aids which have been considered by Congress. They imply that there is a prevailing national sentiment favoring the use of Federal resources, as well as State and local funds, to raise the level of education. This interest leads many to inquire about present Federal aids for education. In response to this interest, aids are reported in this bulletin, State by State, where the detailed figures are available. Amounts for the States and Territories and for various purposes may be obtained from individual tables and they have also been summarized and presented in table 3 for most of the funds administered by the Federal Security Agency, in table 4 for educational programs of the Department of Agriculture, and in table 5 for education and training funds available to the Veterans Administration. All of these are further summarized in table 6. In columns 3, 4, and 6 of table 6, figures are reported for the "national" item. These refer to Federal funds for the 1950-51 school year allotted to national programs which cannot be reported by State. They include: Federal Funds for National Programs of Education Column 3 of table 6 Column 6 of table 6 Columbia Institution for the Deaf $ 368,200.00 Howard University__. Office of Education___ Army Officer training--$ 2,948,991.00 Atomic Research 17,300,000.00 2,600,000.00 Children in National 2,362,500.00 Parks Coast Guard training 15,601.58 1,800,000.00 Total $5,330,700.00 Education of Indians 24,690,051.00 Duplication of reporting is avoided by including figures for the 1950-51 school year in these summary tables, and reporting those for the 1951-52 school year in tables accompanying the discussions of the programs in the chapters that follow. In a few instances, figures for the 1949-50 school year are given if they were not available for the preceding issue of the bulletin. The total of all Federal funds for education summarized in table 6 for the 1950-51 school year is $2,550,642,812.95. This is approximately one billion dollars less than the $3,686,294,000 reported by the Hoover Commission for the 1948-49 school year and the $3,618,900,000 reported by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress for the 1949-50 school year. Chief factors in this reduction are the reductions in veterans' education and in the Surplus Property Utilization Program. Other programs of Federal aid for education appear to be continuing with little change or with slight increases. Table 3.-SUMMARY OF FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED AND FEDERAL PROPERTY TRANSFERRED TO THE STATES BY THE FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY, FOR THE 1950-51 SCHOOL YEAR |