Volume 69
Public Law 84–204
To amend section 6 of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, so as to provide for the continued operation of certain schools on military installations.
Approved August 1, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 6 of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, so as to provide for the continued operation of certain schools on military installations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 6 (a)
Schools on military installations.
of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress) , as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “In any case where education was being provided on January 1, 1955, or thereafter under an arrangement made under this subsection for children residing on an Army, Navy (including the Marine Corps), or Air Force installation, it shall be presumed, for the purposes of this subsection, that no local educational agency is able to provide suitable free public education for the children residing on such installation, until the Commissioner and the Secretary of the military department concerned jointly determine, after consultation with the appropriate State educational agency, that a local educational agency is able to do so.”
Approved August 1, 1955.