How to Railroad a School Bill

An analysis of the new federal school aid bill: why and how it was passed and who will benefit most from it. The federal bureaucracy, says the author

Where several of his predecessors suffered defeat after defeat, Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded on the first try: federal aid to the public schools, which had been urged upon Congress by Capitol Hill’s most persistent lobby since 1870, came into being in April, 1965, when House and Senate bowed to the President’s wishes and, with much misgiving, voted his program into law.

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An analysis of the new federal school aid bill: why and how it was passed and who will benefit most from it. The federal bureaucracy, says the author

Where several of his predecessors suffered defeat after defeat, Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded on the first try: federal aid to the public schools, which had been urged upon Congress by Capitol Hill’s most persistent lobby since 1870, came into being in April, 1965, when House and Senate bowed to the President’s wishes and, with much misgiving, voted his program into law.