Education

Änderung des § 33i der Gewerbeordnung zur Vermeidung der Konzentration von Spielhallen in der Nähe von Schulen und Wohngebieten (G-SIG: 10047157)

Germany · German Bundestag · 13 July 1984

A bill to eliminate the asset criteria for the needs test under the guaranteed student loan program.

United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1984

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to exclude the amount of the assets of the student and the assets of the student's family from the determination of expected family contribution for the determination of need under the guaranteed student loan program, for any academic year beginning after academic year 1983-1984.

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985

United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1984

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 1985. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to the Department of Labor for the following agencies and purposes: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for program administration, employment and training assistance, 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 and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (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; (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; (9) Office of the Inspector General; and (10) Veterans Employment Service. 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, 1985 - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the following agencies: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration for health resources and services; (2) the Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund for Federal interest subsidies for medical facilities; (3) the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control for disease control; (5) 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; (6) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital; (7) the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health for public health service management; (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, specified assistance payments programs, child support enforcement, low-income home energy assistance program; (11) the Office of Human Development Services for social services block grants, human development services, family social services, and work incentives; (12) the Office of Community Services for community services block grants; (13) departmental management; (14) the Office of the Inspector General; (15) the Office for Civil Rights; and (16) policy research. Makes specified funds available for expenses for active commissioned officers in the Public Health Service Reserve Corps and for a limited number of commissioned officers in the Regular Corps. Make such funds also available for specified activities of the Corps. Prohibits the use of 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, or except for such medical procedures necessary for the victims of rape or incest. 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 under the Public Health Service Act. Makes 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 funds appropriated by this title for the Health Care Financing Administration available for official reception and representation expenses. Prohibits the use of any funds for basic pay, special pay, basic allowances for subsistence and basic allowance for quarters of the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service above a specified level. Prohibits the use of funds to transfer the general administration of programs authorized under the Native American Programs Act from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of the Interior. Requires that funds provided to the National Institutes of Health by this Act be used to maintain a specified minimum number of Federal full time equivalent positions. Prohibits the use of funds to bill persons receiving services from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in order to collect from third party payees, nor to charge those persons who may have financial means to pay, unless and until such time as Congress has agreed upon a specified policy to do so, and has directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement such a policy. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriation Act, 1985 - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 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 education; (11) higher education facilities loan and insurance; (12) college housing loans; (13) educational research and statistics; (14) libraries; (15) Special Institutions including the American Printing House for the Blind, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Gallaudet College, and Howard University; (16) the Office for Civil Rights for salaries and expenses; (17) departmental management for salaries and expenses; and (18) 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, to force on account of race, creed, or color the abolishment of any such school, or to force the transfer or assignment of any student attending such a school to or from a particular school over the protest of the student's parents; (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. Requires funds provided to the Department of Education by this Act to be used to maintain a specified minimum number of Federal full time equivalent positions. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 to: (1) Action for operating expenses; (2) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the public broadcasting fund; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for salaries and expenses; (4) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (5) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for salaries and expenses; (6) National Council on the Handicapped; (7) the National Labor Relations Board for salaries and expenses; (8) the National Mediation Board for salaries and expenses; (9) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (10) the Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account and payment to the railroad retirement account; (11) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home for operation and maintenance and capital outlay; and (12) the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission. 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 under existing Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. Prohibits the expenditure of any funds appropriated by this Act by any executive agency pursuant to any obligation for services by contract, unless the contract was awarded and entered into in full compliance with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act. 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. Prohibits the use of funds provided by this Act for the transportation of any officer or employee of any department or agency between his domicile and his place of employment. Exempts the Secretaries of Labor, of Health and Human Services, and of Education, and medical officers and other health personnel on out-patient medical service who are exempted from such limitation by law. Declares that the number of full-time equivalent positions for which amounts are appropriated by this Act shall not be subject to any personnel ceiling or other restriction on permanent, temporary, or intermittent employment unless such ceiling or restriction is explicitly established by statute. Provides that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act for personnel compensation and benefits shall be available for other object classifications set forth in the budget estimates submitted for the appropriations without the approval of the Committees on Appropriations.

A joint resolution designating 1985 as the "Year of the Teacher".

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1984

Designates 1985 as the Year of the Teacher.

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the several States should authorize judges to require delinquent juveniles to complete a secondary education.

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1984

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that States should authorize judges to require delinquent juveniles to complete their secondary education.

Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1984

Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for special impact aid payments to State and local educational agencies which provide educational services to immigrant children. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to pay to each State educational agency (SEA) for its administrative costs under this Act up to one and one-half percent of the funds to which the SEA is entitled under this Act. Sets forth provisions for withholding of payments under this Act. Directs the Secretary to make, for FY 1985 through 1989, State entitlement payments equal to $500 for each immigrant child in public and nonpublic elementary or secondary schools within eligible local educational agencies (LEAs). Requires that the number of such children in the public and nonpublic schools within an eligible LEA be at least the lesser of: (1) 500; or (2) three percent of the total enrollment in such public or nonpublic schools during the fiscal year. Requires that the amount of any such grant to an SEA for any fiscal year be reduced by the amounts made available for such fiscal year by any other Federal law for expenditure within the State for the same purposes as those for which funds are available under this Act. Provides that such reduction shall be made only to the extent that such amounts are made available: (1) for such purposes specifically because of the refugee, parolee, asylee, or other immigrant status of the individuals served by such funds; and (2) to provide assistance to individuals eligible for services under this Act. Permits payments to States under this Act to be used for supplementary public educational services and costs for immigrant children in public and nonpublic schools within districts served by eligible LEAs. Includes among such services: (1) English language instruction; (2) other bilingual educational services; (3) special materials and supplies; (4) additional basic instructional services; and (5) inservice personnel training. Sets forth requirements for SEA applications for payments under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make payments to SEAs having applications approved; and (2) arrange for the provision of public educational services under this Act to children enrolled in nonpublic schools in cases where a State is prohibited by law from providing such services to such children and where the LEA has substantially failed or is unwilling to provide for the participation on an equitable basis of such children in such services.

A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that educators should develop recommendations to increase student motivation as a means of improving excellence in education.

United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1984

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) student motivation is an important element of educational excellence; (2) educators are urged to devote more research to ways to motivate students; and (3) educators, parents, business persons, and others interested in improving education should develop recommendations for inspiring student motivation.

Entschließungsantrag zum Berufsbildungsbericht 1984 (G-SIG: 10001481)

Germany · German Bundestag · 27 June 1984

Steigerung des Ausbildungsplatzangebots durch Länder, Kommunen und die Wirtschaft, Abbau von Ausbildungshemmnissen, Änderung der Ausbildereignungs-Verordnung zur Vermeidung von Ausbildungsplatzverlusten, Änderung der Anrechnungsverordnung betr. Berufsgrundbildungsjahr und Berufsfachschulen, zusätzliche Finanzmittel für das Benachteiligtenprogramm 1985, Erhöhung der Mittel für Bildungsbeihilfen, Verbesserung der Ausbildungschancen von Mädchen, Bericht der Bundesregierung über Entwicklung und Finanzierung von überbetrieblichen Ausbildungsstätten, Ausbau der Bildungsangebote an beruflichen Vollzeitschulen

A joint resolution to designate the week beginning September 2, 1984 as "Youth of America Week".

United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1984

Designates the week beginning September 2, 1984, as Youth of America Week.

A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 5490) to clarify the application of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1984

Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 5490 (discrimination by recipients of Federal assistance).

United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1984

United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries Act - Directs the President, acting through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Information Agency, to provide an undergraduate scholarship program for citizens and nationals of developing countries to study at American institutions of higher education. Requires that half of each payment to a student shall be in the form of a loan with repayment to be forgiven upon the student's prompt return to his or her country of origin for a period of no less than the years spent studying in the United States plus one. Sets forth guidelines for implementing the program. Directs the President, before allocating any funds, to consult with U.S. educational institutions, educational exchange organizations, U.S. missions, and the governments of participating countries on how to implement the guidelines. Authorizes the President to enter into agreements with foreign governments to further the scholarship program. Urges the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance programs, in implementing such programs, to increase assistance for undergraduate scholarships for students of limited financial means from developing countries to study in the United States. Urges the President to take steps to expand the opportunities for Americans from all economic classes to study in developing countries. Authorizes the President to establish counseling and orientation services: (1) abroad to prepare foreign students for study in the United States; and (2) at U.S. schools to help them while they are in the United States. Directs the Board of Foreign Scholarships to advise and assist the President in the discharge of programs authorized by this Act. Requires the public and private sectors in the United States to be encouraged to contribute to the costs of the programs financed under this Act. Directs the President to engage the public and private sectors of developing countries in programs to maximize the use of program participants upon their return to their own countries. Authorizes the President to publicize the scholarship program abroad. Authorizes the President to provide English instruction abroad when necessary. Provides for funding to carry out this Act. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on the activities taken pursuant to this Act.

Carl Vinson Institution of Government Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1984

Carl Vinson Institute of Government Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make a grant to the State of Georgia to renovate the physical facilities of the former Lucy Cobb Institute for Girls in Athens, Georgia, to provide a central home for the Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Georgia. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1984.

