An Act to strengthen and improve educational quality and educational opportunities in the Nations elementary and secondary schools
PL 89-10 (H.R.2362), enacted 04/11/1965

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Public Law 89-10 
AN A C T 
April 11. 1965 
To strengthen and improve educational quality and educational oi)i)oitunitie!S 
[H. R. 23(32] 
in the Nation's elementary and secondary sch(X)ls. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of RejJt'eHentatlves of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may gecondariEdT^ 
be cited as the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965". tion°Act of iges." 
TITLE I—FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL EDUCA-
TIONAL AGENCIES FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHIL-
DREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES AND EXTENSION 
OF PUBLIC LAW 874, EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS 
SEC. 2. The Act of September 30,1950, Public Law 874, Eighty-first 
Congress, as amended (2^ U.S.C. 236-244), is amended by inserting: 
64 stat. noo. 
"TITLE I—FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR LOCAL EDUCA-
TIONAL AGENCIES IN AREAS AFFECTED BY FEDERAL 
ACTIVITY" 
immediately above the heading of section 1, by striking out "this Act*' 
wherever it appears in sections 1 through 6, inclusive (other than 
where it appears in clause (B) of section 4(a)), and inserting in lieu 
6? stat. 53^?. 
thereof "this title", and by adding immediately after section 6 the 
following new title: 
"TITLE II—FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL EDUCA-
TIONAL AGENCIES FOR T H E EDUCATION OF CHIL-
DREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES 
"DECLARATION OF POLICY 
"SEC. 201. In recognition of the sjjecial educational needs of chil-
dren of low-income families and the impact that concentrations of low-
income families have on the ability of local educational agencies to 
support adequate educational programs, the Congress hereby declares 
it to be the policy of the United States to provide financial assistance 
(as set forth in this title) to local educational agencies serving areas 
with concentrations of children from low-income families to expand 
and improve their educational programs by various means (including 
preschool programs) Avhich contribute particularly to meeting the 
special educational needs of educationally deprived children. 
"KIXDS AND DURATIOX OF GRANTS 
"SEC. 2<)2. The Commissioner shall, in accordance with the provi-
sions of this title, make payments to State educational agencies for 
basic grants to local educational agencies for the period beginning 
July 1,1965, and ending June 30,1968, and he shall make payments to 
State educational agencies for special incentive grants to local educa-
tional agencies for the period beginning July 1, 1966, and ending 
June 30,1968. 
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BASIC GRANTS 
AMOUNT AND ELIGIBILITY 
"SEC. 203. (a)(1) From the sums appropriated for making basic 
grants under this title for a fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve 
such amount, but not in excess of 2 per centum thereof, as he may 
determine and shall allot such amount among Puerto Rico, Guam, 
American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the 
Pacific Islands according to their respective need for such grants. The 
maximum basic grant which a local educational agency in Puerto 
Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be eligible to receive shall be 
determined pursuant to such criteria as the Commissioner determines 
will best carry out the purposes of this title. 
"(2) In any case in which the Commissioner determines that satis-
factory data for that purpose are available, the maximum basic grant 
which a local educational agency in a State shall be eligible to receive 
under this title for any fiscal year shall be (except as provided in para-
graph (3)) an amount equal to the Federal percentage (established 
pursuant to subsection (c)) of the average per pupil expenditure 
in that State multiplied by the sum of (A) the number of children aged 
five to seventeen, inclusive, in the school district of such agency, of 
families having an annual income of less than the low-income factor 
(established pursuant to subsection (c)), and (B) tlie number of 
children of such ages in such school district of families receiving an 
annual income in excess of the low-income factor (as established pur-
suant to subsection (c)) from payments under the program of aid to 
families with dependent children under a State plan approved under 
42usc'6oY'609 
^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ Social Security Act. In any other case, the maximum 
basic grant for any local educational agency in a State shall be deter-
mined on the basis of the aggregate maximum amount of such grants 
for all such agencies in the county or counties in which the school dis-
trict of the particular agency is located, which aggregate maximum 
amount shall be equal to the Federal percentage of such per pupil 
expenditure multiplied by the number of children of such ages and 
families in such county or counties and shall be allocated among those 
agencies upon such equitable basis as may be determined by the State 
educational agency in accordance with basic criteria prescribed by 
"Average per 
^]^Q CommissioiieT. FoT purposes of this subsection the 'average per 
twe."^"^^^"^ '" 
pupil expenditure' in a State shall be the aggregate current expendi-
tures, during the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which 
the computation is made, of all local educational agencies in the State 
(without regard to the sources of funds from which such expenditures 
are made), divided by the aggregate number of children m average 
daily attendance to whom such agencies provided free public education 
during such preceding year. In determining the maximum amount of 
a basic grant and the eligibility of a local educational agency for a 
basic grant for any fiscal year, the number of children determined 
under the first two sentences of this subsection or under subsection 
(b) shall be reduced by the number of children aged five to seventeen, 
inclusive, of families having an annual income of less than the low-
income factor (as established pursuant to subsection (c)) for whom 
a payment was made under title I for the previous fiscal year. 
"(3) If the maximum amount of the basic grant determined pur-
suant to paragraph (1) or (2) for any local educational agency for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, is greater than 30 per centum of 
the sum budgeted by that agency for current expenditures for that 
year (as determined pursuant to regulations of the Commissioner), 
such maximum amount shall be reduced to 30 per centum of such 
budgeted sum. 
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"(4) For purposes of this subsection, the term 'State' does not 
include Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, 
and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 
"(b) A local educational agency shall be eligible for a basic grant 
for a fiscal year under this title only if it meets the following require-
ments with respect to the number of children aged five to seventeen, 
inclusive, of families having an annual income of less than the low-
income factor (as established pursuant to subsection (c)) : 
"(1) In any case (except as provided in paragraph (3)) in 
which the Commissioner determines that satisfactory data for 
the purpose of this subsection as to the number of such children 
of such families are available on a school district basis, the number 
of such children of such families in the school district of such 
local educational agency shall be— 
"(A) at least one hundred, or 
"(B) equal to 3 per centum or more of the total number 
of all children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in such 
district, 
whichever is less, except that it shall in no case be less than ten. 
"(2) In any other case, except as provided in paragraph (3), 
the number of children of such ages of families with such income 
in the county which includes such local educational agency's 
school district shall be one hundred or more. 
" (3) In any case in which a county includes a part of the school 
district of the local educational agency concerned and the Com-
missioner has not determined that satisfactory data for the 
purpose of this subsection are available on a school district basis 
for all the local educational agencies for all the counties into 
which the school district of the local educational agency concerned 
extends, the eligibility requirement with respect to the number 
of children of such ages of families of such income for such local 
educational agency shall be determined in accordance with regula-
tions prescribed by the Commissioner for the purposes of this 
subsection. 
"(c) For the purposes of this section, the 'Federal percentage' and ^^^f^'^^'if '^^'^" 
the 'low-income factor' for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, shall ""^"L^o^wlincome 
])e 50 per centum and $2,000, respectively. For each of the two sue- factor." 
ceeding fiscal years the Federal percentage and the low-income factor 
shall be established by the Congress by law. 
"(d) For the purposes of this section, the Commissioner shall deter-
mine the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, of 
families having an annual income of less than the low-income factor 
(as established pursuant to subsection (c)) on the basis of the most 
recent satisfactory data available from the Department of Commerce. 
At any time such data for a county are available in the Department 
of Commerce, such data shall be used in making calculations under 
this section. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall 
determine the number of children of such ages from families receiving 
an annual income in excess of the low-income factor (established pur-
suant to subsection (c)) from payments under the program of aid to 
families with dependent children under a State plan approved under 
title IV of the Social Security Act on the basis of the best available 
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data for the period most nearly comparable to those which are used 
by the Commissioner under the first two sentences of this subsection 
in making determinations for the purposes of subsections (a) and 
(b). When requested by the Commissioner, the Secretary of Com-
merce shall make a special estimate of the number of children of such 
ajres who are from families having an annual income less than the low 
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income factor (established pursuant to subsection (c)) in each county 
or school district, and the Commissioner is authorized to pay (either 
in advance or by way of reimbursement) the Secretary of Commerce 
the cost of making this special estimate. The Secretary of Commerce 
shall give consideration to any request of the chief executive of a 
State for the collection of additional census information. 
"'SPECIAL IXCEXTIVE GRANTS 
"SEC. 204. Each local educational agency which is eligible to receive 
a basic grant for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1967, shall be eligible 
to receive in addition a special incentive grant which does not exceed 
the product of (a) the aggregate number of children in average daily 
attendance to whom such agency provided free public education during 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and (b) the amount by which the 
average per pupil expenditure of that agency for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1965, exceeded 105 per centum of such expenditure for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1964. Each local educational agency which 
is eligible to receive a basic grant for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1968, shall be eligible to receive in addition a special incentive grant 
which does not exceed the product of (c) the aggregate number of 
children in average daily attendance to whom such agency provided 
free public education during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, 
and (d) the amount by which the average per pupil expenditure of 
that agency for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, exceeded 110 per 
centum of such expenditure for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964. 
j'Averagejjer 
-poT the purpose of tliis sectiou the 'average per pupil expenditure' 
ture." 
of a local educational agency for any year shall be the aggregate 
expenditures (without regard to the sources of fmids fixDm which such 
expenditures are made, except that funds derived from Federal sources 
shall not be used in computing such expenditures) from current reve-
nues made by that agency during that year for free public education, 
divided by the aggregate number of children in average daily attend-
ance to whom such agency provided free public education during 
that year. 
