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United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1975
Removes the present time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed. Makes such assistance available until used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1975
Removes the time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1975
Provides that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to move, clause 2(1) (6) of rule XI to the contrary notwithstanding, that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 7897) to authorize funds for assistance to local educational agencies for the education of Cambodian and Vietnamese refuges, and for other purposes. States that after general debate, which shall be confined to the bill and shall continue not to exceed one hour, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and Labor, the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Provides that it shall be in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and Labor now printed in the bill as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Directs that, at the conclusion of such consideration, the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. Provides that the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions. States that after the passage of H.R. 7897, it shall be in order int the House to take from the Speaker's table the bill S. 2145 and to move to strike out all after the enacting clause of the said Senate bill and insert in lieu thereof the provisions contained in H.R. 7897 as passed by the House.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education appointed by the President. States that it shall be the principal function of the Department to improve the quality of education throughout the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) advise the President with respect to the progress of education; (2) develop and recommend to the President appropriate policies and programs to foster the orderly growth and development of the Nation's educational facilities and resources especially in the light of long-range requirements; (3) exercise leadership at the direction of the President in coordinating Federal activities affecting education; (4) conduct continuing comprehensive surveys, collect, analyze, and disseminate relevant information concerning education in the United States; (5) provide information and such other assistance as may be authorized by the Congress to aid in the maintenance of efficient school, college, and university systems; and (6) encourage comprehensive long-range planning by State and local governments, especially with respect to coordinating Federal, State, and community educational activities at the local level. Transfers the education functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Department of Education. Transfers various specified education functions of other executive departments to the Department of Education. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to study and recommend such actions as may be necessary to assure effective coordination of Federal programs affecting education. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Education of specified membership and qualification to review and make recommendations with respect to the administration, regulation, and operation of Federal education programs. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to enable the Department to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1975
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education appointed by the President. States that it shall be the principal function of the Department to improve the quality of education throughout the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) advise the President with respect to the progress of education; (2) develop and recommend to the President appropriate policies and programs to foster the orderly growth and development of the Nation's educational facilities and resources especially in the light of long-range requirements; (3) exercise leadership at the direction of the President in coordinating Federal activities affecting education; (4) conduct continuing comprehensive surveys, collect, analyze, and disseminate relevant information concerning education in the United States; (5) provide information and such other assistance as may be authorized by the Congress to aid in the maintenance of efficient school, college, and university systems; and (6) encourage comprehensive long-range planning by State and local governments, especially with respect to coordinating Federal, State, and community educational activities at the local level. Transfers the education functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Department of Education. Transfers various specified education functions of other executive departments to the Department of Education. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to study and recommend such actions as may be necessary to assure effective coordination of Federal programs affecting education. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Education of specified membership and qualification to review and make recommendations with respect to the administration, regulation, and operation of Federal education programs. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to enable the Department to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1975
Health Professions Education Amendments - Revises title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Extends through fiscal year 1979 the present authority to guarantee loans for the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, veternarians, optometrists, podiatrists, and professional public health personnel. Repeals the title VII authority to make grants for the construction of such facilities. Authorizes States, under title XVI of such Act, to use Federal formula allotments, loans, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies for modernization necessary to increase the primary care health manpower training capacity of hospitals and outpatient facilities affiliated with a medical, osteopathic, or dental school. Eliminates capitation for schools of pharmacy. Phases out capitation for schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Provides that the latter class of schools may agree to undertake efforts designed to address geographic and specialty maldistribution, thus making them eligible to receive National Priotity Incentive grants in the amount of $1,500 per student in place of capitation phase-out grants. Stipulates that all schools receiving either National Priority Incentive Grants or capitation phase-out grants must maintain enrollment at the academic year 1975-76 level and maintain the level of non-Federal funds spent. Allows the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to waive this requirement in ususual circumstances. Authorizes appropriations of $126,500,000 for fiscal year 1976; $123,400,000 for fiscal year 1977; $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1978; and $118,200,000 for fiscal year 1979 for the National Priority Incentive Grants and capitation phase-out grants. Revises and consolidates the existing authorities for dispensing grants for special projects into a special projects section. Authorizes grants to support the following projects: (1) establishment and expansion of family medicine training programs; (2) establishment and expansion of training programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, general medicine, general dentistry, and pedodontics; (3) establishment of relationships between schools of optometry, podiatry, and pharmacy, and other health training and service entities; improvement of aspects of curricula and training in those schools; and placement of graduates of those schools and veterinary schools in underserved areas; (4) provision of graduate training in important public health related fields, (5) improvement of allied health professions training; (6) provision for training of primary care physician extenders and expanded function dental auxiliaries, (7) undertaking of training activities designed to address geographic maldistribution of health professionals; (8) provision of financial and other assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to enable them to enter health professions careers; (9) provision for financial and other assistance to United States graduates of foreign medical schools to assist them to complete their medical or osteopathic education in the United States, and provision of intensive instruction to foreign medical graduates working in the United States; (10) provision of financial aid to those schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, or public health which are in serious financial straits or are having serious accreditation problems, with amounts limited