Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-02-12
ANNUAL REPORT
Of SUPT. HADLEY
For Year Ending
December Thirty
First.
GIVES INTERESTING DATA
Of Progress and Condition
of Educational institutions
in Territory.

| The report Of the superintendent OF
Ipublic instruction for the year closing
December 81, 1905, Is now in press
| 1t is document worthy the attentioa
of all friends of education In New
| Mexico. From ii the New Mexican
lgleans few points and gives them
to its readers. The report gives the
following statistics:
Number of districts Gill; enumerA
tlon of children 1882 enrolled IA
schools 1929: enrolled In high
schools 49l; in normal schools 387, IN
higher institutions 5S1. expended foe
lpublc schools $505, ,181.37; value OF
public school property, $1.31s. s.6oo25.
! Higher institutions.
| The higher institutions, consisting
OF the University, Agricultural College
two Normal Schools, Military Insti
tute, School of Mines, all show a de
cided advance over previous years, and
| they offer such varied and liberal CHI
| ture that students need not leave the
! Territory to obtain an education. Dur
| ing the present year they are filled
| in some instances to their capacity
Scattered as they are, each Is cen
| ter from which educational influence
lradiates.
Teachers institutes are rapidly i'm
Iproving in character. During the past
summer each county held an institute
| of about two weeks Duration 3d.
teachers attended and $2,582.55 were
expended In conducting them Be
sides these the summer school in coli
nection with the Normal University
was we'll attended
The condition Of the finances Is i'm
proving in some ways, although the
demand for money for school purposes
Is always on the increase. This In
creased demand will never stop, Th4
II poll tax is being collected more eff
GENTLY: more districts are making spe'
cial levies and the proceeds from
leasing the public lands are constantly
increasing. Since the first of last DC.
tober the common schools have re
ceived from this source $4,000.
City Schools.
The schools In the cities and towns
are good Abundant evidence Is Al
hand to show that these schools are
| just as good as those Of the states,
and in some instances, better. They
are maintained about nine months an
lnually, and In most cases teachers are
paid quite we'll. But, the rural schools
are not entirely satisfactory. The
terms of school are short the wages
1 paid teachers are low, and. as a con
sequence, teachers not we'll qualified
must be employed In providing for
these and sustaining them, great OBJ.
stacles have to be overcome But, to
a large degree. the states encounter
the same difficulty.
The last legislature authorized the
territorial hoard Of education to issue
to persons whom 1t may deem we'll
lQuallfled. territorial teachers certifi
Gates This was decidedly an advance
movement The board has granted ~
five years certificates. and fourteen
| life certificates. This Is an encourage
ment to we'll Qualified teachers, as |.
relieves them of the annoyance Of peri
odical examinations.
| From many concrete examples, the
t,,t oh fs,I
progress made in education during the
past fifteen years. The advance
movement did not begin until about
1890. Since that date the higher In
stitutions have been created, organ
lied, and developed: the school law
has been thoroughly overhauled and
! the common schools, both rural and In
the cities, have been brought to their
present condition
I Fifteen years ago such typical cities
as Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and San.
ia Fe had no public school property
whatever. Today they have organized
graded schools of high order which
are sustained about nine months In
the year. Such counties as Chaves had
| in 1890 one school district about 81
miles square and not to exceed $50
Pupils. Today this county has q dis,
tricts, 2,961 pupils enrolled. the city
Of Roswell and the town Of Hagermau
with their good schools.
When the increase or more properly
I the construction from the beginning
OF school buildings is considered, a
wonderful view Is presented. Look
| upon the buildings belonging to the
higher institutions and the elegant and
commodious public school buildings OF
all the cities, and then reflect that
! these are all the creation Of the past
fifteen years, and none but a chronic
pessimist will complain of the educa