Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath Before the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor
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STATEMENT
By
Earl James McGrath
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Federal Security Agency
Before the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education
and Labor, 9:30 A.M., Thursday, April 3, 1952
I am Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of Education, Office of
Education, Federal Security Agency.
My statement and the statements of my colleagues who will
follow include many statistics and some dollar signs. These facts we
report are based on the First Progress Report of the Nation+wide School
Facilities Survey authorized by Title I, Public Law 815, of the 8lst
Congress. As we deal with facts, figures, and dollars, Mr. Chairman,
we are actually dealing with flesh and blood and mind and spirit. We
are talking in terms of bricks and chalkboards, glass and concrete;
but we are thinking in terms of public school children--more than 26
million of them. We are talking not merely about dollars, but about
what those dollars mean to the immediate and the long-run future of
this Nation. We are talking about firetraps, dilapidation, over-
crowding, part-time schooling on two or three shifts per day, and what
these things mean in educational ineffectiveness. We are talking ebout
the difference between an enlightened and intelligent Nation and one in
which ignorance and functional illiteracy prevail. We are asking
whether the United States of America is going to be content while some
of its children are denied their educational birthright.
Two general approaches to the problem of providing adequate
educational opportunity for all American children have in recent years
been before the Congress; Federal aid for the maintenance and operation of
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