Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-02-17
SUPERINTENDENT
HADLEY'S REPORT
On the Great Progress and
Condition Of the Territorial
Educational institutions.
ne GIVES INTERESTING Data

tineluafi Fehfuar i3.l
TIE report Of the experimentation
ol public instruction for the yeal
CLOSING peromber sd. 1905. is nov !.
. press. lt "a q document worthy ths
ientiun of All frioEds % alnnsfi0a
p New Mexico. The report gives th,
4 tolluwing Interesting statistics.
Number Of dlairiCts. Gli, onumera
"qn of children. I2.2ee. enrolled IN
ehools. ft.s83; enrolled IN hiEt
achooia. fai. IN normal schools. $50
ln hiHhcf institutions. 6Si, expended
Tor public scnools. e5oS.iSia1: value
.oi public school property. si3is.
eee.25.
Higher lnstl,utlous
Tho higher Institutions, consiatinp
of the Universally Agricultural col.
loge two normal schools. Military ln.
ttliutf. school Of Mines, an show n a..
clded advance over previous years.
and they onor such varied and liD.
oral culture that students need not
leave the territory 90 obtain nn edu.
caiion. During the present year they
are hiiod ln some Instances 20 their
capacity Scattered az they are. each
% center from which educational lr'
1 nuence fadiatea.
Teachers Institutes are rapidly in.
. proving in character During the past
summer each county held an Institute
( Of about two weeks duration: bgi
teachers attended. and t2.5S2.6b we're
expended In conducting them. Besides
these. the summer schools Ia connec.
ton with the normal university was
well attended.
The condition Of the finances a I'M
kfnving IN some ways, although the
demand for money for school pnr.
passes IL always on the Increase. This
4 Increased demand viii never stop.
. The poll tax Is being collected more
+ 'cmclenfly. more districts are making
special leyios and the proceeds from
leasing the public lands are constant
~ increasing. Since the FIRST OF last
oc.vber the common schools have re-
cciyaa from this source e35.000
City Schools.
The schools ln tho cities and towns
are good. Anundant evidence % a.
hand 30 show that these schools are
just a. good az those OF the states,
aad in some INSTANCES better. They
are mhiniainod about nine months an.
pualiy and in most eases teachers
are paid quite we'll. But the rural
achools are not entirely satisfactory.
The terms oi schools are short the
wagos paid teachers are low, and as
q consequence. teachers not well quail.
idcd must be- employed m providing
for these and sustaining them. great
obstacles have 10 be overcome. Rrt
t6 a large degree the states encounter
she SAME dinlCuliy.
u Tho last legislature authorized tho
'vgHlOrlal board 0f education 10 issue
u persons whom Il may deem we'll
.quallhed. territorial teachers coriih-
Gates. This was decidedly an advance
movement Tho board has granted
'foriy-nine nye-year certificates and
fourteen life certificates This Is an
encouragement 20 well qualified teach.
ers. aa q relieves them OF the annoy
nnce 81 periodical examinations
From many concrete examples, the
'aupefintendtnt shows the wonderful
progress made ln education during
the past fifteen years Tho advance.
merit did not begin until about 1880
Since that timn the higher lnEtiiu
Il 'tl0na have been created, organized aud
doveloped the school law has been
IthorouRhly oyerhauled, and the com
mon schools. both rural and I'm the
cities, have been brought 20 their
present condition
Fifteen years ago such typical cltles
as las Vegas, AlbuuuUrQuo and Santa
fe bad no public school property
hatover. To-day they have organ
Ecd graded schools of a high order
which are sustained about nine months
in the year Such counties an Chaves
had in 1890 ono school district about
'nlneiylsour miles square and not 10
'oxcned 1850 pupils. To-day this conn.
ty has tWeniy.onn districts, 1861 pa.
.ulls enrolled and the city of Roswell
and the town of Hagorman. with thelr
guod schools.
When the Increase of more prop.
orly. the construction from the be.
ginning of school huiidluga o. o0nsld'
erred. a wonderful View ia presented
Look upon the buildings belonging 10
the higher institutions. and the eio.
gant and cummodlous public school
buildings OF an the cities, and thor re-
0ocf that these are an the creation of
the past llieen years, and none but
chronic poaslmist win complain Of
che educational advance New Mexico
"a making