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This money will be eagerly snapped up: only about onethird of U.S. lower schools now have libraries. Boston's 55,000 public-elementary-school pupils have no library at all, nor do some 100 elementary schools in Philadelphia. Says U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel: "A school without a library is a crippled school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE BIG FEDERAL MOVE INTO EDUCATION | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...students in public or private schools, in any way a local district sees fit. The first-year authorization of $100 million is certain to set off a keen competition for approval of local projects. Under this section of the bill, local districts will deal directly with Washington: Commissioner Keppel's office will select the projects it considers most worthy. Of the available funds, $200,000 must be set aside for each state, and the rest, roughly $90 million, will be split among the states in two ways: half on the basis of their school-age population, half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE BIG FEDERAL MOVE INTO EDUCATION | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Federal Help. Despite the rapid growth of the community colleges, U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel finds that "they have not expanded at the dramatic rate needed for the increasing population of students- we are just beginning." A considerably bigger boost will come from a 1963 education bill, just now being implemented, by which $232 million this year and $464 million next year will be granted to help build college facilities, 22% of it going to public junior colleges. While the bulk of financial support for such public colleges still comes from funds of local communities, state aid is generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: School for All Through the Age of 20 | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...Keppel and his job have grown so important that last week no fewer than three legislators, including Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Kennedy's original appointee as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, introduced legislation to create a separate Department of Education with Cabinet status to consolidate under one roof most Federal Government educational activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Aid: Going Up Fast | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...Keppel, who has clearly a free hand in running his office under self-effacing Secretary Anthony Celebrezze, is tactfully noncommittal about such legislation. "I came to Washington to work for Celebrezze and I'm happy as a clam," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Aid: Going Up Fast | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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