to 75 percent of any financial distress grant provided in the preceding fiscal year; (11) the utilization of innovative training methods in medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry likely to reduce the costs of medical, osteopathic, and dental training, and for assisting new schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry to primarily utilize such methods; and (12) evaluating changes in admissions criteria, providing certain specialized kinds of training, providing interdisciplinary training, and demonstrating curriculum innovations. Phases out the present start-up authority. Permits the Secretary to utilize contracts as well as grants, except in cases of financial distress. Authorizes specified amounts to be appropriated for fiscal years 1976-1979. Replaces the present Public Health and National Health Service Corps with the Health Service Scholarship Program (HSSP), which is charged with providing scholarships to medical, osteopathic, and dental students in exchange for service in the Public Health Service, other Federal health service, or in a health manpower shortage area. Makes eligible students who agree to accept scholarships if offered, when they apply for admission to a health professions school. Permits students to satisfy their committment by accepting a Defense Department scholarship. States that scholarships would be awarded for periods of two to four years in an annual amount of $3,600, plus tuition and other reasonable education expenses. Requires, upon completion of training, the scholarship recipient to perform one year of service for each year of assistance. Gives the individual, within limitations, the choice of: (1) serving as a commissioned officer or a civilian member of the Public Health Service or other Federal Health service; or (2) practicing his profession in a health manpower shortage area as a private practitioner. Grants the Secretary the final authority to choose the location and mode of service of participants, making such assignments on the basis of priorities extant at the time such participants became available for service. Requires all such individuals to engage full-time in patient care activities. Protects persons serving in health manpower shortage areas against income so low as to compromise the effectiveness of their practice by means of a minimum income provision. Requires a scholarship recipient who fails to perform his service responsibilities to repay twice the amount of the scholarship assistance tendered multiplied by the proportion of service not performed, plus interest. Authorizes specified appropriations for HSSP for fiscal years 1976-1979. Limits Federal capital contributions to health profession schools' loan funds. Provides that the money invested by the Federal government in schools' loan funds will remain available for re-loan by the schools as it is repaid by student borrowers, but future loans to students will be required to carry seven percent, rather than three percent, interest. Terminates the authority under which the Secretary repays any educational loans of individuals who go into practice in shortage areas, except in the cases of students receiving loans prior to the enactment of these provisions. Phases out residual Federal responsibilities under the health professions education fund. Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education, to be composed of health services experts, students, health specialty body representatives, planners, third party payers, and consumers. Charges the Council with analyzing the distribution among specialties of physicians and medical students and evaluating alternative approaches to insuring an appropriate balance. Directs the Council to offer recommendations to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1975
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for the amount of expenses paid for higher education in the taxable year for education above the twelfth grade paid for by the taxpayer for himself or any other individual. Provides that such credit shall be an amount equal to the sum of: (1) 100 percent of so much of such expenses as does not exceed $200; (2) 75 percent of so much of such expenses as exceeds $200 but does not exceed $500; and (3) 25 percent of so much of such expenses as exceed $500 but does not exceed $1,500. Defines expenses of higher education as: (1) tuition and fees required for the enrollment or attendance of a student at a level above the twelfth grade at an institution of higher education; and (2) fees, books, supplies, and equipment required for courses of instruction above the twelfth grade at an institution of higher education. Provides that the amount of higher education expenses taken into consideration shall be reduced by any amounts received as a scholarship or fellowship grant or as veterans benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to distribute funds in the amount of $925,000 to Recording for the Blind, Incorporated, to assist such corporation in carrying out specified projects. Requires that, prior to the receipt of such funds, the corporation provide satisfactory assurance that appropriate fiscal control and fund accounting procedures will be adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1975
Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act - Requires recipients of Federal aid to higher education, under the Higher Education Act, to provide senior citizens 60 years of age or older with access, on a space-available basis, to already scheduled courses and programs as a condition of eligibility to continue receiving Federal funds.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1975
Teacher Corps Amendments - Extends, under the Higher Education Act, the authorization for the Teacher Corps for six additional years, through fiscal year 1982. Increases the authorized appropriations from the current level of $37,500,000 for fiscal year 1976 to $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1978 through 1982. Permits participation of personnel other than classroom teaching staff, and allows Teacher Corps projects to include retraining activities. Authorizes enrollment of Teacher Corps members for periods of up to five years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1975
Health Professions Education Amendments - Revises title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Extends through fiscal year 1979 the present authority to guarantee loans for the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, veternarians, optometrists, podiatrists, and professional public health personnel. Repeals the title VII authority to make grants for the construction of such facilities. Authorizes States, under title XVI of such Act, to use Federal formula allotments, loans, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies for modernization necessary to increase the primary care health manpower training capacity of hospitals and outpatient facilities affiliated with a medical, osteopathic, or dental school. Eliminates capitation for schools of pharmacy. Phases out capitation for schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Provides that the latter class of schools may agree to undertake efforts designed to address geographic and specialty maldistribution, thus making them eligible to receive National Priority Incentive grants in the amount of $1,500 per student in place of capitation phase-out grants. Stipulates that all schools receiving either National Priority Incentive grants or capitation phase-out grants must maintain enrollment at the academic year 1975-76 level and maintain the level of non-Federal funds spent. Allows the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to waive this requirement in unusual circumstances. Authorizes appropriations of $126,500,000 for fiscal year 1976; $123,400,000 for fiscal year 1977; $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1978; and $118,200,000 for fiscal year 1979 for the National Priority Incentive Grants and capitation phase-out grants. Revises and consolidates the existing authorities for dispensing grants for special projects into special projects sections. Authorizes grants to support the following projects: (1) establishment and expansion of family medicine training programs; (2) establishment and expansion of training programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, general medicine, general dentistry, and pedodontics; (3) establishment of relationships between schools of optometry, podiatry, and pharmacy, and for other health training and service entities; improvement of aspects of curricula and training in those schools; and placement of graduates of those schools and veterinary schools in underserved areas; (4) provision of graduate training in important public health related fields; (5) improvement of allied health professions training; (6) provision for training of primary