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United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1989
Commends the Governors State University, its president, and the board, administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni on the 20th anniversary of the institution's founding.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1989
Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act of 1989 (CARE) - Title I: Public Health Service Programs with respect to Alzheimer's Disease - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on Alzheimer's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants and enter into cooperative agreements to assist grantees in establishing and maintaining, with respect to Alzheimer's and related disorders, centers for: (1) conducting basic and clinical research, training, and dissemination of clinical information; (2) demonstrating advanced diagnostic, prevention, treatment, and management methods; (3) conducting programs of community education; and (4) maximizing research. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out these provisions, to consult with the directors of specified National Institutes of Health. Specifies purposes for which grant funds may and may not be used. Limits support for a center to five years, with extensions by the Secretary of up to five years if recommended by a technical and scientific peer review group. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into cooperative agreements with entities receiving financial assistance under these provisions for off-site research on the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's and related disorders. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants and enter into contracts to enable grantees to conduct basic and clinical research regarding Alzheimer's and related disorders. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out these provisions, to consult with the directors of specified National Institutes of Health. Specifies the research areas to which minimum allocations of appropriated funds must be made. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants and enter into contracts to enable grantees to conduct research and demonstration projects with respect to teaching the families of individuals with Alzheimer's or related disorders methods for providing appropriate care and managing stress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner on Aging, to make grants and enter into contracts to enable grantees to conduct demonstration projects with respect to teaching the families of individuals with Alzheimer's or related disorders methods for providing appropriate care and managing stress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Aging, to make grants and enter into contracts to enable grantees to conduct long-term care research with respect to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders and with respect to the coordination of long-term care services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Center for Health Services Research, to make grants and enter into contracts to enable grantees to conduct research with respect to developing methods for improving the delivery of supportive services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders and with respect to the coordination of long-term care services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for a research program for the study of Alzheimer's and related disorders. Specifies elements for which the plan must provide. Requires research under the plan to be carried out through the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Secretary to submit the plan to the President and the Congress. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States to plan, establish, and operate programs to provide specified services regarding Alzheimer's or related disorders. Specifies purposes for which grant funds may not be used. Limits grants to three years, subject to annual evaluation by the Secretary. Limits the amount of a grant and its portion of the costs of the program for which it is made. Directs the Secretary to annually evaluate the grant programs. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with private entities to conduct the evaluation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, to require, as a condition of receiving funds under provisions of part B (Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Block Grant) of the Public Health Service Act, that a State must agree that activities carried out under a specified provision will include increased provision of mental health services related to Alzheimer's and related disorders. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Aging, to make grants to assist grantees in providing training programs and continuing education programs, regarding Alzheimer's or related disorders, to health care professionals, health care paraprofessionals, and family caregivers. Specifies eligible types of grant recipients. Directs the Secretary to ensure that grants are equitably geographically distributed. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Aging, to make grants to the Alzheimer's centers established by this Act to assist in developing curricula for such training programs and continuing education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to initiate a study regarding specified health manpower needs related to Alzheimer's disease, related disorders, and other disorders requiring long-term care services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Alzheimer's Disease Education Program for: (1) promoting the coordination of health care financing, service, research, education, and training programs; (2) collecting, through the Clearinghouse on Alzheimer's Disease, information on research and treatment programs; (3) making such information available to specified groups and to the general public; and (4) providing technical assistance to States and public and private organizations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute on Aging, to make grants to educate health care providers and the families of individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders on caring for individuals with such diseases or disorders and on the availability of sources of assistance. Requires grants to be equitably geographically distributed. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Title II: Improvement of Services Under Medicare and Medicaid Programs - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review the levels of reimbursement provided under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for home health services, extended care services, and inpatient hospital services relating to an advanced stage of Alzheimer's or a related disorder and adjust the levels to accurately reflect the reasonable amount required to provide adequately for services furnished. Requires each State plan approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to report to the Secretary on how the levels of reimbursement under the plan for home health services, nursing facility services, inpatient hospital services, and community-based care take into account special needs regarding an advanced stage of Alzheimer's or a related disorder. Directs the Secretary to modify contracts with utilization and quality control peer review organizations under part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Social Security Act to ensure that the organizations conduct adequate and representative quality of care reviews on patients who require intensive home health services or extended care services. Requires States, as a condition of approval of a State plan under Medicaid, to provide assurances that the State is providing for the conduct of adequate and representative quality of care reviews on patients who require intensive home health services, nursing facility services, or other long-term care services. Directs the Secretary to review and report to the Congress regarding whether specified types of facilities participating under the Medicare or Medicaid program limit or restrict the services they provide to individuals with Alzheimer's or a related disorder. Directs the Secretary to provide for research and demonstration projects concerning methods of improving the delivery of health care services to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder. Specifies projects to be included. Directs the Secretary to provide for an evaluation of the research and demonstration projects and submit a report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Requires funds, to the extent that research and demonstration projects relate to Medicare beneficiaries, to be appropriated from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to waive compliance with the requirements of part B (Peer Review) of title XI, title XVIII (Medicare), and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act as necessary to conduct these research and demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Comprehensive Illiteracy Elimination Act of 1989 - Title I: Literacy Coordination - Literacy Coordination, Research, and Dissemination Act of 1989 - Establishes the Cabinet Council for Literacy Coordination. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish in the Department of Education an Office on Literacy, to be administered by a Director. Requires the Director to: (1) coordinate the administration of literacy programs within the Department; and (2) work with the Cabinet Council for Literacy to coordinate the related programs of other Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), through the Office on Literacy, to make a grant to establish and operate a nonprofit National Center for Literacy, with a Director of the Center. Requires such grant to be awarded on a competitive basis, and to be limited to not more than five years (renewable). Allows the Center to use such grant funds for: (1) basic and applied research; (2) technical assistance; (3) an information clearinghouse; (4) policy analysis and program evaluation; and (5) a model demonstrative program of remedial training and placement. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Center on policy issues and on Center selection and operation of major research and demonstration projects. Requires the Director of the Center to report annually to the Congress and the Cabinet Council. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for the Center, limiting the amount which may be used for its model demonstration program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to pay the Federal share of costs of establishing and operating State literacy resource centers. Limits the amount and duration of such grants. Allows each State to contract on a competitive basis with a volunteer or community-based or other nonprofit organization to operate such a State center. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for such purpose. Title II: Workforce Literacy - Workforce Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends the Adult Education Act (AEA) to authorize appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995. Earmarks funds to train professional teachers, volunteers, and administrators, emphasizing minority teacher training and training of teachers to recognize and better serve illiterate individuals with learning disabilities and low-level reading abilities. Provides that, if a majority of the illiterate population assisted under basic program provisions of AEA has been served, the authorization of appropriations for each of the succeeding fiscal years during FY 1991 through 1995 shall be equal to that for the fiscal year in which such determination is made. Provides that adult education programs for which AEA grants have been made to States shall be carried out by public or private nonprofit entities only if the applicable local educational agency has been consulted and has had an opportunity to comment on the application. Requires State educational agencies receiving such basic State grants to assure direct and equitable access to Federal funds to local educational agencies, public or private nonprofit agencies, community-based organizations, and institutions which serve educationally disadvantaged adults. Grants preference to those organizations which will serve adults with a reading ability below the fifth grade level. Raises from 20 percent to 25 percent the limit on the portion of a State's grant allotment earmarked for high school equivalency certificate programs. Requires that at least ten percent of funds received under provisions for business, industry, labor, and education partnerships for workplace literacy be used for research, teacher training (including learning disabled identification and teaching), and technical assistance. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such provisions through FY 1995. Directs the Comptroller General to update, within 18 months, a 1975 study of the adult basic education program. Title III: Families for Literacy - Families for Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for Even Start programs operated by local educational agencies. Establishes a Families for Literacy program under which the Secretary may make ten demonstration grants to nonprofit entities (or consortia of businesses, nonprofit entities, and local educational agencies) to pay 80 percent of the cost of establishing intergenerational learning programs (emphasizing literacy skills) for children aged three and under and their parents. Directs the Secretary to give priority to applicants whose programs serve hard-to-serve populations. Sets forth program requirements for staff teams and community advisory councils. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Corporation for Public broadcasting to produce and disseminate a family literacy program to assist parents in improving their knowledge and skills regarding early childhood education, language development, and literacy. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 through 1995 for the Family Literacy Program demonstration grants; and (2) FY 1991 for the family literacy program public broadcasting contract. Title IV: Books for Families - Books for Families Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends ESEA provisions for the inexpensive book distribution program for reading motivation to require the contractor (the Reading Is Fundamental organization), beginning in FY 1990 and thereafter, to: (1) give priority to programs which target rural and urban areas with large concentrations of economically disadvantaged children and students; and (2) report annually to the Department of Education on the number and description of such individuals. Amends the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for making specified grants under title VI (Library Literacy Programs) of LSCA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to make grants for model library literacy centers and for the inexpensive book distribution program. Authorizes the Secretary, under LSCA, to make grants to State and local public libraries to establish model library literacy centers. Requires the Secretary to establish a peer review panel to assist in establishing criteria for awarding such grants. Authorizes the Secretary, under LSCA, to contract with the Reading Is Fundamental organization to promote the establishment of reading motivation programs which include the distribution of inexpensive books. Requires such contract to provide for: (1) giving priority to programs which target rural and urban areas with large concentrations of economically disadvantaged children and students; (2) increasing access to children's books for parents of newborns through children aged five; and (3) developing motivational materials to reach parents most disconnected from the education community, by making children's books available in specified types of places. Title V: Students for Literacy - Students for Literacy Act of 1986 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for: (1) the Student Literacy Corps; and (2) College Work-Study (CWS) programs. Exempts literacy training programs and the creation and placement of literacy jobs for students from specified caps on CWS funds. Sets the Federal share of the compensation of students employed in literacy work-study training programs at 100 percent. Title VI: Volunteers for Literacy - Volunteers for Literacy Act of 1989 - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to provide that, whenever they do not exceed a specified amount the funds for the VISTA Literacy Corps shall supplement and not supplant specified VISTA services provided in FY 1989 to address the problem of illiteracy. Establishes service-learning literacy programs. Authorizes the Director of the ACTION Agency (the Director) to make grants to and contracts with public and private nonprofit entities to enable students in secondary schools, secondary vocational schools, and postsecondary schools to serve as volunteers in projects addressing illiteracy. Gives priority to projects using peer tutoring and involving partnerships to meet a wide range of needs. Requires the Director to make grants and contracts for a program of full-time volunteer service to be known as University Year for Literacy, which establishes and supports innovative ways to use full-time students enrolled in higher education institutions as volunteers: (1) in addressing the problems facing illiterate and functionally illiterate individuals; and (2) in assisting organizations which combat illiteracy and those problems. Gives priority to individuals pursuing a course of study related to a career in a field addressing the problem of illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to make grants and contracts to provide training and technical assistance to increase the effective use of full-time and part-time student volunteers to combat illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to provide technical and financial assistance to nonprofit organizations conducting operations in several areas or States that are engaged in, or wish to become involved in, activities to solve the problems of illiteracy. Authorizes the Director to provide technical assistance in obtaining, training, and integrating volunteers to employers who have established or wish to establish worksite literacy programs. Establishes a program of literacy challenge grants. Authorizes the Director to award such grants to eligible public agencies and private organizations for a portion of the costs of community or employee literacy programs that include use of volunteers. Establishes a Retired Senior Volunteer Literacy Program (which may be jointly administered with other Retired Senior Volunteer Programs). Authorizes the Director to make grants to establish such program to enhance the role of senior volunteers in addressing the problem of illiteracy. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the VISTA Literacy Corps. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for specified programs established under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1989
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to establish a national demonstration program for educational performance agreements. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1990 through 1995.
