Statement Before the Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath
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OCR Page 1 of 9STATEMENT
by Earl James McGrath, Commissioner of Educution
Federal Security agency, washing ton, D. C.
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
About ten months 8.0 1 Came before this Committee as & newly
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Commissioner of Educution. Since that time 1 huve had an
opportunity to become batter ac. mainted with the activities of the
Office of Education, but most injortantly 1 have had the 02. ortunity
to sense the great and urgent _roblems in americun education which
press for attention of educators und laymen alike.
I know that members of this Committee and the Congress are
incressingly conscious of some of these problems. They are reflected
in the legisiative Proposals that are before you and that have re-
ceived wide Jublic discussion in recent months. These :roblems a.re
the result at once of our firm conviction us a people that the youth
of this republic should have the opportunity for in good education and
of the pressure of increusing population, particularly in the earlier
uge groups, ugainst the educatlondi ficilities to provice
that education. The result is that we u.re still ex periencing and will
continue to ex Cerience un overcrowuing of our educutional fz cilities
und an understaffing of our classrooms, purticularly us we upproach
the yeurs 1952, 1953, and 1954 when the bulge. of war-born babies will
be moving into our elementary schools.
Before the Subcommittes of the Appropriutions Committee, U. C. House
of Re presentutivas, JunuLry 10, 1950.
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