Statement by Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath to the Senate Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments

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STATEMENT" By Farl J. McOruth, U. S. Commisaioner of Education. Office of Education, Federal Security Agency. ashington, D. C. I an Earl J. MeGrath. Commissioner 1. Education. Office, of ducation, Fecepal Security Agency. ich ne is Dr. Raymond 1. Gregory, Assiatant Commissioner for Vocational Education, who is available to answer special or technical questions which members of the Committee may wish to raise. I am grateful to the members of the Senete Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depart- ments for this opportunity to discuss with them certain parts of S. 1149, This bill is entitled, "Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture.' If the bill were what its title suggests=e and only would not encroach upon the time of this Committee to comment on it, but since the bill departs from its announced title, to make excursions into the reorganization not merely of Federal Sunctions affecting agriculture but also of the Federal educational agency, it becomes my duty to comment on those portions of the bill which would directly affect the administration of Federal programs aiding the schools. The bill as originally introduced would transfer vocational agricultural education and Before the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depart- ments, Senate Office Building, September 7, 1951.