Table 2.-TRENDS IN THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATION: 1946-47 TO 1954-55-Concluded STATE-BY-STATE DISTRIBUTIONS Many inquiries about Federal aids for education pertain to the amount allocated to a certain State. For most of the programs the amount allocated to a State can be reported, but for some of them the purpose of the educational program is national in scope and it is impossible to report on the amount of assistance for any one particular State. The latter group includes educational programs which are financed and administered exclusively by the Federal agencies. Examples are the appropriations for Federal military schools and academies, the Office of Education, education of Indians, and programs of contract research. Interest in the extent and adequacy of the Federal assistance for educational programs has grown in recent years. Educators, legislators, and citizen committees make inquiries concerning the amount "our" State received for school lunches, for land-grant colleges, for the school facilities survey, for aid to federally affected areas, for vocational education, for vocational rehabilitation, for the education of veterans, and for numerous other educational services. It is the purpose of this bulletin to give some of the answers to these questions. The answers are summarized in tables 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this chapter and discussed in greater detail in other chapters of the bulletin where descriptions of specific programs are also presented. Expenditures for programs which are national in scope and which cannot be reported State by State are listed in table 3. Totals for the groups in this table are also listed in summary table 7 opposite "National and Other" to indicate that no attempt has been made to report them by States. Table 4 presents a summary of the Federal funds for education administered by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. These funds total approximately $403 million for the 195455 school year, or about 26 percent of the total reported in column 2 of summary table 7. Programs in the Department of Agriculture are reported in table 5, and the expenditures by the Veterans Administration are in table 6. Other Federal programs reported in this bulletin are summarized and given in column 6 of table 7 and in the row identified as "National and other" for all the col umns of this table. The total for table 7 is $1,561,573,914 which amount is approximately $181 million more than the corresponding amount listed in the preceding bulletin for the 1952-53 school year. A slightly larger grand total of Federal funds for education than that noted in column 2 of table 7 is to be noted in column 6 of table 2. The difference in these two sums is due to the inclusion of several programs in table 2 that have been excluded from table 7. These programs are: (1) revenue from national forests distributed for roads and schools; (2) revenue from public domain grazing lands; (3) revenue from public domain mineral lands; (4) revenue from sale of public lands; and (5) revenue from revested and reconveyed lands. Though each of these provides funds for education, funds obtained may also be used for other purposes. The proportion of such revenue which is used for education is not reported to the offices which administer the programs and, therefore, is not included in table 7 as funds for education. Table 3.-FEDERAL FUNDS FOR NATIONAL AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT CANNOT BE REPORTED BY STATES OR TERRITORIES: 1954-55 Off-duty education program for service personnel in the Army. 05555 3.043,000 4,514,796 23,390 1,688,120 55,559 Table 3.-FEDERAL FUNDS FOR NATIONAL AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT CANNOT BE REPORTED BY STATES OR TERRITORIES: 1954-55-Concluded Off-duty education program for service personnel in the Coast Guard...... Coast Guard Academy.. Tuition for Coast Guard personnel. Education of dependents of Coast Guard personnel. Internal Revenue Service advanced training centers. |