The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-28
Normal Schools


 says:
 Normal Schools
 'The management of the white normal schools underwent a complete change during the year just closed through the passage by the legislature of an act ere ating a single board for the government Of these six normal schools. It had be- come apparent that there were as many standards and ideals as there were nor maj schools in the state and the people at large were left to wonder, in view or these striking differences, just, what a normal school ought to stand for Through the course of study now main tained at each of the four Class A normal schools, with a. fixed entrance require- rnent which is to be gradually raised with each passing year, the time is not far distant when these normal schools will be able to meet in larger meas ure the increasing demand for trained teachers for the public schools of this state. The other two white normal schools recently established are show ing commendable growth in their effort to meet the conditions which caused them to be brought into existence.
 Last year the enrolment of students r the six normal schools for white teach CTS was 2189 an increase of about Il per cent over the previous year. The graduates for the year numbered IT, an increase of per cent over the year previous. Eighty teachers were employed in these schools as compared with 67 the year before. A study of the statistical reports made by the normal schools in- ciuded in this volume discloses the fact that $136 is the average cost per stu dent attending these schools This is an increase of about per cent over last year. The estimated value of the build irgs, sites and equipments of these six schools was $342,0 600, or an increase of arout IA per cent over the former year. Their total income was slightly more than S1G0OO0, of which the state paid $65 0OO, this being an increase over last years total income of about per cent. The four Class A normal schools are To- cated at Florence, Jacksonville, Livings- ton and Troy. The two normal schools established in recent years arc at Daphne and Moundville
 Normal Schools, ColOred
 Three normal schools are maintained for the education and training of negro teachers. These schools are located at Montgomery. Normal tnear Huntsville), and Tuskegee. The enrolment last year m these schools was 3294, as compared with 3490 the year Before. The graduates from these schools during the year cov- cred by this report numbered 156, being decrease of about 50 per cent from the previous year. The teachers em- poyed in these three schools numbered | 243 or an increase of about 45 per cent over the previous year. The average cost | Of attendance per pupil at these schools 1 vas $93, practically the same as the year | before. The value of the buildings, sites | and equipments of these three schools | is reported at S961, ,000, practically the same as the year before. The total re- 1 ceipts at these schools is shown to be | $3S0634, an increase of about 21 per cent 1 over the previous year. Of this amount 1 tine state contributed $16,0O0
 Ut might be well to observe in this connection that the state government has Io voice whatever fin directing the af- l fairs of the schools at Tuskegee and | Normal. These two schools receive from the state, respectively, s45OO and s4000 as an apparent encouragement to them and to the race which they represent without demanding any privilege what. ever in directing their policies. The nor nal school at Montgomery, however, is under the management of a board oi | trustees appointed by the governor. T6 this institution the state has been con- | tributing $8500 annually. The recent ses sion of the legislature made provision fol 1 increasing the annual income from thu | state to the Montgomery State Norma | school to the amount of S16.000 annually effective in the year beginning October | l. 1911