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...education bill is getting smothered in the Congress. The Administration passed the word two weeks ago to Congressional supporters to abandon their efforts to extricate Rep. Edith Green's aid-to-higher-education bill from the House Rules Committee, and instead to push for college aid through Kennedy's omnibus education measure. As the President knows, this is the equivalent of pushing a dead horse. Even if the Administration could succeed in getting its bill to the floor of the House, opposition from Roman Catholics to the provision for aid to secondary schools would doom it once more...
...real tragedy of the aid-to-education fight, however, is not the impending defeat of the omnibus bill, but the President's refusal ever to concede it a chance of victory. Faced with a continuing national crisis in education, he has consistently eschewed the one approach which might prod the Congress into doing something about...
...addition, the committee during this session will vote on the omnibus education bill and the Home Town Youth Corps bill, a plan that would set up volunteers groups of teenagers to work in their own neighborhoods...
...National Student Association (NSA) has called on its member schools to study the proposals contained in President Kennedy's Omnibus education bill, and other crucial questions facing higher education...
...President's plan is apparently to try to get federal aid through Congress by wrapping it all up in a big package containing something for everyone. His omnibus bill has in it the kind of general aid to public schools that runs into constant trouble, but it also has more than ever of the selective aid in specific fields that Congress has been approving since the birth of the republic. The one-package idea also seeks to unite rival organizations -notably, the American Council on Education, which lobbies for colleges, and the National Education Association, which last year helped...