Fuller, Edgar, executive secretary, National Council of Chief State School Table entitled, "Evaluation of Federal aid construction bills". Table II. Allotments of Federal funds to the several States under Goodwill, Glen T., superintendent of schools, Monterey public schools, Monterey, Calif., chart submitted by, "Relation of current school build- ing need to maximum legal bonding capacity for 45 California school dis- Guernsey, George T., associate director of education, Congress of Industrial Hamon, Ray L., chief, school housing section, Office of Education, letter of, to Mr. Wixcey, committee clerk, in response to Senator Humphrey's Hecht, George J., chairman, American Parents Committee, article by, en- titled "Our desparate need for more schools-and what can be done Hudtloff, A. G., superintendent of schools, Clover Park, Wash., insertions Exhibit A. Statement with respect to Clover Park school district__ Exhibit B. Attendance growth versus classroom needs, Clover Park school district 400, Pierce County, Wash_ Exhibit C. Letters from builders advising of their building programs__ Humphrey, Hon. Hubert H., a United States Senator from the State of Chavez, Hon. Dennis, a United States Senator from the State of New Mexico, and chairman, Committee on Public Works, letter of, favor- Jaeger, Herman F., superintendent of schools, Grand Coulee, Wash., letter of, to Senator Magnuson, in re Grand Coulee school district___ Kingsley, J. Donald, Acting Administrator, Federal Security Agency, letter of, to Mr. Wixcey, committee clerk, in re Federal supervision of Langer, Hon. William, a United States Senator from the State of North Dakota, letter of, and reply thereto, by Senator Humphrey, in re S. 287__ Lindman, Dr. E. L., deputy superintendent of public construction, State of Wanamaker, Pearl A., superintendent of public instruction, State of Marshall, James, member, New York City Board of Education, chart sub- 326 98 181 McGrath, Earl J., Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Estimates by States of public elementary and secondary school plant Ability and effort of States to support a foundation educational Miller, Hon. Bert H., a United States Senator from the State of Idaho, Morton, M. B., superintendent, Butler Township schools, Montgomery Myers, Hon. Francis J., a United States Senator from the State of Pennsyl- Patten, Hon. Harold A., a Representative in Congress from the State of Page Rose, Oscar V., superintendent of schools, Midwest City, Okla., table submitted by, "Attendance impact since last normal year (8 to 10 Russell, Hon. Richard B., a United States Senator from the State of Georgia, letter of, transmitting statement of W. P. Sprayberry, super- intendent, Cobb County schools, Marietta, Ga., concerning construction Saxon, J. Harold, executive secretary, Georgia State Education Association, Stebbins, Walter E., supervising principal, Mad River Township schools, Dayton, Ohio, table submitted by, Mad River Township schools, Montgomery County, Dayton, Ohio. -- Tarzinski, Charles R., principal, Northridge School, Montgomery County, Taylor, Hon. Glen H., a United States Senator from the State of Idaho, Withers, Hon. Garrett L., a United States Senator from the State of Kentucky, letter of, and reply thereto by Senator Humphrey, in re 341 337 Cain, Hon. Harry P., a United States Senator from the State of Washington, tendent, south central public schools, Seattle, Wash-- Chapman, Hon. Virgil M., a United States Senator from the State of Kentucky, letter of, transmitting letter from G. C. Burkhead, super- intendent, Hardin County Board of Education, Elizabethtown, Ky. Church, Ben M., superintendent, Henderson school district, Henderson, Fritchman, James B., president, board of trustees, Port Neches independent school district, Port Neches, Tex., letter and tables submitted by Fuller, Edgar, executive secretary, National Council of Chief State School Officers, letter of, transmitting additional material in re school con- Johnson, Hon. Lyndon B., a United States Senator from the State of Texas, letter of, transmitting statement of J. M. Hanks, superintendent, Ysleta, Keehn, Thomas B., legislative secretary, Council for Social Action, Congre- Livonia Township school district, Wayne County, Mich., statement sub- 382 Magnuson, Hon. Warren G., a United States Senator from the State of Washington, letter of, transmitting letter from Donald I. Cady, super- School District No. 64, Lake County, North Chicago, Ill., statement sub- 381 FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:15 a. m., in room G-48, the Capitol, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senator Humphrey. Senator HUMPHREY. We open hearings this morning on Senate bills 137, 287, 1263, 1670, and 1699, having to do with construction for educational purposes. The bills will be inserted in the record at this point. (S. 137, S. 287, S. 1263, S. 1670, and S. 1699 are as follows:) [S. 137, 81st Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the making of grants and loans to the States to assist in providing adequate public elementary and secondary school facilities Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to assist the States to provide adequate educational facilities in their public elementary and secondary school systems, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized to make grants totaling $300,000,000 and loans totaling $300,000,000 to the States as hereinafter provided. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS SEC. 2. (a) Ninety-eight per centum of the funds made available for grants and for loans under this Act shall be made available to the States, excluding those enumerated in subsection (b) in the same proportion as the number of children from five to seventeen years of age in each State during the calendar year preceding the date of enactment of this Act bears to the total number of children from five to seventeen years of age in the United States, including the District of Columbia, during such calendar year. (b) Two per centum of the funds made available for grants and for loans under this Act shall be made available for grants and for loans to Alaska, Hawaii, the Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and Guam according to their respective needs for additional funds for public elementary and secondary school facilities upon the basis of joint agreements with their respective State educational authorities. (c) The Secretary of Commerce shall certify to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation the number of children from five to seventeen years of age in each of the States during the calendar year preceding the date of enactment of this Act. TERMS OF LOANS AND GRANTS SEC. 3. (a) Loans to States under this Act shall be for such period of time, not in excess of twenty years, as each State may elect, and shall bear interest at a rate of 22 per centum per annum. Each loan to a State shall be secured by 1 bonds of the school district or other taxing unit in the jurisdiction of which the proceeds of such loan are to be utilized. No loan shall be made which exceeds 50 per centum of the total cost as furnished to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the State educational authority, of the educational facilities for which the proceeds of such loan are to be used. (b) No funds shall be paid to a State as a grant under this Act which exceed 50 per centum of the total cost of the educational facilities for which such funds are to be expended. PAYMENT OF GRANTS SEC. 4. (a) Upon receipt of the information prescribed in section 2 (c) from the Secretary of Commerce, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall determine the total amount of funds to which each State is entitled as grants under this Act. Upon notification by the educational authority of a State that it has approved a proposed educational facility for a grant under this Act and upon submission by the State educational authority of a statement of the cost of providing such facility, the Corporation shall, within the limitations prescribed by section 3, pay to the treasurer or corresponding official of such State the amount to which such State is entitled pursuant to this Act as assistance in providing such facility. Such treasurer or corresponding official shall pay out such funds only on the requisition of the State educational authority. (b) The eligibility of a State to receive grants under this Act shall not be conditioned upon its applying for, or qualifying for, loans under this Act. APPLICATION FOR LOANS SEC. 5. Upon receipt of the information prescribed in section 2 (c) from the Secretary of Commerce, the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall determine the total amount of funds for which each State is eligible as loans under this Act. Upon application submitted by the educational authority of a State stating that it has approved a proposed educational facility for a loan under this Act and giving the cost of providing such facility, the Corporation is authorized, in conformity with section 3, to loan to such State an amount not in excess of the amount to which such State is entitled pursuant to this Act as assistance in providing such facility. The treasurer or corresponding official of such State shall pay out such funds only on requisition of the State educational authority. CANCELLATION OF NOTES OF CORPORATION SEC. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury shall, at such times as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may request, cancel notes of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in an amount equal to the amounts disbursed by it under section 4 of this Act, plus interest accrued on the amount of such notes from the date or dates on which the Corporation disbursed such amounts. SEC. 7. As used in this Act DEFINITIONS (a) The term "State" means the several States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. (b) The term "State educational authority" means, as the State legislature may determine, (1) the chief State school officer (such as the State superintendent of public instruction, commissioner of education, or similar officer), or (2) a board of education controlling the State department of education; except that in the District of Columbia it shall mean the Board of Education, and in American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, it shall mean the Governor. (c) The term "educational facility" or "educational facilities" means elementary and secondary school buildings, and appurtenances and permanent equipment necessary to the proper functioning of such school buildings. NONINTERFERENCE IN STATE EDUCATIONAL POLICY SEC. 8. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over, or to prescribe any requirements with respect to any school, or any State educational institution or agency, with respect to which any funds have been or may be made available or expended pursuant to |