"APPLICATION 
"SEC. 205. (a) A local educational agency may receive a basic 
grant or a special incentive grant under this title for any fiscal year 
only upon application therefor approved by the appropriate State 
educational agency, upon its determination (consistent with such basic 
criteria as the Commissioner may establish)— 
"(1) that payments under this title will be used for programs 
and projects (including tlie acquisition of equipment and where 
necessary the construction of school facilities) (A) which are 
designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally 
deprived children in school attendance areas having high concen-
trations of children from low-income families and (B) which are 
of sufficient size, scope, and quality to give reasonable promise 
of substantial progress toward meeting tliose needs, and nothing 
herein shall be deemed to preclude two or more local educational 
agencies from entering into agreements, at their option, for 
carrying out jointly operated programs and projects under this 
title; 
"(2) that, to the extent consistent with the number of educa-
tionally deprived children in the school district of the local educa-
tional agency who are enrolled in private elementary and sec-
ondary schools, such agency has made pi'ovision for including 
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special educational services and arrangements (such as dual enroll-
ment, educational radio and television, and mobile educational 
services and equipment) in which such children can participate; 
"(3) that the local educational agency has provided satisfac-
tory assurance that the control of funds provided under this title, 
and title to property derived therefrom, shall be in a public 
agency for the uses and purposes provided in this title, and that 
a public agency will administer such funds and property; 
"(4) in the case of any project for construction of school facil-
ities, that the project is not inconsistent with overall State plans 
for the construction of school facilities and that the requirements 
of section 209 will be complied with on all such construction 
projects; 
"(5) that effective procedures, including provision for appro-
priate objective measurements of educational achievement, will 
be adopted for evaluating at least annually the effectiveness of 
the programs in meeting the special educational needs of educa-
tionally deprived children; 
"(6) that the local educational agency will make an annual 
report and such other reports to the State educational agency, in 
such form and containing such information, as may be reasonably 
necessary to enable the State educational agency to perform its 
duties under this title, including information relating to the edu-
cational achievement of students participating in programs carried 
out under this title, and will keep such records and afford such 
access thereto as the State educational agency may find necessary 
to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; 
"(7) that wherever there is, in the area served by the local edu-
cational agency, a community action program approved pursuant 
to title II of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Public Law 
88-452), the programs and projects have been developed in coop- 
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eration with the public or private nonprofit agency responsible 2831. 
for the community action program; and 
"(8) that effective proceoures will be adopted for acquiring and 
disseminating to teachers and administrators significant informa-
tion derived from educational research, demonstration, and simi-
lar projects, and for adopting, where appropriate, promising 
educational practices developed through such projects. 
"(b) The State educational agency shall not finallj^ disapprove in 
whole or in part any application for funds under this title without 
first affording the local educational agency submitting the application 
reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. 
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ASSURANCES TROM STATES 
"SEC. 206. (a) Any State desiring to participate in the program of 
this title shall submit through its State educational agency to the 
Commissioner an application, in such detail as the Commissioner 
deems necessary, which provides satisfactory assurance— 
"(1) that, except as provided in section 207(b), payments under 
this title will be used only for programs and projects which have 
been approved by the State educational agency pursuant to sec-
tion 205(a) and which meet the requirements of that section, and 
that such agencj will in all other respects comply with the pro-
visions of this title, including the enforcement of any obligations 
imposed upon a local educational agency under section 205(a) ; 
"(2) that such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures 
will be adopted as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement 
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of, and accounting for, Federal funds paid to the State (includ-
ing such funds paid by the State to local educational agencies) 
under this title; and 
^^p""^**- 
"(3) that the State educational agency will make to the Com-
missioner (A) periodic reports (including the results of objective 
measurements required by section 205(a) ('5)) evaluating the^ 
effectiveness of payments under this title and of particular pro-
gi-ams assisted under it in improving the educational attainment 
of educationally deprived children, and (B) such other reports 
as may be reasonably necessary to enable the Commissioner to 
perform his duties under this title (including such reports as he 
may require to determine the amounts which the local educational 
agencies of that State are eligible to receive for any fiscal year), 
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and assurance that such agency will keep such records and afford 
such access thereto as the Commissioner may find necessary to 
assure the correctness and verification of such reports. 
"(b) The Commissioner shall approve an application which meets 
the requirements specified in subsection (a), and he shall not finally 
disapprove an application except after reasonable notice and oppor-
tunity for a hearing to the State educational agency. 
"PAYMENT 
"SEC. 207. (a)(1) The Commissioner shall, subject to the provisions 
of section 208, from time to time pay to each State, in advance or other-
wise, the amount which the local educational agencies of that State 
are eligible to receive under this title. 
Such payments shall take into 
account the extent (if any) to which any previous payment to such 
State educational agency under this title (whether or not in the same 
fiscal year) was greater or less than the amount which should have 
been paid to it. 
"(2) From the funds paid to it pursuant to paragraph (1) each 
State educational agency shall distribute to each local educational 
agency of the State which is not ineligible by reason of section 203(b) 
and which has submitted an application approved pursuant to section 
205(a) the amount for which such application has been approved, 
except that this amount shall not exceed an amount equal to the total of 
the maximum amount of the basic grant plus the maximum amount 
of the special incentive grant as determined for that agency pursuant 
to sections 203 and 204, respectively. 
"(b) The Commissioner is authorized to pay to each State amounts 
equal to the amounts expended by it for the proper and efficient per-
formance of its duties under this title (including technical assistance 
for the measurements and evaluations required by section 205(a) (5)), 
except that the total of such payments in any fiscal year shall not 
exceed 1 per centiun of the total of the amount of the basic grants paid 
under this title for that year to the local educational agencies of the 
State. 
"(c) (1) Xo payments shall be made under this title for any fiscal 
year to a State which has taken into consideration payments under 
this title in determining the eligibility of any local educational agency 
in that State for State aid, or the amount of that aid, with respect to 
the free public education of children during that year or the preceding 
fiscal year. 
" (2) Xo payments shall be made under this title to any local educa-
tional agency for any fiscal year unless the State educational agency 
finds that the combined fiscal effort (as determined in accordance with 
regulations of the Commissioner) of that agency and the State with 
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respect to the provisdon of free public education by that agency for the 
preceding fiscal year was not less than such combined fiscal effort 
for that purpose for the fi.scal year ending June 30, 1964. 
a ADJUSTMENTS WHERE NECESSITATED BY APPROPRIATIONS 
"SEC. 208. If the sums appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 
30,1966, for making the payments provided in this title are not suffi-
cient to pay in full the total amounts which all loc^l and State educa-
tional agencies are eligible to receive under this title for such year, 
such amounts shall be reduced ratably. In case additional funds 
become available for making payments under this title for that year, 
such reduced amounts shall be increased on the same basis that they 
were reduced. 
" L A B O R 
STANDARDS 
"SEC. 209. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or 
subcontractors on all construction projects assisted under this title 
shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar 
construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in 
accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a— 
276a-5). The Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to the labor yo'^stat^^sss"'^^' 
standards specified in this section the authority and functions set forth 
in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 5 U.S.C. 
133Z-15) and section 2 of the xVct of June 13, 1934, as amended 
64 stat. i267. 
(40 U.S.C. 276c). 
63 Stat. 108. 
"WITHHOLDING 
"SEC. 210. Whenever the Commissioner, after reasonable notice and 
opportunity for hearing to any State educational agency, finds that 
there has been a failure to comply substantially with any assurance set 
forth in the application of that State approved under section 206(b), 
the Commissioner shall notify the agency that further payments will 
not be made to the State under this title (or, in his discretion, that 
the State educational agency shall not make further payments under 
this title to specified local educational agencies affected by the failure) 
until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. 
Until he is so satisfied, no further payments shall be made to the State 
under this title, or payments by the State educational agency under 
this title shall be limited to local educational agencies not affected by 
the failure, as the case may be. 
"JUDICIAL REVIEW 
"SEC. 211. (a) If any State is dissatisfied with the Commissioner's 
final action with respect to the approval of its application submitted 
under section 206(a) or with his final action under section 210, such 
State may, within sixty days after notice of such action, file with 
the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such State 
is located a petition for review of that action. A copy of the petition 
shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Com-
missioner. The Commissioner thereupon shall file in the court the 
record of the proceedings on which he based his action, as provided in 
section 2112 of title 28, United States Code. 
72 stat. 941. 
"(b) The findings of fact by the Commissioner, if supported by 
substantial evidence, shall be conclusive; but the court, for good cause 
shown, may remand the case to the Commissioner to take further 
evidence, and the Commissioner may thereupon make new or modified 
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findings of fact and may modify his previous action, and shall file 
in the court the record of the further proceedings. 
Such new or 
modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by 
substantial evidence. 
"(c) Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall have juris-
diction to affirm the action of the Commissioner or to set it asidCj in 
whole or in part. 
The judgment of the court shall be subject to review 
by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or cer-
tification as provided in section 1254 of title 28, United States Code. 
62 Stat. 928. 
" ^ T 
NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL 
"SEC. 212. (a) The President shall, within ninety days after the 
enactment of this title, appoint a National Advisory Council on the 
Education of Disadvantaged Children for the purpose of reviewing 
the administration and operation of this title, including its effective-
ness in improving the educational attainment of educationally de-
prived children, and making recommendations for the improvement 
of this title and its administration and operation. 
These recommenda-
tions shall take into consideration experience gained under this and 
other Federal educational programs for disadvantaged children and, 
to the extent appropriate, experience gained under other public and 
l)rivate educational programs for disadvantaged children. 
"(b) The Council shall be appointed by the President without 
regard to tlie civil service laws and shall consist of twelve persons. 
Wlien requested by the President, the Secretary of Health, Education, 
and Welfare shall engage such technical assistance as may be required 
to carry out the functions of the Council, and the Secretary shall make 
available to the Council such secretarial, clerical, and other assistance 
and such pertinent data prepared by the Department of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare as it mav require to carrv out such functions. 
dentTnd c°o^'^^'" 
"(c) Tlic Couucil sliall niake an annual report of its findings and 
gress. 
recommendations (including recommendations for changes in the pro-
visions of this title) to the President not later than March 81 of each 
calendar year beginning after the enactment of this title. The Presi-
dent shall transmit each such i*eport to the Congress together with his 
comments and recommendations. 
