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Title: A manual of educational legislation for the guidance of committees on education in the state legislatures
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Education
Subjects: Educational law and legislation
Publisher: Washington : Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ited States as a whole, 75.8 per cent of all children of school age are in public schools, 6.8 percent are in private schools, and 17.4 per cent are in no school whatever. Table 31 shows census and enrollment data for children between 8 and 14 years,as given in the county superintendents reports to the State superintendent for theyear 1914-15. In 28 of these counties the number enrolled exceeds the total census SCHOOL POPULATION, ENROLLMENT, AND ATTENDANCE. 27 enumeration from 1 per cent to 25 per cent. In one county the number enrolled isequal to the census. . . . The given data are useless for this purpose in 29 countiesof the State because of the condition stated. In the other 33 counties 4,845 children,or 12 per cent of the censiis enumeration between 8 and 14, are reported nx)t enrolled inschool. The school census (including children between the ages of 5 and 18)should not be used as a basis for apportionment of school money, butto ascertain the number of children to be educated.
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,a So2 -^ O Pi ;.S o © 3 S d o -§ ^o 3 CO C3 h i All private schools should be open to inspection by school author-ities. Mental and physical incapacity are the only legitimate reasons whya child should not be in the public schools. 28 MANUAL OF EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION. Truant officers, not school administrators, should be provided forthe enforcement of the compulsory school law. If private schools are utilized, the qualifications of teachers, the school equipment,the quality of instruction, and the course of study should be measured by the samestandards by which the public schools are measured. As education is the business of the State, it is also the right and duty of the State tosee to it that children are kept in school in spite of poverty or need for labor. It isfurther the riglit of the State to see to it that provision is made for the enforcement ofits educational laws. IV.—RURAL SCHOOL ORGANIZATION. The national industrial transition going on at the present time isforcing

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