Police Corps Assistance Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1984

Police Corps Assistance Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make contracts and payments to institutions of higher education for loans to full-time undergraduate or graduate students who are in an eligible police corps of a State or local government. Limits the amount of such a loan to not more than $4,000 per academic year. Provides that such loans shall be on such terms and conditions as the Secretary and the police corps involved may determine. Requires that the total amount of any such loan, plus interest, shall be cancelled for services as a full-time officer or employee of a police department at the following rates: (1) 20 percent for the first complete year (or its equivalent) of such service; (2) 30 percent for the second such year; and (3) 50 percent for the third such year. Allows waivers of payment to be granted for illness, accident, or other hardship. Authorizes the Attorney General to approve a police corps as eligible for purposes of this Act for a period not longer than five years (which may be extended for additional periods) if: (1) participants are to undergo the same training as regular police officers before taking up police duties; (2) the program will be used to supplement but not supplant existing police workers, and the force level will be maintained at no less than the average of the three years before police corps workers are made available; (3) police corps workers are likely to be used for "on-line" duties, and their pay scales are set at a fixed percentage of regular pay and benefits which can be known before such workers decide to participate in the police corps; (4) the State within which the locality or unit is located has agreed to provide to each participant, from non-Federal sources, to cover the cost of attendance at an institution of higher education an amount no less than the amount of any loans obtained by the participant under this Act; (5) participants undertake to engage in police work for three years after graduation, and any participants retained after such period will be subject to collective bargaining agreements to the same extent as police workers who were not participants; and (6) such approval is appropriate in the light of relevant crime rates, populations served, and existing police force levels, and the need to achieve a fair distribution of available funds among the various approved police corps programs. Authorizes appropriations for such police corps program payments to institutions of higher education for FY 1985 through 1989.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of subsistence and educational assistance allowance for veterans pursuing vocational rehabilitation programs under chapter 31 and for veterans and eligible persons pursuing programs of education or training under chapters 34, 35, or 36 and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Increases the rates of educational and subsistence allowances for eligible veterans and their dependents and survivors. Increases the amount of reporting fee per participating veteran or other eligible person payable to an educational institution. Increases the amount a veteran or other eligible person may borrow for education in any one regular academic year.

Mathematics, Science, and Technology High School Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Mathematics, Science, and Technology High School Act of 1984 - Title I: Planning Grants for the Establishment of Mathematics, Science, and Technology High Schools - Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to assist eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) or a combination of educational agencies in structuring and implementing a plan for exemplary mathematics, science, and technology high schools. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to LEAs with applications meeting specified criteria. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Directs the Secretary to award such grants on a competitive basis. Sets the maximum award of such grants that may be made to a single LEA or combination of educational agencies under this title at $150,000. Provides that such grants may be expended over a period not to exceed three years. Sets forth permissible uses of such grant funds. Prohibits use of such funds in connection with the general overhead costs of the applicant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this title. Limits payments under this title to not more than 70 percent of the cost of the assisted activities. Permits the non- Federal share of such costs to be in cash or in kind, but prohibits it from including payments received under any other Federal program. Title II: Start-Up Grants for the Establishment of Mathematics, Science, and Technology High Schools - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to assist eligible LEAs or a combination of LEAs in establishing and contributing to the start-up costs of an exemplary mathematics, science, and technology high school. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to LEAs or combinations of LEAs with applications meeting specified criteria. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Directs the Secretary to award grants on a competitive basis taking into consideration the innovation and merit of the proposed center. Sets the maximum award of such grants that may be made to a single LEA or combination of LEAs under this title at $500,000. Provides that such grants may be expended over a period not to exceed three years. Sets forth permissible uses of such grant funds. Prohibits use of such funds in connection with the general overhead costs of the applicant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this title. Title III: Grants for the Establishment of Educational Partnership Programs - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to assist postsecondary institutions or a combination of postsecondary institutions in structuring and implementing a program designed to utilize the faculty and resources of a postsecondary institution to: (1) teach advanced science, mathematics, and technology to secondary students; and/or (2) provide in-service instruction to elementary and secondary teachers in the fields of science, mathematics, and computer technology. Directs the Secretary to award grants to postsecondary institutions meeting specified criteria. Directs the Secretary to require a recipient of such assistance to pay 20 percent of the allowable costs incurred by the recipient in structuring and implementing this program. Sets forth requirements for applications for such assistance. Directs the Secretary to award such grants on a competitive basis. Sets the maximum award that may be awarded to a single postsecondary institution or a combination of such institutions under this title at $100,000. Authorizes the Secretary to award such a grant for a period of up to three years, subject for each fiscal year to the availability of appropriations. Sets forth permissible uses of such grant funds. Prohibits use of such funds in connection with the general overhead costs of the applicant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this title. Limits payments under this title to not more than 80 percent of the costs of assisted activities. Permits the non-Federal share to be in cash or in kind, but prohibits it from including payments received under any other Federal program.

Secondary School Basic Skills Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1984

Secondary School Basic Skills Act - Establishes a program of grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) having especially high concentrations of children from low-income families to enable such agencies to provide more effective instruction in basic skills for economically disadvantaged secondary school students. Defines "basic skills" to include reading, writing, and mathematics computational proficiency as well as comprehension and reasoning. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1990. Makes certain amounts of such appropriations available for specified activities and types of grants under this Act. Makes a secondary school eligible to receive assistance under this Act for program grants only if 20 percent or more of children aged 14 to 17, inclusive, who are enrolled in such school are counted under LEA basic grant provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as modified by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA). Requires that funds made available under this Act for program grants be used to develop new approaches to, and carry out, educational services and activities designed specifically to raise the basic skills of low achieving disadvantaged children. Authorizes the Secretary of Education, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) and from specified funds appropriated for program grants for FY 1985 through 1990, to make grants to LEAs, institutions of higher education, and other public agencies and nonprofit private organizations. Provides that such grants shall be made to such entities on behalf of and for the purpose of assisting eligible secondary schools to develop, implement, and carryout new approaches to achieving improved basic skills instruction of low- achieving economically disadvantaged secondary school students. Sets forth application requirements. Requires that the application be made on behalf of the eligible school by: (1) the LEA; or (2) an institution of higher education, public agency, or private nonprofit organization if such entity will provide educational services or conduct educational activities subject to the proposal. Requires applicants to assure their participation in a national evaluation. Requires that administrators and teachers in the eligible school participate in the preparation of the proposal. Requires that the appropriate State educational agency (SEA) review and comment on the application before submittal to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to assure that: (1) eligible applicants represent various geographic regions of the country, including both rural and urban secondary schools within those various geographic regions; and (2) at least one demonstration grant is made in each State in each fiscal year, unless no applications are received from a State. Requires each LEA which desires to receive program grants under this Act to file with the Secretary an application containing specified assurances. Provides that each LEA and each institution of higher education, public agency, and private nonprofit organization applying on behalf of an eligible secondary school may receive payments for any fiscal year in which it files an application with the SEA. Sets forth requirements for such applications. Requires consultation with parents and teachers of low-achieving economically disadvantaged secondary school students in program design and implementation. Establishes a National Secondary School Basic Skills Panel in NIE to: (1) identify successful model programs; and (2) advise the Secretary with respect to specified aspects of program grant applications and proposals. Directs the Secretary, through NIE, to annually conduct a national evaluation of the effectiveness and the implementation of program grants. Requires that such assessment results be submitted to Congress and disseminated to SEAs, LEAs, State legislatures, and Governors. Directs the Secretary, through NIE, to monitor grants and coordinate activities under this Act with other research activities conducted by NIE and through the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Authorizes NIE, once program grants are awarded, to provide eligible recipients with technical assistance. Prohibits the Secretary from disapproving an LEA application without affording notice and opportunity for a hearing. Directs the Secretary to make payments as expeditiously as possible after approval of applications. Prohibits any grant from being made with respect to any eligible secondary school for more than two fiscal years unless there is: (1) an improved performance of the targeted secondary school students at the school on a State approved basic skills test; or (2) a decrease in the dropout rate at the school. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations relating to such prohibition.

Vocational Education and Community-Based Organizations Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984

Vocational Education and Community-Based Organizations Act of 1984 - Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (VEA) to add as a purpose of State vocational education programs under VEA to reduce the structural unemployment of the hard-to-employ, by funding State and local proposals which: (1) develop new self-help, community-based preparation programs that provide prevocational, motivational, attitudinal, and basic skills training necessary for existing vocational and technical training schools; (2) assist in providing adequate prevocational preparation targeted to the inner-city youth, the non-English-speaking barrios, the Appalachian hollows, and other urban and rural pockets of poverty; and (3) provide for cooperation between self-help community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness and existing vocational and technical training institutions. Includes self-help community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness among those groups to be represented in: (1) the membership of State and local advisory councils on vocational education; (2) participating in the formulation of State five-year plans for vocational education; and (3) the membership of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. Requires States, in considering the approval of applications for vocational education funds under VEA, to give priority (along with other priority factors) to those applicants that make proposals which contribute to the purpose added by this Act and which provide for career intern programs of demonstrated effectiveness, utilize intermediary organizations with a record of demonstrated effectiveness in developing cooperative partnerships with business and industry and vocational education institutions, or improve the basic skills of prevocational students. Allows any eligible recipient of funds under VEA that is a self-help community-based organization to appeal to the Secretary of Education any final action of the State with respect to any application for funds under VEA. Requires expeditious determination of such appeals. Allows VEA basic grants to States to be used to provide vocational education support services by self-help community-based organizations for programs which contribute to carrying out the goals added by this Act and which provide for career intern programs of demonstrated effectiveness, utilize intermediary organizations with a record of demonstrated effectiveness in developing cooperative partnerships with business and industry and vocational education institutions, or which improve the basic skills of prevocational students. Allows VEA grants to States for program improvement and supportive services to be used for research and demonstration programs which contribute to the goals added by this Act and which provide for career intern programs of demonstrated effectiveness, utilize intermediary organizations with a record of demonstrated effectiveness in developing cooperative partnerships with business and industry and vocational education institutions, or which improve the basic skills of prevocational students. Requires that at least ten percent of each State's allotment, and ten percent of funds for program improvement and supportive services, be used to pay up to 50 percent of the cost of programs, services, and activities which contribute to the goals added by this Act and which provide for career intern programs of demonstrated effectiveness, utilize intermediary organizations with a proven record in developing cooperative partnerships with business and industry and vocational education institutions, or which improve the basic skills of prevocational students. Includes self-help community-based organizations under the VEA definition of "eligible recipient." Gives examples of the types of programs and organizations referred to in this Act. Authorizes appropriations in such sums as are necessary to carry out the VEA for FY 1985 through 1989.

