Education Bill: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, Congress of the United States, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session on S. 1017 to Create a Department of Education, to Authorize Appropriations for the Conduct of Said Department, to Authorize the Appropriation of Money to Encourage the States in the Promotion and Support of Education, and for Other Purposes. H.R. 7 |
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Page 55 - With a view to the establishment of a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby, it shall be the duty of the council of every county and county borough, so far as their powers...
Page 70 - The enactments mentioned in the second schedule to this act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.
Page 70 - Acts and instruments made thereunder in like manner as they apply with respect to children, elementary schools, and the enactments mentioned in those...
Page 7 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 68 - ... recognised by the Board of Education as expenditure in aid of which Parliamentary grants should be made to the authority...
Page 30 - all the educational facilities encouraged by the provisions of this Act and accepted by a State shall be organized, supervised, and administered exclusively by the legally constituted State and local educational authorities of said State, and the Secretary of Education shall exercise no authority in relation thereto ; and this Act shall not be construed to imply Federal control of education within the States nor to impair the freedom of the States in the conduct and management of their respective...
Page 125 - Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia...
Page 10 - He shall also, from time to time, make such special investigations and reports as he may be required to do by the President or by Congress, or which he himself may deem necessary.
Page 153 - State for the equalization of educational opportunities, for the promotion of physical education, and for the preparation of teachers shall not be less for any year than the amount provided for the same purpose...
Page 60 - ... school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs...