Educationally Disadvantaged Children's Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Educationally Disadvantaged Children's Act - Directs the Commissioner of Education to make payments to State educational agencies for authorized State programs and for grants to local educational agencies for improving the educational proficiency of children who are educationally disadvantaged for the period beginning July 1, 1975. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for carrying out this Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. Establishes a National Commission on Educational Disadvantage. Provides that the Commission shall, either directly or through grants to or contracts with individuals, public agencies, or private organizations, arrange for the development and administration of a test or tests designed to produce data showing the estimated number of educationally disadvantaged children in each State and in all the States. Such test or tests shall: (1) be administered to children between the ages of five and seventeen (inclusive) in each State who are selected in such manner and in such number and at such age and grade levels as to produce a scientifically valid cross-section of the school-age pop…