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United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Authorizes and directs the President to designate April 18, 1978, as "Education Day, U.S.A."
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Authorizes and directs the President to designate April 18, 1978, as "Education Day, U.S.A."
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Authorizes and directs the President to designate April 18, 1978, as "Education Day, U.S.A."
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
Middle Income Student Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a $250 minimum basic educational opportunity grant for college students whose adjusted family income does not exceed $25,000. Sets forth new guidelines for determining the assets of independent students for purposes of eligibility for basic educational opportunity grants. Revises certain provisions regarding Federal payments to reduce student loan interest costs under such Act including raising the maximum allowable adjusted family income requirement to $40,000.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
Unified Education and Training Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be administered by a Secretary of Education. Declares the purpose of such Department to be to coordinate and administer Federal educational and training programs in such a manner as to eliminate duplication of effort and conflicting policies without interference with State and local school systems or private institutions. Transfers to the Secretary specified functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Education various educational responsibilities of other Federal agencies and instrumentalities. Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Secretary of such Department as the Department of Health and Welfare, and the Secretary of Health and Welfare. Directs the Secretary of Education to prepare an annual report to the President for submission to the Congress. Establishes a Commission on School Finance to: (1) study and assess the financial needs of public elementary and secondary education and the tax resources available; (2) assess individual Federal education programs; (3) assess the level of Federal aid and its impact on State and local educational systems; and (4) conduct appropriate research and studies.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Mobile Teachers' Retirement Assistance Act - Establishes a Federal-State program to permit teachers to perform out-of-State educational service without loss of retirement benefits for such service. Entitles a qualified State retirement system, which credits a teacher for out-of-State service, to Federal aid of 50 percent of the total cost to the system of such out-of-State credit. Specifies the requirements which a State retirement system must meet in order to qualify for Federal aid under this program. Limits the amount of the Federal aid to a State retirement system to provide not more than ten years of out-of-State service credit. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make a grant to each qualified State retirement system of an amount equal to two percent of such system's Federal aid received under this Act for the costs of administration.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Department of Education Act - Establishes a Department of Education within the executive branch of the Federal Government to take over specified educational functions of various departments and agencies. Creates the Federal Interagency Committee on Education and the National Commission on Education.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend the grant and appropriation authorization provisions with respect to nutrition education and information programs to fiscal year 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Educational Expense Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit for half of the first $500 in tuition paid for each of the taxpayer's dependents, his spouse and himself to an elementary or secondary school, vocational school, or higher education institution. Allows an income tax deduction for the first $1,000 paid annually into a qualified higher education trust fund for each of these individuals. Provides for a progressive reduction of the limitation on these benefits for middle and high income taxpayers.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Middle Income Student Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a $250 minimum basic educational opportunity grant for college students whose adjusted family income does not exceed $25,000. Sets forth new guidelines for determining the assets of independent students for purposes of eligibility for basic educational opportunity grants. Revises certain provisions regarding Federal payments to reduce student loan interest costs under such Act including raising the maximum allowable adjusted family income requirement to $40,000.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1978
College Opportunity Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the standards for determining the family contribution with regard to basic educational opportunity grant amounts authorized by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Memorial Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Authorizes up to $5,000,000 to be appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require States applying for assistance under such Act to establish and implement standards of educational proficiency applicable to public school students. Establishes the National Commission on Basic Education and directs it to: (1) establish proficiency standards; and (2) review and approve or disapprove State plans implementing such standards. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to financially assist States in preparing educational standards plans. Directs the Commissioner to make proficiency examinations directly available to public school students in districts where State proficiency plans are not in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Revises and reorganizes Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs local educational agencies to use funds received under Title I exclusively (1) in school attendance areas having high concentrations of children from low-income families and (2) with certain exceptions, for children having the greatest need for special assistance. Specifies requirements for local education agencies relative to (1) assessment of educational needs; (2) research into possible alternative fund sources; (3) recordkeeping; and (4) complaint resolution. Creates an exemption for certain special programs from the requirement that Federal funds not be used to supplant non-Federal funds and an exclusion from present excess cost and comparability provisions. Permits, at schools where 80 percent or more of the children in average daily attendance or in the applicable grade-span are educationally deprived, inclusion of children who are not deprived in programs and projects assisted under Title I. Revises provisions regarding State applications for assistance under Title I, and adds a new requirement that a State management summary be included as part of the application. Imposes specified administrative duties on State educational agencies under Title I. Authorizes Federal, State, and local educational agencies to enter into compliance agreements as a means of ensuring compliance with Title I. Sets out a new State approval procedure for local educational agencies' funding applications under Title I. Provides for advance determination by the Commissioner of Education or the State that special State or local programs meet the requirements for an exemption from the excess costs and comparability provisions of Title I. Directs the Commissioner of Education to develop a Policy Manual for implementing Title I programs.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1978
