Education

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to promote the matching of lists of defaulting borrowers of student loans with lists of public employees.

United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1982

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to promote the use of data processing equipment by each State and nonprofit institution and organization which has an agreement relating to Federal payments to reduce student interest costs to identify public employees in such State served by such State, institution, or organization who have defaulted on any loan covered by such agreement. Directs the Secretary to consider the volume of loans covered and the need for State legislation, in determining the action to be taken for such promotion. Prohibits any such action which would impair the contractual rights of any person, as against the United States, to payments under provisions for Federal, State, and private programs of low-interest insured loans to students in institutions of higher education.

A joint resolution designating the week of January 16 through January 22, 1983, as "National Jaycee Week".

United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1982

Requests the President to designate January 16 through January 22, 1983, as National Jaycee Week.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage contributions of equipment to postsecondary vocational education programs and to allow a credit to employers for vocational education courses taught by an employee without compensation and for temporary employment of full-time vocational educational instructors.

United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1982

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the reduction required in computing the tax deduction for corporate charitable contributions, in the case of contributions of property used in postsecondary vocational education programs. Allows employers a nonrefundable tax credit for a specified dollar amount per course for vocational education courses taught by an employee without compensation and for employment of full-time vocational education instructors.

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to liberalize the earnings test for post-secondary students who have attained age 18, but who nevertheless continue to qualify for child's insurance benefits under section 202(d) of such Act (on a specially reduced basis) despite the general elimination of all benefits for such students in 1981, so that further reductions because of such students' outside earnings will not prevent them from continuing their education.

United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to revise the outside earnings limitation for full-time students at postsecondary educational institutions who are entitled to child's insurance benefits under title II.

A bill to make certain technical amendments to improve implementation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.

United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982

Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to revise Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) provisions. Revises State program design provisions to include preschool migratory children as eligible participants in State programs for migratory, handicapped, and neglected and delinquent children. Revises provisions relating to local educational agency ("LEA") application assurances. Exempts any LEA with a total enrollment of less than 1,500 children from specified "targeting" requirements for the use of funds to assist low-income educationally disadvantaged children. Requires that services for educationally deprived private school children comply with requirements that programs be conducted in LEA attendance areas with high concentrations of low- income children. Requires State educational agencies (SEAs) to use Chapter 1 funds only as a supplement to the non-Federal funds for the education of students participating in programs assisted under Chapter 1. Provides that exclusions of special State and local program funds from specified non-supplanting and comparability requirements include compensatory education for educationally deprived children (similar to programs assisted under Chapter 1). Provides that such exclusions from comparability requirements include: (1) bilingual education for children of limited English proficiency; (2) special education for handicapped children or children with specific learning disabilities; and (3) certain State phase-in programs described under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Grants LEAs discretion to make certain educational decisions which are consistent with achieving the purposes of Chapter 1. Permits use of Chapter 1 funds for educationally deprived children in a school not located in an eligible school attendance area when the proportion of children from low-income families in average daily attendance in such school is substantially equal to the proportion of such children in an eligible school attendance area of the LEA. Permits continued designation, for an additional fiscal year, of any eligible school attendance area or eligible school which has been so designated in either of the two preceding years, even if the area or school does not otherwise qualify. Permits, with the approval of the SEA, skipping of eligible areas or schools receiving similar services from non-Federal sources, with specified exceptions for purposes of determining services to private school children. Permits continued participation in a Chapter 1 program by educationally deprived children who are transferred out of an eligible area or school during the same school year. Permits use of Chapter 1 funds for projects designed to upgrade the entire educational program in that school, if at least 75 percent of the children attending are from low-income families. Permits assignment of school personnel who are paid entirely by Chapter 1 funds to limited rotating, supervisory duties which are assigned to similarly situated personnel who are not paid with such funds. Revises Chapter 2 (Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education) provisions of ECIA. Permits the use of specified carry-over funds to cover expenses for program phaseout and transition (from ESEA to Chapter 2 of ECIA). Sets, at one percent of sums appropriated for Chapter 2 in any one fiscal year, the amount which the Secretary of Education must reserve for payments to specified U. S. territories and possessions. Permits audits of LEAs receiving less than an average $5,000 each year under Chapter 2 to take place at five-year intervals. Permits an LEA to receive its allocation of Chapter 2 funds for any year for which its application to the SEA has been approved. Requires the SEA to approve any such application which meets the requirements of the Act. Provides that specified school level planning requirements apply only to programs under Subchapter A (Basic Skills Development) of Chapter 2. Revises Chapter 3 (General Provisions) of ECIA. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be deemed to authorize or prohibit an SEA from adopting requirements applicable to programs assisted under this Act which do not conflict with this Act or other applicable Federal law. Requires that State rules, policies, or data collection forms relating to programs funded under the Act be identified as State imposed requirements. Deletes a requirement that specified hearings relating to withholding of payments be "on the record." Provides, for purposes of judicial review, that an LEA shall be presumed to have complied with ECIA: unless the Secretary's findings of fact, supported by the weight of evidence, overcome such presumption. Provides that the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) shall apply to the programs authorized by ECIA, but that specified GEPA provisions shall be superseded by specified provisions of ECIA. Amends title I (Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise specified references to conform with amendments made by ECIA. Makes such amendments applicable only to funds made available under ECIA. Makes conforming amendments to ECIA relating to references to private schools. Allows recipients of funds under ECIA, during the period of July 1, 1982, through June 30, 1983, to expend such funds in accordance with ECIA as in effect either prior to or after the enactment of this Act.

