A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO ASSIST THE STATES AND TERRITORIES IN MORE ADEQUATELY FINANCING THEIR SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION DURING EMERGENCY, AND IN REDUCING THE INEQUALITIES OF EDU- Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor CONTENTS Page 426-428 Statement of- Arnall, Ellis, Governor, Georgia Babbitt, Mrs. Elizabeth Clare, the Service Star Legion, Inc.. Bennion, Fred, executive secretary, Montana Taxpayers Association, Hélena, Mont... Bethune, Mrs. Mary McLeod, president, National Council of Negro Bliss, W. B., executive secretary, Ohio Education Association.... Boushall, Thomas C., chairman, committee on education, United Buford, J. L., representing the Illinois Education Association_ Christmas, Miss Florence, country school teacher, Copiah County, Cobb, B. B., secretary, Texas State Teachers Association.. Corey, Arthur, representing the California Teachers Association__ Cowles, John H., sovereign grand commander of the supreme council, thirty-third degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, southern jurisdiction, U. S. A. Statement by E. E. Craft, R. W., assistant State superintendent of education in Missis- Daniel, Mrs. Margaret, principal, Richmond School, Ashdown, Ark.. Dawson, Dr. Howard A., director, division of rural service, National Dodge, Miss Grace L., president, Maine Teachers' Association__ Eby, Kermit, Director of Research and Education, CIO. Fowler, Eleanor, secretary-treasurer, Congress of Women's Auxiliaries,* Fries, Maj. Gen. Amos A., United States Army, retired, director of the Givens, Dr. Willard E., executive secretary, National Education Goza, Sam D., chairman, State Board of Equalization, Helena, Mont. Hart, Merwin K., president, National Economic Council, Inc Hendley, Chas. J., president, Teachers Union, local 555, State, 142 140 357 427 309 430 422, 423 Hochwalt, Very Reverend Monsignor Frederick G., director, depart- ment of education, National Catholic Welfare Conference.. Houdlette, Mrs. Harriet Ahlers, associate in childhood education, 208 Irwin, Mrs. James W., national board, YWCA.. Ivy, Dr. H. M., chairman, legislative commission, National Educa- Jaggers, Dr. Richard E., chief of the bureau of instruction, State De- Johnson, Mrs. Thomas Ina Walker, legislative representative, na- tional nonpartisan council of public affairs, Alpha Kappa Alpha 224 Statement of-Continued Joynes, Mrs. Edith B., Federal legislative chairman, Virginia Educa- Pag 218 Long, Dr. Howard H., legislative committee, American Teachers 290 McClellan, Mrs. Malcolm, chairman, legislation, National Congress 195 McDonald, Dr. Ralph, president, North Carolina Education Associa- Manning, C. G., superintendent of schools, Lewiston, Mont.- Marston, R. B., director, legislative and Federal relations division, Minear, Craig P., executive secretary, Colorado Education Associa- Moe, M. P., executive secretary, Montana Education Association.. Nissen, S. B., secretary, South Dakota Education Association... Ogg, W. R., director of Washington office, American Farm Bureau 14 18 Parratt, J. Easton, member of the board of trustees of the Utah Edu- Perry, Leslie S., administrative assistant, Washington Bureau, Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People.... Rackliffe, John, representing the National Teachers Division of the State, County and Municipal Workers of America, CIO.... Rawlins, R. E., superintendent of schools, Pierre, S. Dak. Rogers, Charles M., superintendent of schools, Amarillo, Tex Saxon, J. Harold, executive secretary, Georgia Education Association, Sharpe, M. Q., Governor, South Dakota. 14 241 14 261 220 144 14 194-200 Slonecker, Lyle N., superintendent of schools, Leadville, Colo....... Smart, Miss Elizabeth A., legislative director, National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Washington, D. C............ Stone, Mrs. James A., national legislative chairman, National Women's Weagly, Mrs. Roy C. F., president, Associated Women of American 197 216 Zimand, Mrs. Gertrude Folks, general secretary, National Child Wyckoff, Miss Gladys, field secretary, American Home Economics Association, Washington, D. C... FEDERAL AID FOR EDUCATION MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1945 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room 357, Senate Office Building, Senator James E. Murray (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Murray (chairman), Walsh, Thomas, Ellender, Hill, Tunnell, Guffey, Johnston, Aiken, Fulbright, Smith, Donnell, and Morse. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. This hearing this morning is on S. 181, a bill to authorize the appropriation of funds to assist the States and Territories in more adequately financing their systems of public education during emergency, and in reducing the inequalities of educational opportunities through public elementary and secondary schools. (S. 181 is as follows:) [S. 181, 79th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the appropriation of funds to assist the States and Territories in more adequately financing their systems of public education during emergency, and in reducing the inequalities of educational opportunities through public elementary and secondary schools 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 "Educational Finance Act of 1945." No department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States shall exercise any direction, supervision, or control over, or prescribe any requirements with respect to, any school, or any State educational institution or agency, with respect to which any funds have been or may be made available or expended pursuant to this Act, nor shall any term or condition of any agreement or any other action taken under this Act, whether by agreement or otherwise, relating to any contribution made under this Act to or on behalf of any school, or any State educational institution or agency, or any limitation or provision in any appropriation made pursuant to this Act, seek to control in any manner, or prescribe requirements with respect to, or authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to direct, supervise, or control in any manner, or prescribe any requirements with respect to, the administration, the personnel, the curriculum, the instruction, the methods of instruction, or the materials of instruction. APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZED SEO. 2. (a) For the purpose of enabling States and their local public-school Jurisdiction to meet emergencies in financing their public elementary and public secondary schools by providing funds for the payment of the salaries of teachers and other school employees to keep schools open, to employ additional teachers to relieve overcrowded classes, to raise substandard salaries of teachers and other school employees, and to adjust the salaries of teachers and other school employees to meet the increased cost of living, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year in which the Congress shall find a need therefor, beginning 1 |