College Opportunity Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the standards for determining the family contribution with regard to basic educational opportunity grant amounts authorized by such Act. Removes the provision dealing with adjusted family income as an eligibility requirement for Federal interest payments on higher education student loans under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1978
Middle Income Student Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a $250 minimum basic educational opportunity grant for college students whose adjusted family income does not exceed $25,000. Sets forth new guidelines for determining the assets of independent students for purposes of eligibility for basic educational opportunity grants. Revises certain provisions regarding Federal payments to reduce student loan interest costs under such Act including raising the maximum allowable adjusted family income requirement to $40,000.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Title I: Amendments Relating to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to: (1) repeal the provision allowing children in local educational programs for the handicapped to be considered in certain circumstances as part of a State program for Federal assistance under such title; (2) reduce the minimum Federal payment a State may receive for its handicapped children, neglected children, and migratory children; (3) permit multiyear grant applications; (4) limit the school construction wage requirement to projects involving expenditures of at least $15,000; (5) permit schools to count certain low-income transfer students for school attendance funding eligibility under such Act; (6) restrict required school parent advisory councils to districts which receive at least $50,000 in Title I grant funds; (7) revise provisions regarding basic grants amounts and their manner of payment to local educational agencies; and (8) revise the provision regarding the Commissioner of Education's withholding of funds for noncompliance with certain funding requirements. Removes the provision requiring that certain funds given to local educational agencies on the basis of low-rent housing determinations be used to meet the special educational needs of children from low-income families. Title II: Amendments Relating to Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends provisions of such Title regarding libraries, learning resources, and educational support to: (1) substitute a five year program plan for the State plan required for funding under such Title; (2) revise specified State and local application requirements for funding under such Title; (3) revise certain testing and guidance provisions; (4) revise certain State allotment provisions including establishing a notification requirement if such allotments are to be reduced; and (5) revise certain State and local leadership program provisions. Title III: Amendments to the Bilingual Education Act - Amends the Bilingual Education Act to provide for multiyear grant applications and revise certain State administrative functions under such Act. Title IV: Amendments Relating to the National Reading Improvement Program - Amends the Education Amendments of 1974 to: (1) revise certain provisions regarding State administration of reading improvement projects; and (2) direct the Commissioner of Education to supply written confirmation of funding application approval for such reading programs. Title V: Amendments to the Emergency School Act - Amends the Emergency School Aid Act to: (1) require funding applications under such Act to be submitted within 90 days of the start of the fiscal year; and (2) limit the type of information required in local educational agency applications for funds under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Education Act of 1978 - Title I: Amendments to Existing Law Authorizing Federal Assistance for Elementary and Secondary Education - Amends Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to (1) extend to 1980 the Commissioner of Education's authority to make grants under such Title; and (2) end special incentive grants. Revises procedures regarding local educational agency grant applications to: (1) require submission of such applications directly to the Commissioner of Education rather than to the State agency; and (2) require establishment of appeal and hearing and complaint resolution procedures by local educational agencies. Directs the Commissioner to (1) establish criteria to be used in determining the adequacy of such applications; and (2) provide reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing before disapproval of such applications. Stipulates that any such application will be considered approved 60 days after receipt by the Commissioner unless prior to such time notice of intent to disapprove has been given by the Commissioner to the submitting local agency. Revises provisions pertaining to State administration of Title I programs to allow the Commissioner to delegate to a State the authority to approve local educational agency applications if certain requirements are satisfied, including allowing local educational agencies to appeal a State's action directly to the Commissioner under certain circumstances. Authorizes Title I payments to be made directly to local educational agencies from the Commissioner. Provides that hearing and review procedures regarding specified actions by the Commissioner under Title I shall be in conformity with the Administrative Procedure Act. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend to 1980 programs for (1) school library resources, books, and instructional material; (2) supplementary educational services and centers, and guidance and counseling programs; (3) State and local leadership resources and planning and education grants; (4) dropout prevention; (5) nutrition and health services in public and private schools; and (6) libraries and educational support. Revises provisions under Title IV regarding State assistance plans for libraries and educational support grants. Extends to 1983 programs for (1) bilingual education; (2) emergency school aid; (3) adult education, including special projects for elderly people with limited English language ability; (4) school construction in federally affected areas; and (5) disaster area school reconstruction. Revises provisions regarding school construction assistance in federally affected areas, with regard to (1) determination of the maximum payment; (2) temporary attendance of children as the result of Department of Defense activities; and (3) immediate assistance for certain specified disasters. Amends provisions regarding Federal maintenance and operation assistance to local educational agencies in federally affected areas to (1) extend certain assistance programs to 1980; (2) revise local educational agency eligibility requirements where the United States owns Federal property within the school district of such agency; (3) revise the formula for determining local educational agencies contribution rates; (4) authorize the Commissioner to increase payments to local educational agencies because of unusual geographic factors; and (5) provide local educational agencies adversely affected by actions of the Commissioner with hearing and review procedures. Extends Indian education grant programs for (1) local educational agencies for the education of Indian children; (2) the improvement of educational opportunities for Indian children; (3) special education training for teachers of Indian children; (4) adult Indian education; and (5) higher