Excerpt from Report on Educational Conditions, School Incentives, Time Limits and School Sessions, Industrial, Training, Special Classes for Delinquents, and Defectives, Schools for Truants, 1907
To the Board of Education.
My time during the past year has been given mainly to the inspection of schools of all kinds in various sections of the Commonwealth, to attendance upon teachers institutes and other educational meetings, and to an inspection of the county truant schools and of the special schools for defectives and delinquents supported partly or wholly by the State.
Educational Conditions.
Slate Aid. - In my last report I spoke at some length(1) of the great improvement which had been made in the smaller towns of the Commonwealth on account of skilled supervision, made universal and obligatory by law, and(2) of the improved character of the teaching force, made possible to many towns by increased aid from the State. I also spoke of the unequal and in some respects unfair distribution of the State school fund, showing that while a few towns were receiving more money from the State than they could use to advantage, many of the towns were left without the assistance which they needed to secure trained teachers. My observation during the past year has confirmed me in all these impressions.
The benefits of increased aid have been so marked in the case of some towns that the wisdom of a further or wider extension of assistance should no longer be questioned, at least up to the point of giving aid to those towns which tax themselves for schools to the utmost, and which nevertheless are not able to employ the best teachers. The greatest need of State aid is by no means confined to the smaller towns; indeed, in many cases the smaller towns are now better off than larger ones of low valuation. To make clearer my meaning I will cite the case of two towns of a superintendency union recently visited.
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