United States · United States Senate · 11 July 1989
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1989
Library Services and Construction Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Library Services and Construction Act (the Act) to revise its programs and extend the authorization of appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for grants (or activities) relating to: (1) library services; (2) public library and construction technology enhancement; (3) interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing; (4) library services for Indian tribes; (5) foreign language materials acquisition; (6) library literacy programs; and (7) evaluation and assessment. Revises allocations to Indian tribes and to Alaskan native villages, regional corporations, and village corporations. Provides for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing under long-range State programs. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to: (1) coordinate specified programs; and (2) give the head of the State library administrative agency opportunity for comment on applications for foreign language and for library literacy grants before the award, to assure that the purposes of such grants are consistent with the long-range State program. Permits each State library agency, in FY 1990 and every fifth year thereafter, to review its expenditures under the programs from State and local sources and file with the Secretary a statement to establish a current, revised expenditure level to be used for measuring maintenance of effort. Requires library service programs to provide for assistance to libraries: (1) in developing intergenerational library programs matching older volunteers with libraries interested in developing after school literacy and reading skills programs for unsupervised school children; (2) in extending for mobile library services and programs to licensed or certified child-care providers or centers; (3) in establishing model library literacy centers to reduce the number of functionally illiterate individuals and help them reach full employment; and (4) in making effective use of technology to improve services. Authorizes a State, in carrying out its library services program, to make subgrants to library systems or networks which include libraries other than public libraries, if the purpose of the subgrant is to improve services for public library patrons. Allows States to ratably reduce payments to major urban resource libraries only under specified conditions. Revises services for institutionalized individuals under certain maintenance of effort requirements to make them services to handicapped individuals generally. Requires State library services programs to provide assistance to public libraries for technology enhancement to improve services. Provides for grants to develop the technological capacity of libraries for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing. Requires that public library construction projects follow policies and procedures that will promote the preservation of library and information resources in such facilities. Requires that a statewide resource sharing plan be directed toward attaining compliance with specified provisions. Authorizes the State long-range interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing program to: (1) include a statewide preservation cooperation plan; and (2) identify the preservation objectives to be achieved during the period covered by the long-range plans. Authorizes: (1) the use of funds to carry out such preservation cooperation plan; and (2) part or all of such preservation program to be contracted to other agencies or institutions. Raises the maximum limit on the amount of a single Library Literacy Program grant from $25,000 to $35,000. Authorizes the Secretary, directly or by grants or contracts, to evaluate and assess programs under the Act. Retitles title I of the Act as Public Library Services.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1989
Requires the Hays Lodge Pole school district in Hays, Montana, to repay to the Department of Education, in installments and without interest, certain overpayments under the Impact Aid program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1989
Designates November 1989 as An End to Hunger Education Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1989
Library Services Improvement Act of 1989 - Provides assistance for: (1) library services for economically disadvantaged or handicapped individuals; (2) library resource sharing; and (3) library research and assessment of services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make specified allotments or reallotments to States, specified U.S. territories and possessions, and Indian tribes from funds for titles I and II of this Act. Sets forth State application requirements. Title I: Library Services to Disadvantaged Americans - Directs the Secretary to make grants, from State allotments, to States to carry out projects or activities that provide new or expand existing library services to economically disadvantaged or handicapped individuals to enhance their educational opportunities or to facilitate their greater use of such services. Permits State library administrative agencies to support projects either directly or through grants to, or contracts with, public or private entities, and Indian tribes. Allows such projects to include joint projects among libraries and other types of institutions, such as schools. Specifies kinds of library projects and activities which States may support with title I funds. Requires States to use title I funds only for the support of new, or the expansion of existing, projects or activities. Prohibits States from using such funds to: (1) support a project or activity for more than five years; (2) acquire, expand, or construct buildings, other than minor remodeling to improve access to libraries or library services for handicapped individuals; or (3) pay State administrative costs under this title. Title II: Library Resource Sharing - Part A: State Grants - Directs the Secretary to make grants, from State allotments, to States to develop new, and expand existing, interstate and intrastate library networks. Permits State library administrative agencies to support projects either directly or through grants to or contracts with public or private entities including Indian tribes. Prohibits States from using part A funds to: (1) support a new, or expand an existing, intrastate library network for more than five years; or (2) pay State administrative costs under this part. Allows a State to expend up to five percent of its grant for any fiscal year for the planning of an interstate library network. Part B: Discretionary Awards - Directs the Secretary, from reserved funds and through grants to or cooperative agreements or contracts with public or private entities and Indian tribes, to develop new, or expand existing, interstate library networks. Part C: General Provisions - Specifies kinds of projects and activities for which part A or B funds may be used. Title III: Library Research and Assessment - Directs the Secretary, either directly or through grants to or contracts or cooperative agreements with public or private entities, to support library research and assessment projects and activities to improve library services. Specifies authorized uses for such funds. Title IV: Repeals and Effective Date - Repeals: (1) the Library Services and Construction Act; (2) title II (Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement Research) of the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (3) provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 for a study of the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the college library resource program. Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1989
