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Public Law 89–77

To amend Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, with respect to the construction of school facilities for children In Puerto Rico, Wake Island, Guam, or the Virgin Islands for whom local educational agencies are unable to provide education, to amend section 8(a) of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, relating to conditions of employment of teachers in dependents’ schools, and for other purposes.

Approved July 21, 1965

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress, with respect to the construction of school facilities for children In Puerto Rico, Wake Island, Guam, or the Virgin Islands for whom local educational agencies are unable to provide education, to amend section 8(a) of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, relating to conditions of employment of teachers in dependents’ schools, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 10 of the Act of September 23, 1950, as amended (20 U.S.C. 640), is amended by inserting the following sentence after the first sentence thereof: “In any ease in which the Commissioner makes arrangements under this section for constructing or otherwise providing minimum school facilities situated on Federal property in Puerto Rico, Wake Island, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, he may also include minimum school facilities necessary for the education of children residing with a parent employed by the United States though not residing on Federal property, but only if the Commissioner determines, after consultation with the appropriate State educational agency, (1) that the construction or provision of such facilities is appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act, (2) that no local educational agency is able to provide suitable free public education for such children, and (3) that English is not the primary language of instruction in schools in the locality.”

Sec. 2.

The fourth sentence of section 6(a) of the Act of September 30, 1950, as amended (20 U.S.C. 241(a)) is amended to read as

64 Stat. 1107

67 Stat. 535,

follows: “For the purpose of providing such comparable education, personnel may be employed and the compensation, tenure, leave, hours of work, and other incidents of the employment relationship may be fixed without regard to the Civil Service Act and rules (5 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) and the following: (1) the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1071 et seq.); (2) the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951,

22 Stat. 403.

63 Stat. 954.

65 Stat. 672;

59 Stat. 295;

58 Stat. 387;

64 Stat. 1098.

as amended (5 U.S.C. 2061 et seq.); (3) the Federal Employees’ Pay Act of 1945, as amended (5 U.S.C. 901 et seq.): (4) the Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944, as amended (5 U.S.C. 851 et seq.); and (5) the Performance Rating Act of 1950, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.) ”

Sec. 3.

The last sentence of section 203(a) (2) of the Act of September

Repeal.

Ante, p. 28.

30, 1950, as amended, is repealed.

Approved July 21, 1965.

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