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...Administration's Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, has a fine record in his state of raising teachers' salaries, pushing school construction, and strengthening faculty employment rights. From the HEW office much of the Administration's non-financial aid to education must come. In this area, the Department's responsibilities should include the commissioning of several reports--by public or private agencies--that would have the straightforwardness and influence of the Conant reports on high and junior high schools. These guidance reports, circulated to officials and the public, would make concrete recommendations hopefully calling...
...particularly the college population growing rapidly, the country's educational system requires great efforts merely to keep pace with this growth. But, as the reports of Conant and others have shown, the need is for even more than keeping pace with expanding population. With a President and an HEW Secretary who are committed to "do things" in the field of education, the Kennedy Administration may overcome traditional Congressional foot-dragging and accomplish a great deal. A great deal very clearly must be done...
Alternative plans are raining down on all sides. Presidential Aspirants Hubert Humphrey and Jack Kennedy have each put up separate bills that are very similar to Forand's but would drop the surgical benefits. HEW Secretary Flemming wants to try a compromise voluntary plan, in which individuals would pay as much as they could to private insurance companies and the states would make up the rest, with some federal help. Such a plan was originally introduced by the Republicans in both houses back in 1949. It was then co-sponsored by a young Congressman, Richard Nixon of pension-prone...