care physician extenders and expanded function dental auxiliaries; (7) undertaking of training activities designed to address geographic maldistribution of health professionals; (8) provision of financial and other assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to enable them to enter health professions careers; (9) provision for financial and other assistance to United States graduates of foreign medical schools to assist them to complete their medical or osteopathic education in the United States, and provision of intensive instruction to foreign medical graduates working in the United States; (10) provision of financial aid to those schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, or public health which are having serious accreditation problems, with amounts limited to 75 percent of any financial distress grant provided in the preceding fiscal year; (11) the utilization of innovative training methods in medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry likely to reduce the costs of medical, osteopathic, and dental training, and for assisting new schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentisty to primarily utilize such methods; (12) evaluating changes in admissions criteria, providing certain specialized kinds of training, providing interdisciplinary training, and demonstrating curriculum innovations. Phases out the present start-up authority. Permits the Secretary to utilize contracts as well as grants, except in cases of financial distress. Authorizes specified amounts to be appropriated for fiscal years 1976 - 1979. Replaces the present Public Health and National Health Service Corps with the Health Service Scholarship Program (HSSP), which is charged with providing scholarships to medical, osteopathic, and dental students in exchange for service in the Public Health Service, other Federal health service, or in a health manpower shortage area. Makes eligible students who agree to accept scholarships, if offered, when they apply for admission to a health professions school. Permits students to satisfy their committment by accepting a Defense Department scholarship. States that scholarships would be awarded for periods of two to fours years in an annual amount of $3,600, plus tuition and other reasonable education expenses. Requires upon completion of training, the scholarship recipient to perform one year of service for each year of assistance. Gives the individual, within limitation, the choice of: (1) serving as a commissioned officer or a civilian member of the Public Health Service or other Federal Health service; or (2) practicing his profession in a health manpower shortage area as a private practitioner. Grants the Secretary the final authority to choose the location and mode of service of participants, making such assignments on the basis of priorities extent at the time such participants became available for service. Requires all such individuals to engage full-time in patient care activities. Protects persons serving in health manpower shortage areas against income so low as to compromise the effectiveness of their practice by means of a minimum income provision. Requires a scholarship recipient who fails to perform his service responsibilities to repay twice the amount of the scholarship assistance tendered multiplied by the proportion of service not performed, plus interest. Authorizes specified appropriations for HSSP for fiscal years 1976 - 1979. Limits Federal capital contributions to health profession schools' loan funds. Provides that the money invested by the Federal government in schools' loan funds will remain available for re-loan by the schools as it is repaid by student borrowers, but future loans to students will be required to carry seven percent, rather than three percent, interest. Terminates the authority under which the Secretary repays any educational loans of individuals who go into practice in shortage areas, except in the case of students receiving loans prior to the enactment of these provisions. Phases out residual Federal responsibilities under the health professions education fund. Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education, to be composed of health services experts, students, health specialty body representatives, planners, third party payers, and consumers. Charges the Council with analyzing the distribution among specialties of physicians and medical students and evaluating alternative approaches to ensuring an appropriate balance. Directs the Council to offer recommendations to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1975
Teacher Corps Amendments - Authorizes appropriations for the Teacher Corps in the amounts of $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $100,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981. Authorizes enrollment in the Teacher Corps for five year periods (currently two years is the maximum). Requires all arrangements with local educational agencies involving the Teacher Corps to be approved by a local council representative of the community.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1975
Requires that proposed regulations of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to implement the Social Security Act be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees for study and review. Permits either House of Congress, by adopting a resolution of disapproval, within 60 days of submission, to prevent any such regulation from taking effect.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1975
Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to increase the emphasis elementary and secondary schools, both private and public, place on job awareness, exploration, decision-making, and planning. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums for fiscal years 1976-1980, subject to restrictions, to carry out the provisions of this Act. Allocates funds to each State in the proportion that each State's population, aged five to seventeen, bears to the total population of all the States, aged five to seventeen. Provides that States must apply to the Commissioner of Education for funds, giving stipulated assurances relating to the use and management of such funds. Lists specific activities to which grants may be allocated. Makes provision for a greater proportion of funds to go to agencies responsible for low-income, sparsely populated, or non-English speaking areas. Restricts control of funds provided under this Act, and title to materials, equipment, and property acquired therewith, to a public agency. Prohibits such funds from being commingled with State or local funds. Outlines procedures for payment of funds to the States, and the uses, varying with each fiscal year, to which the funds may be put. Directs the Commissioner, consistent with the terms of this Act, to make whatever provisions may be necessary to insure participation on an equitable basis of children enrolled in private elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Office of Career Education to be the administrative agency for the review of State plans, applications, and reports and to provide technical assistance in their improvement whenever necessary. Instructs the National Institution of Education to continue its complementary efforts in career education and stipulates that the Office of Education shall cooperate with the Institute in identifying research and development priorities and in disseminating Institute findings. Directs the National Advisory Council on Career Education to perform its authorized functions in connection with this Act and to submit an annual report evaluating the effectiveness of programs operated in the preceding fiscal year. Mandates that States receiving funds submit annual reports, including an analysis of the extent to which objectives have been fulfilled and an analysis of both successful and unsuccessful programs. Provides that the Commissioner will analyze each State's report and furnish within three months of submission an analysis of the report and recommendations for improvement in the operation and administration of programs. Requires the Commissioner to conduct a comprehensive review of programs funded under this Act and to submit a report to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate no later than September 30, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to distribute funds in the amount of $925,000 to Recording for the Blind, Incorporated, to assist such corporation in carrying out specified projects. Requires that, prior to the receipt of such funds, the corporation provide satisfactory assurance that appropriate fiscal control and fund accounting procedures will be adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1975
