The Civilian Conservation Corps: The National Youth Administration, and the Public Schools

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Educational Policies Commission, National Education Association of the United States and the American Association of School Administrators, 1941 - 79 pages
 

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Page 10 - That for the purpose of relieving the acute condition of widespread distress and unemployment now existing in the United States, and in order to provide for the restoration of the country's depleted natural resources and the advancement of an orderly program of useful public works...
Page 12 - States who are unemployed and in need of employment, and to a limited extent as hereinafter set out, for war veterans and Indians, through the performance of useful public work in connection with the conservation and development of the natural resources of the United States, its Territories, and insular possessions...
Page 45 - ... general administration of schools, control over the processes of education and the determination of the best uses of the allotments of federal funds within the types of expenditure for which federal funds may be made available. The Federal Government should in no case attempt to control the curriculums of the schools or the methods of teaching to be employed in them. In those fields, however, it should carry on research and make the results widely available.
Page 3 - When educational needs arise which affect the national welfare, cut' across the bounds of States, and appear to be beyond the unaided powers of States to meet, should the Federal Government operate and control educational programs intended to meet these needs?
Page 45 - In order that local initiative and responsibility may be maintained, all Federal action should reserve explicitly to State and local auspices the general administration of schools, control over the processes of education, and the determination of the best uses of the allotments of Federal funds within the types of expenditure for which Federal funds may be made available.
Page 10 - An Act for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes", approved March 31, 1933, as amended, is hereby continued to and including March 31, 1937.
Page 62 - Many youth need experiences of work under employment conditions as part of their preparation for permanent jobs.
Page 30 - All training or educational programs other than work and training on the project location incidental to the supervision of a work program being conducted there on for youth employed by the National Youth Administration on work projects shall be under the control and supervision of the State boards for vocational education of the several States and shall be paid for out of appropriations made to the Office of Education and expended by the States pursuant to plans submitted by State boards for vocational...
Page 34 - NYA was to extend the educational opportunities of the youth of the country and to bring them through the process of training into the possession of skills which would enable them to find employment.
Page 14 - Agency because of the fact that its major purpose is to promote the welfare and further the training of the individuals who make up the corps, important as may be the construction work which they have carried on so successfully.

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