Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-09
JANUARY 8, 1911
y There were no school lib


raries.
e. (lO) There was no interest i
T. schools among the people Of cours
there was but little interest anon
, the teachers and pupils.
In 1906 the beginning of a reform
y was made when the General Assem-
bly, voted an annual appropriation o
$4,000 each for two state norma
schools, one at Richmond and one n
/ Bowling Green. But the schoo
/, forces and their friends were mar
shaling for desperate struggle. Or
the firing line We're the Kentucky Ed.
ucatlonal Association, the Kentucky
development Association, and. best
OF all, the Federation of Women's
Clubs. On January 6, 1908, President
Crabbe became head of the state de-
partment of education. On the same
day the General Assembly met in BIZ.
lennial session. The enactments made
We're momentous and this Assembly
Twill doubtless be called 1.-THE Edu-
Icational Legislature
| ID 1t passed the county school
district law, or the Sullivan bill
Whlch called for complete reorgan-
lzation of the school system and for
the establishment within two years of
a high school within every county in
kentucky.
CD 1t made the State college
State university and enlarged the
scope of its usefulness.
90 1t appropriated 100000 for
higher education and another $40. 900
annually for additional maintenance
for the state university and the nor
mails.
az 1T passed a bill creating an ed.
ucatlonal commission and instructed
1t to make a thorough investigation
OF the whole school system and re- |
port to the next General Assembly.
(o) 1T passed bill appropriatine
$4,000 for additional improvements
at the Kentucky Normal and Indus
trial Institute for Colored Persons
TO- 1t passed a law regulating
child labor.
CD 1t passed compulsory at
tendance and truancy law in cities of
the first, second, third and fourth
classes.
Here is found the remedy-under
the new school law"-for previous
lefects and failures in the schools,
rhere are 5000 trustees properly !
elected and qualified. There is fair
of money for buildings, equip :
nent and repairs. High schools are :,
n full operation. Teachers salaries !,
re increased. Teachers have the in
piration (and money to attend pro-
esslonal schools. Public sentiment
demanding superintendent who y
VIII devote their entire time to the
chool business, and as a result the
resent mere pittances called sal
ries will be commensurate with the
utles of the superintendency and
'lth the demands of the schools.
Libraries are being established. More
nan all, all the people are intensely
lterested in the welfare of the
ch0Ols since the vigorous campaign.
~ Of the last two years.
Practically all the counties have
Jade liberal school levy. A con-
'rvatlve estimate of the amount to
realized from the county school
TX is nearly $75O,OOO. A new school
'use is building every day in the
ear. Nearly all the counties have
Established at least one county high
hool; while some have opened two,
rec and even five such schools.
When this "whirlwind campaign"
r better education in Kentucky was
the movement was but
untrled experiment The leading |
hool men of the country looked
kance at the scheme and scant fav-
was accorded it. But Sthe "whirl-
nd campaign" of 1908 was a cy-
)ne in Kentucky. The entire state
Us intelligently covered by earnest
eakers during a period of nine days.
Ity thousand people heard new
spell of education, of inspiration, of
Ipfulness, of common sense among
plain people. 1t was revelation
1t amounted to revolution. Today
dozen states have inaugurated
irlwnd campaigns for better ed
ltion, and these campaigns bid fair
become as popular and successful
the original movement of Ken