Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1897 — State School Attendance. [ARTICLE]

State School Attendance.

According to the Indianapolis News D. M. peering, superintendent of public instruction, estimates from the reports received that the new compulsory education law has already increased the attendance of the public schools of the state 25,000 or 30,000. County and city superintendents in all parts of the state write the department that the schools were never before so well attended.