A resolution establishing the House of Representatives Page Board for supervision and education of pages.

United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982

Establishes the House of Representatives Page Board to ensure that the page program is consistent with the functions of the House and the welfare of pages.

Edward M. Elmendorf, of Vermont, to be Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, vice Thomas Patrick Melady, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 15 November 1982

Wendy Hawley Borcherdt, of California, to be Deputy Under Secretary for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, Department of Education, vice John H. Rodriguez, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 5 November 1982

Manuel J. Justiz, of New Mexico, to be Director of the National Institute of Education, vice Edward A. Curran, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 20 October 1982

A bill to provide for the use of certain fees collected from visitors to Grand Canyon National Park, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1982

Permits the use of the visitors' fees collected at the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, to reimburse school districts through September 30, 1985, for educational expenses for pupils living on tax-exempt Federal property at or near the park. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain in a special fund a portion of the park revenues for the maintenance and operation of federally owned school facilities and property.

A bill establishing a new G.I. Education Program.

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1982

Establishes a peacetime veterans' educational assistance program for persons who served on active duty or in the Selected Reserve after August 31, 1983. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for such assistance based on period and type of service. Creates a basic entitlement of 24 months of assistance for the first 24 months of service with an additional month of assistance for each additional month of service, up to a total of 36 months. Establishes a delimiting period for the use of such assistance of ten years after discharge. Excepts those suffering from a physical or mental disability which prevented their completing their education and persons held as prisoners of war. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in specified amounts. Permits educational benefits to be transferred by the eligible person to a spouse or child. States that appropriations for this program be considered as made for the functions of the Department of Defense rather than for the functions of the Veterans Administration. Prohibits persons eligible for this program from participating in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on whether the program should be expanded to attract and retain certain qualified persons. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant educational leave for up to 12 months if the person concerned agrees to serve two months for each month off. Sets forth other conditions of such leave, including pay and eligibility for retired pay. Permits such Secretary to cancel this leave in time of war or national emergency or if he determines the member is not pursuing his education satisfactorily. States that there shall be no increase in pay for members in pay grade E-1 in FY 1983 and 1984 unless an increase becomes unavoidable through the general pay increase requirements.

A bill to increase the authorization of appropriations for the Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Increases the total amount which may be appropriated to carry out the Allen J. Ellender fellowship program for each of FY 1983, 1984, and 1985.

Guaranteed Student Loan Assistance Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Guaranteed Student Loan Assistance Amendments of 1982 - Amends title IV, part B (Federal, State, and Private Programs of Low-Interest Insured Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education) to require eligible institutions to provide the lender with a statement evidencing a determination of need for a loan and the amount of such need in order for a student to qualify for a portion of an interest payment under the guaranteed student loan program. (Currently, such a statement of need is required only for a student whose family has an adjusted gross income greater than $30,000.) Repeals provisions which provided that an amount of need between $500 and $1,000 would qualify a student for a $1,000 loan under the guaranteed student loan program.

Emergency School Aid Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title VI of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act.

A bill to require that members of the Armed Forces on active-duty residing in a State and dependents of such members be treated as in-State residents for purposes of tuition and fees charged at public educational institutions in that State.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Requires that members of the armed forces on active duty and their dependents residing in a State be considered in-State residents for purposes of tuition and fees charged by any public educational institution.

Emergency School Aid Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title IV of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act.

