Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-12
TEXAS EDUCATIONAL NOTES

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Dallas is arranging to spend $780,
900 on permanent school properties.
County Superintendent OF Schools
William Eilers reports 1929 pupils Of
scholastic age in Lavaca county.
The school tax rate for the ensuing
twelve months will be 16 2-3 cents, or
the same as last year.
Harris county leads the state in the
amount invested in school buildings
in the past two years, having spent
si23,692.
Crystal City has erected school
building which is credit to that little
city. When completed and furnished
the cost will be about $4,000.
One feature of the Anderson county
institute, which convenes September
Ills, is an address by RI. ]. s. Still
man on How Can Health Be Secured
in Our Public Schools?"
The second series of plans for model
rural schoolhouses has been issued by
the Conference for Education in Texas.
The demand for these plans has been
very gratifying. They are sent free
TO trustees and superintendent. Ad-
dress Lee Clark, general agent, Aus
tin, Texas.
The first rural high school created
in Brazos county under the new law
has been made by the county board
uniting the Holligan Chapel school
with the school at Steep Hollow. A
large addition will be made to the
Steep Hollow schoolhouse. A special
tax has been voted for improvements.
Our ability as people to adapt our
selves to new conditions and to Crap
PIE with new problems is well ex-
emplified in the passage of the rural
high school law and the readiness with
which the new county boards are
classifying the schools of their re-
spective counties and establishing
rural high schools.
| The rapidity with which new county
boards are being formed and rural
high schools established is encourag-
| ing to those interested in educational
progress in the state. 1t shows in what
close touch our county superintend-
ents and rural patrons are with latest
educational ideals and demands.
The Conference for Education in
Texas, in order to carry out its plans
for pushing Texas to the front educa-
tionally, needs the moral intellectual
and financial support of every good
citizen in the state. No enterprise can
be successful without being financed,
and the better it is financed the more
successful it will be.
A long step in the right direction
was made in the recent passage of
the law creating a board of regents
for the state normal schools. Remove
the selection of faculties for our state
schools from political influence and
give school officials long terms of
service will do much for the efficiency
of our institutions.
Lee Clark, general agent of the
Conference for Education in Texas,
and about twenty other representa-
tives of the conference will address
the various county institutes which
will convene next week. The confer.
ence is aggressive in its all-theyear-
round campaign for better school
houses, better schools and better sup
port for schools.
Realizing that the work of any
school, or any system of schools, in
order to be efficient must be based
upon a rational course of study, the
state department of education has is
sued course of study for the public
schools. No doubt this will tend to
unity our school system. and will be
very helpful to county boards and
county superintendent in classifying
schools and establishing rural high