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Elliott, Edward C. Industrial education; summary of legislation concerning industrial education in public elementary and secondary schools. New York [Parsons printery] 1910. 16 p. 8°. (Publications of the American association for labor legislation)

Present industrial educational enactments. In American federation of labor. Industrial education. Washington, D. C., 1910. p. 49-55.

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AND CHILD. LABOR.

Beveridge, Albert J. Child labor laws. Journal of education, 68: 330-32, October 1, 1908.

Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. Child labor legislation. Elementary school teacher, 9: 511-16, June 1909.

Child labor law of District of Columbia. Journal of education, 67: 310, March 19, 1908. McKelway, A. J. The child and the law. In Annual conference on child labor. Proceedings, 1909. New York, 1909. p. 63-72.

Reprinted, 1909. 12 p.

A year of child labor laws. Journal of education, 68: 713-18, December 31, 1908.

Nine states passed remedial measures.

U. S. Bureau of education. Compulsory education and child labor laws. In Report of the Commissioner for the year 1909. Washington, Government printing office, 1909. v. 1, p. 228–33.

Wisconsin teachers' association. Report of the Committee on the constitutional amendment changing the minimum school age from four to six years. In its Proceedings, 1908. Madison, Wis., Democrat printing company, 1909. p. 160-64.

Chairman, Lorenzo Dow Harvey.

GENERAL SUMMARIES OF THE MORE IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION ENACTED AND PROPOSED, 1909.

Within this section is presented a brief survey, by States, of the more important legislation pertaining to public education enacted during 1909. Supplementary and complementary thereto, the more important measures failing of enactment or approval are indicated.

Excepting in a few instances, these summaries have been prepared from the special reports made by the state superintendents of public instruction and the presidents of state institutions of higher and professional education. In the case of those States from which no special reports were submitted the summaries were prepared on the combined basis of a general comparative study of the trend of legislation during recent years and of a personal estimate of the significance of the several items of which mention is made.

ALABAMA-Enacted.

Amendment concerning state board of examiners, and the examination and certiflcation of teachers (act 73); providing for education on the evils of intemperance (act 40); regulating employment of children (act 107); authorizing appropriation of county funds for county high schools (act 217).

ARIZONA-Enacted.

Providing for uniform courses of study in the territorial normal schools (chap. 58); regarding the relation between normal school training schools and the public schools of the district in which normal schools are located, and providing for the distribution of public funds in such cases (chap. 87); abolishing saloons, gambling houses, etc., within a radius of 600 yards of a normal school campus (chap. 74).

ARIZONA-Failed.

Establishing four scholarships at the university for each county in the Territory (vetoed by the governor).

ARKANSAS-Enacted.

Appropriating $160,000 to establish four agricultural schools (act 100); regulating and enforcing attendance at school (act 234 and act 347); authorizing school districts to exercise the right of eminent domain in acquiring school property (act 331); creating special school districts with same powers as granted to incorporated cities and towns (act 321); appropriating $96,000 for maintenance of school and erection of girls' dormitory at state normal, Conway (act 351).

ARKANSAS-Failed.

Providing state uniformity of text-books; making county superintendency mandatory instead of optional; establishing state board of education; providing state educational commission, to investigate and report in two years; equalizing school taxes received from railroads.

CALIFORNIA-Enacted.

Providing for health and development supervisors in public schools (chap. 598); sectionizing and amending the laws relative to high schools (chap. 311); authorizing superintendent of public instruction to hold annual convention of county and city superintendents (chap. 166); creating a state normal school of manual arts and home economics (chap. 471); establishing state trades and training school (chap. 572); prohibiting school fraternities (chap. 218); designating the birthday of Luther Burbank for observance as bird and arbor day (chap. 82); providing for county library systems (chap. 479); establishing and maintaining cosmopolitan schools (chap. 268); relating to the support and maintenance of the university (chap. 329).

COLORADO-Enacted.

Establishing a state board of examiners and providing for the certification of teachers (chap. 165); establishing a public-school teachers' retirement fund (chap. 214); providing for the physical examination of children in the public schools (chap. 203); regarding the consolidation of rural schools and providing for transportation of children-for high-school purposes (chap. 204); enabling school districts to contract a bonded indebtedness for school purposes, 5 per cent of assessed valuation in districts of first and second classes and 3 per cent in districts of third class (chap. 205).

COLORADO-Failed.

Providing minimum salary for teachers; requiring school directors to provide libraries.

CONNECTICUT-Enacted.

Establishing two free public trade schools (chap. 85); providing for the town management of schools (chap. 146); modifying scheme for the supervision of schools (chap. 225); creating normal-school scholarships (chap. 198); regulating the construction and fireproofing of schoolhouses (chap. 81).

CONNECTICUT-Failed.

Providing for the general certification of teachers.

DELAWARE-Enacted.

Creating state school code commission (chap. 75); creating commission on Delaware College (chap. 109); establishing commission for the blind (chap. 73); amendments concerning employment of children (chap. 121) and school attendance (chap. 88).

FLORIDA-Enacted.

