Table 39.-FEDERAL FUNDS EXPENDED AND ALLOTTED FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF LESS-THAN-COLLEGE GRADE: 1957-58 TO 1959-60

1 The first four George-Barden programs in column 2 do not include $2,989 expended for preliminary survey in Guam. For the first four George-Barden programs there is included in columns 3 and 4 $40,000 for the Virgin Islands and $80,000 for Guam.

Table 40.-FEDERAL FUNDS ALLOTTED TO THE STATES AND TERRITORIES FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF LESS-THAN-COLLEGE GRADE: 1959-60

year, of which about 19 percent was provided from the Federal appropriation.

Table 39 reports amounts of Federal funds expended during the 1957-58 school year and the amounts allotted for the 1958-59 and 1959-60 school years. Detailed amounts of the allotments for the States and Territories in 1959-60 are listed in table 40 and corresponding amounts for the States and Territories in the 1958-59 school year are included in column 8 of summary table 3. A summary of the amounts expended or allotted to the States and Territories over the past 10 years is shown in table 41. Further details concerning the amounts expended under the several authorizations can be obtained from the Division of Vocational Education of the U.S. Office of Education. Table 41.-FEDERAL FUNDS EXPENDED FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF LESS-THAN-COLLEGE GRADE: 1949-50 TO 1958-59

FEDERALLY AIDED CORPORATIONS

The American Printing House for the Blind, Gallaudet College, and Howard University have a statutory relationship to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in that some funds for their operation are included in the Department budget. However, each of the institutions operates as a separate and autonomous agency. For these organizations, only a portion of their support is provided by the Federal Government. Other sources of support are evident. in the program descriptions for the separate corporations.

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND

The American Printing House for the Blind supplies educational books, materials, and apparatus for the blind in schools and classes operating in all the States and Territories. It is a nonprofit, national institution located at Louisville, Ky. Sponsorship of the Federal Government for this part of its work was originally established through the act of 1879 which appropriated $10,000 per year "To Promote the Education of the Blind." Several congressional enactments have increased this support and in August 1956 the amount authorized

was increased to $410,000. Actual amounts appropriated have frequently been less than the full amount authorized.

The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has responsibility for the administration of the Federal act which authorizes the provision of educational materials to individual States for blind children attending public educational institutions, residential schools for the blind, public day school classes for the blind, and individual blind children in regular public schools for the seeing. Federal funds for this program may be expended by the American Printing House for the Blind only for the payment of production costs of books and apparatus for the education of the blind. Allotments of materials to the States for the education of the blind are then made on the basis of factors determined in relation to the number of blind students.

Public schools having special provisions for blind children in attendance and other State and local public institutions for the education of the blind order materials to the extent of the allotments and are permitted to purchase additional materials produced by the American Printing House for the Blind. These additional materials are also supplied at cost. Allotments to the public schools having blind children in attendance are made through allocations to the State departments of education.

Amounts allotted to the States and Territories for the 1959-60 school year are given in table 42 and similar figures for 1958-59 are reported in column 15 of summary table 3. Federal appropriations

Table 42.-FEDERAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR MATERIALS AND AP. PARATUS MADE BY THE AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND ALLOTTED TO INSTITUTIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND IN THE STATES AND TERRITORIES: 1959-60

for the past 10 years are summarized in table 43. Information about this program has been provided by the American Printing House for the Blind.

Table 43.-FEDERAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR THE AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND: 1950-51 TO 1959-60

Gallaudet College, formerly known as the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, is located in the District of Columbia. This educational institution was incorporated in 1857 under an act of Congress, and in 1864 another act authorized Gallaudet College to grant degrees in the liberal arts and sciences. Public Law 420, Eighty-third Congress, approved June 18, 1954, clearly defines its status as a college; its relationship with the Federal Government; and its responsibility to provide education and training for deaf persons, and otherwise to further the education of the deaf. Following an evaluation made by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Gallaudet College formally gained accreditation in May 1957. Congress has provided annual appropriations for current operating expenses and for the construction of essential buildings.

A regular 4-year liberal arts and science college curriculum and a 1-year preparatory curriculum are offered at Gallaudet. This 1-year preparatory program bridges the gap between the secondary schools. for the deaf in the United States and the freshman class in the college. A master's degree and a professional diploma in the education of the deaf are offered by the graduate department of the college to students with normal hearing. The undergraduate department offers an associate degree after 2 years of study, and a bachelor's degree in the liberal arts and sciences after the completion of 4 years of work. Total enrollment in the college during 1959-60 was 380 representing 47 States, the District of Columbia, and 7 foreign countries.

In addition, the college operates Kendall School for elementary and secondary education of deaf pupils in the District of Columbia and

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adjacent States. Kendall School also serves as a laboratory school for teachers-in-training, including those in the Graduate Department of Education. Of the total of 87 children in attendance at Kendall School during the 1959-60 school year, 80 were from the District of Columbia.

Table 44.-FEDERAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR GALLAUDET COLLEGE: 1950-51 TO 1959-60

Federal funds appropriated for current operating expenses and for new construction over the past 10 years are given in table 44. Total expenditures by the college exceed the figures summarized in table 44 since the college receives tuition payments and other fees from the students. Data for this program were provided by Gallaudet College.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

This university, located in the District of Columbia, was established in 1867. It is operated as a semipublic institution under a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees. The university consists of an undergraduate college; eight professional schools for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering and architecture, music, social work, law, and religion; and a graduate school offering the doctorate degree in chemistry, physics, zoology, and physiology, and the master's degree in several additional fields. The College of Medicine is associated with Freedmen's Hospital which adjoins the university campus. Federal funds may not be used in support of the School of Religion.

During the 1959-60 school year the university enrolled 6,507 students coming from 45 States, the District of Columbia, 51 foreign countries, 16 island possessions of the British West Indies and The Netherlands, and 3 outlying parts of the United States. Students of