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 · 22 May 1984

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for contributions to a savings account established to pay the educational expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) of such taxpayer or the taxpayer's child at an institution of higher education or a vocational school. Limits the amount of such deduction to $2,000 (adjusted for inflation) for an account per year. Specified that no individual may be a beneficiary of more than one account during any calendar year. Excludes from the gross income of the individual who contributed to the account any amounts: (1) used exclusively to pay the educational expenses incurred by the individual for whose benefit the account is established; or (2) transferred to a qualified State educational fund. Requires the individual for whose benefit the educational savings account was established to include the amounts distributed from an educational savings account in income over a ten year period. Exempts from taxation an educational savings account unless such account ceases to be an educational savings account. Specified penalties for the use of account funds for other than educational purposes. Requires the trustee of an educational savings account to make periodic reports to the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that payments made by an individual to an educational savings account for the benefit of his child shall not be considered a gift of a future interest in property.

A bill concerning United States membership in the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1984

Prohibits the United States, before December 31, 1985, from terminating its membership in or otherwise suspending its participation in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unless specifically authorized or required by a specified section of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 (relating to suspension of U.S. participation in the United Nations if Israel is illegally expelled) or by a specified section of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 (relating to imposition of restrictions by UNESCO on freedom of the press and free flow of information), or unless such action is otherwise specifically authorized or required by Act of Congress. Prohibits the executive branch from making any decision on terminating or suspending U.S. participation in UNESCO without full consultation with Congress unless such termination or suspension is specifically required by Act of Congress.

A bill to amend the Act commonly known as the Second Morrill Act to repeal statutory language purporting to permit racial segregation in colleges financed under such Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1984

Amends the Act commonly known as the Second Morrill Act to repeal language relating to racial segregation in colleges. Provides that amendments made by this Act shall not be construed as affecting the eligibility of any land-grant college or institution, including Tuskegee Institute, to receive funds under the Act commonly known as the First Morrill Act or under the Second Morrill Act.

A concurrent resolution in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION.

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1984

Praises the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, invalidating the doctrine of "separate but equal." Designates May 17, 1984, as a national day of commemoration of that decision.

A bill to expand the definition of migratory fisherman for purposes of chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1984

Amends chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Education Needs of Disadvantaged Children) of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act to expand the definition of migratory fishermen, for purposes of State programs designed to serve migratory children, to include migratory fishermen's children who reside in a school district of more than 18,000 square miles and migrate a distance of 20 miles or more to temporary residences to engage in fishing activity.

American Defense Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

American Defense Education Act - Authorizes a national program to provide incentives to local educational agencies to improve: (1) instruction in mathematics, science, communication skills, foreign languages, and technology; and (2) guidance and counseling. Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Programs - Requires local education agencies which desire to participate in such national program to develop and carry out a program of improvement of instruction and student achievement. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Entitles participating local educational agencies to receive basic payments for each fiscal year equal to two percent of an established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Entitles agencies which show substantial evidence of meeting program goals to an incentive payment equal to an additional two percent of the established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Sets forth a formula for establishing such payment rate. Sets forth requirements for applications for payments. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to approve applications which meet such requirements. Sets forth provisions for participation in such program by children enrolled in private schools. Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local education agencies in improving science and mathematics education, through precollege teacher training, development, and recruitment programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals and priorities in grant selection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Title III: Research to Improve Instruction - Directs the Secretary to administer, through the National Institute of Education (NIE), in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, a program to support research and development into effective education in mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and technology. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Education to be made available to NIE to carry out such educational research program for FY 1985 through 1987. Title IV: General Provisions - Directs the Secretray to administer the program and to pay each local educational agency with an approved application the amount to which it is entitled for each fiscal year. Provides for a joint survey and report to Congress by the Secretaries of Defense and Education, for each year from 1983 through 1987, on the academic achievement levels of U.S. 18-year-olds and the personnel training and educational needs of the armed forces. Sets a limitation on the authorization of appropriations. Provides that no funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act for any fiscal year if the amount appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 for such fiscal year does not equal or exceed the amount appropriated to carry out such chapter for the preceding fiscal year.

A bill to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide that the minimum amount of funds under contracts between tribal organizations and the Secretaries of the Interior and of Health and Human Services shall include certain overhead costs negotiated on an annual basis. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations regarding overhead costs on grants and contracts between Federal agencies and tribal organizations.

Personalprobleme der Hochschulen u.a. wissenschaftlicher Einrichtungen durch Senkung der Eingangsbesoldung und -vergütung im öffentlichen Dienst (G-SIG: 10041654)

Germany · German Bundestag · 4 May 1984

Border States Natural Resources Research Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Border States Natural Resources Research Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to one or more institutions of higher education to establish and support border natural resources research in each border State (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) in the United States-Mexico border region. Requires that, in order to receive such assistance, an institution of higher education must be located in a border State and have a competent and qualified natural resources institute (or center or other equivalent division). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Directs the Secretary to distribute such appropriations for each fiscal year equally among the border States. Requires that such grants be used to initiate and support natural resources research programs and provide for the training of specialists of border State natural resources problems. Sets forth various types of activities which such research may include. Sets forth grant application requirements. Sets forth provisions for cooperative research. Sets forth provisions relating to payments and administration under this Act.

A concurrent resolution in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Brown v. Board of Education.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Praises the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, invalidating the doctrine of "separate but equal." Designates May 17, 1984, as a national day of commemoration of that decision.

Professional Development Resource Center Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Professional Development Resource Center Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for grants for professional development resource centers for teachers. Directs the Secretary of Education, in making grants under this Act, to ensure that eligible applicants within each State receive sufficient funds to plan, establish, or operate at least one such center within the State in each fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs for assistance in planning, establishing, and operating such centers. Defines "professional development resource center" as any year-round site operated by an LEA, a combination of LEAs, or an educational service agency which serves teachers from public and non-public schools of a State or from an area or community within a State. Requires that, through such centers and with the assistance of consultants and experts, teachers shall conduct activities to advance the goal of professional excellence and improvement of teaching skills for the teachers they serve. Provides that such activities may include but are not limited to: (1) developing and disseminating curricula designed to meet the educational needs of the persons in the community, area, or State being served, including the use of educational research findings or new or improved methods, practices, and techniques in the development of such curricula (including the use of technology and telecommunications); (2) training teachers to better meet the educational needs of students and to become familiar with developments in curriculum, testing, and research and its applicability to improvement of teaching skills; and (3) disseminating information to those served by the center and to other such centers nationally. Requires that such centers be planned and operated under the supervision of a professional development policy board, the majority of which shall be representatives or designees of the elementary and secondary classroom teachers to be served by such center. Requires that such board also include representatives or designees of the school boards of the LEAs served by such center, and at least one representative designated by institutions of higher education located in the area, including but not limited to institutions that have departments, schools, or colleges of education. Requires that LEA, or LEA consortium, applications for such grants be approved by the State education agency (SEA) before they are transmitted to the Secretary for approval. Provides for LEA petitions to the Secretary to request further SEA consideration of applications. Sets forth criteria which such applications must meet in order for such a grant to be approved. Gives preference to applications which involve teachers as instructors as well as learners in center activities. Directs the Secretary, in approving applications, to: (1) take into account the resources which the applicant will provide in addition to Federal funds provided under this or any other Federal program; and (2) substantially involve teachers in reviewing and recommending programs for funding. Permits any LEA having an application approved under this Act to contract with an institution of higher education to carry out activities under, or provide technical assistance in connection with, such application. Authorizes the Secretary to expend directly ten percent of the funds expended under this Act to make grants to institutions of higher education to operate professional development resource centers.

A bill to designate certain land and improvements of the National Institutes of Health as the "Mary Woodard Lasker Center for Health Research and Education".

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Designates certain land and improvements of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, as the Mary Woodard Lasker Center for Health Research and Education.

Education for Gifted and Talented Children and Youth Improvement Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Education for the Gifted and Talented Children and Youth Improvement Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants or enter into cooperative agreements with State education agencies for one or more of the following purposes: (1) developing exemplary programs for gifted and talented children and youth, including summer programs and programs operated by State and local educational agencies and cooperative programs with business, industry, government, and higher education; (2) developing and supporting business, industry, government, and higher education partnerships with elementary and secondary education to plan and implement cooperative comprehensive educational programs for such children and youth; (3) promoting the development of programs for such children and youth within the State; and (4) improving methods of identifying such children and youth. Authorizes appropriations for such grants and cooperative agreements for FY 1985 through 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education, State education agencies, and private nonprofit organizations to provide preservice and inservice training to personnel involved in the education of gifted and talented children and youth. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1985 through 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, institutions of higher education, State education agencies, and private nonprofit organizations to conduct: (1) research on techniques for teaching gifted and talented children and youth; and (2) program evaluations, surveys, and activities to collect, develop, and disseminate information and technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for FY 1985 through 1987. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress and make available to the public, one year from the date of enactment of this Act: (1) a report on the state of special educational opportunities for gifted and talented children and youth; (2) a departmental plan for advancing such opportunities; and (3) recommendations to the Congress regarding future legislative activities. Requires that particular emphasis be given in programs established under this Act to the identification of gifted and talented children and youth who may not be so identified through traditional assessment methods, most notably minority and handicapped children, and youth and women. Sets forth provisions for participation by children and teachers from private schools in programs funded under this Act.