Medical Residents' Student Loan Amendments Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions relating to repayment of student loans by medical residents. Provides that no borrower shall be eligible to be classified as a student for a deferment of student loan repayments while serving in a medical internship or residency program. Requires lenders to grant borrowers, upon written request, forbearance from student loan repayments, renewable at 12-month intervals, for the time remaining in the borrower's medical or dental internship, residency, or fellowship program. Prohibits lenders from: (1) charging an administrative or other fee in connection with granting such a forbearance; or (2) reporting adverse information regarding a borrower solely because of granting such a forbearance. Directs the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance to conduct, and complete within one year, a study examining: (1) indebtedness among graduate and professional students; and (2) the extent to which loan burden affects enrollment and persistence decisions of low-income, disadvantaged, and minority graduate students.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that science, mathematics, and technology education should be a national priority (with emphasis on an educated citizenry, curriculum planning, teacher preparation, and service to traditionally underserved students, including those from inner cities and remote areas).
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Library Services and Construction Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Library Services and Construction Act (the Act) to revise its programs and extend the authorization of appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for grants (or activities) relating to: (1) library services; (2) public library and construction technology enhancement; (3) interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing; (4) library services for Indian tribes; (5) foreign language materials acquisition; (6) library literacy programs; and (7) evaluation and assessment. Revises allocations to Indian tribes and to Alaskan native villages, regional corporations, and village corporations. Provides for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing under long-range State programs. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to: (1) coordinate specified programs; and (2) give the head of the State library administrative agency opportunity for comment on applications for foreign language and for library literacy grants before the award, to assure that the purposes of such grants are consistent with the long-range State program. Permits each State library agency, in FY 1990 and every fifth year thereafter, to review its expenditures under the programs from State and local sources and file with the Secretary a statement to establish a current, revised expenditure level to be used for measuring maintenance of effort. Requires library service programs to provide for assistance to libraries: (1) in developing intergenerational library programs matching older volunteers with libraries interested in developing after school literacy and reading skills programs for unsupervised school children; (2) in extending for mobile library services and programs to licensed or certified child-care providers or centers; (3) in establishing model library literacy centers to reduce the number of functionally illiterate individuals and help them reach full employment; and (4) in making effective use of technology to improve services. Authorizes a State, in carrying out its library services program, to make subgrants to library systems or networks which include libraries other than public libraries, if the purpose of the subgrant is to improve services for public library patrons. Allows States to ratably reduce payments to major urban resource libraries only under specified conditions. Revises services for institutionalized individuals under certain maintenance of effort requirements to make them services to handicapped individuals generally. Requires State library services programs to provide assistance to public libraries for technology enhancement to improve services. Provides for grants to develop the technological capacity of libraries for interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing. Requires that public library construction projects follow policies and procedures that will promote the preservation of library and information resources in such facilities. Requires that a statewide resource sharing plan be directed toward attaining compliance with specified provisions. Authorizes the State long-range interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing program to: (1) include a statewide preservation cooperation plan; and (2) identify the preservation objectives to be achieved during the period covered by the long-range plans. Authorizes: (1) the use of funds to carry out such preservation cooperation plan; and (2) part or all of such preservation program to be contracted to other agencies or institutions. Raises the maximum limit on the amount of a single Library Literacy Program grant from $25,000 to $35,000. Authorizes the Secretary, directly or by grants or contracts, to evaluate and assess programs under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Children's Television Education Act of 1989 - Requires a broadcast television licensee to limit, subject to any modification adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under this Act, the duration of commercial matter in children's television programming to a specified number of minutes per hour on weekends and weekdays, beginning January 1, 1990. Requires such a licensee, on and after such date, to provide public notice to assist interested individuals in identifying programs designed to serve the educational and informational needs of children. Requires the FCC to adopt rules to enforce the above requirements. Gives the FCC authority, after January 1, 1993, to review and evaluate the above requirements and to modify them after notice and public comments. Requires the FCC, when reviewing any application for a television broadcast license renewal, to consider compliance with these advertising standards, as well as the licensee's programming in connection with the educational and information needs of children.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1989
Amends the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 to provide that the Secretary of Education and two additional individuals appointed by the President from private life shall be members of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Mildred and Claude Pepper Scholarship Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to the Washington Workshops Foundation to establish and maintain the Mildred and Claude Pepper Scholarship Program. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Satellite Public Education and Information Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the encryption of any broadcast program intended for private viewing if the production or broadcasting is subsidized by the Government. Defines a program or broadcast as subsidized by the Government if: (1) tax-derived funds defray any part of the cost of producing the program; (2) tax-derived sources have paid for at least part of the broadcast's direct cost; (3) tax-exempt organizations provide any direct grant or other payment for defraying production or broadcasting costs; or (4) tax-exempt organizations produce or broadcast the program.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right of the people to allow voluntary prayer and the teaching of the Judeo-Christian ethic, including the Ten Commandments and the creation of the earth as accepted in Judeo-Christian tradition, in public schools shall not be denied or abridged by the United States. States that this Amendment does not: (1) force the people to enact any statute against their will; (2) constitute the establishment of a religion; or (3) permit any governmental or administrative authority to prescribe the form or content of any voluntary prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1989