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1983

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 1983. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Labor for the following agencies and purposes: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for community service employment for older Americans, Federal unemployment benefits and allowances, grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services, and advances to the Unemployment Trust Funds and other funds; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration for salaries and expenses; (3) the Employment Standards Administration for salaries and expenses, special benefits, and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (4) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses (with specified limits on the use of funds); (5) the Mine Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (6) the Bureau of Labor Statistics for salaries and expenses; (7) departmental management, salaries and expenses; (8) the special foreign currency program; and (9) the Office of the Inspector General for salaries and expenses. Authorizes expenditures by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Makes such appropriations which are available for salaries and expenses available for supplies, services, and rental of conference space within the District of Columbia as deemed necessary for the settlement of labor-management disputes. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the following agencies: (1) the Health Services Administration for health services; (2) the Centers for Disease Control for preventive health services; (3) the National Institutes of Health for the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute on Aging, and Research Resources, the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, the National Library of Medicine, buildings and facilities, and the Office of the Director; (4) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health and Saint Elizabeths Hospital; (5) the Health Resources Administration for health resources and the Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund; (6) the Assistant Secretary for Health for health services management; (7) Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (8) retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers; (9) the Health Care Financing Administration for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, and program management; (10) the Social Security Administration for payments to Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, supplemental security income program assistance payments program, low-income home energy assistance program, and child support enforcement; (11) the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services for social services block grants, human development services, child welfare services, work incentives, community services block grants, and department management; (12) the Office of the Inspector General; (13) the Office for Civil Rights; and (14) research studies under the Social Security Act. Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this title for grants-in-aid to State agencies from being withheld from the agencies of any State which have established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation plan covering their employees because of their selection or the rates of pay of such employees. Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated in this title to pay any recipient of a grant for the conduct of research an amount equal to as much as the entire cost of such research. Makes specified appropriations in this Act available for expenses for active commissioned officers in the Public Health Service Reserve Corps and in the Regular Corps. Prohibits the use of any of the funds provided by this Act to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. Permits the States to remain free not to fund abortions to the extent that they in their sole discretion deem appropriate. Makes funds advanced to the National Institutes of Health Management Fund from appropriations in this Act available for the expenses of sharing medical care facilities and resources. Makes a specified amount of funds appropriated in this title for the Social Security Administration and the Office of Child Support Enforcement available for official reception and representation expenses related to income maintenance or child support enforcement activities. Makes a specified amount of funds appropriated in this title for the Health Care Financing Administration available for official reception and representation expenses. Prohibits the reimbursement of State or local expenditures made prior to October 1, 1978, under specified titles of the Social Security Act unless a request for reimbursement had been officially transmitted to the Federal government within one year after the fiscal year in which the expenditure occurred. Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated in this title to move the headquarters of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health or any staff from its present headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Education for the following purposes: (1) compensatory education for the disadvantaged; (2) special programs; (3) bilingual education: (4) school assistance in federally affected areas; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research; (7) vocational and adult education; (8) student financial assistance; (9) guaranteed student loans; (10) higher and continuing education; (11) higher education facilities loans and insurance; (12) college housing loans; (13) educational research and statistics; (14) educational, research, and training activities overseas (special foreign currency program); (15) libraries; (16) Special Institutions, the American Printing House for the Blind, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Gallaudet College, and Howard University; (17) the Office for Civil Rights for salaries and expenses; (18) departmental management for salaries and expenses; and (19) the Office of the Inspector General for salaries and expenses. Prohibits withholding of funds appropriated by this title for grants-in-aid to cover State agency operating expenses because of any disapproval of their personnel or manner of personnel selection if a merit system and classification and compensation plan is in operation. Subjects the funds appropriated in this Act to the American Printing House for the Blind, Howard University, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Gallaudet College to an audit by the Secretary of Education. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to: (1) force any school or school district which is desegregated to take any action to force the busing of students; (2) transport students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance or to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or school system; or (3) transport any student to a school other than the school which is nearest the student's home. Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated in this Act to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. Prohibits the use of funds to pay 100 percent of research costs to any grant recipient. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to: (1) Action for operating expenses; (2) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the public broadcasting fund; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (5) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (6) the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance; (7) the National Labor Relations Board; (8) the National Mediation Board; and expenses; (9) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (10) the Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account; (11) the Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring, administration; and (13) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home for operation and maintenance. Title V: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record, except where otherwise provided under existing law or Executive Order. Sets forth limitations on the use of funds appropriated for salaries and expenses under this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for any loan, loan guarantee, grant, salary, or other remuneration for any individual applying for admission, attending, employed by, teaching at, or doing research at an institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct on or after August 1, 1969, which involves the use of (or the assistance to others in the use of) force or the threat of force or the seizure of property under the control of an institution of higher education to require or prevent the availability of certain curricula, or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials, or students in such institution from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution. Authorizes the Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services to transfer unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations provided in this Act, provided that such transferred balances are used for the same purposes, and for the same periods of time, for which they were originally appropriated. Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from: (1) remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly provided; (2) being used for publicity or propaganda to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself or for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships; (3) being used to pay for activities by grant or contract recipients or their agents designed to influence legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress; or (4) being used for research, experimental, or other activities presenting a danger to participants or subjects, without their written, informed consent (or that of parents or legal guardians, in the case of minors). Authorizes the Secretaries to make available a specified amount, respectively, from funds available for salaries and expenses under titles I, II, and III, for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board to make available specified amounts for such expenses.

Education for Economic Security Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982

Education for Economic Security Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make matching grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening instruction in mathematics, science computer education, foreign languages, and vocational education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986. Directs the Secretary to allot to each State from such appropriations for each fiscal year an amount based on the relative number of children aged five through 17 in such state. Provides that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent in of the funds appropriated for any fiscal year. Provides for reallotments, based on the Secretary's estimates, of sums exceeding a State's needs. Authorizes additional appropriations for allotment to: (1) Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands; (2) the Secretary of the Interior for programs in schools operated for Indian children; and (3) the Secretary of Defense for programs in overseas dependent schools. Apportions 65 percent of each State's allotment to elementary, secondary, and vocational education programs and 35 percent to higher education programs. Directs State educational agencies to distribute a specified percentage of the elementary, secondary, and vocational education apportionment to local educational agencies for mathematics and science instruction, foreign language instruction, and computer education programs, together with related instructional materials. Bases such distribution upon the relative numbers of children aged five through 17 in the schools and upon the size of the proposed programs. Bases renewals of such payments upon such criteria and upon a determination that the local program serves substantial numbers of students and involves several grade levels. Requires each State education agency to: (1) distribute a specified percentage of its apportionment for foreign language instruction; and (2) use a specified percentage for exemplary programs, instructional materials, technical assistance, and information. Requires the State agency responsible for vocational education to use a specified percentage of the apportionment for vocational education employment-based programs. in new and emerging technologies, including computer learning and instruction, (with a specified portion to be used for programs in correctional institutions) and for foreign language instruction. Requires that such funds be distributed among vocational education schools and area vocational schools. Directs the State agency for higher education to distribute the higher education programs apportionment among institutions of higher education, with specified percentages to be used for: (1) elementary and secondary school teacher training, retraining, and inservice training in mathematics, science, and computer education; (2) employment-based programs equipment, in new and emerging technologies, including computer learning and instruction and basic engineering instruction; and (3) foreign language instruction. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this Act. Sets forth provisions for Federal matching payments of 50 percent of the costs of programs under this Act.

