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United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the first Friday of March as "Teacher Day, United States of America."
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1979
Constitutional Amendment - States that the Constitution shall not be construed to require a school system which assigns pupils on the basis of neighborhood attendance areas to assign pupils in any other manner. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1979
Amends the Social Security Act to set forth standards relating to the rights of patients to be met by intermediate care facilities participating in programs under title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act. States that the statement of rights required to be adopted by such facilities shall include guarantees: (1) that the Patient's civil and religious liberties will not be infringed; (2) that the patient has the right to private communications with his physician, attorney, or any other person; and (3) that the patient has the right to have privacy in treatment and in caring for personal needs and confidentiality in the treatment of personnel and medical records.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1979
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish an effective means of obtaining from States and political subdivisions of States records as to deaths and of reviewing such records to prevent illegal payments under the Social Security Act to or on behalf of persons who have died.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1979
Department of Education Act of 1979 - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be administered by a Secretary of Education. States that the principal function of such Department is to promote the cause and advance of education throughout the United States. Transfers to the Secretary specified functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Education and various educational responsibilities of other Federal agencies and instrumentalities. Creates the Federal Interagency Committee on Education, the National Advisory Commission on Education, and the Office of the Inspector General within the Department of Education. 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.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1979
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 · 13 March 1979
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 · 13 March 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1979
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to treat Puerto Rico on the same basis as a State for certain program allocations under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1979
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 · 6 March 1979
Defense Department Overseas Teachers Act of 1979 - Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act regarding Department of Defense overseas dependents schools to limit the term of teaching positions and the travel and quarters allowance benefits for teachers who are recruited outside the United States. Provides exemptions from such limitations in specified teaching situations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1979
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the programs administered under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Specifies areas and questions to be studied. Requests a program report to Congress by January 31, 1980, and a final report by March 31, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1979
Academic Freedom Act of 1979 - States the findings of the Congress to be that: (1) the excessive demands on time which administrators and teachers of institutions of higher education must utilize in order to conform with regulations, reporting requirements, and other administrative regulations adversely affects the financial resources and educational quality of such institutions; (2) increasing Federal intrusion into the curriculums and grading, admission, and hiring policies of institutions of higher education is endangering academic freedom; (3) the diversity and independence of higher education in the United States, founded on the philosophy of local autonomy and service to a local community, offers Americans the greatest freedom to pursue their education and exercise their first amendment freedoms; and (4) the Congress should take action to promote its long-standing protection of academic freedom among institutions of higher learning. Requires any Federal agency issuing a regulation affecting any institution of higher education to adopt an education impact statement which shall: (1) determine whether any information sought under such regulation is already available or being gathered; and (2) assess the compliance cost and time to affected institutions. Prohibits any Federal agency or authority from promulgating or enforcing any regulation or Executive order which directly or indirectly requires or promotes: (1) the reduction of academic admissions requirements to any undergraduate or graduate school; or (2) the abandonment of any undergraduate or graduate degree program. States that any institution of higher education shall not be considered a recipient of Federal financial assistance under any equal employment opportunity law unless the total Federal financial assistance it received during the last fiscal year exceeds $300,000 or five percent of its annual current funds budget. Provides that Federal regulations shall apply only to those institutions of higher education or programs which are direct recipients of Federal financial assistance. Limits the power of a Federal agency to terminate financial assistance only to a program in noncompliance with a lawful regulation and prohibits such noncomplying program from being used as the basis for terminating assistance to other programs or to the recipient higher education institution itself. Provides that scholarships, loans, grants, and wages extended to an institution of higher education on behalf of its students, or extended directly to such students, shall not be construed as Federal financial assistance to such institution. Provides that no Federal financial assistance to any institution of higher education shall be withheld or terminated on the basis on noncompliance with a Federal rule or regulation when such institution has sought judicial review until all appeals of such court action have been exhausted.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1979
