscal year shall be an amount equal to one-half of the average per pupil expenditure in that State or in all the States, whichever is the larger, multiplied by the sum of (A) the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in the school district of such agency, of families having an annual income of less than the low-income factor (established pursuant to subsection (c)), and (B) the number of children of such ages in such school district of families receiving an annual income in excess of the low-income factor (as established pursuant to subsection (c)) from payments under the program of aid to families with dependent children under a State plan approved under title IV of the Social Security Act. In any other case, the maximum grant for any local educational agency in a State shall be determined on the basis of the aggregate maximum amount of such grants for all such agencies in the county or counties in which the school district of the particular agency is located, which aggregate maximum amount shall be equal to one-half of such average per pupil expenditure multiplied by the number of children of such ages and families in such county or counties and shall be allocated among those agencies upon such equitable basis as may be determined by the State educational agency in accordance with basic criteria prescribed by the Commissioner. For purposes of this subsection the 'average per pupil expenditure' in a State or in all the States shall be the aggregate current expenditures, during the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the computation is made, of all local educational agencies in the State, in all the States plus any direct current

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