Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ... Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, Volume 73

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Page 94 - Average expenditure on account of the public schools for support and buildings, including voluntary contributions as well as money raised by taxation...
Page 191 - From (2) and (4), it is evident that subtracting a negative number is equivalent to adding an equal positive number. To subtract, therefore, one algebraic number from another, change the sign of the subtrahend, and then add the subtrahend to the minuend.
Page ciii - Ratio of the mean average attendance upon the Public Schools, to the whole number of children between five and fifteen...
Page 191 - Review the foregoing and observe that in every instance subtracting a positive number is equivalent to adding an equal negative number, and subtracting a negative number is equivalent to adding an equal positive number.
Page 94 - The New Jersey state school tax, equal to $5 for each child in the state between the ages of five and eighteen, is raised by the several counties according to their amounts of taxable property respectively, as shown by the tax rolls of the townships and wards of the counties.
Page 154 - ... attend an independent industrial school, as provided for in this act, located in any city or town other than that in which he resides, provided there Is no such school supported in whole or in part by the city or town in which he resides, upon payment by the city or town of his residence of such tuition fee as may be fixed by said commission; and the commonwealth shall repay to any city or town one half of all such payments.
Page 144 - ... to Friday, inclusive, the daily sessions lasting from 8.30 am to 4 pm, with one hour noon recess. During each year of the course the time of pupils is about equally divided between schoolroom and shop-practice work. The school year covers 44 weeks. On July 1, 1910, there were 45 boys in attendance. The school is maintained under city auspices, but the expense of maintenance is largely met by private donations. Hereafter State assistance is to be given. SMITH'S AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AND NORTHAMPTON...
Page 173 - ... only schooling he ever had. But, even if no school is responsible for Czolgosz, it is a serious question whether the communities in which he lived while he was of legal school age were not responsible for his lack of training. Our compulsory-education laws are based on the theory that a community, for its own protection, as well as for the good of the child, must make it impossible for any boy or girl to grow up in ignorance, a stranger to the ennobling influences which every good school exerts....
Page 267 - For the reason that we make use of the mother tongue in speech more than in writing and because an individual's degree of education and culture is judged by his speech more often than in any other way, it is essential that spoken English in oral composition be emphasized.
Page 164 - By the law of 1888 and subsequent amendments any two or more towns the valuation of each of which does not exceed $2,500,000, and the aggregate number of schools in all of which is not more than 50...

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