Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-23
STATE HOUSE.
Courses Of Study Of Maine
High Schools.
State supt Smith Completes
The Work Of inspection.
York narhor Z Beach Railroad Co,
Files Annual Report.

ed that there is provision in the free
High school law which requires the ap-
prevail by the State superintendent of
III courses of study of those schools which
desire to receive tuition pupils at town
il ard State expense. The general re-
II quirements of the law are that High
schools of standard grade must have a
four-years' course of study and a
school year Of at least 80 weeks.
II To meet the special requirements for
II approval these schools must employ at
least two teachers and have good
Il equipment for teaching science and
Il must offer no common school work ex-
4 ccpt such as is given i'm the form of
Il reviews.
/ The number of High schools and acad-
| emies which made applica ton for APP
| prevail was 19l. OF this number SO fail
! ed to meet the requirements. OF the
li3 schools which received approval 30
| were lacking in some minor detail, but
have been given approval for the cur
rent year in order to afford reasonable
| opportunity for the strengthening Of
the courses Of study or equipment. Of
The entire number OF schools approved
Al are academies and liz are town and
city High schools. These schools have
a total registration of II $50 pupils and
| they have COL teachers.
! The failure of Il school to receive ap-
prevail does not cause the loss of State
| aid to the town supporting it under the
! general provisions of the High school
| law. Approval affects only the right
| Of schools to accept tuition students
| and the obligation Of towns to pay the
tuition of pupils.
Lists Of standard schools are row be-
| ing prepared and will be sent out upon
application at an early date. Certifi-
Gates Of approval have been sent to
all schools that are to be placed upon
this list and all sub-standard schools
have been notified of the decision re-
garding it. The following explanatory
statement accompanies the returns
sent to towns:
/. Through the operation of two dis
tinct sections of the school laws there
are created two classes of free high
schools.
! "A. These of standard grade. 49,
b. Those of sub-standard grade.
,. Schools of standard grade are
| those high schools and academies whic',
| meet the requirements of Sec: 63-64.
| These requirements are: =.
A. A school year of 30 weeks.
4. a minimum fOur-years' course of
study.
c. Approval of course by the state
Superintendent of public schools.
3. Schools of the sub-standard class
are those that meet the general re-
quirements of the free high school law
exclusive of the special requirements
named in Sections SO and g.
!. Only schools CT the standard class
jmay receive tuition pupils in accordance
with the provisions Of Sections 63 and
Ca
> Towns supporting schools of the
standard class are not required to pay
the tuition of students In other schools.
6. Towns supporting sub-standard
high schools are not thereby exempt
from the provisions of Section 63 in re-
gard to tuition.
T. Schools OF both classes are equally
entitled to State aid in accordance with
The prov isi0ns Of the free high schoo!
law.
Announcement was made at the office
of the Board Of Railroad Commission
erS Friday that the annual report OF !
the York HarbOr q Beach Railroad Co
had that day been filed at the office of
the board. The report shows that the
earning from operation the past year !
" ere S43,292 50 against $37, 1856 20 for the !
preceding year, an increase of $5536.15 |
The operating expenses were So, 637 .62;
income from operation. $lO655 80; taxes. |
S19SSi; surplus from operation during |
the year. $525347: surplus from opera
ton at the end of the year, $39, S92.O |
passenger revenue, $24,653; freight reve-
rue. $lI,12S.61.
The operating expenses are divided as
follows: Repairs of roadway, $6427.16;
renewals of rails $13S6.10; renewals Of
ties, 1881. SO: repairs and renewals of
bridges and culverts, S11S1.S5; repairs
md renewal of building and fixtures.
1854 Of; engine and round house men.
$3.50 10: fuel for locomotive. $527475:
train service, $234220; station service,
sa666. 67: car per diem and mileage.
so455.35; hire of equipment. $2035.lO.
Other items in the report are as fol-
lows: Number of passengers carried y
earning revenue, 237 ,135; number of /
passengers carried one mile. 951.23i:
number of passengers carried one mile
DER mile fOdu, o-,Otf, VI tobS
carried of freight earning revenue.
81, -: number of tons of freight car
ried one mile. 49, 1888; number of tons
of freight carried one mile per mile of
road. 1862; mileage Of passenger ears.
IS, 1876.
Hon. A. w. Gilman, commissioner Of
agriculture, was at the department
Friday attending to some business mat
tiers before going to York county to-
day to attend the farmers institutes
in that county. Among the institutes
which Commissioner Gilman has at
tended during the week were those in
Franklin county, and which were, he
said, like the others of the fall series.
very successful. Franklin county has
this year, said Mr.. Gilman, been one
of the garden spots Of Maine in the
line Of fruit culture. and the apple
cop was a big one. The people Of the
county are very much interested in,
fruit culture, and at the meetings.
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