Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-001
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare draft bill to authorize the Commissioner of Education to assist public and other nonprofit institutions of higher education in financing the construction, rehabilitation, or improvement of needed academic and related facilities, to authorize the Commissioner to award scholarships for study in such institutions, and to authorize additional financing of faculty and student housing and other educational facilities under the college housing program. Another version of the bill authorized a three-year program of Federal financial assistance for public elementary and secondary schools, and amended Public Law 81-815 and Public Law 81-874. The legislation was known as the School Assistance Act of 1961. The file also includes drafts of a presidential message on education.