Chapter IV. Summary of the legislation.. 1. Bills reported from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare_- 2. Bills reported from other committees of the Senate... Chapter V. Presidential recommendations and statements concerning edu- Page 21. The quality of American Government, March 17, 1967- 34. Conference on women in the war on poverty, May 8, 1967. 35. International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, 53. Health manpower, October 16, 1967.. 54. Texas Technological College, October 26, 1967 55. Social and economic condition of Negroes in the United States, 59. Mental Retardation Amendments of 1967, December 4, 1967....... 60. 200th anniversary of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, December 14, Text of major education and training laws as amended by the 90th 1. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended.. 2. Public Law 874, Sept. 30, 1950, as amended. (Financial assistance to local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activi- tives and for the education of children of low-income families) __ 3. Public Law 815, Sept. 23, 1950, as amended. (School construction in areas affected by Federal activities). 11. Loan service of captioned films and educational media for the deaf and handicapped (Public Law 85-905), as amended... 12. Grants for teaching in the education of handicapped children 13. Training of teachers of mentally retarded and other handicapped children-title III of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, 14. Youth work-study programs-title I, part C of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended 15. Veterans' Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, as amended.. ENACTMENTS BY THE 90TH CONGRESS CONCERNING CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1. PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT The main purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive record of the enactments by the 90th Congress during its first session, 1967, concerning education and training. Besides giving the texts of the enactments, the report presents digests of these laws, with particular reference to their educational and training features or aspects. The report also cites related recommendations and statements. by President Johnson, and summarizes the legislative histories of the enacted bills containing educational and training provisions of significance. The report incidentally includes some selected comments from the public press relative to action on some of these bills. 2. SCOPE OF THE REPORT This report covers legislation relating generally to education and training. In the broadest sense, the former term includes the latter. It would be presumptuous, however, to attempt to define in this report precisely what legislation Congress would consider pertinent to or affecting education. Since the report is intended to be comprehensive, it includes acts relating to training as well as those relating to education, and acts concerning students, teachers, or educational institutions. Thus, the report covers a variety of legislation and legislative objectives. Apart from the omission of some appropriation measures, the aim is to include both legislation involving direct Federal financing and administration of educational and training activities, and legislation involving forms of Federal aid to States, localities, institutions, and individuals in these fields. In some instances the legislative provisions included are subsidiary parts of legislation principally concerned with other matters. In brief, what is here presented in a panoramic view of many diverse measures of current interest concerning education and training. 3. SOURCES The information brought together and summarized in this report has been obtained princially from the weekly compilation of Presidential Documents, the daily Congressional Record, the Congressional Directory, the Calendars of the House of Representatives, the Digest Most of the departments and independent agencies of the Government administer some educational or training programs. This report includes certain appropriations for only the U.S. Office of Education and some of the larger programs of other agencies affecting education and training, for the fiscal year 1968. |