Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — Department of Education. [ARTICLE]

Department of Education.

There is a commissioner of education at the head of one of the bureaus of the' interior department. It is his duty to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories, and to diffuse among the people information about school systems and methods of teaching, so as to promote the cause of education throughout the country. The commissioner is aided in his labors of diffusion by a chief clerk, a compiler, and a statistician. Among them they collect data and get out yearly reports which may serve in a degree to promote the cause of education. Senator Hansbrough has introduced a bill to expand the bureau Into a department and the commissioner into a secretary.