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1 local educational agency of the school district in which any 2 child resides makes or contracts to make a tuition payment 3 for the free public education of such child in a school situated 4 in another school district, such child shall be considered (A) 5 to be in attendance at a school of the local educational 6 agency so making or contracting to make such tuition pay7 ment, and (B) not to be in attendance at a school of the local 8 educational agency receiving such tuition payment or entitled 9 to receive such payment under the contract.

10 (b) The term "average per pupil expenditure" means, in 11 the case of a State or the United States, the aggregate cur12 rent expenditures, during the third fiscal year preceding the 13 fiscal year for which the computation is made (or if satisfac14 tory data for that year are not available at the time of com15 putation, then during the most recent preceding fiscal year 16 for which satisfactory data are available), of all local educa17 tional agencies in the State, or in the United States (which 18 for the purposes of this subsection means the fifty States, and 19 the District of Columbia), as the case may be, plus any direct 20 current expenditures by the State for operation of such agen21 cies (without regard to the source of funds from which either 22 of such expenditures are made), divided by the aggregate 23 number of children in average daily attendance to whom such 24 agencies provided free public education during such preced25 ing year.

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1 (c) The term "basic skills" means the skills of reading,

2 mathematics, and effective communication, both written and 3 oral.

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(d) the term "county" means those divisions of a State 5 utilized by the Secretary of Commerce in compiling and re6 porting data regarding counties.

7 (e) The term "current expenditures" means expendi8 tures for free public education, including expenditures for ad9 ministration, instruction, attendance, and health services, 10 pupil transportation services, operation and maintenance of 11 plant, fixed charges, and net expenditures to cover deficits for 12 food services and student body activities, but not including 13 expenditures for community services, capital outlay, and 14 debt service.

15 (f) The term "employment skills" means those qualities 16 that are not occupation-specific that enable a person to 17 secure and retain a job, such as the ability to complete a 18 job application, to appreciate the importance of punctuality 19 and job responsibility, and to respond constructively to 20 supervision.

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(g) The term "local educational agency" means a public 22 board of education or other public authority legally consti23 tuted within a State for either administrative control or direc24 tion of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary 25 or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school dis

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1 trict, or other political subdivision of a State, or such combi2 nation of school districts or counties as are recognized in a 3 State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or 4 secondary schools. Such term includes any other public insti5 tution or agency having administrative control and direction 6 of a public elementary or secondary school.

7 (h) The term "parent" includes a legal guardian or other 8 person standing in loco parentis.

9 (i) The term "prime sponsor" means any agency, orga10 nization, unit of government of other entity designated in ac11 cordance with section 101 of the Comprehensive Employ12 ment and Training Act of 1973.

13 (j) The term "secondary school" means a school or that 14 part of a school that provides instruction in any of the grades 15 seven through twelve.

16 (k) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of 17 Education.

18 (1) The term "sole State agency for vocational educa19 tion" means the agency designated in accordance with sec20 tion 104 of the Vocational Education Act, as amended.

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(m) The term "State" means any of the fifty States, the 22 District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 23 (n) The term "State educational agency" means the offi24 cer or agency primarily responsible for the State supervision 25 of public elementary and secondary schools.

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AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 261. There are authorized to be appropriated for 3 carrying out the provisions of this title such sums as may be 4 necessary for fiscal year 1981 and each of the three succeed5 ing fiscal years. The appropriation for any fiscal year may be 6 included in an Act making appropriations for the preceding 7 fiscal year and may be made available for obligation and ex8 penditure commencing on July 1 of that preceding fiscal

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Chairman PERKINS. We have Dr. Scott Thomson with the National Association of Secondary School Principals; Mr. Arnoldo S. Torres with the League of United Latin American Citizens as the congressional liaison; Mr. Gene Dunworth who is administrator, Federal and State Relations with the Chicago Board of Education and Mr. Philip A. Viso, assistant superintendent with the Chicago Board of Education.

Dr. Thomson, we will lead off with you.

STATEMENT OF SCOTT D. THOMSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS Dr. THOMSON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify. My name is Scott Thomson. I am the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. I replaced Owen Kiernan about 2 months ago who has testified here many times.

I want to speak from the perspective of the principal, the local school leader because of his crucial role in this program as is proposed and in fact crucial to the success of any program, his or her interest and leadership.

We are strongly in support of the Youth Education and Training Act for at least four reasons. We subscribe to the belief that education tends to be too information rich and experience poor and in fact our bicentennial document called "Secondary Schools in a Changing Society" to our belief takes a strong position on behalf of using all of the resources in the community for the curriculum and not just confining the curriculum to the school site and to information in the library and the classroom.

We believe it is a good concept of education to use the resources of the community and have for some years.

Second, we believe strongly in school administered work programs. Schools at the secondary level do a good job at approximately $10 per day per student. That is a pretty good bargain for teaching, for counseling, for athletic programs, for activities, and for work experience programs.

We believe we can do the job better and at less cost than other agencies can do it.

For about 15 years there has been a series of efforts on the part of the Federal Government to establish other agencies to handle youth work and youth job programs, CBO's, community based organizations, going clear back to the days of the Office of Equal Opportunity. There have been job corps programs and many more. I think an objective analysis and evaluation of most of these community based organization programs have been they are simply artistic flops and financial flops. They have not produced the results anticipated. There was little accountability involved. There was even cases of nepotism and high costs; unaccounted funds. We think there is solid evidence that the money spent for work programs should be spent with schools and not by establishing new organizations.

Eighty percent of the schools today have work experience programs. What they do need is some additional funds for job placement programs and job supervision.