"(d) Members of the Council who are not regular 
full-time 
employees of the T'nited States shall, while serving on business of the 
Council, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Presi-
dent, but not exceeding $100 per day, including travel time: and while 
so serving away from their homes or r e ^ l a r places of business, they 
may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of sub-
sistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act 
75^stat*^3*39°34o 
^^ ^^^^ ('^ I'^.S.C. 73b-2) foT pei'sous in Government service employed 
intermittently.'' 
TKCITNICAL AND CONFORMING 
AMENDMENTS 
SEC. 3. (a) Clause (A) of section .3(c) (4) of the Act of Septem-
ber 30, 10.50, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, as amended (20 
^
6
7 st«t^,53i; 
U.S.C. 2-38 (c) (4) (A)) is amended by strikingout ") is," and insert-
ing ", but excluding funds available under title II) is,". 
(b) The sentence which immediately follows clause (B) of section 
4(a) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 2.39(a) (B)) is amended by inserting 
"(exclusive of funds available under title I I ) " immediately after 
"Federal funds". 
70 Stat. 971. 
67 Stat. 532. 
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(c) (1) Such Act is further amended by inserting "TITLE III— 
GENERAL" above the heading for section 7, and by redesignating 
sections 7, 8, and 9, and references thereto, as sections 301, 302, and 
20 usc'242-2^44 
303, respectively. 
(2) Subsections (b) and (c) of the section of such Act redesignated 
as section 302 are amended by striking out "this Act" wherever it 
appears and inserting in lieu thereof "title I". 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 4. (a) Paragraph (2) of the section of the Act of September 
30, 1950, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, as amended, redesig-
nated by section 3 of this Act as section 303, is amended to read as 
follows: 
"(2) The term 'child', except as used in title II, means any child 
"cwid." 
who is within the age limits for which the applicable State provides 
free public education." 
(b) Paragraph (4) of such section 303 is amended by inserting 
before the period at the end thereof ", except that for the purposes of 
title II such term does not include any education provided beyond 
grade 12". 
(c) Paragraph (5) of such section 303 is amended by inserting 
immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: ", or 
any expenditures made from funds granted under title II of this Act 
or titles II or I I I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965". 
(d) (1) Paragraph (8) of such section 303 is amended by inserting 
"American Samoa," after "the District of Columbia,", and by inserting 
after "the Virgin Islands" the following: ", and for purposes of title 
II, such term includes the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands". 
(2) Sections3(d) and 6(c) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 238(d), 241(c)) 67tta\!*53o°532, 
are each amended by inserting "American Samoa," after "Guam," 535, 
each time that it appears. 
(e) Such section 303 is further amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new paragraphs: 
"(11) The term 'county' means those divisions of a State utilized 
by the Secretary of Commerce in compiling and reporting data 
regarding counties. 
" (12) The term 'construction' includes the preparation of drawings 
and specifications for school facilities; erecting, building, acquiring, 
altering, remodeling, improving, or extending school facilities; and 
the inspection and supervision of the construction of school facilities. 
" (13) The term 'school facilities' means classrooms and related facil-
ities (including initial equipment) for free public education and 
interests in land (including site, grading, and improvements) on which 
such facilities are constructed, except that such term does not include 
those gymnasiums and similar facilities intended primarily for exhibi-
tions for which admission is to be charged to the general public. 
" (14) The term 'equipment' includes machinery, utilities, and built-
in equipment and any necessary enclosures or structures to house them, 
and includes all other items necessary for the functioning of a particu-
lar facility as a facility for the provision of educational services, 
including items such as instructional equipment and necessary furni-
ture, printed, published, and audio-visual instructional materials, and 
books, periodicals, documents, and other related materials. 
"(15) For the purpose of title II, the term 'elementary school' 
means a day or residential school which provides elementary educa-
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tion, as determined under State laWj and the term 'secondary school' 
means a day or residential school which provides secondary education, 
as determined under State law, except that it does not include any 
education provided beyond grade 12." 
EXTENSION OF TITLE I OF PUBLIC LAW 874 
EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS 
SEC. 5. Sections 2 (a), 3 (b), and 4 (a) of title I of the Act of Septem-
ber 30, 1950, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, as amended (20 
67^sta!^'53o^°/l2- ^.S-C. 237(a), 238(b), 239(a)), are each amended by striking out 
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' "1966" each place where it appears and inserting in lieu thereof 
"1968". 
TITLE II—SCHOOL LIBKAKY EESOURCES, TEXTBOOKS, 
AND OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS 
APPROPRIATIONS 
AUTHORIZED 
SEC. 201. (a) The Commissioner shall carry out during the fiscal 
year ending June 30,1966, and each of the four succeeding fiscal years, 
a program for making grants for the acquisition of school library 
resources, textbooks, and other printed and published instructional 
materials for the use of children and teachers in public and private 
elementary and secondary schools. 
(b) For the purpose of making grants under this title, there is 
hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $100,000,000 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1966; but for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1967, and the three succeeding fiscal years, only such sums may be 
appropriated as the Congress may hereafter authorize by law. 
ALLOTMENT TO STATES 
SEC. 202. (a) From the sums appropriated for carrying out this 
title for any fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve such amount, 
but not in excess of 2 per centum thereof, as he may determine and 
shall allot such amount among the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory 
of the Pacific Islands according to their respective needs for assistance 
under this title. From the remainder of such sums, the Commissioner 
shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to such 
remainder as the number of children enrolled in the public and private 
elementary and secondary schools of that State bears to the total num-
ber of children enrolled in such schools in all of the States. The num-
ber of children so enrolled shall be determined by the Commissioner 
on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to him. 
For purposes of this subsection, the term "State" shall not include the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin 
Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 
(b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for 
any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required 
for such fiscal year shall be available for reallotment from time to 
time, on such dates during such year as the Commissioner may fix, to 
other States in proportion to the original allotments to such States 
under subsection (a) for that year but with such proportionate amount 
for any of such other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the 
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sum the Commissioner estimates such State needs and will be able 
to use for such year; and the total of such reductions shall be similarly 
reallotted among the States whose proportionate amounts were not 
so reduced. Any amount reallotted to a State under this subsection 
during a year from funds appropriated pursuant to section 201 shall 
be deemed part of its allotment under section (a) for such year. 
STATE PLANS 
SEC. 203. (a) Any State which desires to receive grants under this 
title shall submit to the Commissioner a State plan, in such detail 
as the Commissioner deems necessary, which— 
(1) designates a State agency which shall, either directly or 
through arrangements with other State or local public agencies, 
act as the sole agency for administration of the State plan; 
(2) sets forth a program under which funds paid to the State 
from its allotment under section 202 will be expended solely for 
(A) acquisition of library resources (which for the purposes of 
this title means books, periodicals, documents, audio-visual mate-
rials, and other related library materials), textbooks, and other 
printed and published instructional materials for the use of chil-
dren and teachers in public and private elementary and secondary 
schools in the State, and (B) administration of the State plan, 
including the development and revision of standards relating to 
library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published 
instructional materials furnished for the use of children and 
teachers in the public elementary and secondary schools of the 
State, except that the amount used for administration of the 
State plan shall not exceed for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1966, an amount equal to 5 per centum of the amount paid to 
the State under this title for that year, and for any fiscal year 
thereafter an amount equal to 3 per centum of the amount paid 
to the State under this title for that year; 
(3) sets forth the criteria to be used in allocating library 
resources, textbooks, and other printed and published instruc-
tional materials provided under this title among the children 
and teachers of the State, which criteria shall— 
(A) take into consideration the relative need of the chil-
dren and teachers of the State for such library resources, 
textbooks, or other instructional materials, and 
(B) provide assurance that to the extent consistent with 
law such library resources, textbooks, and other instructional 
materials will be provided on an equitable basis for the use of 
children and teachers in private elementary and secondary 
schools in the State which comply with the compulsory 
attendance laws of the State or are otherwise recognized by 
it through some procedure customarily used in the State ; 
(4) sets forth the criteria to be used in selecting the library 
resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials to be pro-
vided under this title and for determining the proportions cf the 
State's allotment for each fiscal year which will be expended for 
library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published 
instructional materials, respectively, and the terms by which such 
library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials will 
be made available for the use of children and teachers in the 
schools of the State; 
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(5) sets forth policies and procedures designed to assure that 
Federal funds made available under this title for any fiscal year 
will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical, 
increase the level of State, local, and private school funds that 
would in the absence of such Federal funds be made available for 
library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published 
instructional materials, and in no case supplant such State, local, 
and private school funds; 
(6) sets forth such fiscal control and fund accounting pro-
cedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, 
and accounting for. Federal funds paid to the State (including any 
such funds paid by the State to any other public agency) under 
this title; and 
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(7) provides for making such reports, in such form and con-
taining such information, as the Commissioner may reasonably 
require to cany out his functions under this title, and for keeping 
Records. 
sucli records and for affording such access thereto as the Commis-
sioner may Hnd necessary to assure the correctness and verification 
of such reports, 
(b) The Commissioner shall approve any State plan and any modi-
fication thereof which complies with the provisions of subsection (a). 
PAYMENTS TO STATES 
SEC. 204. (a) From the amounts allotted to each State under section 
202 the Commissioner shall pay to that State an amount equal to the 
amount expended by the State in carrying out its State plan. 
Such 
payments may be made in installments, and in advance or by way of 
reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of overpay-
ments or underpayments. 