Providing for the maintenance of teachers' summer training schools (chap. 5881); changing the names of the several state educational institutions (chaps. 5924, 5925, 5926, and 5927); making appropriation for the support and maintenance of the state institutions for higher education created and required to be maintained by chapter 5384, Laws, 1905 (chap. 5961); providing for the teaching of agriculture and civil government in common schools (chap. 5938).

FLORIDA-Failed.

Providing for a separate normal school, to be coeducational; regarding coeducational training in the university and the College for Women.

GEORGIA-Enacted.

Providing for the election of county school commissioners by the electors of each county (p. 154).

HAWAII-Enacted.

Relative to the constitution of the department of public instruction (act 42); relative to the maintenance and repair of schoolhouses (acts 100 and 101); relative to the taking of private property for the use of schools and school recreation grounds (act 10); relative to the manner of vaccinating children (act 63).

HAWAII-Failed.

Providing for medical inspection in schools; savings banks for schools.

IDAHO-Enacted.

Making normal training compulsory for primary teachers (p. 24); providing for the establishment of rural high schools (p. 73); relating to issuance of special certificates (p. 192); creating a school law commission for the purpose of revising school laws, report 1911 (p. 219); approving action of university regents in establishing an agricultural college in connection with the university, under the terms of the charter (p. 38); providing for a board of examiners (p. 273); authorizing boards of trustees to pay expenses of one of their members incurred in attendance upon meetings of school officers called by county superintendent (p. 19).

ILLINOIS-Enacted.

General revision and rearrangement of the laws relating to the management and control of the public schools (p. 342-415); relating to the adoption, use, and price of text-books in the public schools (p. 416); providing for moral and humane education in the public schools (p. 415); joint resolution relating to salaries at the university (p. 496).

ILLINOIS-Failed.

Creating a state board of education; relative to the certification of teachers; providing for county institutes.

INDIANA-Enacted.

Concerning the medical inspection of schools in cities (chap. 114); relative to the transfer of pupils (chap. 72); regarding tuition in case of transfer of pupils (chap. 127); relating to compulsory education of blind and deaf (chap. 146); authorizing the establishment of public playgrounds in cities (chap. 84); authorizing establishment of medical school by university (chap. 40).

INDIANA-Failed.

Establishing a new normal school; increasing the income of the state educational institutions; amending compulsory education law; providing for medical inspection of school children, the erection of healthful school buildings, and requiring instruction in hygiene; concerning county superintendents, their qualifications, compensation, and assistants; regarding fire drills in schools; concerning the employment and education of children; authorizing the state board of education to constitute a board of accountancy; providing for the establishment of county agricultural, manual training, and domestic science schools; providing aid for the higher education of the blind.

IOWA-Enacted.

Creating a state board of education for the government of the state university, college of agriculture, and the state normal school (chap. 170); prohibiting secret societies and fraternities in public schools (chap. 185); amendment, compulsory education (chap. 187).

IOWA-Failed.

The report of the commission for the codification and revision of the school laws.

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Providing for normal training in certain high schools and academies and providing annual state aid $50,000-to schools giving such training (chap. 212); relating to the protection of schoolhouses and school children from danger of fire (chap. 209); relating to the issuance of permits to business colleges to canvass for students (chap. 204); validating the so-called Barnes high-school law in the counties in which it was carried by a majority vote (chap. 210); revising school land law (chap. 218).

KANSAS-Failed.

Fixing a minimum school term of seven months; revision of law relating to consolidation of schools; providing that applicants for first grade teachers' certificates must have at least two years of high-school education.

MAINE-Enacted.

Increasing state common school appropriation from 1 to 3 mills (chap. 177); classifying public high schools, providing state inspection and giving increased state aid (chap. 71); authorizing appointment of school physicians (chap. 73); creating school equalization fund (chap. 198); increasing minimum school year from twenty to twenty-six weeks (chap. 29); requiring state approval of schoolhouse plans (chap. 88); providing for new normal school (chap. 44); increasing annual appropriation for support of normal schools from $40,000 to $65,000 (chap. 106); providing for a commission to investigate industrial education (p. 1287).

MAINE-Failed.

Providing for compulsory state certification of teachers.

MASSACHUSETTS-Enacted.

Reorganizing the state board of education; abolishing commission on industrial education and investing its powers in state board of education (chap. 457).

MASSACHUSETTS-Failed.

Incorporating the trustees of Massachusetts College; providing state aid for cities maintaining satisfactory courses in practical arts.

MICHIGAN-Enacted.

Changing the administrative unit from the district to the township (permissive) (chap. 117); requiring county school districts to pay high-school tuition of pupils who have completed the eighth grade (chap. 65); encouraging the teaching of agriculture and manual training in rural schools through state aid (chap. 219); authorizing the state board of agriculture to grant certificates to teach agriculture (chap. 165); increasing the compensation of and amending certain sections regarding the duties of the superintendent of public instruction (chap. 9); authorizing annual meetings of school officers (chap. 112).

MICHIGAN-Failed.

Providing state aid where courses in agriculture, manual training, and domestic science are introduced into high schools.

MINNESOTA-Enacted.

Providing for agricultural and industrial education in high, graded, and consolidated schools, with state aid of $2,500 per year for each such school (chap. 247); authorizing establishment of extension division in the university for instruction by correspondence in agriculture and home economics, free of charge, to any inhabitant of the State (chap.

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