Survey of the St. Louis Public Schools, 1918, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Survey of the St. Louis Public Schools, 1918, Vol. 1 of 3The survey of the St. Louis schools was projected by the Board of Education for the purpose of securing a body of facts for presentation to the public, primarily to aid in the passage of a bond issue of $3,000,000. The urgent need for new school buildings necessitated other sources of revenue than the usual ones open to the Board of Education, and an issue of bonds seemed to be the preferable method of securing additional funds.In order that the voters of the city might be fully acquainted with the situation which had actuated the Board and its executive officers in proposing a bond issue, it was felt that a complete survey of the school system by disinterested experts, from outside the city, who would pass judgment not only upon the critical building situation but also upon the general financial condition of the schools and the efficiency of their organization, was necessary.The following facts give a brief history of the survey:Authorized by the Board of Education, May 11, 1916, and Director appointed.(Official Proceedings, Volume XXII, page 976.)Survey of Instruction completed by the close of the school term, June 16, 1916.All other parts of the survey completed in early summer, 1916.Preliminary report of Director to Board of Education, July 11, 1916.Final reports filed with Board in August and September, 1916.Cost of survey, $9,780.06, excluding printing of reports. The printing of the survey under the supervision of the Superintendent of Instruction authorized April 10, 1917.(Official Proceedings, Volume XXIII, page 870.)Surrey printed and published by the Board of Education, March, 1918.Printed and published by World Book Company, in the Educational Survey Series, September, 1918.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.