Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-03
PLANS FOR
school YEAR
Open September II and
10000 Pupils Expected
This Year

me lJl puDIlC SCHOOLS OF the Ter
ritory, with 4SG teachers, open for
the coming school year on Monday,
September ~, These schools have
been crowded during the past year
with 19,909 pupils, and during the
new year, with few additional
teachers on the list, there will no
doubt be in these public schools
over 10000 children.
The public schools are kept open
from . TO II o'clock during ten
months of the year. These ten
months are divided rs follows:
Fall term, II weeks, September
II to December lG. 1910; winter
term, 3 weeks, January to March
81, 1911; spring term. II weeks,
April 10 to June 23, 1911.
Personnel of Department.
The Department Of Public In
struction consists of six commits.
sioners and the superintendent,
There is only one normal inspector
for the entire Territory, who will
have charge Of the general inspec,
tion.
superintendent Pope said this
monring that at the last meeting
of the Commissioners Of Public In
structiOn. which was held in July,
a plan was adopted by which the de-
partment believes It possible IL
greatly improve the educational sys-
TEN. II is hoped under the plan
that the schools can be kept more
uniform, in accordance with the
course of study; that the direction
will be better and that the entire
system will be more uniform. The
schools of the entire Territory are
subdiyided into educational divi.
sions, each division having been
placed under a supervising principal
whose duty II will be to help the
various principals in laying out
their work, Offering suggestions
etc. as well as keeping the depart
ment in closer touch with the work
The men selected for these positions
as supervising principals have beer
tried for years and have proven
themselves worthy and capable.
The schools have been grouped
into educational divisions as fol
lows:
!. Kauai and Niihau-Seyentec
schools with GS teachers. in chars,
Of Supervising Principal c. o. Smith
who will also be principal OF tn,
Kapaa school in that division.
.. Seventeen schools will
as teachers (not including tn,
schools of Honolulu. No superyis
ing principal has been selected, bu
the work will be looked after b!
the superintendent, assisted ut time
by the normal inspector.
3. Maui. Molokal and Lanai
Thirty-nine schools with So teach
ers, In charge of Supervising Princi
pal II. NJ. Wells, who is also prin
cipal OF Lahaina school. CLahaina
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4. Hawaii 1.-TWO diyisions) II
East Hawaii, comprising Hamakun
Hllo and Puma; % schools, g.
teachers; William McCluskey as 81
peryising principal, who Is also prin
clpal OF Pupaikou school CThe Hi
Union ana Hilo High schools are no
included in this diyision.) .. IVES
Hawaii, consisting Of Kohala, Kon
and Kau; % schools and GO teach
ers; In charge OF Charles y, Kinl
who viii also be principal of llC
lualoa school,
In Honolulu the public school
, viii be centralized as follows;
Kaahumanu, Manoa, Moillli an
! waikiki, having about 90 teacher
win be under Principal g. ", Ball
! Win
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about 80 Teachers, under jones
| DAVIS.
! CrnlUI Grammar aud Crutrs
Urinary combined with % total ,