The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12

roints that the report will discuss.
w. II. II. BEADLE,
Supt of Public Instruction.
There are 81 organized counties at the pres
ont time. but the reports for the fiscal year end
inc June 30th, 1884, include only the 65 coun-
Ties which had schools and school accounts In
that year:
Number Of counties reporting, GG55
Number Of counties organized
but not reporting. .......... is
Number of school townships or
ganiZed, in 80 counties. ....... SGT
NuT,aber of school districts organ
lied, in Is old counties. ....... 1,042
Number of persons June |, 1884,
between ages of z and 20 years n, 400
Number OF pupils enrolled in
pub schools. ...........;.: 5o,O81
Number of school houses, graded ~
Number of school houses, un-
graded. ............:......... 1,s49
Value of permanent school prop
err neutrality-suspicious.; s1,esa,e58
Number of sittings in school
Observation-Disclosures. 1850
Number of graded schools. 49,. 80
Number of ungraded Schools. 1880
Number of teachers employed,
males. ........... ....... SH3
Number of teachers employed,
females. ....... ...-...... 2,O4s
mOnth-2O days, males. $3.50. S3S 43
Average pay Of teachers per
month-@ days, females; sS1 70
Average number of days schools
were taught. .............. 1O1
Number OF county Teachers In
stitutes held. ................ 80
Meetings of Territorial Associa-
tons and Institute. ......... 8
EXPENDITURES.
For school houses, sites and APP
pendages $685., 962. SO
For teachers wages. ........... 1914, 7S5. AZ
For incidental expenses. ........ 1876, 406. 70
For interest on bonds. ..!.... T3.77g22
For other debts and liabilities. &c. "a 20
Total common school expendi-
lures during year. ............ 1,306.S7S ~
Balance on hand June Both, 1884 2g6, 6S4 q
Total to balance total common
school receipts; .......... 1908, 5e2 80
For university buildings, Vermil-
lion. .....:..,.:.:.".....,.. 100000
For university buildings, Grand
Forks. ,.....;..:.."..;..... 100000
For building Agricultural Col
lege, Bookings 100000
For Normal school building,
Madison. 10000
spearfsh. ...........;...-% 100000
Donated in money and lands by
localities to all these. ........ 100000
For salaries and other expenses
of all these. .....-........... 100000
Aggregate for public education
during year. ...........,... 81, 748,5 62. 80
The report will decidedly favor and defend
the township system as opposed to the district
plan. The experience of twenty months iusti-
fes this. The practice under no law is perfect
but the condition is far better in counties
where this system has been in operation than
1t was in the same under the district plan. 1t
has handled public money and made report of
1t responslbly, a point never before reached in
Dakota school affairs. 1t has improved the
character of the schools; promoted economy;
gwen longer terms and better schools with
ont increased taxation; has greatly increased
the credit Of school corporations: put the
management of schools into more capable
hands; relieved the counties of local quarrels
over district boundaries; given to all the people
more equal and uniform school advantages.
the great object of any law, and enabled the
people to plan permanently and cooperate in
one community without need of future divis-
IONS; distributes school houses more equitably
having never too many, and generally applies
The public money and directs the public enter
prise IN educational matters in a more fair,
equal and satisfactory manner for the whole
people. The exceptions 10 this in q few To-
calltles rest on neglect and violation of the law.
Anew inconvenience amendments will meet
va NbO W ~ PAuCCp n1OuCy
received from saloon licenses and fines in the
county school fund met opposition in Cass,
urand Forks, Lawrence, Pennington and q few
other counties, while o great majority of the
counties seem to favor it T~heincoyenience to
some suggests the necessity of adding a pro-
ylso to that section that win turn all such mon
eys 10 those counties into the county general
innd, as the best solution of the question.
Inc law will have a most careful revision.
Indeed, extraordinary care will be taken.
Last spring a committee of the ablest county
ssuperlntendents vas appointed to cooperate
~ TINS work. Several meetings and much cor
reaspoondence have been devoted to the subject
Inc labor is not completed. Tie main feat
ue OF the system, the undivided township
scnool corporations and their boards, will re-
nam, but various details will be better adj
yusted to practical needs and experience.
ureat effort will be made to give all the SUD-
Jects OF the law the most easy and systematic
praer and arrangement, while the whole will
J made more brief. Some provision will be
made for pay of school township officers.
Inc law is recommended to apply to all the
counties, and to this end it ia suggested that a
PROVISION permit, in some old counties differ
ent boundaries for school townships and civil
oWnshlps. This will enable the accommoda-
son OF school township boundaries more easily
WeAlstlng boundaries and school houses. The
report urges that in the old counties all pres
sn1 districts must be modified and divided in q
ssW years, especially with the growth following
seatsnood, and that no law and no officers can
~ 1nls with equal justice TO all In counties
sAe sue OF Cass or Brown and Sphinx we would
ucea IN 2 few years about 800 school districts
eacn, with BOO officers, rendering it necessary
so Keep account with and receive reports from
~ OF Them. 9 This is much worse than useless,
snut Will require 600 different changes of
Douhdarles to reach this result, in each coun-
y, and In nearly every change would be q
wrong to a considerable part.
= me legislature decide to preserve district
examinations where they now are it is recon-
~ iaeaued that the complete law governing them
~ separately printed fortheir use.
many have that county super
svhssndents be elected at the June elections, and
sa@s an school elections for boards Of education
we same day.
Inc territory Is 50 large that one man can
~ iooK after it Several suggestions are made
= meet this. One is that the Assistant Super
mn