A bill to amend part E of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide cancellation of loans for certain teachers who enter the teaching profession in the field of mathematics, science, or computer education.

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982

Amends title IV, part E (Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for cancellation of up to 75 percent of a direct student loan to an individual who enters into an agreement with the Secretary of Education to teach mathematics, science, or computer education in a nonprofit elementary or secondary school system for at least five consecutive years.

A concurrent resolution extending to the Graduate School, United States Department of Agriculture, the appreciation of the Congress on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the school.

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982

Recognizes the 1981-1982 school year as the 60th anniversary of the Graduate School, United States Department of Agriculture.

A joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President to issue a proclamation designating the period from October 3, 1982, through October 9, 1982, as "National Schoolbus Safety Week of 1982".

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982

Requests the President to designate October 3 through October 9, 1982, as National Schoolbus Safety Week.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the need to maintain guidelines which ensure equal rights with regard to education opportunity.

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982

Expresses the sense of the Senate that guidelines relating to title IX (Prohibition of Sex Discrimination) of the Education Amendments of 1972 should not be repealed or altered in a manner which will deny any person equal access to education.

Veterans Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982

Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate - Increases and Program Improvement - Increases the rates of: (1) disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses; (5) dependency and indemnity compensation for children; and (6) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Entitles veterans with service-connected total blindness without light perception in both eyes to the same rate of monthly compensation as is paid for the anatomical loss of both eyes. Extends dependency and indemnity compensation to survivors of veterans who were entitled to but because of error did not receive service-connected disability compensation. Supercedes specified provisions of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1982 concerning compensation. Title II: Amendments of Veterans' Education and Rehabilitation Programs - Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to station veterans benefits counselor's at locations other than Veterans' Administration offices including schools. Permits the payment of a subsistence allowance to a veteran pursuing a rehabilitation program while residing in a halfway house or participating in a work-release program. Increases from $75 to $100 the maximum monthly deduction from a person's military pay for contribution to a matching fund for educational assistance. Provides for the transfer of funds from the Secretary of a military department to the Administrator for the administration of an educational assistance program. Repeals the ten year delimiting period for the use of educational assistance for veterans who are discharged or released from duty after December 31, 1979. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reimburse the Administrator for educational assistance paid out after December 31, 1979. Eliminates the requirement that a vocational school prove 50 percent employment among its graduates to prevent the Administrator's disapproving a veteran's enrollment . Prohibits the Administrator from approving the enrollment of an eligible veteran or person in any sales or sales management course which does not provide specialized training. Prohibits the payment of anything but a books and supplies allowance for non-tuition courses. Permits the Administrator to discontinue educational assistance to eligible veterans and persons enrolled at institutions or in courses with uncorrected violations of specified requirements. Lessens the detail required in the Administrator's annual report to Congress on the default of educational loans. Tolls the delimiting period for any veteran prevented from participating in a vocational rehabilitation program because of an alcohol or drug dependence or abuse condition. Requires (at present, only permits) the Administrator to provide educational assistance to Vietnam era veterans in apprenticeship or on-the-job training programs, orin courses with approval vocational objectives, unless a particular veteran does not need such a program or course to obtain suitable and stable employment. Requires publication in the Federal Register of proposed regulations implementing this requirement within 30 days after enactment of this Act. Title III: Veterans Employment Amendments - Requires that priorities in jobs training programs be given to disabled and vietnam era, veterans. Changes the position of State veterans' employment representative to that of State Director for Veterans' Employment. Makes such directors functionally responsible for supervising the participation of veterans in Federal employment and training programs, job listings, discrimination complaints, and other speclified duties. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment to supervise the use of funds in the disabled veterans' outreach program. Permits a waiver of limitation on the percentage of outreach specialists which shall be stationed at local employment service offices in a State. Requires outreach specialists to develop programs with the Veterans Administration vocational rehabilitation staff and others to assure maximum assistance to veterans. Directs the Assistant Secretary to monitor the employment of such specialists. Directs the Secretary of Labor to estimate the funds necessary for the administration of the employment training and reemployment rights programs, including the amounts necessary to fund the disabled veterans' outreach program specialists. Requires the Secretary's annual report to include a report on activities under such program. Requires each Federal contractor who must take affirmative action to employ such veterans to make annual reports on the number and characteristics of new hires with the State veterans' employment director. Directs the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary, to assist in the placement of veterans using existing Federal and State agencies. Repeals the exemplary rehabilitation certificates program. Title IV: Miscellaneous Improvements - Sets forth the conditions under which the assignee of a beneficiary of a National Service Life Insurance policy or a U.S. Government Life Insurance policy may resolve disputes concerning the proceeds. Eliminates the four year cut-off for payment of claims under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs. Prohibits the escheat of payments to the State. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay the burial expenses of certain veterans of war whose bodies are held by a State and not claimed. Permits the Administrator to guarantee a loan to refinance an existing loan for the purchase of a manufactured home or the lot on which such home will be placed. Requires applications for recovery of payments or over payments of benefits under laws administered by the Veterans Administration to be made within 180 days rather than within two years. Modifies the minimum service requirement for the receipt of veterans' benefits by a veteran or his survivor or dependent. Permits the pursuit of correspondence training as specified. Prohibits the contracting out of veterans' medical care unless a particular medical care activity is not a direct patient care activity or incident to direct patient care and to contract out would be more cost-effective. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates for the provisions of this Act.

