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Better Schools Act of 1973

Chart 6 After all àllocations are made the total appropriation of $2,770,992,000 ($2,771.0) shows a distribution to the disadvantaged of 56%; impact aid of 7%; handicapped of 6%; vocational education of 16% and support materials and services of 15%.

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Three Alternative Allocations for Disadvantaged Children
Compared to the FY 72 Title I Allocation

Title I

Actual FY72
1960 Census
Floor FY71

(in Millions $)

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STATIS

* Eighteen states in column 1, six states in column 2, and
all states in column 3 are funded at the floor level for LEAS.

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MR. TED CROUCHLEY

Bellevue

MR. ROBERT E. DRANEY
Lincoln

MR. TOM ELSON

Curtis

FATHER JOHN A. FLYNN

Omaha

MR. MARTIN GARTNER
Grand Island

MR. MAX L HENSLEY
Kimball

DR. RENE HLAVAC
Omaha

MR. JERRY KROMBERG
Lincoln

MR. EMMETT J. LEE

Spalding

MR. STANLEY MATZKE
Lincoln

MR. LAWRENCE W. M. McVOY
Omaha

DR. EDWIN H. PARRISH
Omaha

DR. WILLIAM J. PTACEK
Scottsbluff

MR. LARRY RASMUSSEN
Mead

MR. RICHARD J. SEDLACEK
North Platte

MRS. EDITH WIGHTMAN
Wsyne

MR. KEN WORTMAN

Aurora

Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Pell:

The Nebraska Advisory Council for Vocational Education has given careful study to the Educational Revenue Sharing bills that were introduced to the House and Senate in the third week in March. We have tried to analyze the effect of these bills with an open mind and visualize the impact that will be created in the event they become law.

Frankly, we find very little in these two bills that represents a change for the better. In fact, the legislation seems to be completely unconcerned about providing educational services to individuals. The lack of appreciation for the importance of occupational education is totally inconsistent with the increased emphasis which is needed for employability training and education of less than the baccalaureate degree.

It is our unanimous impression that the bills contain very little that would contribute to better schools, yet that is the disguise under which the legislation is being masqueraded. We are appalled with the change in priorities, as only elementary and secondary levels are mentioned, while the important phases of postsecondary and adult vocational education are ignored. We see a continued emphasis toward academic education which is turning far too many students off in this day and age. In short, this is educational statesmanship in reverse which contributes little to the true educational needs of this country at the present time.

We do accept the philosophy of decentralization of the federal government and encouraging more decisions to be made at the state level. However, since Nebraska presently ranks 49th nationally in state support to secondary vocational education, we fear that the problem would only be further complicated.

Senator PELL. Our next witness is State Representative Tom Jensen, Tennessee Commissioner, Education Commission of the States, National Legislative Conference.

STATEMENT OF TOM JENSEN, TENNESSEE COMMISSIONER, EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES, NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE

CONFERENCE

Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to appear before you today on behalf of the education commission of the States, of which I am currently serving as a commissioner from the State of Tennessee, and on behalf of the National Legislative Conference.

Your committee has before it a number of bills of major importance for elementary and secondary education in this country. Among these are S. 1539, introduced by the chairman of the committee, which would extend with modications the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and establish a variety of other programs, and S. 1319, the Better Schools Act of 1973, submitted by the administration.

Many of the issues in these bills turn on the capacity and initiative of the States to manage educational programs. Indeed, State government is increasingly the pivotal unit in the governmental chain which ends with teachers and students in the classrooms. In recognition of the primary constitutional and political responsibility of the States for public education, the education commission of the States was established by interstate compact in 1966 for the primary purpose of assisting in the improvement of education and the reform of State and local educational institutions.

Each of our 47 member States and territories has seven representatives on the commission, including the Governor, two State legislators, school officials, and public representatives. The work of the commission is addressed to the achievement of educational improvement and reform through initiatives at the State and local level.

The National Legislative Conference serves 7,600 State legislators throughout the 50 States. The Intergovernmental Relations Committee of which I am a member and will serve as chairman in this coming year is the vehicle for the expression of State legislative views in Washington on all major intergovernmental issues affecting State government. The committee is composed of over 200 State legislators and meets four times during the year.

In February of 1972 an ad hoc school finance committee, chaired by Senator Thomas Laverne of New York, was created to analyze the fiscal impact of recent State and Federal court decisions related to the financing of education and to recommend alternative action programs available to the States with respect to these decisions.

Working in close cooperation with the education commission of the States and other organizations, the recommendations were finalized last summer and submitted for approval to the entire National Legislative Conference at our annual meeting last August. The report was adopted unanimously.

The contributions of the special committee to the area of school finance were so noteworthy we felt it should continue to function in order to encourage the implementation of its recommendations and to

Senator PELL. We now stand recessed subject to the call of the Chair.

[Whereupon at 12:04 p.m., the subcommittee was recessed subject to the call of the Chair.]

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