(b) In any State which has a State plan approved under section 
203(b) and in which no State agency is authorized by law to provide 
library resources, textbooks, or other printed and published instruc-
tional materials for the use of children and teachers in any one or 
more elementary or secondary schools in such State, the Commissioner 
shall arrange for the provision on an equitable basis of such library 
resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials for such use and 
shall pay the cost thereof for any fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 
1970, out of that State's allotment. 
PUBLIC CONTROL OF LIBRARY R E S O m C E S , TEXTBOOKS. AND OTHER INSTRUC-
TIONAL MATERIAL AND TYPES W H I C H MAY BE MADE AVAILABLE 
SEC. 205. (a) Title to library resources, textbooks, and other printed 
and published instructional materials furnished pursuant to this title, 
and control and administration of their use, shall vest only in a 
public agency. 
(b) The library resources, textbooks, and other printed and pub-
lished instructional materials made available pursuant to this title for 
use of children and teachers in any school in any State shall be limited 
to those which have been approved by an appropriate State or local 
educational authority or agency for use, or are used, in a public elemen-
tary or secondary school of that State. 
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ADMINISTRATION 
OF STATE PLANS 
SEC. 206. (a) The Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any 
State plan submitted under this title, or any modification thereof, with-
out first affording the State agency administering the plan reasonable 
notice and opportunity for a hearing. 
(b) Whenever the Conmiissioner, after reasonable notice and oppor-
tunity for hearing to such State agency, finds— 
(1) that the State plan has been so changed that it no longer 
complies with the provisions of section 203 (a), or 
(2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to 
comply substantially with any such provisions, 
the Commissioner shall notify such State agency that the State will 
not be regarded as eligible to participate in the program under this 
title until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to 
comply. 
JUDICIAL REVIEW 
SEC. 207. (a) If any State is dissatisfied with the Commissioner's 
final action with respect to the approval of its State plan submitted 
under section 203(a) or with his final action under section 206(b), 
such State may, within sixty days after notice of such action, file with 
the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such State 
is located a petition for review of that action. A copy of the petition 
shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Commis-
sioner. The Commissioner thereupon shall file in the court the record 
of the proceedings on which he based his action, as provided in section 
2112 of title 28, United States Code. 
72 stat. 94i. 
(b) The findings of fact by the Commissioner, if supported by sub-
stantial evidence, shall be conclusive; but the court, for good cause 
shown, may remand the case to the Commissioner to take further 
evidence, and the Commissioner may thereupon make new or modified 
findings of fact and may modify his previous action, and shall certify 
to the court the record of the further proceedings. 
Such new or 
modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by 
substantial evidence. 
i(c) The court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Com-
missioner or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of 
the court shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United 
States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
TITLE III—SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL CENTERS 
AND SERVICES 
APPROPRIATIONS 
AUTHORIZED 
SEC. 301. (a) The Commissioner shall carry out during the fiscal 
year ending June 30,1966, and each of the four succeeding fiscal years, 
a program for making grants for supplementary educational centers 
and services, to stimulate and assist in the provision of vitally needed 
educational services not available in sufficient quantity or quality, and 
to stimulate and assist in the development and establisliment of exem-
plary elementary and secondary school educational programs to serve 
as models for regular school programs. 
62 Stat. 928. 
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(b) For tlie purpose of making grants under this title, there is 
hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $100,000,000, for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1966; but for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1967, and the 3 succeeding fiscal years, only such sums may be appro-
priated as the Congress may hereafter authorize by law. 
APPORTIOXMENT AMOXG STATES 
SEC. 302. (a) From tlie sums appropriated for carrying out this 
title for each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve such amount, 
but not in excess of 2 per centum thereof, as he may determine and 
shall apportion such amount among the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands, according to their respective needs 
for assistance under this title. From the remainder of such sums the 
Commissioner shall apportion $200,000 to each State and shall appor-
tion the remainder of such sums among the States as follows: 
(1) he shall apportion to each State an amount which bears 
the same ratio to 50 per centum of such remainder as the number 
of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in the State bears 
to the number of such children in all the States, and 
(2) he shall apportion to each State an amount which bears 
the same ratio to 50 per centum of such remainder as the popula-
tion of the State bears to the population of all the States. 
For purposes of this subsection, the term "State"' does not include the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam. American Samoa, the Virgin 
Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 
(b) The number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, and 
the total population of a State and of all the States shall be deter-
mined by the Commissioner on the basis of the most recent satis-
factory data available to him. 
(c) The amount apportioned under this section to any State for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, shall be available for payments 
to applicants with approved applications in that State during that 
year and the next fiscal year. 
(d) The amount apportioned to any State under subsection (a) 
for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be 
required for the period for which that amount is available shall be 
available for reapportionment from time to time, on such dates during 
that period as the Commissioner may fix, among other States in pro-
portion to the amounts originally apportioned among those States 
under subsection (a) for that ^ear, but with the proportionate amount 
for any of the other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the 
sum the Commissioner estimates that State needs and will be able to 
use for that period: and the total of these reductions shall be similarly 
reapportioned among the States whose proportionate amounts were 
not so reduced. 
Any amount reapportioned to a State under this 
subsection from funds appropriated pursuant to section 301 for any 
fiscal year shall be deemed to be a part of the amount apportioned to 
it under subsection (a) for that year. 
TTSES OF FEDERAL FUXDS 
SEC. 303. Grants under this title may be used, in accordance with 
applications approved under section 304(b), for— 
(a) planning for and taking other steps leading to the develop-
ment of programs designed to provide supplementary educational 
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activities and services described in paragraph (b), including pilot 
projects designed to test the effectiveness of plans so developed; 
and 
(b) the establishment, maintenance, and operation of programs, 
including the lease or construction of necessary facilities and the 
acquisition of necessary equipment, designed to enrich the pro-
grams of local elementary and secondaiy schools and to offer a 
diverse range of educational experience to persons of varying 
talents and needs by providing supplementary educational services 
and activities such as— 
(1) comprehensive guidance and counseling, remedial 
instruction, and school health, physical education, recrea-
tion, psychological, and social work services designed to 
enable and encourage persons to enter, remain in, or reenter 
educational programs, including the provision of special 
educational programs and study areas during periods when 
schools are not regularly in session; 
(2) comprehensive academic services and, where appro-
priate, vocational guidance and counseling, for continuing 
adult education; 
(3) developing and conducting exemplary educational pro-
grams, including dual-enrollment programs, for the purpose 
of stimulating the adoption of improved or new educational 
programs (including those programs described in section 
503 (a) (4)) in the schools of the State; 
(4) specialized instruction and equipment for students 
interested in studying advanced scientific subjects, foreign 
languages, and other academic subjects which are not taught 
in the local schools or which can be provided more effectively 
on a centralized basis, or for persons who are handicapped 
or of preschool age; 
(5) making available modern educational equipment and 
specially qualified personnel, including artists and musicians, 
on a temporary basis to public and other nonprofit schools, 
organizations, and institutions; 
(6) developing, producing, and transmitting radio and 
television programs for classroom and other educational use; 
(7) providing special educational and related services for 
persons who are in or from rural areas or who are or have 
been otherwise isolated from normal educational opportuni-
ties, including, where appropriate, the provision of mobile 
educational services and equipment, special home study 
courses, radio, television, and related forms of instruction, 
and visiting teachers' programs; and 
(8) other specially designed educational programs which 
meet the purposes of this title. 
APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS AND CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL 
SEC. 304. (a) A grant under this title for a program of supplemen-
tary educational services may be made to a local educational agency 
or agencies, but only if there is satisfactory assurance that in the 
planning of that program there has been, and in the establishing and 
carrying out of that program there will be, participation of persons 
broadly representative of the cultural and educational resources of 
the area to be served. 
For the purposes of this section, the term educruo"nai ref 
"cultural and educational resources" includes State educational agen- sources." 
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cies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit private schools, public 
and nonprofit private agencies such as libraries, museums, musical 
and artistic organiza;tions, educational radio and television, and other 
cultural and educational resources. Such grants may be made only 
upon application to the Commissioner at such time or times, in such 
manner, and containing or accompanied by such information as the 
Commissioner deems necessary. Such applications shall— 
(1) provide that the activities and services for which assistance 
under this title is sought will be administered by or under the 
supervision of the applicant; 
(2) set forth a program for carrying out the purposes set forth 
in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of section 303 and provide 
for such methods of administration as are necessary for the 
proper and efficient operation of the program; 
(3) set forth policies and procedures which assure that Federal 
funds made available under this title for any fiscal year will be so 
used as to supplement and, to the extent practical, increase the 
level of funds that would, in the absence of such Federal funds, be 
made available by the applicant for the purposes described in 
paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 303, and in no case supplant 
such funds; 
(4) in the case of an application for assistance under this title 
which includes a project for construction of necessary facilities, 
provide satisfactory assurance (A) that reasonable provision has 
been made, consistent with the other uses to be made of the 
facilities, for areas in such facilities which are adaptable for 
artistic and cultural activities, (B) that upon completion of the 
construction title to the facilities will be in a State or local educa-
tional agency, and (C) that the requirements of section 308 will 
be complied with on all construction projects assisted under this 
title; 
(5) provide for such fiscal control and fund accounting pro-
cedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and 
accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this 
title; and 
Annual report. 