National Engineering and Science Manpower Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982

National Engineering and Science Manpower Act of 1982 - Directs the President to establish a special Coordinating Council on Engineering and Scientific Manpower to coordinate Federal efforts in science and engineering education and to assess the needs for trained personnel in the public and private sectors. Permits the Council to use voluntary labor. Terminates the Council after five years. Establishes within the National Science Foundation a special Engineering and Science Manpower Fund to promote and develop the quality of the U.S. technical, engineering, and scientific manpower resources. Directs the Council to consider the current and predicted supply and demand for trained manpower when administering the Fund. Requires the expenditure of moneys through matching grants. Terminates the Fund after five years. Directs the Foundation to report to Congress at least biennially concerning the Fund. Establishes within the Foundation a special program for the modernization of instructional equipment and facilities for postsecondary education in the technical, engineering, and scientific areas. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out a pilot high-technology technician training program under which community colleges, using Federal and community industrial support, will provide training in technical competencies in strategic high-technology fields. Requires such programs to emphasize on-the-job training intermixed with technical occupational training and to place recruiting emphasis on people whose skills need upgrading. Requires the participating colleges to establish an associate degree training program in designated fields according to the Director's guidelines. Requires the Director to: (1) determine the necessary fields; (2) identify economic areas with high-technology industries; (3) selected accredited community colleges; and (4) appoint a National Advisory Council on High-Technology Technician Training to advise him on the program. Requires the Director to report to Congress annually on the program. Establishes within the National Science Foundation the Presidential science and engineering young investigators awards program to encourage young scientists at the university level to pursue careers in academic research. Requires that the program be administered in cooperation with the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Requires the Director of the Foundation to select recipients from among untenured faculty members in mathematics, the physical or biological sciences, or engineering at universities with established doctoral research programs. States that such award shall consist of a base research support grant of $25,000 per year for five years. Permits the Director to make an additional award for five years which requires the matching of the Federal share on a two for one basis, up to a $75,000 annual total. Establishes within the Foundation a presidential science and mathematics improvement program to improve the skills of precollege science and math teachers. Requires the coordination of this program with each State. Provides stipends for eligible teachers Requires State and local school authorities to nominate participants to be selected by the Foundation. Requires half the stipend money to come from non-Federal sources. Directs the Foundation to assess particular problems of science and engineering manpower, including teacher shortages and retraining of workers. Requires the Foundation to submit these assessments to the House Committee on Science and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation before the Presidential budget submission for FY 1984. Establishes a Federal program for university research facilities and science and technical manpower improvement to upgrade academic research for the physical and biological sciences. Authorizes specified Federal agencies to make grants. Directs the Foundation to establish guidelines for agency participation. Requires the Director to submit such guidelines to the aforementioned committees before such budget submission. Requires the Director to report at least annually to such committees. Terminates such program after five years. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983-1987.

A bill to increase the authorization of appropriations for certain education programs, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982

Raises the limit on the authorization of appropriations for FY 1983 and 1984 for law school clinical experience programs under part E of title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to place the law-related education program, formerly authorized by part G of title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, among those programs which the Secretary of Education must first fund out of a discretionary reserve fund. Raises the limit on the authorization of appropriations for the Allen J. Ellender fellowship program for FY 1983 and 1984. Raises the limit on the authorization of appropriations for FY 1983 and 1984 for the General Daniel James Memorial Health Education Center under subpart 2 of part H of title XIII of the Education Amendments of 1980.

National Education and Economic Development Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982

