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Tuesday, February 6. 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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LBJ submits new education bill
WASHINGTON—(UTI) President Johnson submitted to Congress Monday an $11.6 billion education program which would swing federal emphasis away from building classrooms and toward improving what goes on inside them.
To pay for this, Johnson called for a substantial slash in the amount spent for college buildings and equipment—from $450 million appropriated in fiscal 1968 to $75 million requested for fiscal 1969.
Asks slash
Instead, the President proposed spending; $52 million for teacher training; $18 million more for the teachers corps, which provides teachers for poverty area schools; $30 million more for the problem of teaching dropouts; $5 million to start a program for Spanish-speaking Mexican-American and Puerto Rican youngsters; $10 million more for basic education for adults; $33 million more for schooling for the handicapped; $40 million more for "Head Start" and "Follow Through" programs for early childhood education and $80 million more for research and evaluation.
The President called on Congress to wipe out economic and racial barriers to college admission and to grant America's young "the fifth freedom—freedom from ignorance."
His program, described as financially "constrained" by one high education official, provides new funds for training teachers, dealing with dropouts, schooling slum children before the first grade and conducting research in education.
The thrust of Johnson's program was on higher education, particularly graduate schools. He asked Congress to help 1.5 million students attend college next year through student aid programs, most of them loans.
He asked for larger federal payments to help graduate schools meet the cost of educating students enrolled under federal programs, for money to "launch a new program to strengthen those graduate schools with clear potential for higher quality," and
for increased government sponsored research in colleges.
Johnson also emphasized vocational training, asking a new $15 million for experiments "to bridge the gap between education and work, for alliances between schools, employment services and private employers, for new summer training programs combining work and education."
TEACHERS INTERESTED IN OUT-OF-STATE TEACHING
Representatives from Montcalm area
(located in central Michigan)
will be on campus
Wednesday, February 7 at 1 p.m.
to relate teaching opportunities
with prospective teachers
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