authorized by section ten of this Act shall be used for physical education and recreation, the medical and dental examination of children of school age, the determination of mental and physical defects in such children, the employment of school nurses, the establishment and maintenance of school dental clinics, and the instruction of the people in the principles of health and sanitation. The said sum shall be apportioned to the States in the proportions which their respective entire populations bear to the total population of the United States, not including outlying possessions, according to the last preceding census of the United States. SEC. 15. That in order to encourage the States in preparing teachers for the schools, particularly rural schools, three-twentieths of the sum authorized by section ten of this Act shall be used to prepare teachers, to encourage a more nearly universal preparation of prospective teachers, to extend the facilities for the improvement of teachers already in service, to encourage through the establishment of scholarships and otherwise a greater number of talented young people to make adequate preparation for public-school service, and otherwise to provide an increased number of trained and competent teachers. The said sum shall be apportioned to the States in the proportion which the numbers of teachers in the public schools of the respective States bear to the total number of public-school teachers in the United States, not including outlying possessions, said apportionment to be based on figures collected by the Department of Education. SEC. 16. That in the event the allotments under sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen to any State aggregate less than $20,000 per annum and said State is willing to meet all the conditions of this Act and to provide $1 for each dollar of Federal money, either from State or local sources, or both, to the sum of $20,000 per annum, the Secretary of Education is authorized to make said allotment; and in order to guarantee to any State a minimum of not less than $20,000, provided said State meets the conditions of this Act as herein specified, an additional sum of $500,000 or as much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized annually. SEC. 17. That in order to secure the benefits of the authorization made in section ten of this Act and of all or any of apportionments made in sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen of this Act any State shall, through the legislative authority thereof, accept the provisions of this Act and designate its chief State educational authority, and give to the same all necessary power to act as herein provided in connection with the Department of Education in the administration of this Act in so far as it relates to the aiding of the States in the promotion of education. In any State in which the legislature does not meet in nineteen hundred and nineteen, if the governor of that State, so far as he is authorized to do so, shall accept the provisions of this Act and designate the State's chief educational authority to act in connection with the Department of Education, the said Department of Education shall recognize such designation by the governor for the purposes of this Act until the legislature of such State meets in due course and has been in session sixty days. Any State may accept the provisions of any one or more of the respective apportionments herein authorized and may defer the acceptance of any one or more of said apportionments. In the acceptance of the provisions of this Act the legislature shall designate and appoint as custodian for all funds received as apportionments under the provisions of this Act its State treasurer, who shall receive and provide for the proper custody and disbursement of all money paid to the State from such apportionments, said disbursements to be made from warrants duly drawn by the State's chief educational authority which has been duly designated to act in connection with the Department of Education as provided in this section of this Act. SEC. 18. That the Secretary of Education is authorized to prescribe a plan of keeping accounts of educational expenditures for use in the several States in so far as such expenditures relate to the provisions of this Act. The Secretary may prescribe or approve the forms to be used in keeping such school accounts and the making of such school records as in his judgment are required to insure the proper administration of the provisions of this Act. He shall appoint an auditor to have charge of such accounting in the several States and of the examination of such accounts, and he shall appoint such assistant auditors as may be necessary to aid in examining and verifying said accounts showing expenditure of moneys by the States for the purpose of meeting the provisions of this Act and of examining such other educational records as may be required. SEC. 19. That in order to secure the benefits of the authorizations in sections ten and sixteen of this Act and of all or any of the apportionments made in sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of this Act the State's chief educational authority which has been duly designated to act in connection with the Department of Education, as provided in section seventeen of this Act, shall present to the Secretary of Education plans and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act in said State, which plans shall specifically show courses of study and the standards of teacher preparation to be maintained. If said plans show that the State has in good faith made provisions for carrying out the purposes and complying with the conditions of this Act, in so far as they relate to aiding such State in the promotion of