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Page 428 - Report of the Survey of the Public School System of School District No. 1, Multnomah County, Oregon, City of Portland.
Page 427 - GREEN, and from any other source, for benevolent purposes, and invest and re-invest the same from time to time, and shall have power to make distribution of the income thereof among those intended to be benefited.
Page 248 - Directors should assume full financial and educational responsibility for school gardening and should place the work under an efficient supervisor, with sufficient help to carry it out. 6. Five or more intermediate schools should be organized, to cover the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade work. These should offer distinct courses in commercial and industrial work, and act as pre-vocational schools. Some of them should specialize in vocational branches, as indicated earlier. One, at least, should...
Page 3 - The Legislative Assembly shall provide by law for the establishment of a uniform and general system of common schools.
Page 422 - SCHOOLS SECTION 1. (1) The superintendent of schools shall be the chief executive officer of the Board of Education and shall direct the administration of the school system in accordance with the laws, with the rules and by-laws, and ,with the orders of the Board of Education. (2) He shall have a seat in the board and the right to speak on all matters before the board, but not the right to vote. (3) He shall attend all meetings...
Page 130 - ... almost infinitely varying needs of boys and girls, no two of whom were made alike or destined to be made alike; the living curriculum serves as readily and as well the child whose mental processes depend on concrete things, as that one who readily grasps abstract ideas; the living curriculum serves the present needs of every pupil, whether those needs be the preparation for the next steps that will lead in due time through a college preparatory course to college, university, and a professional...
Page 254 - ... System of School District No. I, Multnomah County, Oregon, City of Portland, 1913, in the section devoted to "needed reorganizations," Superintendent JH Francis says (p. 192): "The marked school death-rate in the seventh and eighth grades, to which Portland forms no exception (see Fig. 8, p. 150), can be accounted for by subject-matter in the course of study, methods of presentation, and general school conditions not congenial to early adolescence.
Page 274 - The two most important of these lay one to the north and one to the south of the present valley of the Illinois east of the bend.
Page 426 - Whereas, the average daily attendance at the public schools of this district has increased from 10,387 in 1002, to 23,712 in 1912, and the annual disbursements have increased during the same period from $420,879.61 to $2,490,477.28 and "Whereas, it is of the utmost importance that the public schools should be kept at the highest point of efficiency, it is hereby declared to be the sense of this meeting that a full and complete survey be made of the public school system of this district, comprising:...
Page 430 - ... an act of the Legislature. Some of our manufacturing establishments could also give a helping hand to meet some of the demands by providing shower-bath facilities for the benefit of their employees. The large percentage of those using the Logan Park shower-baths are employees of such establishments. Mr. LH Weir. Field Secretary of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, is at present engaged in studying the playground situation of our city, and he has kindly assisted us in the working...