Vocational Education: Report of the Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education Together with the Hearings Held on the Subject, Made Pursuant to the Provisions of Public Resolution No. 16, Sixty-third Congress (S. J. Res. 5)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Agricultural education |
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Page 15 - That a Council of National Defense is hereby established, for the coordination of industries and resources for the national security and welfare, to consist of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor.
Page 84 - Said sums shall be allotted to the states in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 85 - Such plans shall be submitted by the State board to the Federal Board for Vocational Education, and if the Federal board finds the same to be in conformity with the provisions and purposes of this act, the same shall be approved.
Page 85 - ... the State or local community, or both, shall provide the necessary plant and equipment determined upon by the State Board, with the approval of the Federal Board for Vocational Education...
Page 85 - That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriation for any purpose specified in this act. the State board shall prepare plans, showing the kinds of vocational education for which it is proposed that the appropriation shall be used; the kinds of schools and equipment; courses of study; methods of instruction; qualifications of teachers; and, in the case of agricultural subjects, the qualifications of supervisors or directors; plans for the training of teachers; and, in the case of agricultural...
Page 87 - ... day of January of each year to the Secretary of the Treasury each State which has accepted the provisions of this act and complied therewith...
Page 87 - If any portion of the fund invested as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 87 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 86 - ... shall be given only to persons who have had adequate vocational experience or contact in the line of work for which they are preparing themselves as teachers, supervisors, or directors, or who are acquiring such experience or contael as a part of their training...
Page 86 - ... that the controlling purpose of such education shall be to fit for useful employment ; that such education shall be of less than college grade and be designed to meet the needs of persons over fourteen years of age who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm or of the farm home...