The charge that there was “grave reason to fear” that Federal school aid funds were being used “to finance a private and parochial school system paralleling the American public school system,” was made here today by Leo Pfeffer, special counsel of the American Jewish Congress.
Testifying before the Education Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Mr. Pfeffer called for a joint House-Senate investigation of the administration of the Federal aid-to-education law before voting on a bill to extend the act through 1970. “It was certainly not the intent of Congress in adopting the Act to authorize the financing out of tax-raised funds of a parallel private and parochial school system, ” Mr. Pfeffer declared.
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