^g) provide for making an annual report and such other 
reports, in such form and containing such information, as the 
Commissioner may reasonably require to carry out his functions 
under this title and to determine the extent to which funds pro-
vided under this title have been effective in improving the educa-
Records. 
tioual opportuilities of persons in the area served, and for keeping 
such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commis-
sioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification 
of such reports, 
(b) Applications for grants under this title may be approved by 
the Commissioner only if— 
(1) the application meets the requirements set forth in sub-
section (a); 
(2) the program set forth in the application is consistent with 
criteria established by the Commissioner for the purpose of achiev-
ing an equitable distribution of assistance under this title within 
each State, which criteria shall be developed by him on the basis 
of a consideration of (A) the size and population of the State, 
(B) the geographic distribution of the population within the 
State, (C) the relative need of persons in different geographic 
areas and in different population groups within the State for the 
kinds of services and activities described in paragraph (b) of 
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section 303, and their financial ability to provide those services 
and activities, and (D) the relative ability of particular local edu-
cational agencies within the State to provide those services and 
activities; 
(3) in the case of an application for assistance for a program 
for carrying out the purposes described in paragraph (b) of sec-
tion 303, the Commissioner determines (A) that the program will 
utilize the best available talents and resources and will sub-
stantially increase the educational opportunities in the area to 
be served by the applicant, and (B) that, to the extent consistent 
with the number of children enrolled in nonprofit private schools 
in the area to be served whose educational needs are of the type 
which the supplementary educational activities and services pro-
vided under the program are to meet, provision has been made 
for participation of such children • and 
(4) the application has been submitted for review and recom-
mendations to the St^te educational agency. 
(c) Amendments of applications shall, except as the Commissioner 
may otherwise provide by or pursuant to regulations, be subject to 
approval in the same manner as original applications. 
PAYMENTS 
SEC. 305. (a) From the amounts apportioned to each State under 
section 302 the Commissioner shall pay to each applicant in that State 
which has an application approved under this title an amount equal 
to the total sums expended by the applicant under the application for 
the purposes set forth therein. 
(b) Payments under this title may be made in installments and in 
advance or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on 
account of overpayments or underpayments. 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
SEC. 306. (a) The Commissioner shall establish in the Office of 
Education an Advisory Committee on Supplementary Educational 
Centers and Services, consisting of the Commissioner, who shall be 
Chairman, and eight members appointed, without regard to the civil 
service laws, by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary. 
(b) The Advisory Committee shall advise the Commissioner (1) 
on the action to be taken with regard to each application for a grant 
under this title, and (2) in the preparation of general regulations and 
with respect to policy matters arising in the administration of this 
title, including the development of criteria for approval of applica-
tions thereunder. 
The Commissioner may appoint such special 
advisory and technical experts and consultants as may be useful in 
carrying out the functions of the Advisory Committee. 
(c) Members of the Advisory Committee shall, while serving on 
the business of the Advisory Committee, be entitled to receive compen-
sation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, 
including travel time; and, while so serving away from their homes 
or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, 
including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of 
the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for persons 
eo stat. aos; 
in the Government service employed intermittently. 
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RECOVERY OF PAYMENTS 
SEC. 307. If within twenty years after completion of any construc-
tion for which Federal funds have been paid under this title— 
(a) the owner of the facility shall cease to be a State or local 
educational agency, or 
(b) the facility shall cease to be used for the educational and 
related purposes for which it was constructed, unless the Com-
missioner determines in accordance with regulations that there 
is good cause for releasing the applicant or other owner from the 
obligation to do so, 
the United States shall be entitled to recover from the applicant or 
other owner of the facility an amount which bears to the then value of 
the facility (or so much thereof as constituted an approved project or 
projects) the same ratio as the amount of such Federal funds bore to 
the cost of the facility financed with the aid of such funds. 
Such 
value shall be determined by agreement of the parties or by action 
brought in the United States district court for the district in which 
the facility is situated. 
LABOR STANDARDS 
SEC. 308. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or 
subcontractors on all construction projects assisted under this title 
shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar 
construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in 
accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a— 
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276a-5). The Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to the labor 
standards specified in this section the authority and functions set forth 
in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 5 U.S.C. 
64 Stat. 1267. 
I33z-15) and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 
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U.S.C. 276c). 
63 Stat. 108. 
TITLE IV—EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING 
SEC. 401. The second section of the Act of July 26,1954 (20 U.S.C. 
68 Stat. 533. 
332), entitled "An Act to authorize cooperative research in educa-
tion", is redesignated as section 3 and the material which precedes it 
is amended to read as follows: 
"PURPOSE 
"SEC. 1. The purpose of this Act is to enable the Office of Education 
more effectively to accomplish the purposes and to perform the duties 
for which it was originally established. 
"EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING 
"SEC. 2. (a) (1) The Com.missioner of Education (hereinafter in 
this Act referred to as the 'Commissioner') is authorized to make 
grants to universities and colleges and other public or private agencies, 
institutions, and organizations and to individuals, for research, sur-
veys, and demonstrations in the field of education (including programs 
described in section 503(a) (4) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965), and for the dissemination of information derived 
from educational research (including but not limited to information 
concerning promising educational practices developed under programs 
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carried out under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965) and, without regard to sections 3648 and 3709 of the Kevised 
Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529; 41 U.S.C. 5), to provide by contracts or 
jointly financed cooperative arrangements with them for the conduct 
of such activities; except that no such grant may be made to a private 
agency, organization, or institution other than a nonprofit one. 
" (2) No grant shall be made or contract or jointly financed coopera-
tive arrangement entered into under this subsection until the Com-
missioner has obtained the advice and recommendations of a panel 
of specialists who are not employees of the Federal Government and 
who are competent to evaluate the proposals as to the soundness of 
their design, the possibilities of securing productive results, the ade-
quacy of resources to conduct the proposed research, surveys, or dem-
onstrations, and their relationship to other similar educational research 
or dissemination programs already completed or in progress. 
"(b) The Commissioner is authorized to make grants to public and 
other nonprofit universities and colleges and to other public or non-
profit agencies, institutions, and organizations to assist them in provid-
ing training in research in the field of education (including such re-
search described in section 503(a) (4) of the Elementary and Second-
ary Education Act of 1965), including the development and strength-
ening of training staff and curricular capability for such training. 
Grants under this subsection may, when so authorized by the Commis-
sioner, also be used by such grantees (1) in establishing and maintain-
ing research traineeships, internships, personnel exchanges, and pre-
and post-doctoral fellowships, and for stipends and allowances (in-
cluding traveling and subsistence expenses) for fellows and others 
undergoing training and their dependents not in excess of such maxi-
mum amounts as may be prescribed by the Commissioner, or (2), 
where the grantee is a State educational agency, in providing for such 
traineeships, internships, personnel exchanges, and fellowships either 
directly or through arrangements with public or other nonprofit insti-
tutions or organizations. No grant shall be made under this subsec-
tion for training in sectarian instruction or, for work to be done in an 
institution, or a department or branch of an institution, whose pro-
gram is specifically for the education of students to prepare them to 
become ministers of religion or to enter upon some other religious 
vocation or to prepare them to teach theological subjects. 
"(c) In addition to the authority granted by section 603(b) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, funds available 
to the Commissioner for grants or contracts or jointly financed cooper-
ative arrangements under this section shall, with the approval of the 
Secretary, be available for transfer to any other Federal agency for 
use (in accordance with an interagency agreement) by such agency 
(alone or in combination with funds of that agency) for purposes for 
which such transferred funds could be otherwise expended by the 
Commissioner under the foregoing provisions of this section, and the 
Commissioner is likewise authorized to accept and expend funds of any 
other Federal agency for use under this section. 
"(d) The Commissioner shall transmit to the Congress annually a 
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report concerning the research, surveys, and demonstrations, the infor-
mation disseminating activities, and the training in research initiated 
under this Act, the recommendations made by research specialists 
pursuant to subsection (a) (2), and any action taken with respect to 
such recommendations." 
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CONFORMING AMENDMENTS 
Ante, p. 44. 
gj,^. 402. The section of such Act redesignated as section 3 is 
amended by striking out "this Act" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"section 2". 
CONSTRUCTION OF REGIONAL FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH AND RELATED 
PURPOSES 
SEC. 403. Such Act is further amended by adding the following new 
sections at the end thereof: 
" C O N S T R U C T I O N o r R E G I O N A L F A C I L I T I E S FOR RESEARCH AND RELATED 
PURPOSES 
"SEC. 4. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated over a period 
of five fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30,1966, 
$100,000,000 in the aggregate, to enable the Commissioner to carry out 
the purposes of this section. Sums so appropriated shall remain avail-
able until expended for payments with respect to projects for whicli 
applications have been filed under this section before July 1,1970, and 
approved by the Commissioner before July 1,1971. 
"(b) Whenever the Commissioner finds that the purposes of this 
Act can best be achieved through the construction of a facility for 
research, or for research and related purposes (as defined in this sec-
tion) , and that such facility would be of particular value to the Nation 
or a region thereof as a national or regional resource for research or 
related purposes, he may make a grant for part or all of the cost of 
constructing such facility to a university, college, or other appropriate 
public or nonprofit private agency or institution competent to engage 
m the types of activity for which the facility is to constructed, or to a 
combination of such agencies or institutions, or may construct or make 
arrangements for constructing such facility through contracts for pay-
ing part or all of the cost of construction or otherwise. The Commis-
sioner may, where he deems such action appropriate, make arrange-
ments, by contract or otherwise, for the operation of such facilities or 
may make contributions toward the cost of such operation of facilities 
of this nature whether or not constructed pursuant to, or with the aid 
provided under, this section. Title to any facility constructed under 
this section, if vested in the United States, may be transferred by the 
Commissioner on behalf of the United States to any such college or 
university or other public or nonprofit private agency or institution, 
but such transfer shall be made subject to the condition that the 
facility will be operated for the purposes for which it was constructed 
and to such other conditions as the Commissioner deems necessary 
to carry out the objectives of this title and to protect the interests of 
the United States. 
"(c) All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or sub-
contractors in the performance of work on construction of any project 
under this section shall be paid wages at rates not less than those 
prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the 
Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as 
^g^g^stat.^u)!!; 
amended (40 U.S.C. 276a—270a-5). The Secretary of Labor shall 
have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this clause, the 
authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 
64 Stat. 1267. 
u of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 5 U.S.C. 133z-15), and section 2 of the Act 
63 Stat. 108. 
of Juue 13,1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c). 
