Driver Education: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5416, a Bill to Promote Safety in Transportation by Motor Vehicle in Interstate Commerce by Assisting the States to Establish Programs for Driver Education. June 10, 17, and 24, 1957U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - 118 pages Considers legislation to authorize Federal aid to states to establish driver education programs. |
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100 drivers 15 periods 15-place Drivotrainer accidents and violations Ætna American Automobile Association Anacostia High School Auto Trainer Bertram L bill brake BUSH Casualty & Surety Chairman classroom instruction committee complete control group cost per pupil course in driver CULLEN developed device driver and traffic driver education course driver education program driver training driver-training car dual-control car educa equipment Etna Casualty Etna Drivotrainer experience experimental group Federal films FRIEDEL funds High School high-school driver education high-school students Hollywood High School instructor involved Iowa State Teachers Link trainer Los Angeles MARSH methods motor vehicle moving violation National National Education Association number of students on-the-road operation percent persons practice driving pupil cost records road test ROBERTS safety education SCHENCK semester Siebrecht attitude skills sportsmanlike driving statement teaching Thank tion Total Per 100 traffic education traffic safety untrained drivers wheel young drivers
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Page 4 - State, so far as he is authorized to do so, shall accept the provisions of this Act and designate or create a State board of not less than three members...
Page 4 - State for education for any given trade or industrial pursuit; that the total amount expended for the maintenance of such education in any school or class receiving the benefit of such appropriation shall be not less annually than the amount fixed by the State board, with the approval of the Federal board, as the minimum for such schools or classes in the State; that such schools or classes...
Page 4 - September first of each year, on the work done in the State and the receipts and expenditures of money under the provisions of this Act.
Page 5 - States shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings or equipment, or for the purchase or rental of lands, or for the support of any religious or privately owned or conducted school or college.
Page 4 - If any allotment Is withheld from any State, the State board of such State may appeal to the Congress of the United States, and If the Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid It shall be covered Into the Treasury.
Page 4 - State the moneys to which it is entitled under the provisions of this Act. The moneys so received by the custodian for vocational education for any State shall be paid out on the requisition of the State board as reimbursement for expenditures already incurred to such schools as are approved by said State board and are entitled to receive such moneys under the provisions of this Act.
Page 4 - State shall, through the legislative authority thereof, appoint as custodian for said appropriations its State treasurer, who shall receive and provide for the proper custody and disbursements of all money paid to the State from said appropriations.
Page 4 - That whenever any portion of the fund annually allotted to any State has not been expended for the purpose provided for in this Act, a sum equal to such portion shall be deducted by the Federal board from the next succeeding annual allotment from such fund to such State.
Page 2 - Board voiced the desire of automobile manufacturers to "encourage owners and drivers to evaluate passenger cars in terms of useful power and ability to afford safe, reliable and comfortable transportation, rather than in terms of capacity for speed.
Page 4 - Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, through the Fiscal Service of the Treasury Department, shall, upon the certification of the United States Commissioner of Education, pay, in equal semiannual payments, on the first day of July and January...