An Act to authorize cooperative research in education
PL 83-531 (H.R.9040), enacted 07/26/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 532-JULY 26, 1954 
533 
Public Law 531 
CHAPTER 576 
AN ACT 
To authorize cooperative research in education. 
July 26, 1954 
TH. R. 9040] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) in order 
to enable the Office of Education more effectively to accomplish the 
purposes and to perform the duties for which it was originally estab-
lished, the Commissioner of Education is authorized to enter into con-
tracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with universities 
and colleges and State educational agencies for the conduct of 
research, surveys, and demonstrations in the field of education. 
(b) No contract or jointly financed cooperative arrangement shall 
be entered into under this section until the Commissioner of Education 
has obtained the advice and recommendations of educational research 
specialists who are competent to evaluate the proposals as to the sound-
ness of their design, the possibilities of securing productive results, the 
adequacy of resources to conduct the proposed research, surveys, or 
demonstrations, and their relationship to other similar educational 
research already completed or in process. 
(c) The Commissioner of Education shall transmit to the Congress 
annually a report concerning the research, surveys, and demonstra-
tions initiated under this Act, the recommendations made by research 
specialists pursuant to subsection (b), and any action taken with 
respect to such recommendations. 
SEC. 2. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to 
the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Wel-
fare, such sums as the Congress determines to be necessary to carry 
out the purposes of this Act. 
Approved July 26, 1954. 
Educational r c ' 
search. 
Cooperative a 
rangetnents, etc. 
Advice of spe^ 
cialists. 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
Appropriation, 
Public Law 532 
CHAPTER 577 
AN ACT 
To establish a National Advisory Conunittee on Education. 
July 26,1954 
[H, R. 7434] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in order to 
secure for the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (herein-
after referred to in this Act as the "Secretary") the advice of a group 
of representative citizens on the hiitiation and conduct of studies of 
problems of national concern in the field of education and on 
appropriate action as a result thereof, there is hereby established 
in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National 
Advisory Committee on Education (hereinafter referred to as the 
"Committee"). 
SEC. 2. 
The Committee shall be composed of nine members 
appointed without regard to civil-service laws by the Secretary from 
among individuals wlio are not otherwise in office under or in the 
employ of the Federal Government, a majority of whom shall be 
other than professional educators, one of whom shall be designated by 
the Secretary as Chairman. Each member shall hold office for a term 
National A d v i -
sory Committee on 
Education. 
Members.