A concurrent resolution in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Brown v. Board of Education.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Praises the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, invalidating the doctrine of "separate but equal." Designates May 17, 1984, as a national day of commemoration of that decision.

Indian Education Act Reauthorization of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1984

Indian Education Act Reauthorization of 1984 - Amends the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act to extend through FY 1985 the program of grants to local educational agencies for the education of Indian children. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985. Authorizes appropriations to State educational agencies for specified purposes for FY 1985. Limits the total grants made to State educational agencies to 15 percent of the sums appropriated in any fiscal year. Amends the Indian Education Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985. Extends through FY 1985 the authorization for graduate and professional fellowships and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Amends the Adult Education Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985.

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal program of impact aid with respect to the children of military personnel should be transferred to the Secretary of Defense.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1984

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should, as soon as practicable, take such actions as may be necessary to transfer to the Secretary of Defense the responsibility for compensating local school districts for the education of children of military dependents.

Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1984

Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1984 - Title I: Special Supplemental Food Program - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require that when special supplemental food benefits are issued for part of a month, the monthly food package must be reduced accordingly. Declares that a pregnant woman shall be considered two individuals for purposes of income eligibility standards. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report biennially to Congress on the income and nutritional risk characteristics of program participants. Revises the requirements for State plans of operation and administration. Requires State agencies to establish procedures to obtain public comment on the development of the State plans. (Currently, public hearings are required.) Extends the time after application to the program that State agencies must notify persons of their eligibility from 20 days to 30 days. Eliminates the requirement for State agencies to publicize at least once annually the availability of program benefits. Provides for coordination of the child care food programs under this Act and the National School Lunch Act. Requires State agencies to seek repayment in cash from families who have received benefits as a result of fraud or intentional misrepresentation. Increases authorized appropriations for FY 1984 and authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for the special supplemental food program. Authorizes the Secretary to use specified funds to provide technical assistance to improve State agency administrative systems. Directs the Secretary to keep to a minimum required State paperwork with respect to nutrition education funds. Limits to two percent of a State's allocation the amount of supplemental food funds that may be expended for expenses incurred in the prior fiscal year for such foods. Eliminates the annual report to Congress on migrant participation in the special supplemental food program. Title II: Other Child Nutrition Programs - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to extend from two to five years the authority under the commodity supplemental food program to operate two pilot projects directed at low-income elderly persons. Permits local agencies administering such program to provide supplemental commodities to low-income elderly persons in a manner that does not interfere with commodity assistance to women, infants, and children. Extends program authority through FY 1988. Amends the National School Lunch Act to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) the summer food service program for children; and (2) the commodity distribution program. Amends the Child Nutrition Act to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY 1984 through 1988 for State administrative expenses. Extends and increases, from FY 1984 to 1988, the authorized appropriations for nutrition education and information programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study the feasibility of making the school lunch program a universal program for all children in the United States, and various methods of operating a self-financing school lunch program. Requires the Secretary to submit the results of such study to Congress not later than January 1, 1987. Title III: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Title IV: Effective Dates - Provides for the effective dates of provisions of this Act.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to waive certain restrictions on the provision of health care to veterans in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and to extend the authority for Veterans' Administration geriatric research, education, and clinical activities.

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1984

Extends from FY 1984 to FY 1985 the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract for hospital care or medical services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands without reference to patient loads or incidence of provision of medical services for veterans treated by the Veterans Administration in the contiguous 48 States. Expands the amount of authorizations available for the research and education activities of Veterans Administration geriatric centers.

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL on pilot schemes relating to education of migrant workers' children

European Union · European Commission · 27 April 1984

A bill to simplify the program of grants to the States for vocational education and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1984

Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (the Act) to revise and extend programs under the Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act for FY 1985 through 1989. Lowers the maximum amount which is to be transferred from funds reserved under the Act to the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee in any fiscal year. Eliminates a requirement that the amount of any State's allotment from appropriations provided under the Act for any fiscal year not be less than the total amount of payments made to the State under allotments determined for a specified fiscal year. Eliminates a requirement that specified portions of the State allotment be used for programs of national significance (80 percent) and programs of bilingual vocational training (20 percent). Eliminates requirements that State boards for vocational education certify: (1) any delegation of its responsibilities; and (2) that the appropriate agencies, councils, and individuals have been afforded the opportunity to be involved in the formulation of specified plans and reports. Eliminates a requirement that each State reserve specified funds for assignment of personnel to assist the State board. Eliminates a prohibition against State advisory council members representing more than one of specified categories. Eliminates a requirement that a State certify the establishment and membership of its State advisory council. Eliminates requirements relating to the State advisory council's meetings, Chairman, and rules for operating procedures and staffing. Eliminates a requirement that each State advisory council evaluate vocational education programs, services, and activities assisted under the Act and publish and distribute the results of such evaluation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for grants to State advisory councils to carry out their functions under the Act. Eliminates requirements that general applications for assistance under such Act include assurances that: (1) annual applications by eligible recipients will include descriptions of the relationship between the proposed vocational education programs and other programs in the area or community which are supported by State and local funds; and (2) no program will receive funds which cannot demonstrate specified types of results. Requires that such general applications assure that first priority will be given to applicants located in economically depressed and high unemployment areas (and only then will priority be given to applicants proposing new types of programs). Revise provisions for five-year State plans to require that such plans be submitted during FY 1985 and during each fifth fiscal year occurring thereafter. Eliminates requirements for five-year State plans relating to: (1) meetings during the planning year between representatives of the State board and representatives of specified agencies, councils, and individuals; (2) appeals of State board planning decisions by such agencies or councils; (3) explicit descriptions of planned uses of funds in specified terms and with demonstrations of necessity, including descriptions of intended uses of funds to meet the special needs of handicapped and disadvantaged persons and persons with limited English-speaking ability; and (4) the special programs and placement services for displaced homemakers, single heads of households, part-time workers, and those seeking jobs in areas not traditionally considered job areas for those of their gender. Eliminates requirements for annual program plans and accountability reports relating to: (1) meetings between representatives of the State board and representatives of specified agencies, councils, and individuals; (2) appeals of State board decisions by such agencies or councils; (3) planning provisions setting forth explicitly the uses the State intends to make of such differences between such uses and those which were set forth in the five-year plan; (4) reporting provisions including descriptions of goals and uses in specified terms and descriptions of uses for State administration and among specified authorized uses; and (5) modifications to avoid duplication of data-collection. Eliminates approval requirements that: (1) the Secretary of Education's findings as to the compliance of five-year plans and annual program plans and accountability reports with the provisions of such Act be in writing; (2) such plans and reports be reviewed by appropriate Federal vocational education agencies; (3) such plans and reports be reviewed by State agencies to assure equal access by both men and women to such programs; and (4) States compile such plans or reports with nationally uniform definitions and information elements. Eliminates requirements that specified percentages of assistance to States for vocational education be allotted to programs for: (1) handicapped persons; (2) disadvantaged and limited English-speaking persons; and (3) persons enrolled in intermediate degree programs, in the labor market, or unemployed. Sets forth provisions for authorization of grants to States and uses of funds in accordance with five-year State plans and annual program plans. Includes among such authorized uses the authorized uses enumerated under current law provisions for basic grant programs, program improvement and supportive services, special programs for the disadvantaged, and consumer and homemaking education programs, as well as emergency remodeling and renovation of vocational education facilities, and bilingual education programs conducted by State agencies, local educational agencies, or postsecondary educational institutions. (Current law provides for emergency remodeling and renovation and for bilingual education programs under provisions for national programs.) Requires State boards to make specific findings that use of funds under the Act for stipends or placement services is necessary due to inadequate services or inadequate funding of similar programs. Eliminates provisions for payments to States of 50 percent of the cost of programs, services, and activities under basic grant provisions and program improvement and supportive services for persons with special needs. Provides that payments for the costs of preparing five-year plans, annual program plans, and accountability reports and conducting evaluations shall be made from State allotments. Directs the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education to conduct a review of such programs in at least ten States during fiscal years 1986 through 1989. Directs the Department of Education to conduct a fiscal audit of such programs during the same period. Eliminates the separate authorization of grants and specified requirements for expenditures for basic grant programs, program improvement and supportive services, special programs for the disadvantaged, and consumer and homemaking education programs. Eliminates all provisions for national programs for vocational education, with the exception of provisions for vocational education data and occupational information data systems. Revises the latter provisions to repeal specified deadlines for required activities of the Secretary of Education, the Administrator of the National Center for Education Statistics, and the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. Replaces references to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 with references to the Job Training Partnership Act. Eliminates outdated provisions relating to the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education. Eliminates provisions for the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. Eliminates specified programs of national significance, a national center for research in vocational education, personnel training and development programs, bilingual vocational training programs, and emergency assistance for remodeling and renovation of vocational education facilities. Revises definitions under such Act to conform to amendments made by this Act (such as the elimination of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education) and by previous transfers of authority to the Secretary of Education.

Freedom of Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1984

Freedom of Education Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit equal to 100 percent of the tuition paid by the taxpayer for the calendar year to one or more institutions of higher education, postsecondary vocational schools, secondary schools, or elementary schools for the education of an individual. Requires payments to be: (1) made during the calendar year or one month before or one month after such year; and (2) made for education furnished during such calendar year. Requires that the amount paid must be for the education of an individual who is a full-time student. Provides that amounts received as nontaxable scholarships or educational assistance shall offset the amount of tuition paid by the taxpayer dollar for dollar. Prohibits the examination of books of account, or the activities, of any school which is operated, supervised, or controlled by or in connection with a church or convention or association of churches. Provides that any institution which enrolls a student for whom a tax credit is claimed shall not be considered to be a recipient of Federal financial assistance because of the enrollment of such student.

