Federal Aid to Education Act of 1939: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305, a Bill to Promote the General Welfare Through Appropriation of Funds to Assist the States and Territories in Providing More Effective Programs of Public Education. March 2, 3, and 10, 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 373 pages |
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Page 3 - ... a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Social Security Board established by Title VII (hereinafter referred to as the "Board"), State plans for old-age assistance.
Page 190 - Fourth. That provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools, which shall be open to all the children of said states, and free from sectarian control.
Page 20 - He was formerly director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 243 - In the last analysis, the complaint of the plaintiff State is brought to the naked contention that Congress has usurped the reserved powers of the several States by the mere enactment of the statute, though nothing has been done and nothing is to be done without their consent; and it is plain that that question as it is thus presented, is political and not judicial in character, and therefore is not a matter which admits of the exercise of the judicial power.
Page 243 - To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States...
Page 23 - Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma...
Page 22 - The facts presented in this report indicate that no sound plan of local or State taxation can be devised and instituted that will support in every local community a school system which meets minimum acceptable standards. Unless the Federal Government participates in the financial support of the schools and related services, several millions of children in the United States will continue to be largely denied the educational opportunities that should be regarded as their birthright...
Page 5 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 21 - Clarence Heer. 5. Principles and Methods of Distributing Federal Aid for Education. Paul R. Mort, Eugene S. Lawler, and associates. 6. The Extent of Equalization Secured through State School Funds. Newton Edwards and Herman G. Richey. 7. Selected Legal Problems in Providing Federal Aid for Education. Robert R. Hamilton. 8. Vocational Education. John Dale Russell and associates. 9. Vocational Rehabilitation of the Physically Disabled. Lloyd E. Blauch. 10. The Land-Grant Colleges. George A. Works and...