education fellowships for Indians. Amends the Indian Education Act to authorize the Commissioner to make grants for (1) research in the field of Indian history and culture; and (2) elementary and secondary curriculum development in schools serving Indian children. Revises the authority of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Amends the Special Projects Act to extend educational programs for (1) metric system education, (2) gifted children, (3) community schools, (4) community education, (5) educational equity for women, (6) elementary and secondary education in the arts, and (7) consumer education. Title II: Grants to Local Educational Agencies - Rewrites title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Changes the method of determining the amount of grants to local educational agencies under such title to base the size of the grant on (1) the number of dependents of Federal employees attending schools run by the locality, (2) the number of dependents of military personnel attending schools run by the locality, (3) the number of children from low-income families attending schools run by the locality, and (4) the total number of children attending schools run by the locality. Specifies certain administrative changes in programs under such title. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to add Title VI providing financial assistance to the States to enable them to equalize educational expenditures among the local educational agencies within the State. Provides a formula for such grants based on State wealth and limited real property taxation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to change the date after which States establishing interest subsidy programs for guaranteed student loans may receive advances to reserves for making insurance payments under the State guaranteed loan program.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Revises and reorganizes Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs local educational agencies to use funds received under Title I exclusively (1) in school attendance areas having high concentrations of children from low-income families and (2) with certain exceptions, for children having the greatest need for special assistance. Specifies requirements for local education agencies relative to (1) assessment of educational needs; (2) research into possible alternative fund sources; (3) recordkeeping; and (4) complaint resolution. Creates an exemption for certain special programs from the requirement that Federal funds not be used to supplant non-Federal funds and an exclusion from present excess cost and comparability provisions. Permits, at schools where 80 percent or more of the children in average daily attendance or in the applicable grade-span are educationally deprived, inclusion of children who are not deprived in programs and projects assisted under Title I. Revises provisions regarding State applications for assistance under Title I, and adds a new requirement that a State management summary be included as part of the application. Imposes specified administrative duties on State educational agencies under Title I. Authorizes Federal, State, and local educational agencies to enter into compliance agreements as a means of ensuring compliance with Title I. Sets out a new State approval procedure for local educational agencies' funding applications under Title I. Provides for advance determination by the Commissioner of Education or the State that special State or local programs meet the requirements for an exemption from the excess costs and comparability provisions of Title I. Directs the Commissioner of Education to develop a Policy Manual for implementing Title I programs.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Middle Income Student Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a $250 minimum basic educational opportunity grant for college students whose adjusted family income does not exceed $25,000. Sets forth new guidelines for determining the assets of independent students for purposes of eligibility for basic educational opportunity grants. Revises certain provisions regarding Federal payments to reduce student loan interest costs under such Act including raising the maximum allowable adjusted family income requirement to $40,000.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Middle Income Student Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a $250 minimum basic educational opportunity grant for college students whose adjusted family income does not exceed $25,000. Sets forth new guidelines for determining the assets of independent students for purposes of eligibility for basic educational opportunity grants. Revises certain provisions regarding Federal payments to reduce student loan interest costs under such Act including raising the maximum allowable adjusted family income requirement to $40,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Prohibits, during fiscal years 1978 and 1979, the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a program on smoking and health described by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on January 11, 1978. Stipulates that programs on smoking and health for the period beginning October 1, 1977 and ending January 10, 1978, shall not be affected.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Memorial Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Authorizes up to $5,000,000 to be appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
College Libraries Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with regard to college library assistance to (1) revise the basic grant standards pertaining to the maximum amount and matching funds; (2) define the circumstances exempting an applicant from making the assurances required for funds by such Act; (3) redefine institutions to be given priority for supplemental grants; and (4) redefine matching fund requirements for special purpose grants.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Memorial Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Authorizes up to $5,000,000 to be appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Education and Childcare Reemployment Rights Act - Grants to persons who have been employed for at least five years by an employer and who wish to relinquish full-time employment in order to bear or raise a child or to enter a full-time education program the right to be reemployed in a like position by the employer or the employer's successor within five years of having left such employment. Conditions reemployment rights upon compliance with specified procedures and the absence of interviewing circumstances which would render reemployment impossible or unreasonable.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to change the date after which States establishing interest subsidy programs for guaranteed student loans may receive advances to reserves for making insurance payments under the State guaranteed loan program.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Commissioner of Education to make grants to and enter into contracts with institutions of higher education to offer projects to encourage economically disadvantaged students to pursue undergraduate and graduate training in the biomedical sciences. Sets forth the activities such projects must provide and the criteria applicants must meet in order to be eligible for assistance under this program.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
College Opportunity Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the standards for determining the family contribution with regard to basic student grant amounts authorized by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of February 12-18, 1978, as "National Vocation Education Week."