Health Professions Training Assistance, Nurse Education, National Health Service Corps, Health Maintenance Organizations, and Primary Health Care Amendments of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

Nurse Education Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funds for FY 1984 through 1987 for the nursing special projects program. Authorizes additional projects that demonstrate: (1) institutional and nursing service organizational arrangements that support more cost effective health care delivery systems; or (2) effective means of facilitating the transition of students in schools of nursing to nursing practice. Revises the advanced nurse training program to authorize grants and contracts that lead to master's and doctoral degrees and which prepare professional nurses to serve as nurse educators, administrators, consultants, researchers or to serve in clinical nurse specialties. Authorizes grants and contracts for: (1) schools of nursing to develop and operate programs for nurse practitioners; and (2) accredited certificate programs for nurse midwives. Redefines "programs for the education of nurse practitioners" as programs for registered nurses which lead to a master's degree or a doctoral degree, except those programs that educate nurse midwives. Repeals authority for grants and contracts to be used for preparation of faculty members. Reauthorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Revises the authority for traineeships for advanced training of professional nurses to cover the costs of traineeships for nurses in master's or doctoral degree programs which educate such nurses to serve as nurse practitioners, midwives, administrators, educators, or researchers or to serve in other professional nursing specialties. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Extends the authority for traineeships for training nurse anesthetists to cover the cost of improving existing programs. Provides financial assistance to nurse anesthetist faculty members for advanced education. Continues the nursing student loan program and authorizes appropriations for new capital contributions to nursing schools' revolving loan funds. Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) the addresses of all persons who have defaulted on nursing student loans. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to disclose this information to nursing schools to assist them in the collection of defaulted loans. Repeals the requirement that a certain portion of loan appropriations be reserved for students who have neither been students nor been employed on a full-time basis for the past seven years. Eliminates the preference for first year students for nursing student loans. Establishes within the Health Resources and Services Administration the Bureau of Nursing. Establishes within the Bureau the Center for Nursing Studies and Research. Requires the Center to conduct and support programs of basic and clinical research and training. Provides that the center disseminate information relating to: (1) the promotion of health; (2) the prevention of illness; (3) the response of patients and families to acute and chronic illnesses; and (4) nursing education, services and resources. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Division of Nursing of the Health Resources Administration.

Human Services Reauthorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

Amends the Head Start Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act through FY 1987.

Higher Education Amendments of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