Lifetime Learning Act - Establishes an Office of Lifetime Learning Programs in the Office of Education in order to encourage the expansion of such programs. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Defines "lifetime learning program" as any activity designed to meet the changing educational needs of Americans throughout their lives. Authorizes the United States Commissioner of Education through the Office to identify the needs involved and to create activities or fund existing activities to provide a lifetime learning program. Requires the Commissioner to submit annual reports to the President and Congress setting forth the programs assisted under this Act and recommendations for legislation. Directs the Commissioner to submit to Congress not later than January 1, 1979 a report to be known as the Lifetime Learning Report, summarizing the activities and accomplishments achieved under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1975
National Educational Opportunities Act - Title I: Definition and Guarantee of a Unitary School System and Equal Educational Opportunity - Provides that each State and its local educational agencies shall establish and maintain desegregated, unitary school systems which offer equal educational opportunities to all students, regardless of race, color, or national origin. States that a desegregrated unitary school system shall be presumed to exist unless a State or local educational agency denies equal educational opportunities to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by specified acts which have the natural, probable, foreseeable, or actual effect of segregating students on the basis of race, color or national origin. Prohibits local educational agencies from denying equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by maintenance of practices or provision of resources in schools in which minority students are concentrated that are less favorable for educational success and advancement than in schools attended primarily by students of any other race, color, or national origin. Gives examples of such denials of equal educational opportunity. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in Federal court for equitable relief in any case where he has reasonable cause to believe that the provisions of this Act are being violated. Title II: State Equal Educational Opportunities Plans - Requires each State to prepare and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval a plan to carry out the purpose of this Act. Requires that such plan shall provide for the establishment of State and local advisory bodies to advise State and local educational agencies on development and participation in such plans. Requires such plans to provide a viable mechanism for States and local educational systems to implement a policy of equal educational opportunities that delineates the fundamental prerequisites for a desegregated, unitary school system. Provides that such State plans shall include specific means for implementing some or all of the following components: (1) a majority transfer plan on both an intradistrict and interdistrict basis; (2) an open communities educational resources compensation program which shall provide for payments to any school district in which students from minority families comprised not more than 10 percent of total school enrollment during the school year 1976-1977, or in which students from low-income families comprised not more than 10 percent of total enrollment in such district during such year; (3) a school district reorganization plan; and (4) an approved, concentrated compensatory education program for basic instructional programs, supportive services, and vocational guidance and for programs having potential for improving the achievement performance of educationally deprived students. Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out this title not in excess of $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $500,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $500,000,000 for each fiscal year for the next three fiscal years. Provides a formula for allotment of such funds to the States and for allocation among various programs and agencies. States that whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing: (1) disapproves such a plan; or (2) finds that no plan has been submitted by a State, that a State plan approved under this Act has been so changed that it no longer complies with the requirements of this Act, that plan administration fails to comply substantially with any such provisions, or that a grantee is in violation of title II of this Act, the Secretary shall notify the grantee that further payments will not be made to the grantee under this title or any other educational enrichment of desegregation assistance program until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. Provides that, until he is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no further payments under such titles. Provides for review of the Secretary's action in such cases by the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the claimant State is located. Title III: General Provisions and Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1975
Juvenile Delinquency in the Schools Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to curb juvenile delinquency, violence, and vandalism in the public schools. Authorizes appropriations under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Reserves 5 percent of the amounts appropriated for discretionary use by the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for grants to States and the District of Columbia to carry out programs complementary to the purposes of this Act. Reserves up to 3 percent of the amounts appropriated for grants to territories and Indian schools. Requires the remainder of funds to be allocated to local educational agencies within the States according to the following criteria: (1) the financial need of local educational agencies; (2) the extent and impact of delinquency and crime in the schools of the district to be served; and (3) the degree to which the district to receive funds under the Act has established effective procedures for the protection of the constitutional rights of students and employees of the school district affected. Requires recipients to expend not less than fifty percent of funds granted under this Act for educational programs, including renovation of facilities, but not including programs utilizing security technology and personnel. Directs that the remainder of funds appropriated under this Act be expended on specified activities designed to achieve the purposes of this Act, including utilization of security technology and personnel. Stipulates that no funds may be used to support the introduction, presence, or use of firearms, other weapons, or chemical agents in any school. Defines terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975
Indochina Refugee Children Assistance Act - Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make payments during the period beginning July 1, 1975, and ending June 30, 1976, to State and local educational agencies on the basis of entitlements created for the education of Indochina refugee children and for supplementary services for Indochina refugee children who are enrolled in private schools. Authorizes grants to State educational agencies for purposes of technical assistance and leadership activities for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975
Stipulates that provisions of the Education Amendments of 1972 relating to discrimination based on sex shall not apply with respect to any scholarship or other financial assistance awarded to an individual by an institution of higher education as a result of a pageant, program, contest, or competition in which participation is limited to individuals of one sex only and the award is based, in whole or in part, upon the personal achievement, poise, or talent of such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975
Higher Education Amendments - Directs the Commissioner of Education to carry out a program of establishing and maintaining funds at each of the regional offices of the Office he heads for the purpose of extending reduced-interest loans to students at institutions of higher education. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for the purpose of such loans. Provides for the apportionment of the appropriations authorized under this Act. Sets the terms which shall apply to such loans based upon the status of students receiving loans. Provides measures to insure the collection of loans made under this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975