Office of Correctional Education Act of 1989 - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to direct the Secretary of Education to establish within the Department of Education an Office of Correctional Education.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to establish an endowment for the Muskie Archives at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to establish an endowment for the Muskie Archives at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Long-Term Care, Education, and Housing Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the penalty on early distributions from individual retirement plans distributions for: (1) long-term health care insurance premiums; and (2) educational expenses for higher education or a vocational school. Provides a tax exclusion for distributions from such plans used to acquire a first home. Limits such distribution to $10,000.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Education Partnership Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a student mentor pilot program under part C (Work-Study Programs) of title IV (Student Assistance) of such Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to designate from ten to 100 institutions of higher education that may use a portion of their work-study funds allocations to establish such a pilot program to test the feasibility of using such funds to provide incentives to eligible college students to engage in mentor activities to help disadvantaged youths who are at risk of dropping out of elementary or secondary school. Directs the Secretary, within three years, to report to the Congress an evaluation of such program.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Correctional Education Assistance Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to State and local educational agencies and community-based organizations for educational programs for inmates of correctional institutions. Requires such programs to include teaching of the following types of skills: (1) academic and cognitive skills; (2) citizenship, parenting, and other affective skills, and (3) employment-related and vocational training skills. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish and operate the Center for Correctional Education for statistics and information, research, staff training, and technical assistance relating to correctional education. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding admissions of minority students to institutions of higher education, especially with respect to illegal exclusion and illegal racial discrimination against Asian-Americans and other groups.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Urges the President to address basic human needs as a priority of foreign assistance to Central America. Urges the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to: (1) strengthen programs to address the needs of victims of war, including amputees; (2) increase the number of immunizations provided to Central Americans; (3) strengthen programs to reduce child mortality from diarrheal disease; (4) develop strategies to provide universal literacy for primary school age children; and (5) develop a program to provide safe water supplies to rural areas. Urges the President to increase funding for targeted assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and structure food assistance consistent with the recommendations of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development. Urges the President to request full funding for payment of the United States assessed contribution to the Pan American Health Organization, including payment of all arrearages.
United States · United States Senate · 6 June 1989
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Vocational Education Excellence Act of 1989 - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (the Act) to reauthorize and revise its programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for: (1) State administration of vocational education programs; (2) State councils on vocational education; (3) basic State grants; and (4) national programs. Revises allotment and allocation formulas for vocational education assistance to the States. Revises Indian vocational education programs and repeals programs for Hawaiian natives. Revises State organizational and planning responsibilities. Requires State plans to describe the performance standards to be used. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish minimum requirements for acceptable State performance standards which are consistent with comparable requirements under the Job Training Partnership Act. Changes the Federal share of the costs of specified activities and programs. Revises maintenance of effort provisions. Eliminates certain provisions relating to withholding of payments and judicial review. Revises provisions for Basic State Grants for vocational education, including the opportunities program and policy for general program improvement, innovation, and expansion. Requires States to use specified funds to meet the needs in the State plan for one or more of the following: (1) professional development and improvement of vocational teachers, counselors, and administrators (including exchange programs with industry); (2) acquisition of instructional equipment and materials; and (3) curriculum development, field-testing of new or revised programs (for no more than three years), and dissemination. Allows States to use such funds to support activities jointly undertaken by eligible recipients and community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness. Repeals Special Programs provisions for: (1) State assistance for vocational education support programs by community-based organizations; (2) consumer and homemaker education; (3) adult training, retraining, and employment development; (4) comprehensive career guidance and counseling programs; and (5) industry-education partnerships for training in high-technology occupations. Revises national program provisions for: (1) research and evaluation; (2) demonstration programs; (3) the occupational information system; and (4) bilingual vocational training. Changes from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to conduct research on and evaluations of vocational education programs, activities, and trends. Repeals provisions for: (1) a national assessment of vocational education programs; and (2) the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Directs the Secretary to establish and support one or more centers for research in vocational education. Repeals provisions for: (1) State equipment pools; (2) demonstration centers for the retraining of dislocated workers; and (3) model centers for vocational education for older individuals. Revises the Act and the General Education Provisions Act regarding a national vocational education data reporting and accounting system. Amends the Job Training Partnership Act, among other things, to rename the National Commission for Employment Policy as the National Commission on Employment and Vocational Education Policy. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to repeal demonstration programs for education for employment for technological literacy. Amends the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act to terminate at the end of FY 1989 annual appropriations for grants to States to help pay the costs of: (1) preparation and salaries of teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects and teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects; and (2) studies of vocational education. Makes conforming amendments to the Bilingual Education Act, the Education for Economic Security Act, and the Education of the Handicapped Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Public Service Education Assistance Act of 1989 - Authorizes Federal agencies, in order to recruit or retain employees in shortage or critical skills occupations, to provide training or training costs to enable employees to earn academic degrees. Authorizes Federal department or agency heads to repay student loans from appropriated funds for highly qualified professional, technical, or administrative employees. Specifies loans eligible for such repayment. Requires an employee whose student loan is repaid under this Act to sign an agreement requiring a specified period of service, an acceptable performance level for the repayment period, and a resumption of repayment by an employee who fails to meet such level. Provides that if such employee is separated from Federal Service before the end of the period of required service, repayment by the agency shall cease and the employee shall resume repayment in accordance with the original student loan agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the Washington Research Library Consortium for a facility in Prince Georges County, Maryland, that would link by computer eight university libraries in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Authorizes appropriations. Makes specified funds under the Higher Education Act of 1965 available for expenditure under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to extend through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for programs and activities under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Veterans Education Policy Improvements Act - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to revise the hourly minimum wage to be paid to veteran-students who are pursuing full-time programs of rehabilitation, education, or training under programs administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Defines the hourly minimum wage to be paid to such veteran-students as the applicable Federal or State hourly minimum wage. Authorizes the payment of an identical work-study allowance for veterans' survivors and dependents who are pursuing a full-time program of education in a State in return for such person's agreement to perform such services. Authorizes the Secretary to discontinue an educational assistance allowance if a person's attendance is unsatisfactory. (Currently, only poor conduct or progress are causes for such discontinuance.) Requires certain attendance performance to be taken into consideration in the approval (or disapproval) of accredited courses having no attendance standards. Revises the standards under which an educational or subsistence allowance need not be paid to include those periods when a person's attendance, conduct, or progress is unsatisfactory or such person is not pursuing the course in accordance with the standards as prescribed by the Secretary. Repeals a limitation on the number of changes of programs of education allowed for veterans and other eligible persons, instead allowing any number of such changes as long as each change is approved by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to approve a program change necessitated by circumstances beyond the control of the eligible veteran or person. Limits the circumstances under which the Secretary may approve a second or subsequent change of program of education. Authorizes the Secretary to withhold the payment of educational assistance benefits until the required proof is received that the person is satisfactorily pursuing the program of education. Provides that "mitigating circumstances" authorizing the withdrawal of a student from a program of education shall include withdrawal to furnish care for the veteran's or person's child due to difficulties in making or changing child-care arrangements. Authorizes the Secretary to approve the enrollment of an eligible member of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve under contracts with the Department of Defense for a program of education. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize the services of those members of the armed forces receiving assistance under applicable Federal armed forces' educational assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Amends the Adult Education Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to pay one-half of the costs of adult education programs to increase commercial drivers' literacy skills so they may pass the knowledge test requirements for licensing under the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Mobile Teachers' Retirement Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Education, in the interest of facilitating teacher job mobility across State lines without a substantial loss of retirement benefits, to make an annual Federal contribution to each qualified State or local public retirement system on account of each teacher who: (1) is covered by the State's retirement system; (2) retired during the fiscal year ending in calendar year of the contribution; and (3) has credited out-of-State teaching service. Sets forth: (1) criteria to be met by a State retirement system in order to participate in the program; and (2) limitations and conditions applicable to the Federal contribution. Fixes the amount of such contribution at 50 percent of the total cost (as determined by the retirement system based on the teacher's age on the date of retirement) of each year of the teacher's credited out-of-State service, to a ten-year limit. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Senate · 31 May 1989
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Student Loan Abuse Prevention Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to authorize the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to take emergency action to suspend disbursement of funds to an eligible institution under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act, to prevent misuse of funds under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary, whenever eligibility of an institution has been terminated, to: (1) carry out a program review of each affiliated and successor institution; and (2) if any such institution is committing similar violations, carry out a proceeding to limit, suspend, or terminate eligibility or take emergency action suspending disbursement of funds. Terminates the effectiveness of any program participation agreement with an institution after it undergoes a change of ownership resulting in a change of control, if the Secretary determines that the new owner, a member of the new owner's family, or a current business associate of the new owner was substantially involved in the ownership or administration of another institution that has: (1) been limited, suspended, or terminated by the Secretary; (2) declared bankruptcy; (3) failed to pay the Department of Education a liability for program management; or (4) failed to pay refunds owed to students or lenders on behalf of students. Requires that an institution be given the opportunity to demonstrate, by a preponderance of evidence, that it continues to be eligible for student assistance purposes, if the Secretary determines not to permit its eligibility to resume after the change of control. Prohibits institutions, under student aid program participation agreements, from using any independent contractor or anyone other than a salaried employee, except in specified circumstances, to conduct any canvassing, surveying, recruiting, or similar activities, or to make final determinations that an individual meets the institution's admissions or financial aid eligibility requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for civil penalties or the limitation, suspension (up to 60 days), or termination of eligibility of an institution on account of violations by an individual or organization having a contract to administer any aspect of such institution's student assistance program. Requires the Secretary to establish the National Student Loan Data System and to assure that such computerized System is operational by October 1, 1989. (Such system is currently authorized but not mandated.)
