Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — The County Board of Education [ARTICLE]

The County Board of Education

ACTION ON THE MEW SCHOOL BOOKS, AND OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERo. The County Board of Education met last Thursday afternoon, in the Superintendent's office. The Superintendent presided by right of office, and W. O. Boadifer’of'Carpenter tp., was elected'secretary of the Board, for the ensuing year. All members of the Board were present except Jesse C. Gwln. of Hanging Grove, and M. L. spithr of Rensselaer. It was decided to enforce the use of the new books of.the so-called In- _ diftnn Series, the coming'sellout year, in accordance with the Indianaschool book law. as interpreted by the late decision of the Supreme court. A full list of the adopted text books for the ensuing year, will-therefore be as follows: Readers. Aril lunettes and Geographies, the Indiana •Series'; Spellers, MiCufloy’s Eclectic; Harvey’s Grammars, Barnes’ Histories, Indiana Commercial Writing Books. Townsemis' Civil Government. The system of a Central Purchasing Agency was approved and continued and E. L. Clark re-appdinted as correspondent for the Board. The former rules and regulations for the schools were re-adopted, with the addition thaf the Superintendent should prepare and publish in the forth-coming County School Manual, a digest of the duties of district directors. Also that the hour of opening the Township Institutes be changed from 10 o’clock a. m. to 9 o’clock. It was ordered that "hereafter the art of drawing be taught in all grades of the public schools below the Fifth. The Science of Civil Government was also put into the common school course; to be studied in the last year of the course and future candidate s for graduation must pass examination therein. The County Superintendent was directed to prepare a new edition of the County Manual and to have 1500 copies of the same printed for public distribution. The reports or enumeration were filed and a summary of the reports is here given: Report of Enumeration of School Fluid- . ren of Jasper County, Ind. for 1800.

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