TUITION FUNDS FOR GALLAUDET COLLEGE Mr. NATCHER. Now is there a request in this budget for funds to pay tuition to the Kendall School at Gallaudet College? Dr. JOHNSON. Yes. Mr. NATCHER. Public Law 91-587 enacted December 24, 1970, removed the legislative authority for payments by the District of Columbia for deaf students at the Kendall School. The Office of Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill, 1972, includes $265,000 over the budget request to make up for a reduction in payments by the District of Columbia. Do you know about this? Dr. JOHNSON. May we discuss it for a moment? Mr. NATCHER. You go right ahead. It needs a good discussion and explanation. I serve on the Labor-Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee also. We had the matter up not too long ago. Go right ahead. Dr. JOHNSON. Quite Frankly, I cannot give you an intelligent answer right now because I am so new. I am familiar with the bill of which you speak from having read it in the paper. I simply have not had the time to get my staff oriented to give me the information on it. It would be my position that we should not be paying tuition to the Kendall School, and we should conform with the act that you speak of. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION Mr. NATCHER. Under "Departmental administration," you are requesting $182,800 for 1972. This is no increase, but the base has been increased $14,700 by redirection of funds. How do you explain that, Mr. Cornick? Mr. CORNICK. That is for mandatory items. Pay increases. Mr. CORNICK. Yes. VACANCY ADJUSTMENT Mr. NATCHER. Under "Vacancy adjustment," you request a decrease of $103,500. Explain this. Mr. CORNICK. Again it is a continuation of our practice of allotting the lapse adjustment amounts to each program. CAREER DEVELOPMENT (SEE P. 131) Mr. NATCHER. Under "Career development," you are requesting $4,135,500 and 307 positions. Here we have an increase of $111,000 and 12 additional positions. These figures reflect an increase of $217,100 in the base by redirection. Mr. LAWRENCE. The 12 positions that are indicated as an increase would be contained in the $146 million budget that is presented in this document. This reflects 20 positions for cooperative education on a one-half year basis. This would reduce the 1971 base by 16 academic teachers. Mr. NATCHER. That is under your classroom teachers, is that correct? Mr. LAWRENCE. That is correct. CLASSROOM TEACHERS Mr. NATCHER. Under your "Classroom teachers," you are requesting an increase of $108,200, and 12 additional positions. Here your base has increased $199,200 and the number of positions has decreased by eight. Mr. CORNICK. Under the academic portion, we have reduced 18 academic teachers which was in line with raising the class size along with the pupil-teacher ratio as we have done in elementary and secondary. However, we have redirected those into 10 cooperative educational teachers, which meant that within the base we had traded 18 classroom teachers for 10 cooperative teachers, which resulted in a net loss of the minus eight that you see in the change column. On the increase side, we reestablished at least two of the classroom teachers and added 10 more cooperative teachers on a half-year funding basis and this was as a result of the additional programs added by the City Council. PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT Mr. NATCHER. Let's move on next to "Professional support," Mr. Lawrence, where you're requesting an increase of $1,800 for pay raises? Here the base has been increased $10,300. What is the explanation on this? Mr. LAWRENCE. Those are mandatory pay raises. PARAPROFESSIONAL SUPPORT Mr. NATCHER. We will take up next "Paraprofessional support" where you are requesting an increase of $1,000 for pay items. Here your base has been increased $5,200. Is that mandatory? Mr. CORNICK. Yes. MATERIAL SUPPORT Mr. NATCHER. Let's take up next "Material support" where you are requesting $159,000 for 1972. This is no increase for this item, I believe. Mr. LAWRENCE. That is correct. LOCAL SCHOOL MANAGEMENT Mr. NATCHER. Under "Local school management," you are requesting $296,600 for 1972 and your base has been increased $25,000, is that correct? Mr. LAWRENCE. Yes. Mr. NATCHER. For what purpose? Mr. LAWRENCE. This would include mandatory pay raises. CENTRAL OFFICE Mr. NATCHER. Under "Central office," no increase is requested. It is central office, is that right? Mr. LAWRENCE. That is an increase of one position by redirection, and that is the job coordinator. Mr. NATCHER. That would be your one position, job coordinator? 66-168 0-71-pt. 2-18 Mr. LAWRENCE. Yes. Mr. NATCHER. The base has been increased $46,400. Mr. LAWRENCE. That would be mandatory increases and the one additional position. Mr. NATCHER. And the position is necessary? Mr. LAWRENCE. Yes; it is. Mr. NATCHER. What would the grade be, GS what? Mr. LAWRENCE. GS-7. Mr. NATCHER. What would the salary be? Mr. CORNICK. That would be $18,000. That is over the step 1 but it is the step we use. Mr. NATCHER. What would the duties consist of? Mr. LAWRENCE. The duties would consist of coordinating all of the work scholarship programs and work study programs that are not included under the cooperative education. VACANCY ADJUSTMENT Mr. NATCHER. Now, under "Vacancy adjustment," Mr. Lawrence, you have requested an adjustment of $69,000. Mr. CORNICK. Vacancy, Mr. Chairman. The lapse adjustment we have been carrying in each program. ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION, SUMMER SCHOOL, URBAN SERVICE CORPS, AND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (SEE P. 133) Mr. NATCHER. Now we take up "Adult and continuing education, summer school, Urban Service Corps, and community schools," and we have before the committee Mrs. Selden. We have a request of $2,775,900 and 64 positions, which is an increase of $221,100. These figures reflect a reduction of $332,300 in the base. Explain your reduction here in the base. What is the explanation for that? Mrs. SELDEN. The major reason for the reduction in the base, sir, is that we have revised our commitment to the community school program and we have reduced the enrichment summer program from $264,000 to-I am sorry, from $675,000 to $264,000. In addition, we have a small reduction in our community school program. ADULT BASIC EDUCATION Mr. NATCHER. Under "Adult basic education," you are requesting an increase of $700 for pay. The base is increased $7,000. What is the explanation for this? Mr. CORNICK. That is the extra day's pay and the increases. REGULAR ADULT EDUCATION Mr. NATCHER. Going next to "Regular adult education," you are requesting $1,002,200. No change here, but your base was increased $87,500. What is the explanation for this? Mr. CORNICK. That is under regular adult education program, Mr. Chairman, on page 17-07-07, and this represents a 10 percent increase for WAE funds. That is for evening workers. Basically to give recognition to increased costs. ARMSTRONG ADULT CENTER Mr. NATCHER. Under Armstrong Adult Center, you are requesting an increase of $1,700 for pay items. Your base was increased $133,400 and nine positions. What is the explanation for this, Mrs. Selden? Mrs. SELDEN. You will recall, Congressman Natcher, that the department was organized in 1970. It is as a result of taking a look at the department that we discover that nine of our positions have been maintained as a result of support from reprograming funds, and in this period that I have been in the department, as we are researching where we stand, we have discovered we had not established in the budget these nine positions. We would like to do that in view of the central nature of the program at Armstrong. We serve approximately 1,500 people at Armstrong all of the time. We have approximately 400 veterans at Armstrong, of which 217 graduated. That is one of our most essential programs. It is a 14-hour-day program. We have high school equivalency there, and we have served approximately 3,000 people in the past year, some 1,200 of whom have been successful. This is one of the mainstays in our adult education. I am not sufficiently aware of the history to explain why we need to do this, but I know we need to do it as a service to the community. Our Project-Call, which is an adult basic education project, is at Armstrong. It is a constellation of services for adults. ADULT DEMONSTRATION CENTER Mr. NATCHER. We will take up next the Adult Demonstration Center where you request an increase of $5,200 for pay items. What does this consist of? Mr. CORNICK. It consists of $2,500 within-grade increases and $2,700 in regular pay increases. These are mandatory items. AMERICANIZATION SCHOOL Mr. NATCHER. Let's go on to the Americanization School, where, I believe, you are requesting an increase of $17,100 for pay items; all mandatory? Mr. CORNICK. All mandatory. HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY Mr. NATCHER. Under "high school equivalency," you are requesting $25,200 and three positions. Is this a new project? Mrs. SELDEN. This is a maintenance of our high school equivalency program. I believe those are the three positions which were established in the 1970 budget. Some of the costs, I think, are those that are mandatory and that program over a 5-year period has perhaps increased from serving approximately 1,200 people to approximately 3,000 people per year. Regularized in those positions. COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Mr. NATCHER. We are about to adjourn. On Monday we will start with "community schools." You will recall, Mr. Henley, our colleague, Mr. Riegle of Michigan, who served on this committee for a number of years, has been very much interested in these schools and has been very influential, along with you, Mr. Henley, in securing funds from the Mott Foundation for the initial support of these schools. He will be with us for the hearing on this program. Mr. Anderson, it has been a pleasure having you appear before our committee and I know that, among your duties as a member of the City Council, you are looking at our school system. As I said to Mr. Hahn, we appreciate the members of the City Council attending the hearings. You come back any time that you want to. This applies to all the members of the City Council. Mr. ANDERSON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. NATCHER. The committee will adjourn until 10 o'clock Monday morning. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1971 Mr. NATCHER. The subcommittee will come to order. When we adjourned on Friday we had just reached "Community Schools," Mrs. Selden. The request is for $241,700 and six positions. APPEARANCE OF HON. DONALD W. RIEGLE, JR., ON BEHALF OF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS We have before the committee at this time our friend and colleague, Mr. Riegle of Michigan, who, as you know served with us for a number of years. During Mr. Riegle's tenure on this committee, he succeeded in securing grants that we have used in our community school program and at all times he has had a great interest in this program. This program, to me, is one that produces benefits to our school system and to our Capital City. I recall, Mr. Henley, the time when one of the employees in the House restaurant explained to me that he was working with a Boy Scout Troop and there was a small charge of $7, $8, or $12 that he had to pay out of his own pocket to use a portion of a school building when his troop met. It seemed to me unfair that this man, with his heart in the right. place, working with these boys and trying to do something with them, had to pay for the use of the building. I have always believed as does Mr. Riegle and other members of Congress that the more we use our school buildings in the right way, the better off we are. Now, with the permission of the committee, I want Mr. Riegle to take over at this point and explain to the committee just where we are in regard to this particular program. What has been accomplished, Mr. Riegle, Mr. Henley and others are here and you can call on them to assist you. We are interested. |