Special Education and Rehabilitation: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor

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Page 83 - Act (old-age assistance, aid to families with dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled), and for whom such assistance is not available from established welfare agencies or through tribal resources.
Page 49 - State educational agency" means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there Is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Governor or by State law...
Page 82 - Adequate funds should be available to public welfare agencies to carry out their responsibility to restore individuals to self-care and independent living and to strengthen family life. As part of this responsibility, public welfare agencies are concerned with the availability of adequate vocational rehabilitation services for individuals who can benefit from them.
Page 165 - ACT To encourage expansion of teaching in the education of mentally retarded children through grants to institutions of higher learning and to State educational agencies.
Page 49 - school-age population" means that part of the population which is between the ages of five and seventeen, both inclusive, and such school-age population for the several States shall be determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the population between such ages for the most recent year for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce.
Page 49 - ... (2) provides that such agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time reasonably require to carry out his functions under this Act...
Page 46 - University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at...
Page 81 - The American Public Welfare Association is the national organization of State and local public welfare departments and of individuals engaged in public welfare at all levels of government. Its membership includes Federal, State, and local welfare administrators, welfare workers, and board members from every jurisdiction.
Page 49 - The Commissioner may delegate to any officer or employee of the Office of Education any of his functions under this Act, except the making of regulations.
Page 5 - ... opportunity, regardless •of nationality, cultural background, race, or religion. We believe that this promise extends to every child within the borders of •our country no matter what his gifts, his capacity, or his handicaps. We believe that the Nation as a whole, every State and county, every city .and hamlet, and every citizen has an obligation to help in bringing to fruition in this generation the ideal of a full and useful life for every exceptional child in accordance with his capacity;...

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