education, the Secretary of Education shall apportion to the said State such fund or funds as said State may be entitled to under this Act: Provided, however, That no money appropriated shall be paid from any fund in any year to any State, unless a sum equally as large has been provided by said State, or by local authorities, or by both, for the removal of illiteracy, for the Americanization of immigrants, for the equalization of educational opportunites, for physical education, for teacher preparation, or such other purpose as the case may be, and said sum appropriated by the State shall not be less for the equalization of educational opportunities, the promotion of physical and health education, and the preparation of teachers, than that appropriated for the same purpose for the fiscal year next preceding the adoption of this Act: And provided further, That no such sum shall be used by any State, county, district, or local authority, directly or indirectly, for the purchase, rental, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or equipment, or for the purchase or rental of land, or for the support of any religious or privately endowed, owned, or conducted school or college, but only for schools entirely owned and controlled and conducted by the State or county or local authority, as may be provided for under the laws of said State. SEC. 20. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay quarterly, on the first day of July, October, January, and April, to the treasurer of any State entitled to any apportionment, such apportionment as is properly certified to him by the Secretary of Education. Wherever any part of the fund apportioned annually to any State for any of the purposes named in sections eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of this Act has not been expended for said purpose, a sum equal to such unexpended part shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual apportionment made to said State for said purpose. The Secretary of Education may withhold the apportionment of moneys to any State whenever it shall be determined that such moneys are not being expended for the purposes and under the conditions of this Act. If any portion of the moneys received by the treasurer of a State under this Act for any of the purposes herein provided shall, by action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by such State, and until so replaced no subsequent apportionment for such purpose shall be paid to such State. SEC. 21. That every State accepting the provisions of this Act shall, not later than September first of each year, make a report to the Secretary of Education, showing in such detail as he may prescribe the work done in said State in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act, and the receipt and expenditure of moneys paid to said State under the conditions of this Act. If any State fails to make said report within the time prescribed the Secretary of Education may, in his discretion, discontinue immediately the payment of any moneys which have been apportioned under the terms of this Act to said State. The Secretary of Education, not later than December first of each year, shall make a report to Congress on the administration of sections ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty of this Act, and shall include in said report a summary of the reports made to him by the several States. The Secretary of Education shall, at the same time, make such recommendations to define further the purposes and plans for Federal encouragement of the States in education as will, in his judgment, improve the administration of the moneys appropriated under sections ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen of this Act. SEC. 22. That this Act shall take effect March fourth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are here repealed. H. R. 15400-3 EDUCATION IN THE NEW Before the German Revolution was a month old the reform of the whole system of education became a burning question. The Socialist Herr Hänisch became Prussian Kultur-Minister, thus assuming responsibility for education, the relations between State and Church, and Kultur generally. The whole political development of Germany is largely dependent upon the solution of problems affecting religion; the struggle between Socialism and Lutheranism will be considerable and the struggle between Socialism and Roman Catholicism, which in Germany is an immensely powerful political organization, may in the end be decisive. Herr Hänisch set to work immediately to organize the most sweeping changes; and by the end of November the Socialist Press was allowed to publish the following remarkable list of the thirty-two points of his program: A. GENERAL 1. The separation of Church and State has been settled in principle. 2. Religion has ceased to be an examination subject, and the introduction of unsectarian moral teaching is being prepared. 3. Supervision of schools by the local clergy and participation of the clergy in the district inspections are abolished. 4. Mixed education of boys and girls has already been introduced in some schools. 5. Teachers and scholars receive powers of self-government. 6. All chauvinism is banished from the instruction, and especially from the instruction in history. 7. Prussia will propose the assembly of a high school conference for the whole Empire. 8. The uniform school (Einheitsschule) is secured, and the abolition of all class schools will be begun immediately. 9. The office of Rector will be deprived of its autocratic character and built up upon a collegiate basis. 10. The school authorities are instructed to promote among teachers' unions and at official conferences discussions of educational and cultural questions of policy |