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. 1855 Excerpt: ...the support of schools. There are 64 incorporated academies in the State, with 4.052 pupils, and an aggregate of 74,283.86 paid for tuition; also, 763 unincorporated academies, private schools, Sec, with 18,352 scholars, and an aggregate of $219,036.78 paid for tuition. Amount expended on puhlic and private schools, ...
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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. 1855 Excerpt: ...the support of schools. There are 64 incorporated academies in the State, with 4.052 pupils, and an aggregate of 74,283.86 paid for tuition; also, 763 unincorporated academies, private schools, Sec, with 18,352 scholars, and an aggregate of $219,036.78 paid for tuition. Amount expended on puhlic and private schools, Sec, exclusive of cost of repairing and erecting school edifices, $1,337,559.37. There were in 1850 local funds for the support of academies, Sec to the amount of ahout S 350,000, yielding an income of ahout $20,006. The value of the puhlic school-houses in the State in 1848 was $2,750,000. of which $2,200,000 had heen expended since 1833. There are four Normal Schools supported hy the State, at an annual cost of ahout $ 11,000, --one at Westfield, one at Framingham, one at Bridgewater, and one at Salem, for girls, --averaging annually, in all, 260 pupils. The Board of Education consists of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and eight memhers, one heing appointed each year hy the Governor and council for eight years. There is a secretary to the hoard, who has an assistant, and is the executive officer of the hoard. Teachers' institutes have heen held, under the direction of the secretary, for the instruction of teachers; at which Professors Agassiz, Guyot, Mason, and others have acted as instructors; and teachers' associations are held, independently of the institutes. Two agents are employed hy the hoard to visit each town in the State, to gather all information as to the condition and necessities of the schools, school-houses, Sec Provision is made hy law for the education and training young men to he principal teachers in the high schools in the commonwealth, hy estahlishing 48 State scholarships in the colleges of the State, and paying $ 10.
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