Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education

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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1975

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Page 18 - The purpose of this title is to provide financial assistance — (1) to meet the special needs incident to the elimination of minority group segregation and discrimination among students and faculty in elementary and secondary schools...
Page 189 - Secretary. (b) The Advisory Committee shall advise the Commissioner (1) on the action to be taken with regard to each application for a grant under this title, and (2) in the preparation of general regulations and with respect to policy matters arising in the administration of this title, including the development of criteria for approval of applications thereunder. The Commissioner may appoint such special advisory and technical experts and consultants as may be useful in carrying out the functions...
Page 93 - ... their decisions as to the type of educational program they should pursue, the vocation they should train for and enter, and the job opportunities in the various fields, and (C) to encourage students with outstanding aptitudes and ability to complete their secondary school education, take the necessary courses for admission to institutions of higher education, and enter such institutions.
Page 84 - June 30, 1967, he shall allot from such amount to (A) the Secretary of the Interior the amount necessary for such assistance for children and teachers in elementary and secondary schools operated for Indian children...
Page 92 - States for the following purposes: (1) for the acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published instructional materials for the use of children and teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools...
Page 101 - Commissioner shall carry out a program of grants and contracts in order to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement.
Page 45 - TRAINING GRANTS AND CONTRACTS "SEC. 109. (a) The Administrator is authorized to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions, to assist them in planning, developing, strengthening, improving, or carrying out programs or projects...
Page 83 - ... health, mental health, nutritional and food services to children from low-income families when the resources for such services available to the applicant from other sources are inadequate to meet the needs of such children...
Page 82 - Commissioner shall carry out a program for making grants for supplementary educational centers and services, to stimulate and assist in the provision of vitally needed educational services not available in sufficient quantity or quality, and to stimulate and. assist in the development and establishment of exemplary elementary and secondary school educational programs to serve as models for regular school programs, and to assist the States in establishing and maintaining programs of testing and guidance...
Page 45 - Commissioner shall give priority consideration to — (1) programs serving multistate regions or large population centers ; (2) programs adapting existing programs of vocational, technical, postsecondary, or adult education to the special needs of handicapped persons ; and (3) programs designed to serve areas where a need for such services is clearly demonstrated. (c) For purposes of this section, the term "handicapped persons...

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