National Education and Economic Development Act of 1982 - Provides for Federal assistance for improved elementary and secondary school programs in mathematics, science, technology, and foreign languages. Title I: Funding - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to reserve from such appropriations: (1) not more than ten percent for specified programs of national significance under title IV of this Act; and (2) one percent for allocation to specified territories and possessions in accordance with their respective needs and to the Secretary of the Interior for schools operated for Indian children. Directs the Secretary to make allocations to States from the remaining funds, based on the relative numbers of children aged five through 17. Title II: Local School District Programs - Directs the State educational agency to distribute the State allocation among local educational agencies which have filed specified plans, based on the relative numbers of children aged five through 17. Permits local agencies to combine to operate joint programs. Permits the State agency to reserve up to five percent of the State allocation for State programs and administration. Provides that local agencies shall receive such grants if they have comprehensive plans covering up to three-year periods on file with the State agency. Requires the school board of the local agency to approve such plan and to certify that State agency comments were given due consideration. Requires that the size and scope of the program contained in the plan involve a total expenditure in excess of $25,000 from Federal, State, and local resources. Sets forth requirements for comprehensive plan contents. Requires local agencies to use such funds for one or more of the following programs and activities: (1) acquisition of technological equipment, including microcomputers and cable television; (2) acquisition, development, and use of educational software programs in mathematics, science, technology, and foreign languages; (3) inservice personnel training in the use of technological hardware and software and in upgrading and modernizing content and methods in such course areas and technology career awareness; (4) payment of bonuses, fees, and other arrangements with employees or consultants for attracting and retaining qualified teachers in such course areas; (5) establishing cooperative programs with local businesses, universities, libraries, museums, and other institutions and organizations to use equipment, software, and personnel to enrich, expand, and modernize school district offerings and career awareness activities in such areas; (6) informational activities to assist administrators and school board members in selection and evaluation of equipment and activities; (7) promotion of student interest and assessment of student achievement in such course areas; (8) programs for children with special needs; (9) construction and remodeling of facilities; and (10) program monitoring, planning, evaluation, and management. Sets forth provisions relating to program participation of children enrolled in private schools. Title III: State Programs and Administration - Requires States, in order to receive funds under this Act, to file with the Secretary a State plan for a period not to exceed three years submitted by the State educational agency. Sets forth requirements for such plan. Directs State educational agencies to review and, if necessary, comment on any local plan, in order to determine consistency with Federal requirements and to propose improvements. Directs the State agency to make payments to local agencies within a specified period. Provides for withholding of payments until the local agency certifies that State comments were fully considered. Directs the State agency to monitor the local agency activities and to require such recordkeeping as the Secretary considers necessary to meet audit and evaluation responsibilities under this Act. Permits State's to impose requirements applicable to projects and programs assisted under this Act, if such requirements do not conflict with Federal law. Requires the State agency to spend at least 60 percent of sums reserved for State programs and administration for one or more of the following purposes: (1) research in curriculum, materials, and teacher improvement in courses involving mathematics, science, technology, and foreign languages; (2) evaluation of technological hardware and software; (3) experimental and pilot programs to test effectiveness of curriculum innovations, new technologies in education, and coordination activities between local agencies and other organizations; (4) technical assistance; (5) programs to promote student interest; (6) examining the relationship of market place needs for persons in such course areas and the preparation of students for careers in those areas or enrollment in higher education courses leading to such careers; (7) programs involving resources of outside entities to assist State and local educational officials in such activities; and (8) dissemination of information on such activities. Permits such funds to be used for grants and contracts with public and nonprofit private agencies and institutions. Requires States, in order to receive payments under this Act, to establish State advisory councils. Sets forth requirements for the appointment of State council members. Sets forth the duties of the State council, including program review and recommendations. Requires the State council to report annually to the Secretary and the National Advisory Council. Sets forth provisions for State council meetings. Directs the State agency to pay not more than 20 percent of the sum reserved for State programs and administration to the State council. Provides that the State council is to determine the expenditure of such funds. Authorizes the State agency to pay administrative expenses under this Act, using up to 20 percent of its reserved sum or $75,000, whichever is greater (with the Secretary paying the excess, if any, from amounts reserved for national programs). Title IV: Programs of National Significance - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with institutions of higher education (and consortia), regional laboratories and centers, State and local educational agencies, and other educational organizations and institutions, for: (1) determining hardware technology developments applicable for classroom use; (2) experiments with and assessments of educational benefits of hardware and software approaches; (3) assessment of national progress in elementary and secondary mathematics, science, technology, and foreign language programs; and (4) specified exemplary, pilot, and dissemination programs. Directs the Secretary, from sums reserved for such purpose, to pay the Secretary of the Interior for programs at schools operated for Indian children, pursuant to specified agreements. Directs the Secretary, beginning in FY 1985, to make an annual report to the President and Congress on specified matters relating to purposes and programs under this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Education and Technology. Sets forth requirements for appointment of national council members. Sets forth national council duties, including program review and evaluation. Directs the national council to advise the President, the Congress, and the Secretary through annual reports and other means as to its findings, activities, and recommendations. Directs the Secretary to allocate a specified minimum amount for national council purposes. Directs the Secretary to review and, if necessary, comment on State plans, in order to determine consistency with Federal requirements and to propose recommendations. Directs the Secretary to make specific payments, as soon as possible, to any State whose State plan is not inconsistent with Federal requirements. Title V: General Requirements - Sets forth provisions relating to withholding of payments to States by the Secretary and to judicial review of such withholding. Provides that all but specified provisions of the General Educational Provisions Act shall apply to programs under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to availability of appropriations to carry out this Act.

National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982

National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Act - Establishes the National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Board in the Department of Education. Requires that the functions of the Secretary of Education under this Act be carried out through the Board. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for continuing education programs designed to improve the skills of secondary school teachers of science and mathematics and to help such teachers qualify for certification in science, mathematics, or both. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for related administrative expenses. Sets forth application requirements for program participation by institutions of higher education. Limits to 25 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out this Act the amount that shall be available for full-time summer workshops. Limits the amount of any grant under this Act to a single institution of higher education to $200,000. Sets forth provisions for payments to institutions of higher education under this Act.

Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982

SouthWest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into an agreement with the SouthWest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf of Big Spring, Texas, for the operation and development including construction and equipment, of the SouthWest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf. Authorizes appropriations for the operation and development of such Institute. Sets forth requirements, under such agreement, for the use of Federal funds, an advisory group to the director of such institute, and annual reports.