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Designates May 27, 1989, as Kleberg County Trail Riders Association and Texas A&I University Law School Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1989
College Opportunity Act of 1989 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish programs for additional financial aid and counseling for low-income students. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish programs to: (1) guarantee to low-income students with a high school diploma or equivalent the financial assistance necessary to permit them to attend an institution of higher education; and (2) provide incentives to States and local educational agencies to provide additional counseling to students and parents about college financing options, and elementary and secondary school students at risk of dropping out. Requires that grants to students under this Act be used to: (1) replace all or part of the amount a student would otherwise be required to borrow in guaranteed or direct student loans; and (2) reduce the expected family contribution of qualified low-income students. Requires States to demonstrate increased spending on counseling for at-risk students and an improved student-to-counselor ratio, in order to qualify for counseling program payments. Conditions assistance under this Act on a family adjusted gross income of less than $26,000 (but subtracts from the grant amount one-half of the amount by which such income exceeds $18,000).
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
National Environmental Education Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an Office of Environmental Education within the Office of External Affairs to carry out this Act. Establishes an Environmental Education and Training Program to train educational professionals in the development and delivery of environmental education and training programs and studies. Directs the Administrator to make an annual grant to an institution of higher education or nonprofit research institution to establish and operate such program. Sets forth application and eligibility requirements and criteria to be considered in awarding such grants. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into cooperative agreements or provide grants to support projects to design, demonstrate, and disseminate practices related to environmental education and training. Outlines activities eligible for grant support and priorities in awarding such grants. Requires the Administrator to publish an annual solicitation for environmental education grants. Authorizes local education agencies, colleges or universities, State education or environmental agencies, or nonprofit agencies to apply for such grants. Limits Federal funds for demonstration projects to 75 percent of the total cost, except in specified instances. Limits such grants to $100,000 and requires 25 percent of all funds obligated to be for grants of no more than $5,000. Requires the Administrator to provide for internships by postsecondary students with Federal agencies involved in environmental issues. Directs the Administrator, to the extent practicable, to support at least 150 internships annually. Makes eligible for participation in such program students enrolled at accredited colleges or universities who have successfully completed at least four courses or the equivalent in environmental sciences. Requires the Administrator to provide for a series of national awards recognizing outstanding contributions to environmental education to include: (1) the Theodore Roosevelt Award for environmental teaching or administration; (2) the Henry David Thoreau Award for literature on the environment and pollution problems; and (3) the Rachel Carson Award for film or print media for public education and information on environmental issues or problems. Provides that recipients of such awards shall be nominated by the Environmental Education Advisory Council. Requires the regional administrator of each EPA office to present an "Outstanding Environmental Educator Award" annually to a teacher or faculty member from a local education agency, college or university, or nonprofit organization in recognition of an outstanding contribution to environmental education. Establishes a National Environmental Education Advisory Council. Requires the Council to report biennially to the Congress on: (1) the extent and quality of environmental education in the Nation's schools; (2) activities conducted pursuant to this Act; (3) obstacles to improving environmental education; and (4) training and skills needed to respond to environmental problems. Establishes the Environmental Education Trust Fund to carry out this Act. Allocates funding for this Act's activities and authorizes 50 percent of penalties received under specified environmental Acts to be appropriated to the Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates July 2, 1989, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates September 14, 1989, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Rural Star Schools Act of 1989 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (the Act) to establish a Rural Star Schools educational opportunities program to provide electronic or telecommunications access by students and faculty at educational facilities in rural areas to improve instruction in mathematics, science, computer technology, foreign languages, health sciences, English, and other areas of study. Authorizes the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to make grants to telecommunications partnerships to develop and acquire instructional programming, computer hardware and software, telecommunications facilities, terminal equipment, audio and visual equipment monitors and related devices, and interactive video equipment, among other items. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for such grants program. Requires that at least 25 percent of such funds be used for instructional programming, including programming to assist elementary and secondary schools and adult and vocational education and training centers. Requires partnerships to try to limit the Federal share to 75 percent or less and to work with REA borrowers and the local community in seeking donations of equipment and other in-kind assistance. Permits waivers of the Federal share limitation. Prohibits the use of program funds for telecommunication facilities to receive or transmit into or out of a building, school, or other facility if, within specified deadlines, a local telephone service exchange carrier agrees to and does provide the partnership with access to telecommunications facilities or services for the distance learning program, at a cost, if any, that does not place an undue burden on the partnership or interfere with program purposes. Exempts certain equipment and partnerships subject to special circumstances from such prohibition. Requires that rural educational opportunities telecommunications partnerships consist of: (1) REA borrowers, telecommunications, corporations, or other entities participating on a multicounty, regional, Statewide, or multistate basis; (2) a national organization (such as the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative) selected by the Rural Educational Opportunities Board, organized by consumer-owned electric and telephone systems, and capable of serving as a central catalyst and organizer; and (3) one or more educational institutions, agencies, or organizations with substantial academic and teaching capabilities. Allows other appropriate organizations to be included. Sets forth requirements for grant