DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ACT OF 1977

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 991, S. 255, S. 300, S. 894, and S. 1685

OCTOBER 12 AND 13, 1977

PART 1

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MARILYN A. HARRIS, Executive Administrator and Professional Staff Member

ELIZABETH A. PREAST, Chief Clerk

JOHN B. CHILDERS, Chief Counsel to the Minority
BRIAN CONBOY, Special Counsel to the Minority

ROBERT V. HEFFERNAN, Research Assistant

HAROLD C. ANDERSON, Staff Editor

Hon. Claiborne Pell, U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island; Hon.

Pete V. Domenici, U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico; and Hon.

Henry Bellmon, U.S. Senator from the State of Oklahoma, a panel_ - - -

James Farmer, executive director, Coalition of American Public Employees;

Dr. Carl Marburger, senior associate, National Committee for Citizens in

Education; and Winfield M. Kelly, Jr., county executive, Prince Georges

County, Md., a panel...

Rufus E. Miles, Jr., Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton

University; Dr. Stephen K. Bailey, Harvard Graduate School of Educa-

tion; and Dr. Samuel Halperin, former HEW Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Legislation, a panel_----

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1977

John Ryor, president, National Education Association; Dr. Wayne Teague,

Chief State School Officers, Alabama State superintendent of education,

accompanied by Joanne Goldsmith, member, Maryland State Board of

Education, National Association of State Boards of Education; Grace C.

Baisinger, president, National Congress of Parents & Teachers (PTA);

Will D. Davis, president, National School Boards Association; and

Frank Dick, immediate past president, American Association of School

Administrators, superintendent of schools, Toledo, Ohio, a panel..

Dr. Terrel H. Bell, commissioner of higher education, State of Utah; Dr.

Sidney P. Marland, president, College Entrance Examination Board,

University of Utah; Harold Howe II, vice president for education,

the Ford Foundation; Francis Keppel, director for the program on

education, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; Dr. Sterling M.

McMurrin, dean, graduate school, University of Utah; and Dr. Samuel

M. Brownell, professor emeritus, Yale University, a panel....

Alphabetical list of witnesses

Bailey, Dr. Stephen K.:

Testimony...

36

Questions submitted by Senator Ribicoff, October 26, 1977-

Answers to questions submitted by Senator Ribicoff__

71

72

Baisinger, Grace B.:

Testimony.

248

Statistics on PTA membership furnished as requested by Senator

Nunn

252

Bell, Dr. Terrel H.:

Testimony..

271

Prepared statement..

284

Questions submitted by Senator Ribicoff, October 26, 1977-

Answers to questions submitted by Senator Ribicoff.

312

314