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Show ANOTHER BILL FOR EDUCATION EDUCA-TION DEPARTMENT. Special to the Bulletin. Washington, D. C, Mar. -0. Congressman John M. Robison, of Kentucky, a member of the House Committee on Education, recently ' introduced bill No . 17165 to provide for a Department Depart-ment of Education with a Secretary Secre-tary in the President's Cabinet, The purpose of such a Department Depart-ment as provided in this bill would be to increase the educational educa-tional facilities of the Nation so that a larger educational opportunity oppor-tunity would be furnished to the peoples of a the stages and thereby there-by abolish illiteracy and make more general the . diffusion of knowledge. - It especially state? that' there shall be no infringement infringe-ment upon the laws, rights, du-1 du-1 ies, authority, or responsibli-ties responsibli-ties of the several states and ci tizesn thereof, ' or educaitona! institutions but likewise as to the' private educational institutions institu-tions and agencies in the states. Under the provisions of the measure a National Council . on Education, consisting of the state secretaries of education, would be created to adrise with the Secretary of Education on subjects, relating to the promotion promo-tion and development of education educa-tion in the United States. ,. Secretary pf Education - shpuld receive a salary of $15,000 per annum, and the Assistant Secre tary of Education $7,500; the transfer of the Bureau of Education Edu-cation from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Education without change in classification -or compensation; that the new department should make available to all interested the results of investigations; and the authorization, of an annual an-nual appropriation of $500,000. to be at the disposal of the proposed pro-posed department. s .-.'The main purpose of a Department Depart-ment of Education would be to establish better methods of organization, or-ganization, administration and financing, develop better types of school buildings, improve methods me-thods of teaching and develop more adequate ; curri cula, as well as to give educatio na more prominent place m the nation s affairs by having a, representative representa-tive in the President's Cabinet. |