Department of Education Organization Act - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be: (1) to strengthen the Federal commitment ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every American; (2) to support more effectively States, localities and public and private institutions in carrying out their responsibilities for education; (3) to promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and the sharing of information; (4) to improve the management and efficiency of Federal education activities; (5) to increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public; (6) to encourage the involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs; (7) to improve the coordination of Federal education programs; and (8) to prohibit Federal control of education. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education. Establishes within such Department: (1) a position of Under Secretary of Education; (2) six Assistant Secretary positions; (3) an Office for Civil Rights headed by an Assistant Secretary; (4) an Office of Postsecondary Education headed by an Assistant Secretary; (5) an Office of Elementary and Secondary Education headed by an Assistant Secretary; (6) an Office of Educational Research and Improvement headed by an Assistant Secretary; (7) an office to administer functions relating to the education of overseas dependents of Department of Defense personnel; (8) a General Counsel; (9) an Office of Inspector General; (10) an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education to provide an educational forum and to promote better intergovernmental relations; and (11) an Interdepartmental Education Coordinating Committee to assure effective coordination of Federal educational programs and practices. Title III: Transfers - Transfers from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) educational functions and offices vested in: (1) the Assistant Secretary for Education; (2) the Education Division; (3) the Office for Civil Rights; (4) any statutory advisory committee or authority giving advice primarily concerning functions transferred under this Act; (5) the Institute of Museum Services; (6) the Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (7) the Federal Education Data Acquisition Council; and (8) certain functions of the Office of Inspector General. Transfers from HEW educational functions vested in the Secretary under: (1) the General Education Provisions Act; (2) the Emergency School Aid Act; (3) the Higher Education Act of 1965; (4) the Education Amendments of 1978; (5) the Act of August 30, 1898; (6) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (7) the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act; (8) the Environmental Education Act; (9) the National Defense Education Act of 1958; (10) the Education of the Handicapped Act; (11) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act; (12) the Vocational Education Act of 1963; (13) certain provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; (14) certain parts of the Public Health Service Act regarding student aid; (15) the Model Secondary School for the Deaf Act; (16) certain telecommunications grants under the Communications Act of 1934; and (17) certain provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Transfers from HEW educational functions relating to Gallaudet College, Howard University, the American Printing House for the Blind, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Transfers to the Department of Education from the Departments of: (1) Labor, certain functions regarding Native Americans manpower training under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973; (2) Defense, the administration and operation of overseas dependents schools under the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978; (3) Justice, the student loan and grant programs known as the Law Enforcement and Education Program and the Law Enforcement Intern Program under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and (4) Housing and Urban Development, the administration of college housing loans under the Housing Act of 1950. Transfers to the Department of Education specified science education programs of the National Science Foundation. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to appoint and fix the salaries for the Department's employees in accordance with the Civil Service laws. Allows certain higher level appointments to be made by the Secretary without Civil Service Commission approval if the individual so appointed is transferred to the Department in connection with a transfer of functions under this Act. Grants rulemaking authority to the Secretary. Requires such rules to be in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act and specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) employ experts and consultants; (2) enter into contracts with public agencies and private persons and organizations; (3) provide technical advice to participants or potential participants in Departmental programs; (4) maintain, alter, or discontinue field offices; (5) acquire and maintain schools, laboratories, and related facilities; (6) provide and maintain various facilities for employees and their dependents at remote locations; (7) utilize, with their consent, Federal, State, or foreign facilities; (8) acquire necessary copyrights and patents; (9) accept and utilize gifts and requests of real and personal property; (10) establish a working capital fund for administrative expenses; and (11) transfer funds within the Department. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress concerning the Department's activities. Stipulates that such report include a statement of goals and priorities and an assessment of progress. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Health Education, and Welfare as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Title VI: Effective Date and Interim Appointment - Directs that this Act shall take effect 180 days after the Secretary of Education takes office. Allows the President to make initial interim appointments to the Department of Education under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1979
Designates March 21, 1980, as "National Energy Education Day."