Higher Education Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Institutional Aid - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to repeal part B (Aid to Institutions With Special Needs) of title III (Institutional Aid) of the Act. Adds the purpose of helping meet eligible institutions' special needs to the enumeration of purposes of part A (Strengthening Institutions) of title III of the Act. Revises the definitions of "eligible institution" and "full-time equivalent students" for purposes of part A. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to also consider specified factors in determining whether an institution is an eligible institution for purposes of part A. Increases to five years the maximum period for which a grant to an eligible institution under part A may be made. Provides that one-year grants to assist in preparation of plans and applications under part A may be awarded only to institutions which have not received such a grant for any prior fiscal year. Sets forth provisions for a Federal share of the costs of part A grants which shall decrease from 100 percent for the first two years to 90 percent for the third year, 80 percent for the fourth year, and 70 percent for the fifth year an institution receives such a grant. Sets forth transition provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to make continuation awards under part A to any eligible institution which received a multiple year grant awarded prior to October 1, 1984, under part A or part B grant authority as in effect on September 30, 1984. Prohibits any institution from receiving a grant under this continuation award provision or under: (1) part A grant authority as in effect on September 30, 1984, for a period of more than seven years in the aggregate; and (2) part B grant authority as in effect on September 30, 1984, for a period of more than five years in the aggregate. Makes an institution which has received a continuation award for such maximum period ineligible to receive a grant under part A. Redesignates part C of title III of the Act as part B of title III of the Act. Renames such part (currently "Challenge Grants for Institutions Eligible for Assistance Under Part A or Part B") "Challenge Grant Transition Awards." Repeals provisions for challenge grant program authority and for applications for such challenge grants. Sets forth new provisions for continuation awards. Authorizes the Secretary to make continuation awards, under part B Challenge Grant Transition Awards provisions, to any eligible institution which received a multiple year grant awarded prior to October 1, 1984, under challenge grant program authority as in effect on September 30, 1984. Redesignates provisions for endowment grants under a new part C heading of "Endowment Grants." Revises provisions for eligibility for such grants to conform to amendments made by this Act. Revises general provisions under part D of title III of the Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out title III of the Act for FY 1985. Provides that any funds made available for grants under part C which are not expended during the fiscal year for which such funds were appropriated shall remain available for expenditure for the purpose of making such grants until expended. Directs the Secretary to make at least 25 percent of such FY 1985 title III funds available to junior or community colleges. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount of such FY 1985 title III funds for eligible institutions that have historically served substantial numbers of black students. Title II: Student Assistance - Part A: Student Grant Amendments - Subpart 1: Pell Self-Help Grants - Revises title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act to make nomenclature amendments under which all references to "basic educational opportunity grants" or "basic grants" are replaced by references to "Pell Self-Help Grants." Revises Pell Grant award rules to provide that a student may receive only one Pell Grant for an academic year during an award year as defined by the Secretary. Sets the maximum Pell Grant for academic year 1985-1986 at $3,000. Directs the Secretary to establish the maximum amount for each succeeding academic year. Revises the formula for determining the amount of a Pell Grant which an eligible student may be paid for academic year 1985-1986 and for succeeding academic years. Provides that no Pell Grant shall be awarded if the amount of the grant would be less than $100. Revises provisions relating to the maximum eligibility period for Pell Grants. Revises provisions for determination of Pell Grant awards in case of insufficient appropriations. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Pell Grant program for FY 1985. Sets forth provisions for determination of expected family contributions and cost of attendance for purposes of the Pell Grant program. Provides that for academic year 1985-1986, the living expense allowance shall not exceed: (1) $3,000 for a student not residing with his or her parents; and (2) $1,500 for student residing with his or her parents. Directs the Secretary to set appropriate limits on living expense allowances for subsequent academic years. Subpart 2: Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Revises provisions of title IV of the Act for supplemental educational opportunity grants. Sets forth a new formula, including a specified baseline figure for determining the amount of a supplemental grant for any student who has also received a Pell Grant. Provides that no supplemental grant shall be awarded if the amount of the grant would be less than $100. Provides that, for purposes of supplemental grants, "expected family contribution" and "cost of attendance" shall have the same meanings given to such terms under provisions for Pell Grant need analysis. Authorizes the Secretary to change by regulation a specified baseline figure for purposes of supplemental grant determinations for any academic year after 1985-1986. Revises provisions relating to the maximum eligibility period for supplemental grants. Sets forth provisions for cost sharing. Requires each institution receiving funds under the supplemental grant program or under specified provisions for transfer of allotments to provide matching funds equal to 20 percent of the amount received under such provisions, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Makes a conforming amendment which repeals specified provisions of the Student Financial Assistance Technical Amendments of 1982 as amended by a specified provision of the Student Loan Consolidation and Technical Amendments Act of 1983. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grant - Revises provisions of title IV of the Act for grants to States for State student incentives to eliminate a maintenance of effort requirement of such grants program. Part B: Guaranteed Student Loan Program - Revises title IV of the Act to rename part B provisions (currently "Federal, State, and Private Programs of Low-Interest Insured Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education") as the "Guaranteed Student Loan Program." Revises provisions relating to student eligibility for subsidized loans under the program of Federal interest subsidy payments. Revises provisions relating to deferments of repayment by student borrowers under the conditions of Federal loan insurance. Sets forth provisions relating to the need analysis to be made for students attending foreign schools, for purposes of the program of Federal interest subsidy payments. Revises provisions for Federal loan insurance limitations to provide that "undergraduate student" shall be defined in regulations of the Secretary. Provides for the recall of certain advances. Eliminates provisions authorizing appropriations for specified advances to establish or strengthen the reserve funds of State and nonprofit private loan insurance programs. Revises provisions for repayment of such advances to require that such repayment be made prior to October 1, 1985. Revises provisions relating to insurance liability limitations of Federal student loan insurance. Revises provisions relating to the amount of reimbursement to be paid a State or nonprofit private institution or organization under the program of Federal guaranty of student loans insured under non-Federal programs. Repeals provisions for Federal supplemental guarantee agreements for reimbursement of non-Federal student loans insurance programs. Revises provisions for agreements with State and nonprofit private institutions for Federal interest subsidy payments on loans insured under their student loan insurance programs to provide for uniform loan availability. Requires that such programs authorize insurance in any academic year or its equivalent (as determined by regulations of the Secretary) of loans to any individual student who is carrying at an eligible institution at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload (as determined under regulations of the Secretary.) Sets the amount of such a loan at $2,500 (currently a $1,000 minimum and $2,500 maximum range). Revises requirements relating to the repayment period for such loans. Requires that such non-Federal student loan insurance programs, under Federal interest subsidy payment standards, insure 100 percent (currently 80 percent) of the unpaid principal of loans insured by such programs, whether or not such loans are eligible for Federal interest subsidy payments. Adds to the standards for Federal interest subsidy payments to require non-Federal student loan insurance programs to provide for: (1) guarantee of loans made to students, their spouses, and their parents under the auxiliary loan program; (2) if the lender is an eligible institution, insurance of loans by only such institutions as are within the geographic area served by such State or nonprofit private institution or organization; (3) no restrictions relating to enrollment in-State or out-of-State by an otherwise eligible student; (4) no restrictions more onerous than institutional eligibility requirements under the Federal student loan insurance program, with specified exceptions; and (5) eligibility of all lenders described in specified provisions under reasonable criteria, with specified exceptions, and annual reports to the Secretary concerning such criteria. Makes a conforming amendment removing a reference to the supplemental guaranty program. Eliminates provisions for special payments for administrative and other costs to State and nonprofit private institution student loan insurance programs under guaranty and supplemental agreements. Eliminates provisions relating to multiple disbursements and escrow accounts under the Federal interest subsidy payments program. Eliminates specified "school lender" and other "origination" requirements relating to maximum annual insurable loans under Federal loan insurance limitations and under requirements for non-Federal student insurance programs receiving subsidy payments. Repeals specified restrictions on eligible institutions of higher education acting as eligible lenders or originators of student loans. Revises the definition of "eligible lender," for purposes of student loan insurance programs, to include: (1) a State or a Federal agency which is an assignee of another eligible lender; and (2) a Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, or its successor agency, which has received Federal funds under specified Federal law. Removes specified limitations on the functions of the Secretary under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program which may be delegated to regional offices of the Department of Education. Revises the definition of "eligible institution," for purposes of student loan insurance program requirements, to include a reference to auxiliary loans under the prohibition against the use of commissioned salesmen to promote the availability of a loan program at an institution. Revises auxiliary loan program provisions to make parents or a spouse of a graduate or professional student eligible for such loans. Sets forth repayment provisions for auxiliary loans made to students which are different than repayment provisions for such loans to parents or spouses. Authorizes lenders to charge fees up to $25 for checking the credit of any auxiliary loan borrower who is not a student. Establishes a ten-year maximum repayment period for an auxiliary loan made to a parent or spouse, with specified exceptions. Revises the statement of purpose for the part B Guaranteed Student Loan Program to include the encouragement of adequate loan insurance programs for borrowers participating in the auxiliary loan program. Allows auxiliary loans to be insured directly by the Secretary if the lender satisfies the Secretary that, by reason of the residences of the intended borrowers of such lenders, such lender will not have access to any single State or nonprofit private loan insurance program which will insure substantially all of the loans such lender intends to make to such borrowers. Part C: Work-Study Program - Increases the amount of the authorization of appropriations for FY 1985 for work-study programs under part C of title IV of the Act. Revises provisions for work-study program allotments to States and specified U.S. territories and possessions. Provides that a specified amount shall be allotted to such territories and possessions. Bases State allotments on the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in institutions of higher education in a State. Requires that the amount allotted to each State shall not be less than the amount allotted to such State in FY 1984. Eliminates specified provisions relating to criteria for allotment of remainder sums and to consolidation of allotments. Revises provisions for reallotments to eliminate certain requirements for preferences under reallotment. Eliminates provisions for a reservation from appropriations for work-study assistance to students resident in American Samoa or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands who attend eligible institutions outside of those areas. Eliminates the prohibition against any work-study program paying lower than the current Federal minimum wage. Eliminates specified maintenance of effort requirements for work-study programs. Eliminates a prohibition against criteria for distribution of work-study assistance resulting in any institution's receiving an amount less than that used during FY 1979. Provides that student need analysis for purposes of work-study programs shall be in accordance with a need analysis system approved by the Secretary. (Current law requires such need analysis to be in accordance with specified need analysis provisions of title IV of the Act.) Includes area vocational schools under the definition of "institution of higher education" for purposes of receiving work-study program assistance, but provides that work-study programs at such schools may not include work for the institution itself. Adds provisions for cooperative education and adult literacy program activities to work-study program provisions for job location and development programs. Raises the amount which an eligible institution may use from its work-study allotment for such programs and activities. Eliminates certain maintenance of effort requirements relating to such programs. Requires that an institution's annual report on such programs include a summary of student compensation received and of any activities performed by organizations participating in such programs. Requires that agreements for such programs provide for fiscal control and fund accounting procedures. Provides that, for academic year 1986-1987 and thereafter, the maximum amount of an institution's work-study program allotment that may be used for such job location and development and cooperative education activities shall not exceed one-fifth of the total amount of earnings received by students in work-study programs during the previous academic year. Provides that, for purposes of calculating such limitation, the Federal contribution to any earnings received by a student and placed in employment through a job location and development program shall be excluded unless the student is employed in an adult literacy program. Makes conforming amendments. Repeals provisions for work-study for community service-learning programs. Repeals the authorization of appropriations for FY 1985 for cooperative education programs under title VIII of the Act. (Such programs are similar to the cooperative education activities which this Act adds to work-study program job location and development provisions.) Part D: Special Programs for the Disadvantaged - Revises provisions for special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Removes references, in the enumeration of program aims, to "contracts" and to the training of persons serving or preparing for service in specified projects. Eliminates specified provisions relating to program grant and contract authority. Eliminates the definition of, and references to, "first generation college student." Revises provisions for the Talent Search program to rename it the Talent Search and Assistance program. Replaces references to "youths" and "youth" with references to "persons." Revises provisions for design of the talent search and assistance program to add: (1) information on available academic (as well as financial) assistance; and (2) assistance to applicants for admission to institutions of higher education, including assistance in preparing admissions and financial aid applications and forms. (Current law provides for similar services under the Educational Opportunity Centers program.) Requires that two-thirds of the persons who would participate in a talent search and assistance project proposed for funding be low-income individuals or physically handicapped. (Current law requires two-thirds of the youths participating in the project to be low-income individuals who are first-generation college students.) Removes the maximum age limit (27 years) for project participants. Provides that other participant eligibility requirements (minimum age 12 and the completion of six years of elementary education) may be waived by the Secretary because of exceptional circumstances demonstrated by the applicant. Prohibits project participants from receiving services from another project funded under the talent search and assistance program. (Current law prohibits their receiving services under such program or under the Educational Opportunity Centers program which provides for services similar to those added to the talent search program by this Act.) Requires assurances that a substantial concentration of low-income or physically handicapped persons reside in the project area, in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants under the talent search and assistance program based on applications submitted by institutions of higher education, including consortia of such institutions, public and private agencies, and, in exceptional circumstances, secondary schools. Limits the amount of any such grant to no more than 75 percent of the cost of the project. Revises provisions for the Upward Bound program. Requires that two-third of the persons who would participate in an upward bound project proposed for funding be low-income individuals or physically handicapped. Eliminates requirements that: (1) two-thirds of the youths participating in the proposed project be low-income individuals who are first generation college students; and (2) the remaining youths participating be either low-income individuals or first-generation college students. Eliminates references to contracts under such provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants based on applications submitted by those institutions of higher education which have entered into a program participation agreement with the Secretary under specified provisions of the Act and which participate in programs authorized under title IV of the Act, other than provisions for special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Limits additional assistance to any institution of higher education which, on or before October 1, 1984, had received assistance under the Upward Bound program for three or more years to a period of not more than three years. Limits the amount of any grant awarded to such an institution during such three-year period to: (1) 75 percent of project cost during its first year of funding; (2) 50 percent during the second year; and (3) 25 percent during the third year. Limits Upward Bound program assistance to any institution which is not subject to the foregoing limitations, beginning on October 1, 1984, to a period of not more than five years. Limits the amount of any grant awarded to such an institution during such five-year period to: (1) 100 percent of project cost during its first year of funding; (2) 90 percent during the second year; (3) 75 percent during the third year; (4) 50 percent during the fourth year; and (5) 25 percent during the fifth year. Repeals provisions for Educational Opportunity Centers and for staff development activities under special program for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Part E: National Direct Student Loans - Revises provisions for Direct Loans to Students in Institutions of Higher Education (the NDSL program) under part D of title IV of the Act. Makes technical amendments. Provides that the need analysis for NDSL program purposes shall be in accordance with a need analysis system approved by the Secretary. (Current law requires such need analysis to be in accordance with specified need analysis provisions of title IV of the Act.) Revises the repayment period for direct student loans to begin six months after "the month" (currently "the date") in which the borrower ceases to carry a specified academic workload. Requires an eight percent annual interest rate on direct student loans made on or after July 1, 1985. Provides that specified deferments of repayment shall apply only to direct student loans made on or before July 1, 1985. Eliminates the six-month grace period following the completion of the study, service, or disability for which such deferment was given. Sets forth deferment provisions for direct student loans made on or after July 1, 1985. Provides that such deferments shall be: (1) not in excess of five years in the aggregate, during which the borrower has resumed study, and is carrying at least one-half the normal full-time academic workload, at an institution of higher education or at a comparable institution outside the United States approved by the Secretary for this purpose; (2) not less than six months, nor more than three years in the aggregate, during which the borrower is serving as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces; (3) not in excess of three years in the aggregate during which the borrower is in service as a volunteer under the Peace Corps Act; or (4) not in excess of three years in the aggregate, during which the borrower demonstrates a financial inability to repay any loan principal or interest because of exceptional circumstances which meet criteria established by the Secretary. Revises provisions for cancellation of direct student loans for certain public service to direct the Secretary to pay to each institution for each fiscal year an amount equal to ten percent of the aggregate of the amounts of direct student loans from its student loan funds which are cancelled pursuant to such provisions. Allows such payments to be used as each institution determines appropriate. Part F: General Provisions - Revises general provisions under title IV of the Act. Eliminates general provisions relating to need analysis. Revises provisions relating to independent students. Eliminates provisions for a common Federal financial aid application form and a common pre-eligibility Federal financial aid form. Revises provisions for title IV program participation agreements to eliminate a requirement that an institution continue to spend in its own scholarship and student aid program, from sources other than the funds received under title IV of the Act, not less than the average expenditures made for that purpose during the most recent period of three fiscal years preceding the effective date of the title IV program participation agreement. Authorizes the Secretary to waive all requirements for such program participation agreements with respect to an institution of higher education outside the United States and organized under the law of a foreign nation. Raises, from ten percent to 50 percent, that portion of an institution's allotment for either the work-study program or for the supplemental grant program which may be transferred to the other program. Revises provisions for administrative expenses to authorize the Secretary to require an institution to use specified funds it receives for Pell Grant administrative expenses to carry out specific activities. Eliminates a requirement that administrative expenses payments for work-study programs be ten percent of the institution's expenditures under such programs. Title III: Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities - Revises title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) to eliminate the authorization of appropriations for FY 1985 for part A (Grant for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Undergraduate Academic Facilities) and part B (Grants for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Graduate Academic Facilities). Lowers (from $80,000,000 to $18,775,000) the authorization of appropriations for FY 1985 for part C (Loans for Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities), and provides that none of the sums appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under this Act or otherwise available may be used for commitments for new loans under title VII of the Act. Authorizes appropriations for part D general provisions relating to recovery of payments under title VII. Title IV: Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education - Revises provisions of title X (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education). Directs the Secretary to require a recipient of assistance under part A (Establishment and Operation of Fund) to pay 50 percent of the allowable costs incurred by the recipient in carrying out a project assisted under such part. Authorizes appropriations to carry out title VII of the Act for FY 1985. Makes technical amendments. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates for specified provisions of this Act.

