Excerpt from Report of a Survey of the School System of Butte, Montana, 1914
The survey of the Butte public school system was undertaken upon the invitation of the Board of School Trustees and the Superintendent of Schools. In extending their invitation to the director of the survey, the Board agreed that he should choose his associates from among those whom he considered best qualified for the work in hand, and assured him that the report would be published as written, without amendment or editorial change. The time allowed for the work was four weeks, and it was agreed that the cost to the Board of School Trustees for the salaries and expenses of the survey commission should not exceed four thousand dollars.
At their first conference concerning the work to be done, the members of the commission agreed that it was the purpose of the survey to acquaint the Board of School Trustees and the citizens of Butte with the conditions as they exist in the public school system, with respect to the school plant and its equipment, the methods of administration and supervision of the schools, the instruction and courses of study, the training, tenure and present efficiency of the teaching corps, and the classification, progress and achievements of children in the school system, together with such recommendations as might seem to them to be justified in the light of the facts which they might be able to collect, or observations which they might make. The members of the commission agreed that they would seek to place clearly before those who might read their report the achievements of the school system, or, in other words, its present strength, the needs of the school system as determined by whatever inadequacy might be found to exist, and the policies which, in their judgment, should furnish a program for future development.
In the actual conduct of the survey, emphasis has been placed throughout upon the possible service which should be rendered by the school system to all members of the community. Since the school system, as at present organized, deals almost exclusively with the education of children between the ages of six and twenty years of age, the greater part of this report will be found to be devoted to a consideration of the education now offered to these children, together with such recommendations as seem, to the members of the commission, to promise improvement in the conditins under which this education is offered, or in the results which may be secured. The report has not neglected, however, to consider the problem of the education of children under six years of age, and the possible wider use of the school plant for the education of those who are beyond compulsory school age and not now in attendance in the school system.
The general plan for the work of the survey commission had been thoroughly discussed and outlined by the time its members reached Butte.
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