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THE sixty-fourth Congress of the United States approved on February 23, 1917, an Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; for co-operation with the several States of the Union not only in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries, but also in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure. There was thereupon set aside from Federal funds, first to aid in paying the salaries of teachers and directors of agricultural subjects sums of money annually, beginning with 100,000l. in 1918, and rising by annual increments to 600,000l. in 1926; and secondly, a like subsidy to aid in payment of the salaries of the teachers and directors of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects, to be distributed to the several States, as regards agricultural subjects according to the ratio which the rural population bears to the total rural population of the United States, and as regards the other subjects before-named in the proportion which the urban population bears to the total urban population of the United States. The Act further provides funds for the training of teachers and directors of agricultural subjects and also of the other subjects before-mentioned to the extent of 100,000l. in 1918, increasing to 200,000l. in 1921 and thereafter.
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Part-Time Education in the United States . Nature 103, 127–128 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103127a0
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