Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1907 — Must Abandon Small Schools [ARTICLE]

Must Abandon Small Schools

FassettA. Cotton, state superintendent of public io-iruction, has ruled that the law is very imperati vein requi ring townsbi p trustees to abandon all the small schools.in tho.townsnips. State Superintendent Cottou ha 4 informed couuty superintendents that the act provides “that the township trustees shall uiscoutiuue and abuidon all schools under their charge where tue daily attendance during the last preceding school year has been twelve or fewer; provided, the condition as to the roads, streams and bridges permit of such discontinuance.” The county superintendents of the state are 4 nstracted ro see that this law is enforced. It has been reported that some“ Trustees have shifted the enumeration in order to increase the school attendance in these small schools next year. But thiswill not change the sitution, a° the abandonment must be based upon the possibility of an increased attendance next year.