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1979
Preretirement Education Act of 1979 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a program of grants to States, educational institutions and agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and business and labor groups to: (1) develop model preretirement education programs; (2) train personnel for such programs; (3) prepare related information and materials; and (4) provide consultation services. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a preretirement education study and a retirement employment study.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1979
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 · 28 February 1979
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to provide that Federal agencies shall have 30 days to make comments on the education programs reports of the Comptroller General of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1979
Department of Education Organization Act - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be: (1) to strengthen the Federal commitment ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every American; (2) to support more effectively States, localities and public and private institutions in carrying out their responsibilities for education; (3) to promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and the sharing of information; (4) to improve the management and efficiency of Federal education activities; (5) to increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public; (6) to encourage the involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs; (7) to improve the coordination of Federal education programs; and (8) to prohibit Federal control of education. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education. Establishes within such Department: (1) a position of Under Secretary of Education; (2) six Assistant Secretary positions; (3) an Office for Civil Rights headed by an Assistant Secretary; (4) an Office of Postsecondary Education headed by an Assistant Secretary; (5) an Office of Elementary and Secondary Education headed by an Assistant Secretary; (6) an Office of Educational Research and Improvement headed by an Assistant Secretary; (7) an office to administer functions relating to the education of overseas dependents of Department of Defense personnel; (8) a General Counsel; (9) an Office of Inspector General; (10) an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education to provide an educational forum and to promote better intergovernmental relations; and (11) an Interdepartmental Education Coordinating Committee to assure effective coordination of Federal educational programs and practices. Title III: Transfers - Transfers from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) educational functions and offices vested in: (1) the Assistant Secretary for Education; (2) the Education Division; (3) the Office for Civil Rights; (4) any statutory advisory committee or authority giving advice primarily concerning functions transferred under this Act; (5) the Institute of Museum Services; (6) the Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (7) the Federal Education Data Acquisition Council; and (8) certain functions of the Office of Inspector General. Transfers from HEW educational functions vested in the Secretary under: (1) the General Education Provisions Act; (2) the Emergency School Aid Act; (3) the Higher Education Act of 1965; (4) the Education Amendments of 1978; (5) the Act of August 30, 1898; (6) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (7) the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act; (8) the Environmental Education Act; (9) the National Defense Education Act of 1958; (10) the Education of the Handicapped Act; (11) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act; (12) the Vocational Education Act of 1963; (13) certain provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; (14) certain parts of the Public Health Service Act regarding student aid; (15) the Model Secondary School for the Deaf Act; (16) certain telecommunications grants under the Communications Act of 1934; and (17) certain provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Transfers from HEW educational functions relating to Gallaudet College, Howard University, the American Printing House for the Blind, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Transfers to the Department of Education from the Departments of: (1) Labor, certain functions regarding migrant and seasonal farmworker employment and training programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973; (2) Defense, the administration and operation of overseas dependents schools under the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978; (3) Justice, the student loan and grant programs known as the law enforcement education program and the law enforcement intern program under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and (4) Housing and Urban Development, the administration of college housing loans under the Housing Act of 1950. Transfers to the Department of Education specified science education programs of the National Science Foundation. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to appoint and fix the salaries for the Department's employees in accordance with the Civil Service laws. Allows certain higher level appointments to be made by the Secretary without Civil Service Commission approval if the individual so appointed is transferred to the Department in connection with a transfer of functions under this Act. Grants rulemaking authority to the Secretary. Requires such rules to be in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act and specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) employ experts and consultants; (2) enter into contracts with public agencies and private persons and organizations; (3) provide technical advice to participants or potential participants in Departmental programs; (4) establish, maintain, alter, or discontinue field offices; (5) acquire and maintain schools, laboratories, and related facilities; (6) provide and maintain various facilities for employees and their dependents at remote locations; (7) utilize, with their consent, Federal, State, or foreign facilities; (8) acquire necessary copyrights and patents; (9) accept and utilize gifts and requests of real and personal property; (10) establish a working capital fund for administrative expenses; and (11) transfer funds within the Department. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress concerning the Department's activities. Stipulates that such report include a statement of goals and priorities and an assessment of progress. Authorizes the appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and additional functions that may be vested in the Department, to remain available until expended. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Title VI: Effective Date and Interim Appointment - Directs that this Act shall take effect 180 days after the Secretary of Education takes office. Allows the President to make initial interim appointments to the Department of Education under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1979
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to convey specified lands in the county of Yolo, California, to D-Q University in fee simple absolute.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a limited income tax credit for their college or vocational education expenses. Reduces the amount of such credit by one percent of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer for the taxable year exceeds $22,500. Permits a credit for tuition and fees for education above the twelfth grade level, and for books, supplies, and equipment required for coursework. Excludes expenses for meals, lodging, and similar living expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1979
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to extend, upon a showing of compelling reason, the period within which a veteran must use his or her educational benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to 30 percent of the tuition and fees paid to an institution of higher education for the education of the taxpayer or any other individual. Provides that scholarships or educational assistance for veterans shall not be taken into account in computing the amount of tuition eligible for the credit. Defines an "institution of higher education" as an educational institution which maintains a regular faculty and curriculum, which offers education above the twelfth grade level, and which qualifies as a charitable organization for purposes of the charitable contributions income tax deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1979
Designates March 21, 1980, as "National Energy Education Day."
