- Title
- Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the scholastic years ... [1894-1896]
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- Date
- 1894 - 1896
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the scholastic years ... [1894-1896]
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Document No. 3.
Session 1S97.
Ordered to be Printed.
M. 1. &• J. C. Stewart, Public Printers and Binders.
BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
FOR THE
SCHOLASTIC YEARS OF 1894-95 AND 1895-96.
SUPERINTENDENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS AND
REMARKS.
Section 2540 of the Code of North Carolina makes it the
duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction “to
recommend such improvement in the school law as may
occur to him.”
In the discharge of this duty I make the following
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formal recommendations : r
First. I recommend as large increase of school taxes,
direct by the Legislature, for the suppoit of the free public
schools, as the Legislature may find it possible to levy and
leave a sufficient margin for the necessary expenses of the
State and County governments.
Section 3 of Article 9 of the Constitution commands that
one or more public schools in each school district shall be
maintained at least four months in every year. The total
receipts as reported by the County Treasurers for schools
for the school year 1895-’96 were $S24,23S.0S. This sum,
as shown by the reports of the teachers to the Secretaries
of the County Boards of Education, gave for the same year,
a fraction less than thirteen weeks, or 63 school days. This
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