Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1875 — Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. [ARTICLE]

Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The report #f the Superintendent of Public Instruction is made public, and it shows that during the year there have been added to the permanent school fund $78,000. The fund now amounts to considerably over $8,000,000. The aggregate enrollment of scholars shows an increase of 14,000. The Superintendent makes a strong argument for a Compulsory Education law, and also indorses in emphatic terms the County Superintendency system. The report is voluminous, embracing reports from every County Superintendent in the State. It also has an eulogy upon the late Milton B. Hopkins, the immediate predecessor of the present incumbent, who died during the summer at his home at Kokomo.