National Educational Opportunities Act - Title I: Definition and Guarantee of a Unitary School System and Equal Educational Opportunity - Provides that each State and its local educational agencies shall establish and maintain desegregated, unitary school systems which offer equal educational opportunities to all students, regardless of race, color, or national origin. States that a desegregrated unitary school system shall be presumed to exist unless a State or local educational agency denies equal educational opportunities to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by specified acts which have the natural, probable, foreseeable, or actual effect of segregating students on the basis of race, color or national origin. Prohibits local educational agencies from denying equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by maintenance of practices or provision of resources in schools in which minority students are concentrated that are less favorable for educational success and advancement than in schools attended primarily by students of any other race, color, or national origin. Gives examples of such denials of equal educational opportunity. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in Federal court for equitable relief in any case where he has reasonable cause to believe that the provisions of this Act are being violated. Title II: State Equal Educational Opportunities Plans - Requires each State to prepare and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval a plan to carry out the purpose of this Act. Requires that such plan shall provide for the establishment of State and local advisory bodies to advise State and local educational agencies on development and participation in such plans. Requires such plans to provide a viable mechanism for States and local educational systems to implement a policy of equal educational opportunities that delineates the fundamental prerequisites for a desegregated, unitary school system. Provides that such State plans shall include specific means for implementing some or all of the following components: (1) a majority transfer plan on both an intradistrict and interdistrict basis; (2) an open communities educational resources compensation program which shall provide for payments to any school district in which students from minority families comprised not more than 10 percent of total school enrollment during the school year 1976-1977, or in which students from low-income families comprised not more than 10 percent of total enrollment in such district during such year; (3) a school district reorganization plan; and (4) an approved, concentrated compensatory education program for basic instructional programs, supportive services, and vocational guidance and for programs having potential for improving the achievement performance of educationally deprived students. Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out this title not in excess of $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $500,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $500,000,000 for each fiscal year for the next three fiscal years. Provides a formula for allotment of such funds to the States and for allocation among various programs and agencies. States that whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing: (1) disapproves such a plan; or (2) finds that no plan has been submitted by a State, that a State plan approved under this Act has been so changed that it no longer complies with the requirements of this Act, that plan administration fails to comply substantially with any such provisions, or that a grantee is in violation of title II of this Act, the Secretary shall notify the grantee that further payments will not be made to the grantee under this title or any other educational enrichment of desegregation assistance program until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. Provides that, until he is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no further payments under such titles. Provides for review of the Secretary's action in such cases by the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the claimant State is located. Title III: General Provisions and Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1975
Designates February 8 to 14, 1976, as "National Vocational Education and National Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) Week".
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1975
Provides specific authorization under the Social Security Act for the conduct (by the Social and Rehabilitation Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) of cooperative international research and demonstration projects in social welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1975
Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act - Requires recipients of Federal aid to higher education, under the Higher Education Act, to provide senior citizens 60 years of age or older with access, on a space-available basis, to already scheduled courses and programs as a condition of eligibility to continue receiving Federal funds.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1975
Education Amendments - Title I: Higher Education - Extends the Higher Education Act until October 1, 1982. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act until such date. Revises the provisions of the Act dealing with basic educational opportunity grants to provide that any amount paid under the Social Security Act to the student, which would not be paid if he were not a student, shall be considered as effective family income (formerly considered income to the student). Provides that in awarding student grants under the State student incentive grants program there shall be no differentiation between students based on whether the student pursues his study within the State or outside the State. Provides that loans insured or guaranteed under this Act may be released by a discharge in bankruptcy only if such discharge is granted after the five year period beginning on the date of commencement of the repayment period of such loan. Calls for regulations to provide for standards of financial responsibility for institutions of higher education receiving benefit from this Act. Provides for a fiscal audit of such institutions. Authorizes the suspension of payment to any such institution which violates regulations established pursuant to this Act. Repeals those sections of the Act which provide for attracting and qualifying teachers to meet teacher shortages. Title II: Vocational Education - Extends the Vocational Education Act until October 1, 1982. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act until such date. Revises the Vocational Education Act to provide assistance to the States in improving planning in the use of all resources available to them for vocational education and manpower training in addition to the Federal Grants presently available to carry out such planning. Requires the establishment of a State board for vocational education in any State desiring to participate in the programs authorized by this Act. Provides that such board shall be the sole State agency responsible for development of policy with respect to such programs. Authorizes the appropriation of sufficient funds to pay one-half the cost of the planning activities of the State board. Retains the requirement that participating States establish advisory councils. Adds to the required membership on such councils representatives of private programs of vocational education, representatives familiar with vocational guidance and representatives of State correctional institutions. Provides that members of the council may not represent more that one of the categories which require representation. Establishes the requirement that there be appropriate representation of both sexes, racial and ethnic minorities, and the various geographic regions of the State. Requires each State board to submit to the Commissioner of education a comprehensive long- range plan for vocational education within the State. Directs that in developing such a plan the board shall assess among other things the needs for trained manpower and assess the capabilities for providing vocational education to meet such needs. Sets forth procedures to be followed by the States in applying for funds provided under the programs established by this Act. Requires that the application make assurances that the State will maintain fiscal control and that such funds shall supplement rather than replace State funds intended for such purposes. Lists applicants which shall be given priority. Requires that each State receiving funds pursuant to this Act submit to the Commissioner an annual program plan, as specified, for expenditure of such funds. Requires the States receiving funds to use a specified percentage of such funds to establish a special vocational education program for physically handicapped persons and for persons having academic or socioeconomic handicaps. Provides that each State must also allocate a portion of such funds to areas of high concentration of youth unemployment and school dropouts. Makes available to the States Federal assistance to enable them to develop and conduct vocational guidance and counseling programs and activities for individuals of all ages. Requires the States to set forth, in their annual program plan its proposed allotment of funds among eligible recipients for vocational development guidance and counseling programs and services. Provides training and retraining opportunities for persons serving or preparing to serve in vocational education programs. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to, and enter into contracts with States and educational institutions in order to develop and demonstrate innovative programs and projects designed to assist students in acquiring necessary skills for career success. Provides Federal assistance for the development and dissemination of curriculums for new and changing occupations. Establisher programs of work-study for vocational education students pursuant to requirements set forth in the Act. Enables the Commissioner to make grants to States for the establishment and expansion of programs of cooperative vocational education, involving alternate academic and vocational study and public or private employment. Provides emergency assistance to local educational agencies to provide vocational education designed to meet today's manpower needs. Assists such agencies in the modernization of facilities and equipment necessary to assure that they will be able to offer vocational education programs which give reasonable promise of employment. Maintain's the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education for the period for which appropriations are authorized under this Act. Sets forth new qualificiations for individuals chosen to serve on the Council. Provides that in addition to its advisory duties, the Council shall identify the vocational education and manpower needs of the Nation and access the extent to which programs in the field represent a consistent, coodinated approach to meeting the need. Title III: Extensions of other Related Education Programs - Extends until October 1, 1982: (1) the Emergency Insured Student Loan Act (2) the National Defense Education Act (3) the International Education Act and (4) the Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program. Title IV: Education Administration - Creates within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Commissioner of Education. Provides that the Commissioner shall be the principal officer in the Department with responsibility for education programs (such responsibilities are presently held by the Assistant Secretary for Education). Directs that the Office of Education shall be headed by the Commissioner. Creates the position of Executive Deputy Commissioner who shall be responsible for the daily operation of the Office. Broadens the National Institute of Education to include an Institute of Elementary and Secondary Education, an Institute of Postsecondary Education, and an Institute of Vocational Education. Provides that the Director of the Institute shall be compensated at the rate provided for level IV of the Executive Schedule (presently compensated at level V). Establishes within the Institute an Institute of Elementary and Secondary Education, an Institute for Postsecondary Education and an Institute for Vocational Education to improve those specific areas of education. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 5314)
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1975
National Educational Opportunities Act - Title I: Definition and Guarantee of a Unitary School System and Equal Educational Opportunity - Provides that each State and its local educational agencies shall establish and maintain desegregated, unitary school systems which offer equal educational opportunities to all students, regardless of race, color, or national origin. States that a desegregrated unitary school system shall be presumed to exist unless a State or local educational agency denies equal educational opportunities to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by specified acts which have the natural, probable, foreseeable, or actual effect of segregating students on the basis of race, color or national origin. Prohibits local educational agencies from denying equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by maintenance of practices or provision of resources in schools in which minority students are concentrated that are less favorable for educational success and advancement than in schools attended primarily by students of any other race, color, or national origin. Gives examples of such denials of equal educational opportunity. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in Federal court for equitable relief in any case where he has reasonable cause to believe that the provisions of this Act are being violated. Title II: State Equal Educational Opportunities Plans - Requires each State to prepare and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval a plan to carry out the purpose of this Act. Requires that such plan shall provide for the establishment of State and local advisory bodies to advise State and local educational agencies on development and participation in such plans. Requires such plans to provide a viable mechanism for States and local educational systems to implement a policy of equal educational opportunities that delineates the fundamental prerequisites for a desegregated, unitary school system. Provides that such State plans shall include specific means for implementing some or all of the following components: (1) a majority transfer plan on both an intradistrict and interdistrict basis; (2) an open communities educational resources compensation program which shall provide for payments to any school district in which students from minority families comprised not more than 10 percent of total school enrollment during the school year 1976-1977, or in which students from low-income families comprised not more than 10 percent of total enrollment in such district during such year; (3) a school district reorganization plan; and (4) an approved, concentrated compensatory education program for basic instructional programs, supportive services, and vocational guidance and for programs having potential for improving the achievement performance of educationally deprived students. Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out this title not in excess of $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $500,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $500,000,000 for each fiscal year for the next three fiscal years. Provides a formula for allotment of such funds to the States and for allocation among various programs and agencies. States that whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing: (1) disapproves such a plan; or (2) finds that no plan has been submitted by a State, that a State plan approved under this Act has been so changed that it no longer complies with the requirements of this Act, that plan administration fails to comply substantially with any such provisions, or that a grantee is in violation of title II of this Act, the Secretary shall notify the grantee that further payments will not be made to the grantee under this title or any other educational enrichment of desegregation assistance program until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. Provides that, until he is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no further payments under such titles. Provides for review of the Secretary's action in such cases by the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the claimant State is located. Title III: General Provisions and Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1975
Student Aid Abuse Act - Provides that any person who receives funds under the provisions of this Act for the making of grants or loans as provided in this Act shall be deemed a custodian of public funds and shall not disburse or otherwise use any of such funds for any purpose other than as expressly authorized by the provisions of this Act. Provides criminal penalties for: (1) payment to any student of any amount as a loan or grant under this Act except by check to the student or to an institution of higher education, or both, and no such check shall be negotiated unless personally endorsed by such student; (2) deceiving or defrauding any student attending or intending to attend an institution of higher education with regard to: (A) benefits which may be available under any Federal student aid or loan or loan guarantee program; or (B) tuition and fees for which Federal student aid or loans or loan guarantees are available or rights to refunds of such tuitions and fees; (3) knowingly and willfully making or causing to be made any false statement or representation of a material fact in any application for any guaranteed student assistance loan, or in any application requesting interest or special allowance payment by a lender for any guaranteed student assistance loan. Provides that any student enrolled in the programs of any educational organization or institution operated for profit who receives a Federal student assistance grant or loan, and who withdraws from such programs, shall be entitled to a pro rata refund of tuition and fees, and any such refund shall first be applied to reduction of such student's obligations under Federal student loan programs.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1975