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for tuition paid by the taxpayer for the higher education of himself, his spouse, or his dependents. Limits such deduction to tuition costs which exceed three percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1979
Repeals the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 which established the United States Metric Board to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system. Amends the declaration of purpose of the Metric Education Act of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1979
Establishes an educational benefits program for eligible reserve veterans of the Selected Reserves who enlisted after September 30, 1979. Stipulates that such program shall be funded by contributions from participants and matching contributions from the Department of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make additional contributions as necessary. Establishes procedures for enrollment, refund upon the disenrollment or death of the participant. Establishes the Selected Reserve Veterans' Education Account in the United States Treasury. Establishes a maximum of 36 monthly payments to any participant, to be used within ten years of such participant's release from service in the Selected Reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1979
Authorizes funds not to exceed $360,000 for the expenses of a welfare and pension plans task force under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Directs the Subcommittee to report to the House as soon as practicable on its results.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Relieves any local government unit or specified libraries in Pennsylvania from liability for erroneous U.S. contributions for disaster relief activities resulting from Hurricane Agnes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Relieves any local government unit or specified libraries in Pennsylvania from liability for erroneous U.S. contributions for disaster relief activities.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Establishes the Task Force on School Financing and the Taxation of Real Property by State and Local Governments to study and evaluate the taxation of real property, its effects on middle and fixed income taxpayers, the feasibility of using Federal taxation and other policies to reduce the dependence of State and local governments on such taxation, and the effects of such Federal taxation and other policies on the financing of public elementary and secondary education. Sets forth membership composition and powers of the Task Force. Requires the Task Force to submit a final report to the President within one year. Terminates the Task Force 90 days after submission of such report.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Graduate Educational Access Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Commissioner of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education for the use of graduate and professional schools in establishing programs for the correction and prevention of educational deficiencies in minority, low-income, and culturally disadvantaged individuals in order to increase minority enrollment in such schools.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Repeals certain veterans' education provisions requiring such benefits to be used within ten years of eligibility.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Freestone Peach Research and Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue a plan for financing and carrying out a research and education program with respect to freestone peaches. Requires that such plan: (1) establish a National Freestone Peach Research and Education Board to administer it; (2) fix the rate of assessments levied upon producers of freestone peaches (and collected for the Board by handlers) for research and education programs; (3) provide for the pro rata return of up to 50 percent of the net proceeds of such assessments to the States, for State projects; and (4) permit any freestone peach producer not in favor of the programs so supported to receive a refund of his or her assessment. Specifies permissive terms in such a plan. Prescribes civil penalties for handlers who violate this Act. Grants investigative and subpena powers to the Secretary for the enforcement of any plan the Secretary issues. Requires the Secretary to conduct a referendum of producers to ascertain approval of the plan issued. Denies effect to such plan if it fails to receive the approval of at least two-thirds of the producers voting in such a referendum, provided at least 50 percent of the registered producers cast votes. Provides a procedure for the suspension or termination of such a plan.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
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 and specified 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 Human Services and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs the Secretary of Education to prepare an annual report to the President for submission to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the first Friday in March of each year as "Teacher Day, U.S.A."
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1979
Designates the week of February 11 through February 17, 1979, as "National Vocational Education Week."
