Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962-Continued Title II-Training and skill development programs. PART I—THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION Authority of the Office Establishment There shall be in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a bureau called the Office of Education, the purpose and duties of which shall be to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country. (20 U.S.C. 1) R.S. sec. 516; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, secs. 201, 204, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, sec. 5, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, the appendix on page 383). DERIVATION Acts of Mar. 2, 1867 ch. 158, sec. 1, 14 Stat. 434; July 20, 1868, ch. 176, sec. 1, 15 Stat. 92, 106. (NOTE. The complete text of the original Act of March 2, 1867 is included in the appendix on page 383). Transfer of Functions All functions of the Federal Security Administrator were transferred to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of the Federal Security Agency were transferred to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1. The Federal Security Agency and the office of Administrator were abolished by section 8 of 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1. The Office of Education was originally established in the Department of the Interior from which it was transferred to the Federal Security Agency by 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I. In the appropriation act of July 12, 1870, ch. 251, 16 Stat. 242, the Office was designated the Bureau of Education. This designation was retained until the act of May 14, 1930, ch. 273, 46 Stat. 281, 319, which made appropriations for the "Office of Education." Since that time, all appropriations have been made to the "Office of Education." Commissioner of Education The management of the Office of Education shall, subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, be entrusted to a Commissioner of Education, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 1 (20 U.S.C. 2) R. S. sec. 517, ch. 163, sec. 1, 39 Stat. 1105; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1179; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, secs 201, 204, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F. R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631. DERIVATION Acts of Mar. 2, 1867, ch. 158, sec. 2, 14 Stat. 434; July 20, 1868, ch. 176, sec. 1, 15 Stat. 92, 106. (NOTE. Provisions for compensation of the Commissioner of Education at $4,000 a year are omitted as obsolete. Compensation of such official is provided for in the Federal Executive Salary Schedule.) Bulletin of Office of Education The Commissioner of Education is authorized to prepare and publish a bulletin of the Office of Education as to the condition of higher education, technical and industrial education, facts as to compulsory attendance in the schools, and such other educational topics in the several States of the Union and in foreign countries as may be deemed of value to the educational interests of the States, and there shall be printed one edition of not exceeding twelve thousand five hundred copies of each issue of said bulletin for distribution by the Office of Education, the expense of printing and binding such bulletin to be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (20 U.S.C. 3) Enacted May 28, 1896, ch. 252, sec. 1, 29 Stat. 171; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, secs. 201, 204, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F. R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631. Report of Commissioner The Commissioner of Education shall present annually to Congress a report embodying the results of his investigations and labors together with a statement of such facts and recommendations as will, in his judgment, subserve the purpose for which the Office is established. (20 U.S.C. 4) R.S. Sec. 518. National Advisory Committee on Education AN ACT To establish a National Advisory Committee on Education Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to secure for the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter referred to in this Act as the "Secretary") the advice of a group of representative citizens on the initiation and conduct of studies of problems of national concern in the field of education and on appropriate action as a result thereof, there is hereby established in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Advisory Committee on Education (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee"). SEC. 2. The Committee shall be composed of nine members appointed without regard to civil-service laws by the Secretary from among individuals who are not otherwise in office under or in the employ of the Federal Government, a majority of whom shall be other than professional educators, one of whom shall be designated by the Secretary as Chairman. Each member shall hold office for a term of three years, except that (1) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, |