Educational Technology Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Educational Technology Act - Title I: Use of Educational Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education - Provides for the improvement of the quality of preschool, elementary and secondary education through the utilization of educational technology. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as the Congress may deem necessary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and each of the next four fiscal years and such sums needed for payment to the States for making grants under this Act. Provides that the use of Federal funds shall be only for such programs as the planning, development, and implementation by local educational agencies of educational technology programs designed to promote uses of technological equipment and materials in the elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to pay each State from the funds allotted to it amounts necessary to enable the State educational agency to provide for programs designed to implement educational technology, dissemination of information relating to educational technology, evaluation of various programs, and the administration of the State plan. Specifies that any State desiring to receive payments must have…