Educational Issues of Concern to the 84th Congress; a Report Prepared in the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress ... March 17, 1955U.S. Goverment Printing Office, 1955 - 61 pages |
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... hearings . It will cost from 10 to 12 billion dollars to provide adequate classrooms for children now enrolled , and enrollment will increase markedly in the next few years . hearings held by the subcommittee have demonstrated that the ...
... hearings . It will cost from 10 to 12 billion dollars to provide adequate classrooms for children now enrolled , and enrollment will increase markedly in the next few years . hearings held by the subcommittee have demonstrated that the ...
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... hearings on school construction during May and June 1954. Senator John Sherman Cooper , of Kentucky , headed the subcommittee , which recommended to the full committee an amended version of S. 2601 , originally introduced by Mr. Cooper ...
... hearings on school construction during May and June 1954. Senator John Sherman Cooper , of Kentucky , headed the subcommittee , which recommended to the full committee an amended version of S. 2601 , originally introduced by Mr. Cooper ...
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... hearings on the public library demonstration bill were held in 1946. The bill was not reported in the House . In the Senate it was favorably reported and placed on the Consent Calendar , but was passed over . Miles , Arnold , and Lowell ...
... hearings on the public library demonstration bill were held in 1946. The bill was not reported in the House . In the Senate it was favorably reported and placed on the Consent Calendar , but was passed over . Miles , Arnold , and Lowell ...
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... Hearings were again held in the House and Senate . Again the bill was not reported in the House . On February 25 , 1948 , it passed the Senate on the Unanimous Consent Calendar . In the 81st Congress the bill was introduced in the House ...
... Hearings were again held in the House and Senate . Again the bill was not reported in the House . On February 25 , 1948 , it passed the Senate on the Unanimous Consent Calendar . In the 81st Congress the bill was introduced in the House ...
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... hearings and in other publications over a period of approximately the last 10 years has been favorable to the proposition . FAVORABLE ARGUMENTS Arguments advanced in favor of Federal promotion of public- library services in general ...
... hearings and in other publications over a period of approximately the last 10 years has been favorable to the proposition . FAVORABLE ARGUMENTS Arguments advanced in favor of Federal promotion of public- library services in general ...
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81st Congress 83d Congress 84th Congress administration agencies aid to school amendment amount authorized basis bills proposing capita income Carl Elliott chapter citizens civilian college grade Commissioner of Education Committee on Education congressional concern educa Education and Labor enacted established expenditure favor Federal aid Federal allotments Federal funds Federal Government financial aid financing fiscal George-Barden Act grants-in-aid higher education HISTORICAL BACKGROUND January 13 Labor and Public legislation library services bill Lister Hill ment million national defense National Security Training Office of Education oil for education outer Continental Shelf percent percentage President Eisenhower program of Federal public education Public Law 31 public library services public schools purpose question of Federal RACIAL SEGREGATION recommended Reserve forces training revenue school construction secondary Security Training Commission Security Training Corps Senate Senate Committee Smith-Hughes Act submerged lands support of education taxes tion universal military training vocational education Washington Star
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Page 21 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the...
Page 5 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 5 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 33 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 22 - Act. (b) The Commissioner is also authorized to make such studies, investigations, and reports as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act, including periodic reports for public distribution as to the values, methods, and results of various State demonstrations of public library services undertaken under this Act.
Page 36 - Shelf appertain to the United States and are subject to its jurisdiction, control, and power of dispostion as provided in this Act.
Page 59 - In what ways can we organize our school systems more efficiently and economically ? 3.
Page 36 - ACT To PROVIDE FOR THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES OVER THE SUBMERGED LANDS OF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF AND TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO LEASE SUCH LANDS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Page 33 - Territory, fulfilled this promise in behalf of the Confederation. Without undertaking to reproduce the text of the ordinance, it suffices to say that it contained a bill of rights, a promise of ultimate statehood, and it provided (italics mine) that '
Page 33 - Act of 1862 provided a grant of Federal lands or land scrip to each State in the amount of 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress from that State.