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Page 90 - ... to ascertain whether he is suffering from defective sight or hearing or from any other disability or defect tending to prevent his receiving the full benefit of his school work, or requiring a modification of the school work in order to prevent injury to the child or to secure the best educational results.
Page 207 - Whenever any city or town or any district, as provided in the preceding section, shall appropriate money for the establishment and equipment and maintenance of independent schools for industrial training, the Commonwealth, in order to aid in the maintenance of such schools, shall pay annually from the treasury to such cities, towns, or districts a sum proportionate to the amount raised by local taxation...
Page 207 - Upon certification by the board of education to the auditor of the Commonwealth that a city, town or district, either by moneys raised by local taxation or by moneys donated or contributed, has maintained an independent industrial school, the Commonwealth, in order to aid in the maintenance of such schools, shall pay annually from the treasury to such cities, towns or districts a sum equal to one-half the sum raised by local taxation for this purpose: Provided, That no payment to any city or town...
Page 5 - It is very difficult to believe that, in the Boston schools, there should be so many children in the first classes [eighth grades] unable to answer such questions, that there should be so many who try to answer and answer imperfectly, that there should be so many absurd answers, so many errors in spelling, in grammar, and in punctuation.
Page 5 - ... 2. There is another sad reflection suggested by these answers. They show, beyond all doubt, that a large proportion of the scholars of our first classes [eighth grades], boys and girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age, when called upon to write simple sentences, to express their thoughts on common subjects, without the aid of a dictionary or a master, cannot write without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation...
Page 5 - ... fifteen years of age, when called upon to write simple sentences, to express their thoughts on common subjects, without the aid of a dictionary or a master, cannot write without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation as we should blush to see in a letter from a son or daughter of their age. And most of these children are about finishing their school career: they are going out into life.
Page 76 - Board an agreement in writing, binding the teacher to remain in the service of the Board for three years after the expiration of such leave of absence, or, in case of resignation within said three years, to refund to the Board such proportion of the amount paid him for the time included in the leave of absence as the unexpired portion of said three years may bear to the entire three years. The provisions of this agreement shall not apply to resignation on account of ill health, with the consent of...
Page 185 - ... appointments. The school department is not perfect in these respects, but when the other departments are brought to the same level, or nearly to the same level, the city will have made an enormous step in advance. 4. There is very little opportunity for retrenchment in school expenditures. Although the amount expended annually is large, the purposes for which the money is spent are definitely fixed by statute or by schedule, or by the actual necessities of the situation; for example: (a) Salaries...
Page 184 - ... so as to have full information of the conditions under which the increasing cost was made necessary. The critical investigation of the development from 1898 to 1911 resulted on the whole in a justification of the educational features of the system. 1. No thoroughly satisfactory comparisons of costs can be made between the Boston school system and those of other cities, because of the difference in the methods of school accounting, in the presentation of school data, and in school conditions....
Page 4 - Yet as the Education of Children is of the greatest Importance to the Community ; the Committee cannot be of Opinion that any Saving can be made to Advantage on that head ; except the Town should think it expedient to come into Methods to oblige such of the Inhabitants who send their Children to the Publick Schools and are able to Pay for their Education themselves, to ease the Town of that Charge by assessing some reasonable Sum upon them for that purpose.