Provides that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for the provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided under the Social Security Act to groups of low-income individuals aged sixty or older. Limits to 6 months the frequency of recertifications of eligibility for services under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 November 1975
Improved Higher Education Opportunities Act - Authorizes the appropriation of $250,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending prior to June 30, 1980, for programs under the Higher Education Act designed to reach disadvantaged students. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to contract for staff training for personnel seeking to specialize in improving the delivery of services to disadvantaged students. Authorizes graduate fellowships for such personnel. Sets the minimum number of such fellowships. Establishes a National Center for Post-Secondary Opportunity within the Office of Education to coordinate and evaluate programs under this Act. Establishes within such Office a National Advisory Council on Special Programs for Post-Secondary Opportunity. Sets forth the advisory duties of the Council. Requires the Council to prepare and to submit to the Congress and the President annually a report on the condition of programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 November 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that vocational education shall be treated equally with other forms of education by the Congress, the Office of Education, and all executive agencies administering educational programs.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1975
Authorizes to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior for each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1975, an amount equal to 70 percent of the gross receipts from duties collected under the customs laws on fishery products. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Marine Fisheries Service, to utilize such funds to conduct consumer education programs and to promote the free flow of domestically processed fishery products into channels of commerce. Creates a purchasing reserve to be used to purchase fish products when there is a surplus of such items in the market.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to allow as a credit against the income tax amounts paid by an individual during the taxable year for the expenses of higher education for himself or any other individual. Limits such credit to 100 percent of the first $300 of such educational expenses, 50 percent of the next $300, and 10 percent of the next $400 of such expenses. Reduces such credit by 2 percent of the amount by which the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $20,000. Reduces the amount of educational expenses otherwise recognized by this Act by the amounts received as scholarships, fellowships, and veterans benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1975
Permits, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses paid by him in connection with his education or training or the education or training of his spouse or any of his dependents, at an institution of higher education or a trade or vocational school. Specifies that such expenses shall include tuition, fees, charges for textbooks, and transportation expenses up to $200.
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1975
Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act - Requires recipients of Federal aid to higher education, under the Higher Education Act, to provide senior citizens 60 years of age or older with access, on a space-available basis, to already scheduled courses and programs as a condition of eligibility to continue receiving Federal funds.
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1975
Student Financial Aid Act - Authorizes the appropriation of $20,000,000 for advancement to the States for purposes of reserve funds for student low-interest insured loans for students in institutions of higher learning. Sets forth the scope and duration of the Federal loan insurance program for such students under this Act. Sets amount limitations for fiscal years through 1980. Provides for the determination of student borrower eligibility under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Sets forth requirements which the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall determine to have been met by State or nonprofit institutions or organizations under agreements for purposes of entitling students receiving student loans under such Act to have payments made on their behalf. Authorizes the Federal payment of a portion of interest costs on student loans to the loan holder at the time the loan is made under circumstances specified under this Act. Provides for the Federal payment of interest upon the default of students under the Federal loan insurance fund. Establishes an insurance fund to make available without fiscal year limitations funds for the payments under this Act in connection with defaulted loans. Sets forth the legal powers and duties of the Secretary under this Act. Provides for the participation of Federal credit unions in student loan programs. Authorizes the establishment by the Mayor of the District of Columbia of a student loan insurance program. Provides for the Federal payment of loans when the borrower is disabled or dies. Establishes a Student Loan Marketing Association to serve as a secondary market to handle loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 to establish such Association. Requires the repayment of such an advancement. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Association. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make direct student loans to students in need. Sets the terms of such loans. Sets penalties for excess defaults of student loans under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1975
Women's Vocational Education Amendments - Authorizes, under the Vocational Education Act, Federal grants to the States to assist them to develop and to carry out programs to overcome sex stereotyping in all occupations. Authorizes the funding of vocational guidance and counseling training designed to acquaint guidance counselors with the changing work patterns of women. Authorizes the funding of such training designed to acquaint guidance counselors with ways of assisting girls and women to select careers solely on their occupational needs and interests. Provides for curricula development designed to overcome sex bias in vocational education programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 under such Act for each fiscal year for the establishment of offices for women within State boards. Requires statistical reports of the States on the enrollments in vocational education programs, by specified criteria including that of the sex of the enrollees. Authorizes funds for special projects to assist in overcoming sexual bias.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1975
Maritime Education and Training Act - Provides, under the Merchant Marine Act, that the Secretary of Commerce shall meet prior to the beginning of each fiscal year with representatives of maritime training institutions for the purpose of estimating the projected enrollment at all such institutions during such fiscal year, and the next three fiscal years. Requires the submission of a report to the Congress on the estimation of such enrollments. Requires the apportionment of funds among colleges and academies training individuals for licensing in the maritime service. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress recommendations on the providing of the students of such institutions with access to the resources and programs of the National Maritime Research Center. Directs the compilation of a national roster of all individuals who have not yet reached the age of sixty-five years and who are or were licensed as officers in the United States Merchant Marine.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1975