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide that any Indian tribe or organization entitled under such Act to enter into contracts with, or receive grants from, the Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare or the Interior for the purpose of enabling such tribe or organization to provide services to Indians which were previously provided by one of those Secretaries may elect to receive a single consolidated grant in each fiscal year in lieu of the individual contracts otherwise authorized under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Memorial Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Authorizes up to $5,000,000 to be appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Amends the Bilingual Education Act to authorize the participation of children whose primary language is English in bilingual education programs under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Prohibits, during the fiscal years 1978 and 1979, the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a program on smoking and health described by the Secretary of such Department on January 11, 1978. Stipulates that programs on smoking and health for the period beginning October 1, 1977 and ending January 10, 1978, shall not be affected. Limits the use of funds which were projected on or before January 11, 1978, to be expended to carry out the program on smoking and health, announced on such date, to expenditures for additional research during 1978 or 1979 on the harmful properties of tobacco and dangerous effects of smoking.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of February 12-18, 1978, as "National Vocation Education Week."
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Assistance Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Authorizes up to $5,000,000 to be appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Prohibits, during the fiscal years 1978 and 1979, the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a program on smoking and health described by the Secretary of such Department on January 11, 1978. Stipulates that smoking and health programs which were conducted between October 1, 1977 and January 11, 1978, and after January 11, 1978, with an amount of appropriated funds not in excess of the amount projected shall not be affected. Limits the use of funds which were projected on or before January 11, 1978, to be expended to carry out the program on smoking and health, announced on such date, to expenditures for additional research during 1978 or 1979 on the harmful properties of tobacco and dangerous effects of smoking.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Memorial Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Authorizes up to $5,000,000 to be appropriated for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Amends the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act to extend the authorizations of appropriations for carrying out the provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Amends the Environmental Education Act to extend the authorizations of appropriations for carrying out the provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $3,739,000 for the Inspector General of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend for fiscal year 1979 the Commissioner of Education's authority to approve grants to local education agencies participating in experimental compensatory education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
College Libraries Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with regard to college library assistance to (1) revise the basic grant standards pertaining to the maximum amount and matching funds; (2) define the circumstances exempting an applicant from making the assurances required for funds by such Act; (3) redefine institutions to be given priority for supplemental grants; and (4) redefine matching fund requirements for special purpose grants.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to change the date after which States establishing interest subsidy programs for guaranteed student loans may receive advances to reserves for making insurance payments under the State guaranteed loan program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Authorizes expenditures, not to exceed $2,160,000, by the House Committee on Education and Labor for inquiries and investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Designates the Veterans' Administration-University of California, San Francisco Medical School medical education building to be located on the grounds of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Fresno, California, as the "Milo E. Rowell Medical Education Building."
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require States applying for assistance under such Act to establish and implement standards of educational proficiency applicable to public school students. Establishes the National Commission on Basic Education and directs it to: (1) establish proficiency standards; and (2) review and approve or disapprove State plans implementing such standards. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to financially assist States in preparing educational standards plans. Directs the Commissioner to make proficiency examinations directly available to public school students in districts where State proficiency plans are not in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1978
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish an advisory body to be known as the National Council on Quality in Education. Directs such Council to develop models to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education with particular emphasis on basic skills.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Department of Education Act - Establishes a Department of Education within the executive branch of the Federal Government to take over specified educational functions of various departments and agencies. Creates the Federal Interagency Committee on Education and the National Commission on Education.