Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-03-04
TO HELP RURAL SCHOOLS.
A Measure Which is of Interest to
Rural Schools of this
County.

and will in all likelihood become a
law. 1t is in line with the progress
slve thought ofthe day in the manage
ment of country schools, and is
worthy of C nside,ation:
Be it Enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Minnesota:
Section l There is hereby APP
propriated from any moneys in the
State Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated the sum of $4,000 in the
year 1905, and a like sum in the year
1906, which sums shall be set aside
to be distributed to the first ten con-
solidated rural schools, $1,000 to
each school established, equipped
and conducted SO as to meet the
following named conditions, to wit +;
(a) Said consolidated rural school
shall contain not less than Is nor
more than SO square miles of terri.
tory.
(b) There shall be a continuous
track of ten acres of lana secured as
the property of the district. and
upon which there shall be erected a
substantial building containing not
less than three school rooms.
(c) There shall be employed a
principal teacher who is qualified to
teach the elements of agriculture as
determined by such texts as shall be
determined by the state Superinten
dent, in addition to the requirments
of teacher for a graded school.
There shall also be employed at
least one assistant teacher who
shall be qualified to teach domestic
science as determined by such texts
as shall be prescribed by the State
Superintendent, in addition to the
requirements for an assis ant teacher
in a state graded school. Such
other assistants shall be employed
as are necessary to properly instruct
the pupils in the schools
(d) Adequate provisions for con
veying the pupils to and from said
schools shall be provided by said
districts.
(e) Said land shall be properly
divided into areas for Fairgrounds,
for the planting of crops, trees and
plants, and shall be
used and managed as to best serve
as means of instructing the pupils
of said schools in farming and home
making.
(H The said school shall be
located outside of any Incorporated
village Or city, and not less than one
mile from the boupdry of said in
corporated village or city.
Section 2. For the purpose of de-
terming the salary of the County
Superintendent in any county each
district united in forming the con-
solidated rural school shall be
counted as before the consolidation
shall be made.
Section 3. For the purpose of
maintenance and support the con-
solidated raral school shall be in the
same class, governed by the same
laws, and administered in TIE same
way, as the state graded schools.
Section 4. No money shall be
paid under the provisions of this act
until the state superintendent, after
due examination, shall certify that
the conditions of this act have been
fully complied with.
Section 5. This act shall take
effect and be in force from aud after
its passage
The consolidated school is the
coming school Of the northwest, and |
is the shining star, the one bright
pot in the not distant future. L
will solve the present diff cult pro
Diem of bringing up to an equal stand
Dg with the graded schools of the
state our little backward and in
many instances sadly neglected rural
school. 1t will eventually place
hem in the same class with our
present high school system. It is
system which is no new experiment,
)ut one which has been in success
ul operation in many states of the
Union for many years past. All of
he leading educators foster and en-
it.
AS the rural schools are slowly and
teadily progressing towards con-