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47 
"(d) Payments under this section shall be made in advance or by 
way of reimbursement, in such installments consistent with construc-
tion progress, and on such conditions as the Commissioner may 
determine. 
" (e) As used in this section, the term 'research and related purposes' 
"Research and ^
^ 
means research, research training, surveys, or demonstrations in the "
"
^
^
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^
^ purposes." 
field of education, or the dissemination of information derived there-
from, or all of such activities, including (but without limitation) 
experimental schools, except that such term does not include research, 
research training, surveys, or demonstrations in the field of sectarian 
instruction or the dissemination of information derived therefrom. 
(( 
DEFINITIONS 
"SEC. 5, As used in this Act— 
"(1) The term 'State' includes, in addition to the several States of 
the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Colum-
bia, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. 
"(2) The term 'State,educational agency' means the State board of 
education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the 
State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if 
there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by 
the Governor or by State law. 
"(3) The term 'nonprofit' as applied to any agency, organization, 
or institution means an agency, organization, or institution owned and 
operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part 
of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the 
benefit of any private shareholder or individual. 
"(4) The terms 'construction' and 'cost of construction' include (A) 
the construction of new buildings and the expansion, remodeling, and 
alteration of existing buildings, including architects' fees, but not 
including the cost of acquisition of land or off-site improvements, and 
(B) equipping new buildings and existing buildings, whether or not 
expanded, remodeled, or altered. 
"SHORT TITLE 
"SEC. 6. This Act may be cited as the 'Cooperative Research Act'." 
TITLE V—GRANTS TO STRENGTHEN STATE DEPART-
MENTS OF EDUCATION 
APPROPRIATIONS 
AUTHORIZED 
SEC. 501. (a) The Commissioner sliall carry out during the fiscal 
year ending Jmie 30,1966, and each of the four succeeding fiscal years, 
a program for making grants to stimulate and assist States in strength-
ening the leadership resources of their State educational agencies, and 
to assist those agencies in the establishment and improvement of pro-
grams to identify and meet the educational needs of States. 
(b) For the purpose of making grants under this title, there is 
hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $25,000,000 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1966; but for the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1967, and the three succeeding fiscal years, only such sums may be 
appropriated as the Congress may hereafter authorize by law. 
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[79 STAT. 
APPORTIONMENT AMONG 
STATES 
SEC. 502. (a) (1) From 85 per centum of the sums appropriated for 
carrying out this title for each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall 
reserve such amount, but not in excess of 2 per centum of such 85 per 
centum of such sums, as he may determine and shall apportion such 
amount among the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American 
Samoa, and the Virgin Islands according to their respective needs for 
assistance under this title. From the remainder of such 85 per centum 
of such sums the Commissioner shall apportion $100,000 to each State, 
and shall apportion to each State such part of the remainder of such 
85 per centum of such sums as the number of public school pupils in 
the State bears to the number of public school pupils in all the States, 
as determined by the Com^missioner on the basis of the most recent 
satisfactory data available to him. For purposes of this paragraph, 
the term 'State' does not include the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. 
(2) Fifteen per centum of the siuns appropriated pursuant to section 
501 for each fiscal year shall be reserved by the Commissioner for 
grants for special projects pursuant to section 505. 
(b) (.1) The amount apportioned to any State under paragraph (1) 
of subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner deter-
mines will not be required for that year shall be available for reappor-
tionment from time to time, on such dates during that year as the 
Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the amounts 
originally apportioned among those States under subsection (a) (1) 
for that year, but with the proportionate amount for any of the other 
States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Commissioner 
estimates that State needs and will be able to use for that year; and 
the total of these reductions shall be similarly reapportioned among 
the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. 
Any 
amount reapportioned to a State under this subsection from funds 
appropriated pursuant to section 501 for any fiscal year shall be 
deemed part of the amount apportioned to it under subsection (a) (1) 
for that year. 
(2) In accordance with regulations of the Commissioner any State 
may file with him a request that a specified portion of the amount 
apportioned to it under subsection (a) (1) be added to the amount 
apportioned to another State under that subsection for the purpose 
of meeting a portion of the Federal share (as defined in section 503 
(b)) of the cost of carrying out one or more programs or activities 
under an approved application of that other State. If the Commis-
sioner finds that the programs or activities with respect to which the 
request is made would meet needs of the State making the request and 
that use of the specified portion of the amount apportioned to that 
State, as requested by it, would assist in carrying out the purposes of 
this title, that portion shall be added to the amount apportioned to the 
other State under subsection (a)(1) to be used for the purpose referred 
to above. The Federal share of the total funds expended for such 
programs or activities shall be adjusted on the basis of the proportion 
of such total funds so expended by each participating State from the 
amounts originally apportioned to each such State. 
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49 
GRANTS FROM APPORTIONED FUNDS 
SEC. 503. (a) From the amount apportioned to any State for any 
fiscal year under section 502 the Commissioner may, upon approval of 
an application or applications therefor submitted to him by such State 
through the State educational agency, make a grant or grants to such 
agency equal to the Federal share of expenditures incurred by such 
agency for the planning of, and for programs for, the development, 
improvement, or expansion of activities promoting the purposes set 
forth in section 501 (a) and more particularly described in such appli-
cation and for which such application is approved, such as— 
(1) educational planning on a statewide basis, including the 
identification of educational problems, issues, and needs in the 
State and the evaluation on a periodic or continuing basis of 
education programs in the State; 
(2) providing support or services for the comprehensive and 
compatible recording, collecting, processing, analyzing, interpret-
ing, storing, retrieving, and reporting of State and local educa-
tional data, including the use of automated data systems; 
(3) dissemination or support for the dissemination of informa-
tion relating to the condition, progress, and needs of education 
in the State; 
(4) programs for conducting, sponsoring, or cooperating in 
educational research and demonstration programs and projects 
i 
such as (A) establishing and maintaining curriculum research 
and innovation centers to assist in locating and evaluating cur-
riculum research findings, (B) discovering and testing new edu-
cational ideas (including new uses of printed and audio-visual 
media) and more effective educational practices, and putting into 
use those which show promise of success, and (C) studying ways 
to improve the legal and organizational structure for education 
and the management and administration of education in the State; 
(5) publication and distribution, or support for the publica-
tion and distribution, of curricular materials collected and de-
veloped at curriculum research centers and elsewhere; 
(6) programs to improve the quality of teacher preparation, in-
cluding student-teaching arrangements, in cooperation with in-
stitutions of higher education and local educational agencies; 
(7) studies or support for studies concerning the financing of 
public education in the State; 
(8) support for statewide programs designed to measure the 
educational achievement of pupils; 
(9) training and otherwise developing the competency of indi-
viduals who serve State or local educational agencies and pro-
vide leadership, administrative, or specialist services throughout 
the State, or throughout the area served by a local educational 
agency, through the initiation, improvement, and expansion of 
activities such as (A) sabbatical leave programs, (B) fellowships 
and traineeships (including educational expenses and the cost of 
travel) for State educational agency personnel to pursue gradu-
ate studies, and (C) conducting institutes, workshops, and con-
ferences (including related costs of operation and payment of 
the expenses of participants) ; and 
(10) providing local educational agencies and the schools of 
those agencies with consultative and technical assistance and serv-
ices relating to academic subjects and to particular aspects of edu-
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[79 STAT. 
cation such as the education of the handicapped, school building 
d e s i ^ and utilization, school social work, the utilization of mod-
em instructional materials and equipment, transportation, edu-
cational administrative procedures, and school health, physical 
education, and recreation, 
(b) (1) For the purposes of this section the Federal share for any 
State shall be 100 per centum for fiscal years ending prior to July 1, 
1967. Thereafter the Federal share for any State shall be 100 per 
centum less the State percentage, except that (A) the Federal share 
shall in no case be more than 66 per centum or less than 50 per centum, 
and (B) the Federal share for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands shall be 66 per centum. 
The "State percentage" for any State shall be that percentage which 
bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of that 
State bears to the per capita income of all the States (excluding the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Virgin Islands). 
(2) The Federal share for each State for the fiscal years beginning 
July 1, 1967, and July 1, 1968, shall be promulgated by the Commis-
sioner between July 1 and August 31, 1966, and the Federal share for 
each State for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1969, shall be pro-
mulgated by the Commissioner between July 1 and August 31, 1968. 
Such Federal share shall be computed on the basis of the average of 
the per capita incomes of each State and of all the States (excluding 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Virgin Islands) for the three most recent consecutive years for which 
satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. 
APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS FROM APPORTIONED FUNDS 
SEC. 504. An application for a grant under section 503 may be 
approved by the Commissioner only upon his determination that— 
(a) each of the proposed projects, programs, and activities for 
which it is approved meets the requirements of section 503(a) 
and will make a significant contribution to strengthening the 
leadership resources of the applicant or its ability to participate 
effectively in meeting the educational needs of the State; 
(b) the application contains or is supported by adequate as-
surance that Federal funds made available under the approved 
application will be so used as to supplement, and to the extent 
practical, increase the amounts of State funds that would in the 
absence of such Federal funds be made available for projects and 
activities which meet the requirements of section 503(a); 
(c) the application sets forth such fiscal control and fund 
accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper dis-
bursement of, and accounting for. Federal funds paid to the State 
(including any such funds paid by the State to agencies, institu-
tions, or organizations) under this title; and 
^«p°"^s- 
(d) the application provides for making such reports, in such 
form and containing such information, as the Commissioner may 
Records. 
require to carry out his functions under this title, and for keeping 
such records and for affording such access thereto as the Com-
missioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verifi-
cation of such reports. 
