Annual Report Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a State-wide survey. The new Maryland law tends to eliminate partisan politics from State and county school administrations, raises the qualifications and salaries of teachers, superintendents, and other school officers, and exacts attendance for the entire period during which schools are in session for even- child between 7 and 13 years of age, attendance at least 100 days for children 13 and 14 years of age. and attendance at least 100 days for all children 15 and 16 years of age who have not completed the work of the elementary grades. In 1914 six States were without compulsory education laws of any kind, and six had laws that applied only partially. In 1915, it will be recalled, Alabama, Florida. South Carolina, and Texas passed compulsory laws, thus reducing the States without laws to two. In 1916 Georgia passed a compulsory attendance law, leaving but one State Mississippi without such a law. Louisiana made her partial compulsory law State-wide, and Maryland provided for a system of county attendance officers that should mean a notable improvement in the enforcement of the law. Louisiana made a number of general changes in its school law in 1916. The State board of education was reorganized, the powers of the parish (county) board of education were more clearly defined, and provision was made for increased salaries for parish superintendents. The Legislature of Mississippi created a commission to prepare a complete code of school laws and report to the legislature of 1918. An illiteracy commission, similar to those in Kentucky, Alabama, and North Carolina, was also authorized. Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey provided for the investigation of military training in the public schools. The Federal child-labor law has been mentioned in another connection. Massach...