Fiscal Support of State Teachers Colleges, Issue 165

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Teachers College, Columbia university, 1924 - Education - 51 pages

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Page 8 - Michigan, that a state normal school be established, the exclusive purpose of which shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education...
Page 2 - ... 6. It will plan effectively to train teachers for rural schools, to stimulate and foster every educative agency toward the development of rural community life, and to elevate the professional position of the rural teacher. 7. It will set up definite ends of education that will relate themselves to the life of the people in all departments of human interest and will thus become a great social energy. As the public school is going to become, next to the family, the most potent social agent, so...
Page 2 - The twentieth-century normal school is dedicated to higher education, with the special -function of supplying teachers for the rural schools, the elementary schools, and the high schools. 2. Its entrance requirements as to scholarship will be practically the same requirements that are now demanded by the college — graduation from a four-year high school.
Page 45 - Every officer or board having charge of any department, institution or undertaking which receives an annual appropriation of money from the treasury of the commonwealth, including annual appropriations to be met by assessments, shall, annually, on or before the fifteenth day of November, submit to the...
Page 8 - That a state normal school be established the exclusive purposes of which shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education; also, to give instruction in the mechanic arts, and in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry, in the fundamental laws of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens.
Page 8 - ... oldest county, and from the applicants so presented to the county court, or board of supervisors, of the several counties represented, and found to possess the requisite qualifications, shall select by lot the number of pupils to which said district is entitled. The board of education shall have discretionary power, if any candidate does not sign and file with the secretary of the board •a declaration that he or she will teach in the public schools within the State, in case that engagements...
Page 2 - It will extend its course of instruction and practice, as conditions may demand, to four-year courses, thus giving it as high a standing in the way of discipline and scholarship as the college now possesses.
Page 9 - To require any applicant for admission, other than such as shall, prior to admission, sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching common schools in this state, to pay or secure to be paid such fees for tuition as the board may deem proper and reasonable.
Page 8 - ... 8. The interest of the university and seminary fund, or such part thereof as may be found necessary, shall be and is hereby appropriated for the maintenance of said normal university, and shall be paid on the order of the board of education from the treasury of the State; but in no case shall any part of the interest of said fund be applied to the purchase of sites, or for buildings for said university.
Page 45 - November, submit to the auditor of the commonwealth, statements showing in detail the amounts appropriated for the current fiscal year, estimates of the amounts required for the ensuing fiscal year, with an explanation of the reason for any increased appropriation, and with citations of the statutes relating thereto, and the expenditures for the current year and for each of the two years next preceding.

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