National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982

National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Act - Establishes the National Science and Mathematics Teachers Development Board in the Department of Education. Requires that the functions of the Secretary of Education under this Act be carried out through the Board. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education for continuing education programs designed to improve the skills of secondary school teachers of science and mathematics and to help such teachers qualify for certification in science, mathematics, or both. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for related administrative expenses. Sets forth application requirements for program participation by institutions of higher education. Limits to 25 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out this Act the amount that shall be available for full-time summer workshops. Limits the amount of any grant under this Act to a single institution of higher education to $200,000. Sets forth provisions for payments to institutions of higher education under this Act.

Wendy Hawley Borcherdt, of California, to be Deputy Under Secretary for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, Department of Education, vice John H. Rodriguez, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 13 September 1982

A concurrent resolution commending the efforts of the nation's schools to increase their effectiveness and encouraging further improvement in the quality of education.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1982

Commends the Nation's schools' efforts to increase their effectiveness and provide a quality education for all students.

A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate the week of January 16, 1983, through January 22, 1983, as "National Jaycee Week."

United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1982

Requests the President to designate January 16 through January 22, 1983, as National Jaycee Week.

A concurrent resolution commending the efforts of the Nation's schools to increase their effectiveness and encouraging further improvement in the quality of education.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1982

Commends the Nation's schools' efforts to increase their effectiveness and provide a quality education for all students.

Gary L. Bauer, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget, Department of Education, vice Gary L. Jones.

United States · United States Senate · 8 September 1982

Charles L. Heatherly, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary for Management, Department of Education, vice Kent Lloyd, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 8 September 1982

Lawrence F. Davenport, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education, vice Vincent E. Reed, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 2 September 1982

A joint resolution designating November 14, 1982, as "National Retired Teachers Day."

United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982

Designates November 14, 1982, as National Retired Teachers Day.

A bill to reinstate the provisions relating to parental involvement in chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 relating to financial assistance to meet special educational needs of disadvantaged children.

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to require the Secretary of Education to base payments of assistance to local education agency programs for special educational needs of disadvantaged children on the amounts of grants as determined under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act concerning parental involvement.

A bill to assist certain institutions receiving funds under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Relieves certain institutions of liability to the United States with respect to specified amounts received under the Higher Education Act of 1965 and expended for unauthorized purposes, if specified conditions have been met.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for individual education accounts, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the higher or vocational educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's spouse, child, grandchild, or ward. Limits the amount of such deduction to $2,000 per year ($2,250 in the case of a joint return). Excludes such accounts from taxation. Excludes distributions from such accounts so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational expenses.

A bill to require a separate family contribution schedule for Pell Grants for academic years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985, to establish restrictions upon the contents of such schedule, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to limit the maximum Pell Grant a student may receive for academic year 1983-1984 to $1,800 or 50 percent of the cost of attendance (as defined for academic year 1982-1983). Directs the Secretary of Education to approve separate (from the Pell Grant family contribution schedule) systems of need analysis for academic years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 for the campus-based programs of supplemental education opportunity grants, work-study, and direct loans. Carries over for academic years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 the Pell Grant cost of attendance criteria in effect for academic year 1982-1983. Carries over the academic year 1982-1983 Pell Grant family contribution schedule into academic year 1983-1984, with specified modifications to be published within 15 days of enactment of this Act. Provides that the academic year 1984-1985 Pell Grant family contribution schedule shall be the same as for academic year 1983-1984, with specified modifications, unless the Secretary of Education publishes in the Federal Register and submits to the Congress a proposed schedule by April 1, 1983, and a final schedule by May 15, 1983. Provides that such final schedule shall take effect unless either House of the Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval by a specified date. Provides for a new proposed schedule to take effect unless another resolution of disapproval is adopted. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register: (1) changes in amounts allowed as an offset for family size as a consequence of specified modifications of the Pell Grant family contribution schedule for academic year 1984-1985, immediately after publication of the Consumer Price Index for September, 1983; and (2) the modified family contribution schedule for academic year 1984-1985, by July 15,1983, under specified conditions. Replaces the ratable reduction formula effective for academic year 1983-1984 and succeeding academic years, under which when there are insufficient appropriations, awards for those with lesser need would be cut by a larger percentage than awards for those with greater need.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the establishment of, and the deduction of contributions to, education savings accounts.

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for cash and other personal property contributions to a savings account created or organized exclusively for the purpose of paying the higher or vocational educational expenses of the taxpayer or the taxpayer's child. Limits the amount of such deduction to $2,000 per year, adjusted for inflation. Limits eligibility for such deduction to the taxpayer or the taxpayer's dependent child unless such child has attained age 21 or has attended an institution of higher education as a full-time student for more than four weeks in the year of his or her twenty-first birthday. Excludes distributions from such an account from the gross income of the payee so long as such distributions are used to defray the beneficiary's tuition, fees, books and supplies, and reasonable living expenses. Specifies sanctions for the use of account funds for other than such educational purposes. Treats qualified distributions as income to the beneficiary for the taxable year in which the beneficiary attains age 25, and for each of the following nine years, in successive apportionments equal to ten percent of the total amount of such distributions.

A joint resolution to provide for the designation of the month of October, 1982, as "Head Start Awareness Month".

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Designates October 1982 as Head Start Awareness Month.

A resolution electing Representative Martinez to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs and Education and Labor.

United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982

Elects the Honorable Matthew G. Martinez, of California, to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on Education and Labor.

