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TITLE VIIRESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION 07 TELEVISION, RADIO, MOTION PICTURES, AND RELATED MEDIA FOB EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES PART A RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION
Sec. 761. Establishment of the advisory committee. Sec. 762. Special personnel. Sec. 763. Appropriations authorized.
TITLE VIIIAREA VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Sec. 801. Statement of findings and purpose. Sec. 802. Amendment to Vocational Education Act of 1946.
TITLE IXSCIENCE INFORMATION SERVICE
Functions of the service. Science information council. Authority for certain grants and contracts. Appropriations authorized.
TITLE XMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 1001. Administration. Sec. 1002. Advisory committees. Sec. 1003. Exemption from conflict-of-interest laws of members of advisory committees or information council. Sec. 1004. Administration of State plans. Sec. 1005. Judicial review. Sec. 1006. Method of payment. Sec. 1007. Administrative appropriations authorized. Sec. 1008. Allotments to Territories and possessions. Sec. 1009. Improvement of statistical services of State educational agencies.
SEC. 101. The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the Nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of its young men and women. The present emergency demands that additional and more adequate educational opportunities be made available. The defense of this Nation depends upon the mastery of modern techniques developed from complex scientific principles. It depends as well upon the discovery and development of new principles, new techniques, and new knowledge. We must increase our efforts to identify and educate more of the talent of our Nation. This requires programs that will give assurance that no student of ability will be denied an opportunity for higher education because of financial need; will correct as rapidly as possible the existing imbalances in our educational programs which have led to an insufficient proportion of our population educated in science, mathematics, and modern foreign languages and trained in technology. The Congress reaffirms the principle and declares that the States and local communities have and must retain control over and primary responsibility for public education. The national interest requires, however, that the Federal Government give assistance to education for programs which are important to our defense. To meet the present educational emergency requires additional effort at all levels of government. It is therefore the purpose of this
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Act to provide substantial assistance in various forms to individuals, and to States and their subdivisions, in order to insure trained manpower of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the national defense needs of the United States.
FEDERAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION PROHIBITED
SEC. 102. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system.
DEFINITIONS
SEC. 103. As used in this Act (a) The term "State" means a State, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Canal Zone, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, except that as used in sections 302 and 502, such term does not include Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam, or the Virgin Islands. (b) The term "institution of higher education" means an educational institution in any State which (1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate, (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education bevond secondary education, (3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, (4) is a public or other nonprofit institution, and (5) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or, if not so accredited, is an institution whose credits are accepted, on transfer, by not less than three institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited. For purposes of title II, such term includes any private business school or technical institution which meets the provisions of clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5). For purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered. (c) The term "Commissioner' means the Commissioner of Education. (d) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. (e) The term "State educational agency*' means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the governor or by State law. (f) The term "school-age population" means that part of the popu1 at ion which is between the ages of five and seventeen, both inclusive, and such school-age population for the several States shall be determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the population between such ages for the most recent year for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. (g) The term "elementary school" means a school which provides elementary education, as determined under State law. (h) The term "secondary school" means a school which provides secondary education, as determined under State law, except that it
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does not include any education provided beyond grade 12. For the purposes of sections 301 through 304, the term "secondary school'" may include a public junior college, as determined under State law. (i) The term * public^ as applied to any school or institution does not include a school or institution of any agency of the United States. (j) The term "nonprofit", as applied to a school or institution, means a school or institution owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, and, for purposes of part A of title V, includes a school of any agency of the United States. (k) The term "local educational agency'' means a board of education or other legally constituted local school authority having administrative control and direction of public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or political subdivision in a State. TITLE IILOANS TO STUDENTS IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED
SEC. 201. For the purpose of enabling the Commissioner to stimulate and assist in the establishment at institutions of higher education of funds for the making of low-interest loans to students in need thereof to pursue their courses of study in such institutions, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated $47,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, $82,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, $90,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and such sums for the fiscal year ending June 30,1963, and each of the three succeeding fiscal years as may be necessary to enable students who have received a loan for any school year ending prior to July 1, 1962, to continue or complete their education. Sums appropriated under this section for any fiscal year shall be available, in accordance with agreements between the Commissioner and institutions of higher education, for payment of Federal capital contributions which, together with contributions from the institutions, shall be used for establishment and maintenance of student loan funds.
ALLOTMENTS TO STATES
SEC. 202. (a) From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 201 for any fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1962, the Commissioner shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount so appropriated as the number of persons enrolled on a full-time basis in institutions of higher education in such State bears to the total number of persons enrolled on a full-time basis in institutions of higher education in all of the States. The number of persons enrolled on a full-time basis in institutions of higher education for purposes of this section shall be determined by the Commissioner for the most recent year for which satisfactory data are available to him. (b) Sums appropriated pursuant to section 201 for any fiscal year ending after June 30, 1962, shall be allotted among the States in such manner as the Commissioner determines to be necessary to carry out the purpose for which such amounts are appropriated.
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