Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of ArkansasThe Department, 1890 - Education |
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1889 From common Arkansas August August 19 Balance on hand BENTON COUNTY Brick and Frame colored Total Number common school fund County Examiner County Examiner's Report County Treasurer DEAR SIR district fund funds district tax poll districts districts reporting districts reporting enrollment districts voting tax employed school houses ending June 30 enrollment districts voting Enumeration Females Frame and Log free schools hand June Hempstead County houses institutes held institutes held teachers Little Rock Lonoke Males Number of children Number of districts Public School Funds reporting enrollment districts salaries Treasurer's commissions school houses institutes Sharp County sources Total Statement of Public Summary of County Superintendent Public Instruction tax other sources tax poll tax tax teachers employed teachers employed school teachers in attendance Total AMOUNT EXPENDED Total colored Enrollment Total colored Number Total For teachers total given UNEXPENDED voting tax teachers W. E. THOMPSON white colored Total white Total colored
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Page 16 - ... it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law, for the improvement of such lands as are, or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this state for the use of schools...
Page 28 - State superteudent or for the State board of education to thoroughly supervise the work of all the teachers employed under a State system. The State must depend upon local agencies for this necessary work. The work cannot be left to the non-professional local...
Page 29 - He should advise the local school officers in respect to their duties. He should hold county and township meetings for the instruction of the teachers, under the authority of the State Board of Education. He should hear and determine appeals from the decisions of subordinate officers...
Page 28 - The necessity for local supervision is already so generally recognized by city school authorities that almost every city in the country has its city superintendent. Thorough and efficient supervision has been the chief agency in bringing the city systems to their present standard. But the necessity for the supervision of ungraded schools in townships has not been so generally recognized. If cities, with the advantages of well graded schools, of a long term, and of well trained and experienced teachers,...
Page 56 - ... are by no means satisfactory. For instance, the report for 1890 shows an enrollment over 10,000 less than that of 1889. Were this the real case, the correct inference would be that our schools are not doing what we have a right to demand of them; but an examination of the reports from each of our 75 county examiners readily shows the cause of this falling off to be the failure of directors to meet their requirements, and it will never be improved so long as we have so many school directors receiving...
Page 21 - ... advancement of the public schools. The people no longer looked to the general tax for means to carry on their schools, but voted the local tax as an auxiliary. Opposition to free schools grew weaker, and more systematic efforts were adopted by the people. His immediate successor, Hon. WE Thompson, said of him: By his eloquent and impassioned appeals he removed in a great measure southern prejudice against free schools, and to him more than any other individual is. the State of Arkansas indebted...
Page 50 - Only public schools carried on under State auspices will be aided. (5) The entire cost of maintaining schools is in no case met by the trustees. A small part of the current expenses is contributed to encourage and stimulate the people to self exertion in the cause of free popular education.
Page 29 - Thorough supervision necessitates frequent visitation. The number of schools which one person can efficiently supervise depends very much upon varying local circumstances, among which are density of population, the advancement of the schools, and the condition of roads, bridges, etc. The territorial divisions for this purpose may thus be large or small, as circumstances may require. But, inasmuch as the various townships are generally combined for certain civil purposes, and form counties, it is...
Page 47 - ... teaching a profession; must give a pledge to remain at the College two years, if the scholarship is continued so long; must promise to submit cheerfully to all its requirements in study, discipline, etc., and to teach in the public schools of his or her own State at least two years, if there i s an opportunity.
Page 28 - The work cannot be left to the non-professional local school boards already provided for, but it must be performed by professional experts, properly licensed by State authority. The necessity for local supervision is already so generally recognized by city school authorities that almost every city in the country has its city superintendent. Thorough and efficient supervision has been the chief agency in bringing the city systems to their present standard. But the...