National Hispanic University Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

National Hispanic University Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to the National Hispanic University (organized in the State of California) in order to: (1) increase educational resources aimed at enhancing higher educational opportunities for Hispanics and other language-minority students; (2) foster greater participation on the part of that population in various professions; (3) enhance this Nation's multicultural and multilinguistic resources; and (4) provide for the continued professional development of persons involved in international commerce and diplomacy. Provides that: (1) 70 percent of such a grant shall be used to support students enrolled in the University through scholarships, grants, counseling, and other assistance; and (2) 30 percent shall be available to promote the institutional development of the University. Requires the National Hispanic University to report annually to the Secretary describing in detail the use of such grant funds and specific program accomplishments and progress obtained toward accreditation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988.

A bill to amend title XI of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1984

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 ("the Act") to revise title XI provisions. Renames title XI (currently "Urban Grant University Program") "Urban Grant University and Community Learning Programs." Adds new part B provisions for a Community Learning Program. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Urban Grant University Program (redesignated part A of title XI of the Act) through FY 1990. Permits other entities within the community, including the applicant university, to pay the non-Federal share of the cost of projects under the Urban Grant University Program. Provides that the Federal share of such project cost shall not exceed 90 percent. Includes planning services under the Urban Grant University Program. Makes technical amendments to definitions for Urban Grant University Program purposes. Sets forth provisions for the new part B Community Learning Program. Directs the Secrtary of Education to carry out a Community Learning Program to assist postsecondary institutions to establish and carry out programs to involve students in tutoring programs designed to address the problem of illiteracy. Authorizes the Secretary, from sums available for part B, to award grants to institutions meeting specified criteria. Allows any institution of higher education, as defined under specified provisions of the Act, to apply to the Secretary for part B assistance. Directs the Secretary to make awards on a competitive basis taking into consideration the relative cost and effectiveness of the proposed program. Sets forth application requirements. Limits the size and duration of such grants. Sets forth permissible uses of Community Learning Program grant funds. Authorizes appropriations for the Community Learning Program (established as part B of title XI of the Act by this Act) for each fiscal year through FY 1990.

Training Technology Transfer Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984

Training Technology Transfer Act of 1984 - Establishes an Office of Training Technology Transfer in the Department of Education. Provides that the Director of the Office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Education. Sets forth provisions relating to staffing and staff compensation. Requires the Director to compile and maintain a current and comprehensive inventory of all training technology developed by or under the supervision of Federal agencies, especially that developed by or under the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics of the Department of Defense. Requires that such inventory include specified contents with respect to each item of training technology listed. Requires the Director, in compiling such inventory, to: (1) consult with and fully utilize the resources of all Federal agencies engaged in the collection and dissemination of information concerning training technology; and (2) request the participation and cooperation of entities in the legislative and judicial branches. Requires the Director to disseminate the inventory and its revisions widely and on a regular basis to give all potential users of training technology ample notice of its development by Federal agencies. Requires the Director, in doing so, to use all interagency and intergovernmental communications mechanisms and to encourage the participation of independent private sector organizations. Requires the Director to develop and distribute detailed instructions and procedures for securing copies, and rights thereto, of training technology listed in such inventory and instructions for participating in a conversion assistance program established under this Act. Requires the Director to advise and consult with any entity which is a prospective user of training technology listed in the inventory and assist such entity in securing the transfer and conversion of such technology from the Federal agency which developed it. Requires the Director, if such agency has not established procedures for such transfer and conversion, to negotiate such transfer and conversion upon application by such entity. Requires the Director to enter into contracts with competent educational institutions and qualified private sector firms for the conversion of training technology in order to adapt such technology to the requirements of specified entities, upon application by such entity. Describes such an entity as: (1) a small business concern employing not more than 500 employees; (2) a public or private educational institution which is duly accredited, funded, or licensed by a State, including a college, university, community college, public school system, private preparatory school, or vocational school; (3) a trade association or a community-based organization; (4) a State or local government or agency or a private industry council; and (5) a consortium of State and local governments private industry councils, community-based organizations, or small business concerns each of which employs not more than 500 employees. Requires the Director, in awarding such contracts, to give preference to proposals by such entities which will result in the enhancement of the employability and potential earnings of a maximum number of individuals. Requires the Director to: (1) conduct analyses of national needs for conversions of training technology listed in the inventory, including analyses of the potential number of individuals who will benefit from such conversion, the content of computer software currently available for employee training, and the required levels of proficiency for the use of such software; and (2) encourage and promote multiple use of converted training technology by entities with similar training needs. Sets limits on the monetary amounts of individual contracts to specified types of entities. Authorizes the Director to allow matching payments by the applicants of up to 50 percent of the costs of conversion in cases where such costs exceed such contract limits. Prohibits any applicant which contributes to such conversion costs from receiving any proprietary interest, share of ownership or control, copyright, or patent in the technology converted with such contribution. Requires the Director to promulgate regulations and procedures for such contributions. Requires the Director, after the performance of a contract is completed, to provide a copy of the training technology converted pursuant to such contract to the entity which applied for the conversion. Requires that any training technology converted pursuant to a contract under this Act be: (1) listed in the inventory; and (2) available for conversion or transfer to any other entity pursuant to this Act. Requires any entity which is not described under this Act and which wishes to obtain the transfer or conversion of any training technology listed in the inventory to pay the full cost of such transfer or conversion. Limits the authority of the Director to enter into such contracts to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts. Requires the Director to conduct studies and analyses of conversions and transfers of training technology, including an evaluation of the effectiveness of training technology converted or transferred pursuant to this Act. Directs all Federal agencies to cooperate with the Director in implementing this Act. Directs any Federal agency head to report to the Secretary of Education any finding that the agency is unable to cooperate with the Director for reasons of national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress by July 1 of each year all such findings received by the Secretary during the preceding 12-month period. Sets forth administrative provisions. Establishes the Training Technology Transfer Advisory Board and sets forth provisions relating to Board appointments, compensation, and meetings. Provides that any training technology transferred or converted pursuant to this Act shall remain in the public domain and no recipient or beneficiary of such technology shall gain any exclusive right, patent, copyright, or ownership over such technology by reason of such transfer or conversion. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and succeeding fiscal years.

Older Americans Personal Health Education and Training Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1984

Older Americans Personal Health Education and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to, (1) establish an older Americans health education and training program in order to foster and promote the design and implementation of a health education and training program for older Americans who are 60 or older; (2) enter into agreements with public or private institutions of higher education with capability in public health to carry out this Act; (3) pay no more than 90 percent of the cost of any project which is the subject of an agreement; and (4) report to Congress concerning the projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987.

Veterans' Education and Employment Amendments of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1984

Title I: 15 Percent Increase in Rates - Increases veterans' educational assistance, including assistance for survivors and dependents, by 15 percent. Revises the formula for the reimbursement of administrative expenses to State and local agencies who monitor educational institutions attended by GI bill veterans to increase such allowance. Increases the subsistence allowance rate under the vocational rehabilitation program. Title II: Veterans' Employment in Civil Service - Extends veterans' readjustment appointments in the Federal Government up to and including the GS-11 level (currently fixed at GS-7). Grants a Vietnam veteran so appointed and terminated within the year to the same right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board as is held by a career or career-conditional employee during the first year of employment. Extends such appointments through FY 1987 (currently through FY 1984). Requires the Office of Personnel Management's annual report to Congress on veterans' readjustment appointments to breakdown by agency the number and grade of appointments, the number converted to career or career-conditional appointments, and the number and categories of causes of termination. Requires such report to breakdown such information for all veterans, with a separate breakdown veterans of the Vietnam era who are disabled.

A bill to amend title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1984

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 ("the Act") to revise title I provisions. Retitles title I (currently "Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning") as "Targeted Educational Outreach and Informational Programs." Retitles and replaces part A (currently "Commission on National Development in Postsecondary Education") with new provisions for "Postsecondary Education Innovation and Expansion Grants." Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program, in accordance with such title I part A, to assist eligible postsecondary institutions to establish programs to enhance the educational opportunities available to adult learners. Directs the Secretary, from specified sums, to award grants to institutions with applications meeting specified criteria for such assistance. Sets the maximum award that may be made under a single application under part A at $200,000 (to remain available for expenditure for not more than a three-year period). Makes institutions of higher education, as defined under general provisions of the Act, and combinations of such institutions eligible to apply for such assistance. Sets forth permissible uses of such grant funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to carry out part A. Retitles and replaces part B (currently "Education Outreach Programs") with new provisions for "Postsecondary Outreach Grants." Directs the Secretary, in accordance with such title I part B, to carry out a program to assist postsecondary institutions to establish and carry out programs designed to encourage the establishment and growth of off-campus educational programs. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to institutions with applications meeting specified criteria for assistance. Sets the maximum award that may be made under a single application under part B at $100,000 (to remain available for expenditure for not more than a three-year period). Makes institutions of higher education, as defined under general provisions of the Act, or combinations of such institutions, eligible for such assistance. Sets forth permissible uses of such grant funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to carry out part B. Eliminates provisions for the National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Sets forth new title I part C provisions for "Research Program Grants." Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education, public and private institutions and organizations, and States, or any combination thereof, to support the purposes of such part C by providing assistance to such educational institutions for specified educational research, development, information, and training activities relating to postsecondary education for adult learners. Sets forth application requirements for such grants and contracts. Sets the maximum award that may be made under a single application under part C at $200,000 (to remain available for expenditure for not more than a three-year period). Sets forth permissible uses of funds under part C. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to carry out part C. Sets forth a new title I part D ("Defined Term") which defines the term "adult learner" for purposes of title I.

