SHARED-TIME EDUCATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON STUDY OF
SHARED-TIME EDUCATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 6074

A BILL TO AMEND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT OF 1958 TO PROVIDE FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR PROJECTS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF EQUIPMENT TO BE USED FOR SHARED-TIME SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEBRUARY 24, 25, 28; AND MARCH 11, 1964

UNIVERSITY

Printed for the use of the

Committee on Education and Labor
OF

ADAM C. POWELL, Chairman

OCT

21 1964

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON STUDY OF
SHARED-TIME EDUCATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 6074

A BILL TO AMEND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT
OF 1958 TO PROVIDE FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR PROJECTS
FOR THE ACQUISITION OF EQUIPMENT TO BE USED FOR
SHARED-TIME SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN
SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEBRUARY 24, 25, 28; AND MARCH 11, 1964

Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor
ADAM C. POWELL, Chairman

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1964

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

ADAM C. POWELL, New York, Chairman

LOUISE MAXienne DargaNS, Chief Clerk
RUSSELL C. DERRICKSON, Staff Director

Dr. DEBORAH PARTRIDGE WOLFE, Education Chief
LEON ABRAMSON, Chief Counsel for Labor-Management
PHILIP R. RODGERS, Minority Clerk and Counsel
CHARLES W. RADCLIFFE, Minority Counsel for Education

AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON STUDY OF SHARED-TIME EDUCATION

ADAM C. POWELL, New York, Chairman

Dr. DEBORAH PARTRIDGE WOLFE, Director

CONTENTS

Hearings held in Washington, D.C.:

February 24, 1964...

February 25, 1964-
February 28, 1964.

March 11, 1964..

Statement of

Hochwalt, monsignor, National Catholic Welfare Council...

Keppel, Francis, U.S. Commissioner on Education, accompanied by

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Peter G. Muirhead, Assistant Commissioner of Education, HEW. 356, 393 Lambert, Dr. Samuel, director of research, NEA

La Noue, George R., of Yale University.

Lemin, Paul C., superintendent of schools, Cheboygan, Mich..
Murphy, Dr. Mark, national president, Citizens for Educational
Freedom, accompanied by Mrs. Kay Beard and Rev. John P.
Clelland, executive secretary, Westminster Theological Seminary,
Philadelphia, Pa___

Pfeffer, Leo, general counsel, American Jewish Congress

Powell, Dr. Theodore, Connecticut State Department of Education..
Sackett, Howard, superintendent of schools, Fort Lyden, N.Y., rep-
resenting National Education Association..

Salisbury, Franklin C., general counsel for Protestants and Other
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State-
Sissel, Dr. H. B., secretary for national affairs of the Board of Christian
Education

Stearns, Dr. Harry, former superintendent of schools, Englewood,
N.J.

Utermohlen, Charles R., superintendent of schools, O'Neill, Nebr....
Statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.:

Cassels, Louis, religion writer, United Press International, article in
Look entitled, "A Way Out of Our Parochial-Public School Con-
flict"

Clelland, Rev. John P., executive secretary, Westminster Theological
Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa., statement of.

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346

473

376

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314

387

489

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340

522

479

Fallaw, Wesner, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton
Center, Mass., paper entitled "Community Education: A Func-
tional Relationship Between School and Church".

515

Finucan, Rev. J. Thomas:

Bibliography: Shared-Time Education..

257

"Feasibility and Legality of Shared-Time Education in Wis-
consin," seminar report entitled...

240

Statement by

237

Hoffman, Maurine, staff reporter, the Washington Post, article
entitled "Detroit Suburb Tries 'Shared Time' ".

Federal grants to the States, computation of payments..

364

Payments under impacted area programs (Public Law 81-815 as
amended, and Public Law 81-874 as amended).

365

Regulations, title III, National Defense Education Act of 1958.
Shared time in vocational education programs.

397

365

State law relating to transportation and textbooks for parochial
school students, and constitutional protection of religious
freedom...

Survey of State NDEA title III practices regarding shared-time

424

programs.

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