Student Aid Abuse Act - Provides that any person who receives funds under the provisions of this Act for the making of grants or loans as provided in this Act shall be deemed a custodian of public funds and shall not disburse or otherwise use any of such funds for any purpose other than as expressly authorized by the provisions of this Act. Provides criminal penalties for: (1) payment to any student of any amount as a loan or grant under this Act except by check to the student or to an institution of higher education, or both, and no such check shall be negotiated unless personally endorsed by such student; (2) deceiving or defrauding any student attending or intending to attend an institution of higher education with regard to: (A) benefits which may be available under any Federal student aid or loan or loan guarantee program; or (B) tuition and fees for which Federal student aid or loans or loan guarantees are available or rights to refunds of such tuitions and fees; (3) knowingly and willfully making or causing to be made any false statement or representation of a material fact in any application for any guaranteed student assistance loan, or in any application requesting interest or special allowance payment by a lender for any guaranteed student assistance loan. Provides that any student enrolled in the programs of any educational organization or institution operated for profit who receives a Federal student assistance grant or loan, and who withdraws from such programs, shall be entitled to a pro rata refund of tuition and fees, and any such refund shall first be applied to reduction of such student's obligations under Federal student loan programs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1975
George Washington Peace Academy Act - Establishes the George Washington Peace Academy, an educational institution. Sets forth the organizational structure of the Academy. Provides that the curriculum shall emphasize the teaching of skills necessary to the peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Sets forth student admission quotas and requirements. Limits the student body enrollment to 500. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Academy such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that mandatory assignment or transportation of children to a school beyond the neighborhood school shall be prohibited.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1975
Provides under title XX of the Social Security Act (Grants to States for Services) that none of the limitations on payments to States shall apply with respect to expenditures made by a State for the provision of education, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services, if such services are provided consistent with the State plan approved under the Older Americans Act or the State law relating to multipurpose senior centers.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1975
Stipulates that provisions of the Education Amendments of 1972 relating to discrimination based on sex shall not apply with respect to any scholarship or other financial assistance awarded to an individual by an institution of higher education as a result of a pageant, program, contest, or competition in which participation is limited to individuals of one sex only and the award is based, in whole or in part, upon the personal achievement, poise, or talent of such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1975
Maritime Education and Training Act - Provides, under the Merchant Marine Act, that the Secretary of Commerce shall meet prior to the beginning of each fiscal year with representatives of maritime training institutions for the purpose of estimating the projected enrollment at all such institutions during such fiscal year, and the next three fiscal years. Requires the submission of a report to the Congress on the estimation of such enrollments. Requires the apportionment of funds among colleges and academies training individuals for licensing in the maritime service. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress recommendations on the providing of the students of such institutions with access to the resources and programs of the National Maritime Research Center. Directs the compilation of a national roster of all individuals who have not yet reached the age of sixty-five years and who are or were licensed as officers in the United States Merchant Marine.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1975
Permits, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses paid by him in connection with his education or training or the education or training of his spouse or any of his dependents, at an institution of higher education or a trade or vocational school. Specifies that such expenses shall include tuition, fees, charges for textbooks, and transportation expenses up to $200.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1975
Entitles veterans to 45 months (now 36 months) of educational assistance for undergraduate or any other authorized programs of education. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1661).
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1975
National Fire Education and Training Act - Establishes, as a nonprofit and nongovermental instrument, a National Academy of Fire Prevention and Control. Provides that the Board of Directors of the Academy shall be reasonably representative of the various regions of the country, of the various segments of the community including private industry and labor, of all levels of government, of consumer interests, and of the various types of experience which are appropriate to the functions and responsibilities of the Academy. Provides that the functions of the Academy shall be to: (1) recommend actions which can be taken by Federal, State, and local government, and by private individuals and organizations to improve and strengthen fire protection, fire prevention, and fire suppression; (2) promote and encourage eligible individuals to pursue careers as administrators of fire service organizations at all levels; (3) develop a curriculum and carry out programs of instructional assistance and special workshops, seminars, conferences, and other such instructional devices that are necessary for the purpose of introduction and dissemination of information gained from investigation, research, and development concerning the areas of fire protection, fire prevention, and fire suppression; (4) develop fire service extension programs to encourage and assist States, counties, and local communities to provide continuous training and operational programs in firefighting techniques and procedures concerning the utilization of firefighting equipment, fire suppression and other areas related to firefighting in general; (5) promote and assist universities, community colleges, and other institutions of learning, in planning, developing, strengthening, improving, and carrying out programs and projects concerning fire administration; (6) assist States, counties, and local communities in the development of training programs for firemen; (7) gather data and disseminate information to States, counties, and local communities with respect to firefighting equipment, firefighting techniques, fire services administration, and other areas related to firefighting and to establish and maintain educational programs for the purpose of informing the public of fire hazards and fire safety techniques, and to encourage avoidance of such hazards and use of such techniques; and (8) establish a voluntary, uniform national testing program for the purpose of enabling States, counties, and local communities to evaluate the skills level of their firefighting and fire administrations. Authorizes the Academy to accept contracts and grants from Federal, State, and local governmental agencies and other entities, and to accept grants and donations from private organizations, institutions, and individuals, and to establish fees and other charges for services provided by the Academy. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Academy such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1975
Federal Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to assume the obligation to provide financial assistance to the States amounting to one-third of their costs of providing public elementary and secondary education. Sets forth a schedule for determining amounts of grants to the States under this Act. Sets requirements to be met by the States in seeking entitlement for grants under this Act. Provides for the distribution of funds within the States receiving grants. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary sums for grants commencing with fiscal year 1977. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1975
Removes the present time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed. Makes such assistance available until used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1975
Higher Education Amendments - Extends and authorizes increased appropriations for student aid and vocational education programs under the Higher Education Act. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to develop and carry out arrangements to improve collection procedures for the repayment of loans under title IV of the Higher Education Act.