The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-22
The Board Of Education of Brooklyn

The Board Of Education Of the City of Brooklyn,
organised in May 1913 Previously thcrets the schools
under the district system. each Independent Of
the ether. and subject only to the government OF its
owp tru tecs and It deemed expcdient by number
OF thc friends public education among whom
Theodore King. (since State Superintendent OF New
Jortcy) Dr. Sullivan Thorne, Charles Addoms A. q.
Stevens, and William II. Harris, Esqs that a board
should be organised under whose management Sc all
the schools should be placed and by the exertons of
those gent and others law to that effect
passed by the Legislature and the board organised BY
the appointment, (by the Common Council, in whom
the appointing power isvestedD of three representatives
uch Of the then nine school districts in the city
the being each appointed for three years
but classified that the office O is vacated every
year. The fret officers OF the board were Theodore F.
King President; J. Sullivan Thorne Vice President,
and Alfred q. Stevens, Secretary.
The amount Of money raised in addition to the State
appropriation was originally quarter of mill upon
the Of the taxable property but has been since
successfully increased to hree-eghths, one-haf and
now to twothrds
by the organization of the Board of Education, was
the causing uniform mode and system of instruction
in a-thc using Of the samo books &c.-so that upon
the removal OF children from district to another no
change Of instruction occurred, &c, and, in fact an
impetus given to the of public instruction.
and n character to the public schools.
The number of teachers employed in 1913, about
thirty; the number at present is near one hundred
According to report of the City Superintendent
Gently made there have been instructed in the public
schools at different times and for different periods dur
ing the past year nearly twelve thousand children
including three hundred and fifty coored children
taught by colorcd teachers, in appropriate schools
being increase Of sixteen hundred the previous
According to the last school census the number
of children in the city between the ages of five and
sixteen years was seventeen thousand one hundred
two coored children. The number Of school districts
comprised within the city thirteen; consequently the
and the Mayor ey-ofcio, making forty in all In each
district there is public library free to all the nha
bants Of the district containing very many valuable
works; and in the older districts, such as NOS J. D. =,
and s, numbering over three thousand volumes each.
The schools of free the pupils being conf
PEELED only furnish their books-which, however,
supplied from depot established by the board, at II
| saving of fifty per cent from the ordinary prices
In No ID district recently formed spacious schoo!
house il in progress of creation its dimensions being so
by four stories in height and intended to
MEDIATE 400 children The expense of the building Tex
elusive IF the ground) when provided with seats, &C.,
to be ready for occupation it is estimated will cost
| $1,000. The interior arrangement is rather novel
one each floor by means OF movable partitions being
divided ut pleasure into distinct that,
upon the assembling of the school, the partitions being
thrown back and raised constitutes but one room and
each he enters occupies at his or her proper
seat After the exercises appropriate to the opening
the partitions closed and thus each class is in
its recitation room, under the supervision of
its own teacher, without the necessity of ever lcav
ing their seats and if at any time during the day it is
dosicd to exhibit the entire school, bring thcm to-
gcthcr for the purpose of it is done
| by merely sliding the partitions
The amount appropriated for school purposes the
present year. is about $50 657 of which S25 $50 has
apportioncd for teachers salaries including $l150 for
teachers of coorcd children; $2075 for contingent
penses; " 6O7 to the purchase of books for libraries
and the balance for instruction in vocal music which
is and has been always taught in all the schools since
| the organization Of the board
All the assistant teachers Of the male department
females, also the principal and assistants of the
female and primary departments the only male teacher
in the schools being the principal of the male depart
ment, who is principal Of the whole school, experenc,
having shown that the employment of females IA
teachers is the most conducive to education ut Least
in the public schools