Adult Education Amendments of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1984

Adult Education Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Adult Education Act ("the Act") to revise the statement of purpose to emphasize literacy as a prerequisite to effective citizenship and productive employment. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act for FY 1985 through 1989. Limits to five percent of the amount of a State's grant allotment of such appropriations for any fiscal year the amount which is to be made available to pay the cost of administration and development of the State plan and other activities required under the Act. Revises the formula for determining grant allotments to specified U.S. territories and possessions. Requires that the sum of any State's allotments under revised allotment provisions shall not be less than the total amount of payments made to the State under allotments determined under the Act for FY 1984. Provides for ratable reductions in other State allotments in order to obtain the amounts necessary to comply with the FY 1984 minimum allotment for all States. Requires that five percent of appropriations for this Act be set aside for national programs. Sets forth provisions for State programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make basic grants to States, from the sums in the State allotments, to assist in funding adult basic education programs, services, and activities carried out by eligible recipients to achieve the purposes of the Act. Requires that applications by eligible recipients contain: (1) a description of cooperative arrangements that have been made to deliver services to adult students; and (2) assurances that such adult education programs are coordinated with and not duplicative of services, programs, or activities made available to adults under other specified Federal laws. Sets a 20 percent limit on the amount of a State's allotment which may be used for high school equivalency certificate programs. Allows States, in addition to the basic grants, to designate up to ten percent of their State allotment for use to promote private sector adult training initiatives. Requires that at least 95 percent of the funds provided by the State agency to eligible recipients be expended for provision of adult education instructional activities. Sets forth provisions relating to State administrative responsibilities for programs under the Act. Revises membership requirements for State advisory councils on adult education. Requires that a majority of the members of such a State council be representatives of private sector employment. Requires that other members: (1) represent public agencies and institutions and State economic development agencies, the State job training coordinating council, the State vocational education board, and secondary and postsecondary educational agencies and institutions in the State; or (2) be individuals with special knowledge and qualifications with respect to the special educational needs of special populations (including the incarcerated, the disadvantaged, the handicapped, individuals with limited English proficiency, minorities, and the chronic unemployed) or with respect to guidance and counseling. Revises provisions relating to council functions to include biennial evaluations of adult education programs. Revises other provisions relating to council procedures. Revises provisions relating to State planning and applications. Requires State plans to cover periods of two fiscal years. Requires review of State plans by the State board or agency for vocational education, the State job training coordinating council, and the State advisory council on adult education. Revises required contents of State plans. Sets forth required assurances to be provided in State applications. Sets forth procedures relating to State plan amendments. Sets forth requirements for program evaluation by State agencies. Sets forth provisions relating to Federal administrative responsibilities. Revises provisions for withholding of program funds from States by the Secretary and for judicial review of such withholding. Permits any eligible recipient which is dissatisfied with a final action of the State administrative agency with respect to approval of its local plan to file for judicial review of such action. Deletes provisions relating to special projects for the elderly. Sets forth provisions for national programs. Extends the existence of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education until October 1, 1989. Deletes provisions relating to grants for improvement of educational opportunities for adult Indians. Revises provisions relating to adult immigrants. Adds provisions relating to adult migrant farmworkers. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to States and local eligible recipients to support planning, developing, and evaluating programs which are designed to provide adult education programs, services, and activities to meet the special needs of migrant farmworkers and immigrants. Sets forth provisions for State program analysis and policy studies. Directs the Secretary to assist States in evaluating the status and progress of adult education in achieving the purposes of the Act. Requires that such assistance include: (1) an analysis of State plans and of the findings in State evaluations, with suggestions for improvements in planning or program operation; and (2) an information network on specified types of information useful in the improvement of adult education. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Congress and within the first two years after enactment of this Act, to make a determination of the criteria for defining literacy and identify concretely those skills that comprise the basic educational skills needed for literate functioning. Directs the Secretary, once the definition of literacy has been determined, to determine an accurate estimate of the number of illiterate adults in the Nation, in consultation with the Congress and using the appropriate statistical sampling methodology. Directs the Secretary, subsequent to such determination, to report every four years to the President and the Congress on the status of literacy and adult education in the Nation. Directs the Secretary, every two years subsequent to the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the results of program evaluations, conclusions drawn therefrom, and recommendations. Sets forth provisions for adult literacy volunteer training. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States and local eligible recipients to support planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs designed to train adult volunteers, especially the elderly, who wish to participate as tutors in local adult education programs. Revises provisions relating to national research activities under the Act. Deletes provisions relating to an information clearinghouse. Retains a prohibition against grants under the Act for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or divinity schools or departments.

Computer Education Assistance Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1984

Computer Education Assistance Act of 1984 - Title I: Acquisition of Computer Resources - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening computer education in the elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1985 through 1991. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States and for allocation of allotments within States. Provides that two percent of the appropriations for this Act be reserved for specified territories and possessions of the United States. Provides for allotment to States on the basis of school-age population and on the basis of a formula for distribution of aid for disadvantaged school children under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs the State educational agency (SEA) to allocate the State allotment to local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of similar factors. Allows grants under this Act to be used to pay the Federal share of: (1) planning activities; (2) acquisition of computers and other equipment for computer education; (3) teacher training programs; and (4) computer software acquisition. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this Act. Sets forth requirements for local applications for payments under this Act. Makes specified provisions of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 relating to participation of children enrolled in private schools applicable to the financial assistance made available under this Act. Directs the Secretary to pay each State, from the amount allotted, the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of the program assisted under this Act. Permits non-Federal contributions to be in cash or in kind, including plant, equipment, and services. Title II: Teacher Training Institutes - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grants to and contracts with specified entities to develop and operate short-term or regular session study institutes to improve the qualifications of individuals engaged or preparing to engage in the teaching, or supervising or training of teachers, of the use of computers for computer education instruction and other education programs in elementary and secondary schools. Provides that special consideration be given to grant or contract applicants who will train teachers, or supervisors or trainers of teachers, serving or preparing to serve in elementary and secondary schools that enroll substantial numbers of disadvantaged youth or in programs for children of limited English language proficiency. Provides for weekly stipends for individuals who attend such institutes. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1985 through 1991. Title III: Information Dissemination and Evaluation - Directs the Secretary, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) and the NSF, to provide advice and technical assistance to SEAs and LEAs on the expenditure of funds under title I of this Act and on the acquisition of computer software through an interagency agreement to: (1) evaluate available computer hardware and software, in terms of it usefulness in the classroom; (2) disseminate the results of such evaluation; and (3) develop model computer educational software, and make such model software (and its design premises) available to computer software producers and distributors, teachers, and school administrators. Authorizes the Secretary and the NSF to make grants and contracts to carry out such functions. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1985 through 1991. Directs the NSF, through grants to or contracts with specified entities, to conduct, assist, and foster research and experimentation on, and dissemination of, models of instruction in the operation and use of computers. Gives priority to proposals prepared with active and broad community involvement of such groups as parents, teachers, school boards and administrators, and local business. Permits funds available under such grants and contracts to be used for the acquisition of computer hardware and software. Requires the Director of the NSF to: (1) report annually to the Congress on the results of such research and experimentation; and (2) in conjunction with the NIE, disseminate information concerning such results to LEAs. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1985 through 1991.

Impact Aid Amendments of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1984

Impact Aid Amendments of 1984 - Amends Federal law relating to the impact aid program of Federal assistance for local educational agencies (LEAs) in areas affected by Federal activity. Eliminates the authority of the Secretary of Education to make payments to LEAs on behalf of so-called "b" children in attendance at LEA schools who: (1) resided on Federal property; (2) resided with a parent employed on Federal property situated in the same county, school district, or State as the LEA; or (3) had a parent on active duty in the uniformed services. (Maintains the authority to make such payments on behalf of so-called "a" children in attendance at LEA schools who reside on Federal property and who: (1) do so with a parent employed on Federal property situated in the same county, school district, or State as the LEA; or (2) have a parent on active duty in the uniformed services.) Makes conforming amendments. Sets the entitlement of any LEA with respect to children who reside on low-rent federally subsidized housing property at 15 percent of the amount determined by the current formula under such impact aid program. Revises the formula for estimating the amount of preliminary payments under the impact aid program. Revises the formula for determining adjustments in impact aid payments where necessitated by the amount of appropriations. Eliminates provisions relating to certain discretionary allocations under the impact aid program. Revises certain restrictions on eligibility for disaster assistance under the impact aid program. Permits such disaster assistance payments to LEAs suffering damages from disasters occurring after September 30, 1983. Raises the threshold of eligibility for such disaster assistance from $1,000 or one-half of one percent of the LEA's current operating expenditures during the previous fiscal year to $10,000 or five percent of such expenditures, whichever is less. Amends the Education Amendments of 1974 to eliminate specified hold-harmless provisions which provide time for LEAs to adjust their budgets to decreases in enrollment caused by declining Federal activities within their jurisdictions.