Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...in the United States Senate? By whom is our State represented in the National House of Representatives? 8. What are the powers and duties of the United States officers--judges, attorneys and marshals? 9. Give the political divisions in which you reside, from ward or township to State, inclusive. 10. State as fully as you can the duties and powers of the governor of Michigan. Township Unit System. (Extract from the last annual report of Hon. A. B. Poland, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Trenton, New Jersey.) I doubt whether any legislative enactment during the past two decades, whatever its subject-matter or its avowed object, will be more far reaching or productive of good than this radical reorganization of the state school system upon the township basis. The chief object of I his measure was to effect the following ends: 1. By enlargement of school districts, to make the cost of maintaining good schools considerably less to each taxpayer. 2. By bringing a large number of schools under one and the same jurisdiction, to make possible effective grading and supervision. 3. By throwing rural and village communities into the same taxing district, to equalize the burdens of maintaining good schools. 4. By making all the schools of a township free to all the resident children of a township, to afford equal school privileges to all. 5. By making the school trustee a township officer, to create governing school boards who should take a broader and more enlightened view of the purpose, scope, and results of public school education. It was not a hastily-devised nor an ill-considered measure. The experience of a dozen or more states that had taken the step in advance of New Jersey, was appealed to for guidance. It was found that no State which had abolished its ...
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