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1979
Schools of Education Assistance Act - Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to schools of education for fiscal years 1981-1985 for the diversification and redirecting of teacher education programs, including: (1) retraining faculty; (2) establishing new programs to prepare elementary and secondary teachers to work in other settings, such as business, industry, private schools or related social services; and (3) establishing model projects. Directs the Commissioner to reserve a part of the funds appropriated for projects under this Act for related educational research and program evaluation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1979
Constitutional Amendment - States that the Constitution shall not be construed to require a school system which assigns pupils on the basis of neighborhood attendance areas to assign pupils in any other manner. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the use of a food additive for dietary management of health disorders or disease, even though such additive is found to induce cancer in animals, if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines the benefits to human health of such use outweigh the risks. Directs the Secretary to take into account in making such a determination: (1) all scientific data and information on the additive; (2) the scientific validity and analysis of the tests of such additive; and (3) current knowledge about the reliability of predicting cancer in humans from use of an additive found to induce cancer in animals.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1979
Increases the amounts allocated to State and local governments under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 by ten percent if such State and local governments fund public education from sources other than property taxes.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1979
Authorizes the expenditure of funds not to exceed $2,290,000 for investigations and studies to be conducted by the House Committee on Education and Labor. Declares that no part of these funds shall be available for expenditure in connection with the study of any subject which is being investigated by any other House committee. States that the authorization granted by this resolution shall expire on January 3, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Title I: Credit for Tuition Paid for the Elementary or Secondary Education of Dependents - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit for the elementary or secondary school tuition of the dependents of a taxpayer at a private nonprofit school. Limits such credit to the lesser of 50 percent of tuition cost or $200. Reduces the amount of such credit by $1 for each full $20 by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $18,000. Defines "tuition" as any amount required for the enrollment or attendance of a student at a private nonprofit elementary or secondary school. Excludes from such definition amounts paid for meals, lodging, transportation, supplies, equipment, clothing, or personal family expenses. Defines "private nonprofit elementary or secondary school" as an educational organization which is tax-exempt, offers education at the elementary or secondary level, and attendance at which satisfies the compulsory education laws of the State in which it is located. Forbids any construction of this Act as granting the Government additional authority to examine the books or activities of any church school except to the extent necessary to determine whether such school is an elementary or secondary school. Grants standing in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to any taxpayer to petition for injunctive or declaratory relief with respect to the constitutionality of any provision of this Act. Requires the expedited consideration of any such case. Title II: Credit for Expenses Paid for the Higher Education of Individuals - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit for the higher education expenses of the taxpayer or any other individual. Limits such credit to 100 percent of expenses under $200, 25 percent of expenses between $200 and $500, and five percent of expenses between $500 and $1,500. Reduces the amount of such credit by one percent of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $18,000. Defines "expenses of higher education" as tuition and fees required for the attendance of a student at an institution of higher education and fees, books, supplies, and equipment required for coursework. Excludes from such definition amounts paid for meals, lodging, or similar personal expenses. Defines "institution of higher education" as an educational organization which is tax-exempt and offers education above the twelfth-grade level, or which is an accredited business, trade, or vocational school. Title III: Deduction for Contributions to Qualified Higher Education Funds - Higher Education Funding Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for contributions to a qualified higher education fund established by the taxpayer to fund the higher education of his dependents. Limits the amount of the deduction to the lesser of: (1) $500 times the number of qualified beneficiaries; (2) ten percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income; or (3) $2,500. Provides that a qualified education fund must be established by the taxpayer pursuant to a written plan: (1) which is designed to defray the cost of room, board, and tuition of one or more eligible beneficiaries of the fund at an institution of higher education; (2) which provides that no distribution shall be made by the fund (except upon termination) other than to, or on behalf of, eligible beneficiaries; (3) which provides that upon termination of the fund all assets of the fund shall be distributed to the taxpayer or his estate; (4) which prohibits contributions to the fund in excess of amounts deductible; and (5) under which the taxpayer includes in gross income certain amounts attributable to the fund upon termination of such fund.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Relieves specified libraries in Pennsylvania from liability for erroneous U.S. contributions for disaster relief activities.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1979
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for a deferral of up to three years on the repayment of principal or interest of a federally insured or direct student loan during a period of temporary total disability of the student borrower or spouse.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1979
Congressional Pages Education Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to establish the Congressional Pages School Board with authority to establish and maintain a school for congressional pages, and to enter into or terminate, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House, arrangements with the District of Columbia with respect to the education of congressional pages in the public school system of the District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey all right, title, and interest held by the United States in specified lands located in Bell County, Kentucky, to the Bell County Board of Education.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Amends the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act to extend to January 3, 1981 (or to the enactment, if earlier, of any law changing the conditions under which a food additive shall not be deemed safe) of the period during which the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is prohibited from taking specified actions restricting the continued use of saccharin as a food, drug, or cosmetic. Declares void of all legal force or effect any such prohibited action which the Secretary may have taken after the expiration of the initial 18-month prohibition period.