applications and for program informational efforts. Establishes the Rural Educational Opportunities Board to advise and guide grant recipients and to review and make recommendations on grant applications. Directs the Administrator to: (1) review and approve grant applications within a specified period; and (2) report annually, with a program evaluation, to specified congressional committees. Directs the Administrator to implement procedures to assure expedited consideration to requests for loans and advances to local exchange carriers in order to provide rural area telephone services associated with the rural educational opportunities telecommunications grants program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Head Start Expansion Amendments of 1989 - Title I: Amendments to the Head Start Act - Amends the Head Start Act to define "full-working-day" as at least ten hours per day. Authorizes Head Start programs to provide child care services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994: (1) Head Start services other than child care services; and (2) if the appropriation for such other services equals or exceeds such authorization, a new program of child care services. Authorizes the use of a portion of a State's allotment to enable Head Start programs to provide child care services Monday through Friday throughout the year so that eligible children receive full-day Head Start services (including child care), if such child care is necessary for parents to work or attend a job training or educational program. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a one-year delay in indexing (for inflation) income tax rates and personal exemptions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to State and local public libraries to purchase and deliver children's books, videos, tapes, and toys to licensed or certified family-based or group child care providers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Amends specified Federal law providing support for the Civic Achievement Award Program in Honor of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to authorize appropriations to the Librarian of Congress to disburse funds to the Close Up Foundation for such program for FY 1990 and 1991. Changes from optional to mandatory for such program (which is for students in the fifth through eighth grades) such program elements as individual and group projects, mastery of academic skills, development of library skills, and community service. Grants individual, class, and school awards for program participation. (Currently, awards may be given only for satisfying specified standards.)
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Requires the joint committee print entitled "The Education Deficit," dated December 14, 1988, to be printed as a House document. Directs that an additional 3,000 copies of such document be printed for the use of the Joint Economic Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Israel should take immediate steps to reopen schools in the West Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1989
Designates the week of February 11 through February 17, 1990, as Vocational-Technical Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Vocational Education Excellence Act of 1989 - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (the Act) to reauthorize and revise it programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for: (1) State administration of vocational education programs; (2) State councils on vocational education; (3) basic State grants; and (4) national programs. Revises allotment and allocation formulas for vocational education assistance to the States. Revises Indian vocational education programs and repeals programs for Hawaiian natives. Revises State organizational and planning responsibilities. Requires State plans to describe the performance standards to be used. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish minimum requirements for acceptable State performance standards which are consistent with comparable requirements under the Job Training Partnership Act. Changes the Federal share of the costs of specified activities and programs. Revises maintenance of effort provisions. Eliminates certain provisions relating to withholding of payments and judicial review. Revises provisions for Basic State Grants for vocational education, including the opportunities program and policy for general program improvement, innovation, and expansion. Requires States to use specified funds to meet the needs on the State plan for one or more of the following: (1) professional development and improve ment of vocational teachers, counselors, and administrators (including exchange programs with industry); (2) acquisition of instructional equipment and materials; and (3) curriculum development, field-testing of new or revised programs (for no more than three years), and dissemination. Allows State to use such funds to support activities jointly undertaken by eligible recipients and community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness. Repeals Special Programs provisions for: (1) State assistance for vocational education support programs by community-based organization; (2) consumer and homemaker education; (3) adult training, retraining, and employment development; (4) comprehensive career guidance and counseling programs; and (5) industry-education partnership for training in high-technology occupations. Revises national program provisions for: (1) research and evaluation; (2) demonstration programs; (3) the occupational information system; and (4) bilingual vocational training. Changes from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to conduct research on and evaluations of vocational education programs, activities, and trends. Repeals provisions for: (1) a national assessment of vocational education programs; and (2) the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Directs the Secretary to establish and support one or more centers for research in vocational education. Repeals provisions for: (1) State equipment pools; (2) demonstration centers for the retraining of dislocated workers; and (3) model centers for vocational education for older individuals. Revises the Act and the General Education Provisions Act regarding a national vocational education data reporting and accounting system. Amends the Job Training Partnership Act, among other things, to rename the National Commission for Employment Policy as the National Commission on Employment and Vocational Education Policy. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to repeal demonstration programs for education for employment for technological literacy. Amends the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act to terminate at the end of FY 1989 annual appropriations for grants to States to help pay the costs: (1) of preparation and salaries of teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects and teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects; and (2) of studies of vocational education. Makes conforming amendments to the Bilingual Education Act, the Education for Economic Security Act, and the Education of the Handicapped Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Math and Science Careers Act of 1989 - Requires the National Science Foundation to submit to the Congress by February 1, 1990, a report on science and mathematics education and career potential for the underprivileged.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Repeals a provision which terminates Federal veterans' educational assistance as of December 31, 1989.