Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools

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Superintendent of Common Schools, 1836
 

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Seite 29 - He shall prescribe suitable forms and regulations for making all reports and conducting all necessary proceedings under this act, and shall cause the same, with such instructions as he shall deem necessary and proper for the organization and government of schools, to be transmitted to the local school officers, who shall be governed in accordance therewith. SEC. 54. He shall cause as many copies of the laws relating to schools and Teachers...
Seite 37 - In each school district, there are annually chosen three trustees, whose duty it is to call special meetings of the inhabitants whenever they deem it necessary; to make out all tax lists, when taxes are voted by the inhabitants of the district to build or repair the schoolhouse ; to provide fuel, or to purchase a lot...
Seite 45 - It was not so much for the benefit of the children attending school, as for those who have completed their common school education. Its main design was to throw into school districts and place within the reach of all their inhabitants, a collection of good works on subjects calculated to enlarge their understandings and store their minds with useful knowledge.
Seite 102 - The following is a list of the principal reservations of this nature, viz: One lot of 550 acres in each of the 28 townships in the Military tract. Forty lots of 250 acres each in the twenty townships west of the Unadilla river, being 10,060 acres.
Seite 4 - ... county treasurer, with whom it is deposited, the quota of the revenue of the common school fund to which the town is entitled, and from the collector of the town the equal amount raised upon its taxable property; and they apportion these sums among the school districts of the town, according to the number of children over five and under sixteen years of age...
Seite 99 - Tlie following table exhibits the capital of the School Fund, according to the annual reports of the Comptroller, from the foundation of the fund in 1805—6 to...
Seite 38 - ... of six to the age of fourteen, and, in several cantons, to the age of sixteen. The schoolmasters in the several communes are furnished with lists of all the children in their districts, which are called over every morning on the assembling of school; the absentees are noted, and also the...
Seite 34 - At such visitation, the town superintendent shall examine into the state and condition of such schools, both as respects the progress of the scholars in learning, and the good order of the schools ; and may give his advice and direction to the trustees and teachers of such schools as to the government thereof, and the course of studies to be pursued therein.
Seite 30 - ... decision shall be final." This provision was intended for what it practically is, a cheap and expeditious mode of settling most, if not all, of the difficulties and disputes arising in the course of the execution of the law. A common law certiorari would no doubt lie from this court, to the trustees to bring up and correct any erroneous proceeding not concluded by an adjudication of the Superintendent, or in a case where his powers were inadequate to give the relief to which the party was entitled.
Seite 45 - If the inhabitants of school districts were authorized to lay a tax upon their property for the purpose of purchasing libraries for the use of the district, such a power might, with proper restrictions, become a most efficient instrument in diffusing useful knowledge, and in elevating the intellectual character of the people. A vast amount of useful information might in this manner...

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