Student Financial Assistance Technical Amendments Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982

Sallie Mae Technical Amendments Act of 1982 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend for two years the waiver of Federal priority over the indebtedness of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Limits the maximum Pell Grant a student may receive for academic years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 to $1,800 or 50 percent of the cost of attendance (as defined for academic year 1982-1983). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish or approve separate (from the Pell Grant family contribution schedule) systems of need analysis for academic years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 for the campus-based programs of supplemental educational opportunity grants, work-study, and direct loans. Carries over the academic year 1982-1983 Pell Grant family contribution schedule into academic year 1983-1984, with specified modifications to be published within 15 days of enactment of this Act. Provides that the academic year 1984-1985 Pell Grant family contribution schedule shall be the same as for academic year 1983-1984, with specified modifications, unless the Secretary of Education publishes in the Federal Register and submits to the Congress a proposed schedule by April 1, 1983, and a final schedule by May 15, 1983. Provides that such final schedule shall take effect unless either House of the Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval by a specified date. Provides for a new proposed schedule to take effect unless another resolution of disapproval is adopted. Requires that a modified family contribution schedule for academic year 1984-1985 be submitted by July 15, 1983, under specified conditions. Carries over for academic years 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 the Pell Grant cost of attendance criteria in effect for academic year 1982-1983. Directs the Secretary to publish changes in amounts allowed as an offset for family size as a consequence of specified modifications of the Pell Grant family contribution schedule, immediately after publication of the Consumer Price Index for June, 1983. Carries over for the July 1, 1983 through June 30, 1984 period of instruction the guaranteed student loan family contribution schedule for the preceding year, with specified modifications. Extends through FY 1983 and 1984 the proportional reduction formula for apportionment to States of appropriations for: (1) supplemental educational opportunity grants; and (2) national direct student loans. Requires specified disclosures of the cost and terms of student loans to borrowers prior to the start of the repayment period. Permits State guaranty agencies, nonprofit institutions, and eligible lenders to consolidate federally insured or guaranteed student loans, upon the request of a borrower whose aggregate outstanding indebtedness reaches specified levels. Provides for an extended repayment period of up to 20 years and the establishment of graduated, income sensitive repayment schedules for such consolidated loans. Sets the maximum annual interest rate at eight percent on the unpaid principal balance of the new, consolidated loan, for any borrower who has received two or more federally insured student loans at nine percent. Requires the State guaranty agency, nonprofit institution, and eligible lender to develop an information program regarding such consolidation of loans. Replaces the ratable reduction formula for Pell Grant awards with a linear reduction formula under which, when there are insufficient appropriations, awards for those with lesser need would be cut by a larger percentage than awards for those with greater need. Directs the National Center for Education Statistics to collect and publish for academic years 1982 through 1985 data on tuition, fees, and room and board charges for institutions included in the Higher Education General Information Survey.

Older Americans Vocational Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1982

Older Americans Vocational Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a model grant program for centers for older persons' vocational needs and employment opportunities. Sets forth application requirements for grant eligibility and for such centers. Requires such centers to: (1) provide certain services; and (2) in providing services, to give priority treatment to certain older persons. Limits any such grant to $400,000 for any fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to operate a national clearinghouse for information on such centers. Permits any business or labor organization, public agency, or nonprofit or profitmaking organization, as well as a State, State or local educational agency, educational institution, postsecondary educational institution, or private vocational training institution, to be an eligible recipient of such a grant. Defines "older person" as an individual 55 years of age or older. Authorizes appropriations for such model grant program for FY 1984 through 1986. Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1965 to add to the purposes of such Act: (1) the overcoming of age discrimination and age stereotyping in vocational education programs; (2) the furnishing of equal educational opportunity in such programs to persons of all ages; and (3) the provision of part-time employment to older persons who need the earnings to continue full-time vocational training. Requires State vocational education programs to assign personnel to review such programs for: (1) assurance that grant distribution addresses older persons' needs; (2) age bias in such programs; (3) age discrimination in program hiring, firing, or promotion; (4) recommendations for overcoming age stereotyping and bias in such programs; and (5) assisting interested parties in improving vocational educational opportunities for older persons. Requires that State advisory councils on vocational education include older persons with employment and training program experience, including older persons who are minority group members. Requires that the State five-year plans for vocational education set forth: (1) the uses which the State intends to make of Federal vocational education assistance to meet the special needs of older persons; and (2) policies and procedures to assure equal access to vocational education programs by older persons.

Student Assistance Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1982

Student Assistance Reform Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide standards for maintaining satisfactory academic progress as a condition for assistance under such title.

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that regulations recently proposed by the Secretary of Education under the Education of the Handicapped Act should not be permitted to take effect.

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1982

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that regulations recently proposed by the Secretary of Education under the Education of the Handicapped Act should not be permitted to take effect.

A bill to amend the Truth-In-Lending Act.

United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1982

Amends the Truth-in-Lending Act to exempt from its requirements any loans made, insured, or guaranteed under a program authorized by title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Exempts such loans from any disclosure requirements of any State law.

A concurrent resolution disapproving certain regulations submitted to the Congress on July 29, 1982, with respect to the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1982

Disapproves regulations submitted to the Congress on July 29, 1982, by the Secretary of Education which revised certain parts of the Code of Federal Regulations with respect to the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.