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51 
SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS 
SEC. 505. Fifteen per centum of the sums appropriated pursuant to 
section 501 for each fiscal year shall be used by the Commissioner to 
make grants to State educational agencies to pay part of the cost of 
experimental projects for developing State leadership or for the estab-
lishment of special services which, in the judgment of the Commis-
sioner, hold promise of making a substantial contribution to the 
solution of problems common to the State educational agencies of all 
or several States. 
PAYMENTS 
SEC. 506. Payments pursuant to grants under this title may be made 
in installments, and in advance or by way of reimbursement, with 
necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments, 
as the Commissioner may determine. 
INTERCHANGE OF PERSONNEL WITH STATES 
SEC. 507. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term "State" 
means a State or any agency of a State engaged in activities in the field 
of education, but it does not include a local educational agency; and 
the term "Office" means the Office of Education. 
(b) The Commissioner is authorized, through agreements or other-
wise, to arrange for assignment of officers and employees of States to 
the Office and assignment of officers and employees in the Office to 
States, for work which the Commissioner determines will aid the Office 
in more effective discharge of its responsibilities as authorized by law, 
including cooperation with States and the provision of technical or 
other assistance. 
The period of assignment of any officer or employee 
under an arrangement shall not exceed two years. 
(c) (1) Officers and employees in the Office assigned to any State 
pursuant to this section shall be considered, during such assignment, 
to be (A) on detail to a regular work assignment in the Office, or (B) 
on leave without pay from their positions in the Office. 
(2) Persons considered to be so detailed shall remain as officers or 
employees, as the case may be, in the Office for all purposes, except that 
the supervision of their duties during the period of detail may be 
governed by agreement between the Office and the State involved. 
(3) In the case of persons so assigned and on leave without pay— 
(A) if the rate of compensation (including allowances) for 
their employment by the State is less than the rate of compensa-
tion (including allowances) they would be receiving had they 
continued in their regular assignment in the Office, they may 
receive supplemental salary payments from the Office in the 
amount considered by the Commissioner to be justified, but not 
at a rate in excess of the difference between the State rate and 
the Office rate; and 
(B) they may be granted annual leave and sick leave to the 
extent authorized by law, but only in circumstances considered by 
the Commissioner to justify approval of such leave. 
Such officers and employees on leave without pay shall, notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, be entitled— 
(C) to continuation of their insurance under the Federal 
Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, and coverage 
5^us*c*209fnote. 
under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959, so long 
73 stat. 7
0 s. 
5 use 3001 note. 
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[79 STAT. 
as the Office continues to collect the employee's contribution from 
the officer or employee involved and to transmit for timely deposit 
into the funds created under such Acts the amount of the 
employee's contributions and the Government's contribution from 
appropriations of the Office; and 
(D) to credit the period of their assignment under the arrange-
ment under this section toward periodic or longevity step increases 
and, upon payment into the civil service retirement and disability 
fund of the percentage of their State salary, and of their supple-
mental salary payments, if any, which would have been deducted 
from a like Federal salary for the period of such assignment and 
payment by the Commissioner into such fund of the amount which 
would have been payable by him during the period of such assign-
ment with respect to a like Federal salary, to treat (notwithstand-
ing the provisions of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 
ru?a226*7^note. 
1^^^' uuder the head "Civil Service Retirement and Disability 
Fund") their service during such period as service within the 
51150^2251 note. 
meaning of the Civil Service Retirement Act; 
except that no officer or employee or his beneficiary may receive any 
benefits under the Civil Service Retirement Act, the Federal 
Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959, or the Federal Employees' 
Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, based on service during an assign-
ment hereunder for which the officer or employee or (if he dies without 
making such election) his beneficiary elects to receive benefits, under 
any State retirement or insurance law or program, which the Civil 
Service Commission determines to be similar. The Office shall deposit 
currently in the funds created under the Federal Employees' Group 
C^TTI!^^*^!^^" * I-'ife Insurance Act of 1954, the Federal Employees Health Benefits 
5 u s e 2091 note. 
n ^ r. r\ 
i 
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• 
• 
T 
T 
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P
I 
73 Stat. 708. 
Act 01 19o9, and the civil service retirement and disability fund, 
5 use 3001 note, respectively, the amount of the Government's contribution under these 
Acts on account of service with respect to which employee contribu-
tions are collected as provided in subparagraph (C) and the amount 
of the Government's contribution under the Civil Service Retirement 
Act on account of service with respect to which payments (of the 
amount which would have been deducted under that Act) referred 
to in subparagraph (D) are made to such civil service retirement 
and disability fund. 
(4) Any such officer or employee on leave without pay who suffers 
disability or death as a result of personal injury sustained while in 
the performance of his duty during an assignment hereunder, shall 
be treated, for the purposes of the Federal Employees' Compensation 
63^stat^854*^' 
Act, as though he were an employee, as defined in such Act, who had 
5 use 751*note, sustaiued such injury in the performance of duty. When such person 
(or his dependents, in case of death) entitled by reason of injury 
or death to benefits under that Act is also entitled to benefits from a 
State for the same injury or death, he (or his dependents in case of 
death) shall elect which benefits he will receive. Such election shall 
be made within one year after the injury or death, or such further time 
as the Secretary of Labor may for good cause allow, and w^hen made 
shall be irrevocable unless otherwise provided by law. 
(d) Assignment of any officer or employee in the Office to a State 
under this section may be made Avith or without reimbursement by 
the State for the compensation (or supplementary compensation), 
travel and transportation expenses (to or from the place of assign-
ment), and allowances, or any part thereof, of such officer or employee 
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53 
during tlie period of assignment, and any such reimbursement shall be 
credited to the appropriation utilized for paying such compensation, 
travel or transportation expenses, or allowances. 
(e) Appropriations to the Office shall be available, in accordance 
with the standardized Government travel regulations, for the expenses 
of travel of officers and employees assigned to States under an ar-
rangement under this section on either a detail or leave-without-pay 
basis and, in accordance with applicable law, orders, and regulations, 
for expenses of transportation of their immediate families and ex-
penses of transportation of their household goods and personal effects, 
in connection with the travel of such officers and employees to the loca-
tion of their posts of assignment and their return to their official 
stations. 
(f) Officers and employees of States who are assigned to the Office 
under an arrangement under this section may (1) be given appoint-
ments in the Office covering the periods of such assignments, or (2) 
be considered to be on detail to the Office. Appointments of persons 
so assigned may be made without regard to the civil service laws. 
Persons so appointed in the Office shall be paid at rates of compensa-
tion determined in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, 78^stat°*4oo''^' 
and shall not be considered to be officers or employees of the Office 
susc loyiinote. 
for the purposes of (1) the Civil Service Retirement Act, (2) the 
s°usc^225tnote 
Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, or (3) unless 
es stat. yaeT *
* 
their appointments result in the loss of coverage in a group health 
susc209)note. 
benefits plan whose premium has been paid in whole or in part by a 
State contribution, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 
1959. State officers and employees who are assigned to the Office with-
out appointment shall not be considered to be officers or employees 
of the Office, except as provided in subsection (g), nor shall they be 
paid a salary or wage by the Office during the period of their assign-
ment. The supervision of the duties of such persons during the assign-
ment may be governed by agreement between the Commissioner and 
the State involved. 
(g) (1) Any State officer or employee who is assigned to the Office 
without appointment shall nevertheless be subject to the provisions 
of sections 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209 of title 18 of the United States 
Code. 
(2) Any State officer or employee who is given an appointment 
while assigned to the Office, or who is assigned to the Office without 
appointment, under an arrangement under this section, and who suffers 
disability or death as a result of personal injury sustained while in 
the performance of his duty during such assignment shall be treated, 
for the purpose of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as 
39 stat. 742; 
though he were an employee, as defined in such Act, who had sustained 
5 use ysl'note 
such injury in the performance of duty. 
When such person (or his 
dependents, in case of death) entitled by reason of injury or death 
to benefits under that Act is also entitled to benefits from a State for 
the same injury or death, he (or his dependents, in case of death) 
shall elect which benefits he will receive. Such election shall be made 
within one year after the injury or death, or such further time as the 
Secretary of I^abor may for good cause allow, and when made shall 
be irrevocable unless otherwise provided by law, 
(h) The appropriations to the Office shall be available, in accordance 
with the standardized Government travel regulations, during the pe-
riod of assignment and in the case of travel to and from their places 
73 stat. 708, 
5 use 3001 note. 
Conflict-of-
interest. 
76 stat, 1121. 
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[79 STAT. 
of assignment or appointment, for the payment of expenses of travel 
of persons assigned to, or given appointments by, the Office under an 
arrangement under this section. 
(i) All arrangements under this section for assignment of officers 
or employees in the Office to States or for assignments of officers or 
employees of States to the Office shall be made in accordance with 
regulations of the Commissioner. 
ADMINISTRATION OF STATE PLANS 
SEC. 508. (a) The Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any 
aj)plication submitted under section 504, or any modification thereof, 
without first affording the State educational agency submitting the 
application reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. 
(b) Wlienever the Commissioner, after reasonable notice and oppor-
tunity for hearing to the State educational agency administering a 
program under an application approved under this title, finds— 
(1) that the application has been so changed that it no longer 
complies with the provisions of section 504(a), or 
(2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to 
comply substantially with any such provision, 
the Commissioner shall notify such State educational agency that the 
State will not be regarded as eligible to participate in the program 
under this title until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such 
failure to comply. 
JUDICIAL 
R E M ; E W 
SEC. 509. (a) If any State is dissatisfied with the Commissioner's 
final action with respect to the approval of an application submitted 
under section 504(a) or with his final action under section 508(b), 
such State may, within sixty days after notice of such action, file with 
the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such State 
is located a petition for review of that action. A copy of the petition 
shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Com-
missioner. 
The Commissioner thereupon shall file in the court the 
record of the proceedings on which he based his action as provided in 
72 Stat. 941. 
sectlou 2112 of title 28, United States Code. 
(b) The findings of fact by the Commissioner, if supported by sub-
stantial evidence, shall be conclusive; but the court, for good cause 
shown, may remand the case to the Commissioner to take further 
evidence, and the Commissioner may thereupon make new or modified 
findings of fact and may modify his previous action, and shall certifv 
to the court the record of the further proceedings. Such new or modi-
fied findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by sub-
stantial evidence. 
(c) The court shall have jurisdiction to affinn the action of the 
Commissioner or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of 
the court shall be subject to i-eview by the Supreme Court of the United 
States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of 
62 Stat. 928. 
fitle 28, T^uited States Code. 
PERIODIC REVIEW OF PROGRAM AND LAWS 
SEC. 510. (a) The Secretary shall, within ninety days after the date 
of enactment of this title, appoint an Advisory Council on State 
Departments of Education for the purpose of reviewing the adminis-
tration of the programs for which funds are appropriated pursuant 
to this title and making recommendations for improvement of such 
dent and Con-
gress. 
79 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-10-APR. 11, 1965 
55 
administration, and reviewing the status of and making recommenda-
tions with respect to such programs and this title and with respect to 
other Acts under which funds are appropriated to assist State educa-
tional agencies to administer Federal programs relating to education. 
(b) The Council shall be appointed by the Secretary without regard 
to the civil service laws and shall consist of twelve persons who shall, 
to the extent possible, include persons familiar with the educational 
needs of the Nation, persons familiar with the administration of State 
and local educational programs, and persons representative of the gen-
eral public. 
(c) The Secretary is authorized to engage such technical assistance 
as may be required to carry out the functions of the Council, and the 
Secretary shall, in addition, make available to the Council such secre-
tarial, clerical, and other assistance and such pertinent data prepared 
by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as it may 
require to carry out such functions. 
(d) The Council shall make an annual report of its findings and ^ ^
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recommendations (including recommendations for changes in the pro-
visions of this title and of other education Acts) to the Secretary not 
later than March 31 of each calendar year beginning after the enact-
ment of this title. The Secretary shall transmit each such report to 
the President and the Congress together with his comments and 
recommendations. 
(e) Members of the Council who are not regular full-time employees 
of the United States shall, while serving on business of the Council, be 
entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not 
exceeding $100 per day, including travel time; and while so serving 
away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be 
allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as 
authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 
(5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for persons in Government service employed 75^stat^3'39°^'4o 
intermittently. 
TITLE VI—GENEEAL PKOVISIONS 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 601. As used in titles II, III, and V of this Act— 
(a) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Educa-
tion. 
(b) The term "construction" means (1) erection of new or expansion 
of existing structures, and the acquisition and installation of equip-
ment therefor; or (2) acquisition of existing structures not owned by 
any agency or institution making application for assistance under this 
Act; or (3) remodeling or alteration (including the acquisition, 
installation, modernization, or replacement of equipment) of existing 
structures; or (4) a combination of any two or more of the foregoing. 
(c) The term "elementary school" means a day or residential school 
which provides elementary education, as determined under State law. 
(d) The term "equipment" includes machinery, utilities, and built-
in equipment and any necessary enclosures or structures to house them, 
and includes all other items necessary for the functioning of a partic-
ular facility as a facility for the provision of educational services, 
including items such as instructional equipment and necessary furni-
ture, printed, published, and audio-visual instructional materials, and 
books, periodicals, documents, und other related materials. 
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[79 STAT. 
(e) The term "institution of higher education" means an educa-
tional institution in any State which— 
(1) admits as regular students only individuals having a cer-
tificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equiva-
lent of such a certificate; 
(2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a pro-
gram of education beyond high school; 
(3) provides an educational program for which it awards a 
bachelor's degree, or provides not less than a two-year program 
which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, or offers 
a two-year program in engineering, mathematics, or the physical 
or biological sciences which is designed to prepare the student to 
w^ork as a technician and at a semiprof 
essional level in engineering, 
scientific, or other technological fields which require the under-
standing and application of basic engineering, scientific, or mathe-
matical principles or knowledge; 
(4) is a public or other nonprofit institution; and 
(5) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency 
or association listed by the Commissioner pursuant to this para-
graph or, if not so accredited, is an institution whose credits are 
accepted, on transfer, by not less than three institutions which 
are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as if transferred 
from an institution so accredited: Provided^ hoioever^ That in the 
case of an institution offering a two-year program in engineering, 
mathematics, or the physical or biological sciences which is de-
signed to prepare the student to work as a technician and at a semi-
professional level in engineering, scientific, or technological fields 
which require the understanding and application of basic engineer-
ing, scientific, or mathematical principles or knowledge, if the 
Commissioner determines that there is no nationally recognized 
accrediting agency or association qualified to accredit such in-
stitutions, he shall appoint an advisory committee, composed of 
persons specially qualified to evaluate training provided by such 
institutions, which shall prescribe the standards of content, scope, 
and quality which must be met in order to qualify such institu-
tions to participate under this Act and shall also determine 
whether particular institutions meet such standards. 
For the 
purposes of this paragraph the Commissioner shall publish a list 
of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations 
which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of 
education or training offered. 
(f) The term "local educational agency" means a public board of 
education or other public authority legally constituted within a State 
for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a 
service function for, public elementary or secondary schools in a city, 
county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a 
State, or such combination of school districts or counties as are recog-
nized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary 
or secondary schools. 
Such term also includes any other public insti-
tution or agency having administrative control and direction of a 
public elementary or secondary school. 
(g) The term "nonprofit" as applied to a school, agency, organiza-
tion, or institution means a school, agency, organization, or institution 
owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associa-
tions no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully 
inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. 
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(h) The term "secondary school" means a day or residential school 
which provides secondary education, as determined under State law, 
except that it does not include any education provided beyond grade 12. 
(i) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Educa-
tion, and Welfare. 
(j) The term "State" includes, in addition to the several States of 
the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Colum-
bia, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands and for purposes 
of title I I and title I I I , such term includes the Trust Territory of the 
Pacific Islands. 
(k) The term "State educational agency" means the State board 
of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the 
State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, 
if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated 
by the Governor or by State law. 
ADVISORY 
COUNCILS 
SEC. 602. (a) The Commissioner may, without regard to the civil 
service laws, and subject to the Secretary's approval in such cases as 
the Secretary may prescribe, from time to time appoint, in addition to 
the advisory councils and committees authorized in preceding titles, 
an advisory council of ten members to advise and consult with the 
CommissionQr with respect to his functions under this law. 
(b) Members of such an advisory council who are not regular full-
time employees of the United States shall, while attending meetings 
or conferences of such council or otherwise engaged on business of 
such council, be entitled to receive compensation at a rate fixed by the 
Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per diem, including travel time, and, 
while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, 
they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
\ 
subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses 
Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. T3b-2) for persons in the Government service „^°,5*^*-,Q^°fi, 
employed intermittently. 
FEDERAL 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 603. (a) The Commissioner may delegate any of his functions 
under this Act or any Act amended by this Act, except the making of 
regulations, to any officer or employee of the Office of Education. 
(b) In administering the provisions of this Act or any Act amended 
by this Act, the Commissioner is authorized to utilize the services and 
facilities of any agency of the Federal Government and of any other 
public or nonprofit agency or institution in accordance with appro-
priate agreements, and to pay for such services either in advance or 
by way of reimbursement, as may be agreed upon. 
FEDERAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION PROHIBITED 
SEC. 604. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to author-
ize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States 
to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, 
program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any eauca-
tional institution or school system, or over the selection of library 
resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional mate-
rials by any educational institution or school system. 
49-850 0-66—7 
75 Stat. 339,340. 
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PUBLIC LAW 89-11-APR. 14, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS UNDER THIS ACT 
SEC. 605. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to author-
ize the making of any payment under this Act, or under any Act 
amended by this Act, for religious worship or instruction. 
Approved April 11, 1965. 
April 14, 1965 
[S. 307] 
Motor fuels tax-
ation compact. 
Consent of Con-
gress. 
Public Law 89-11 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to a compact relating to taxation of motor 
fuels consumed by interstate buses and to an agreement relating to bus tax-
ation proration and reciprocity. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
TITLE I 
SECTION 101. The consent of Congress is hereby given to the States 
of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Mary-
land, and to the District of Columbia to enter into a compact on taxa-
tion of motor fuels consumed by interstate buses. But before any 
other States, any Province of Canada, or any State or territory or 
the Federal District of Mexico shall be made a party to such compact, 
the further consent of Congress shall first be obtained. Such compact 
shall be in substantially the following form: 
"COMPACT ON TAXATION O F MOTOR F U E L S 
CONSUMED BY INTERSTATE BUSES 
"ARTicLiE I—PURPOSES 
"The purposes of this agreement are to— 
"(a) avoid multiple taxation of motor fuels consumed by 
interstate buses and to assure each State of its fair share of motor 
fuel taxes; 
"(b) establish and facilitate the administration of a criterion 
of motor fuel taxation for interstate buses which is reasonably 
related to the use of highway and related facilities and services 
in each of the party States; and 
"(c) encourage the availability of a maximum number of buses 
for intrastate service by removing motor fuel taxation as a 
deterrent in the routing of interstate buses. 
"ARTICLE II—DEFINITIONS 
"(a) State: State shall include the States of the United States, the 
District of Columbia, the territories of the United States, the Prov-
inces of Canada, and the States, Territories, and Federal District 
of Mexico. 
"(b) Contracting State: Contracting State shall mean a State 
whith is a party to this agreement. 
"(c) Administrator: Administrator shall mean the official or 
agency of a State administering the motor fuel taxes involved. 
"(d) Person: Person shall include any individual, firm, copartner-
ship, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business 
trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting 
as a unit.