The Minutes of a Board of Education: A Handbook for Public-School Executives. George W. Grill

1933 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 394-395
Author(s):  
Floyd T. Goodier
Author(s):  
Danny M. Adkison ◽  
Lisa McNair Palmer

This chapter addresses Article XIII of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns education. Section 1 mandates establishment and maintenance of a public school system but does not guarantee an equal educational opportunity in the sense of equal expenditures of money for each and every pupil in the state. Section 2 states that “the Legislature shall provide for the establishment and support of institutions for the care and education of persons within the state who are deaf, deaf and mute, or blind.” Meanwhile, Section 3—which was entitled “Separate Schools for White and Colored Children”—was repealed on May 3, 1966. Section 4 states that “the Legislature shall provide for the compulsory attendance at some public or other school, unless other means of education are provided.” Section 5 grants power to the State Board of Education to supervise the instruction in public schools. Section 6 provides for the establishment of a uniform system of textbooks to be used in the public schools, making it clear that the books must be free to students.


2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McGrath Morris

As it had for countless other children in Arlington, Virginia, the idyll days of summer had come to end for eleven-year-old Edward Leslie Hamm Jr. on the morning of 5 September 1957. After donning a pair of clean khaki pants and a freshly pressed, short-sleeved white shirt, Hamm was heading back to the classroom along with twenty-one thousand other students in this Northern Virginia community. That alone was enough to put a pit in any child's stomach. But for Hamm the day possessed an added dimension. Instead of riding a bus for forty-five minutes to the Negro school six miles across the county, his parents were dispatching him, along with two other black pupils, to challenge the continued exclusion of blacks from the all-white school, one mile from their isolated exclusively black neighborhood. A full three years after Brown v. Board of Education, not a single black student had yet attended a white public school in Virginia, seen by many observers as the frontline state of resistance to school integration. The three children were nervous and took no comfort in thinking of themselves among a vanguard of the civil rights movement. “I wasn't into an integration thing,” recalled George Tyrone Nelson, who was fourteen at the time and among the trio challenging the segregated schools that day.


Author(s):  
Richard B. Collins ◽  
Dale A. Oesterle ◽  
Lawrence Friedman

This chapter studies Article IX of the Colorado Constitution, on public schools. Sections 1 and 15 establish the basic structure for administration of the state’s schools. Section 1 provides for an elected State Board of Education. Section 15 authorizes the general assembly to create school districts “of convenient size” and provides for an elected board of education for each, which “have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.” Section 16 forbids the legislature and the State Board of Education from prescribing public school textbooks. Section 2 requires free public schools open to all residents between ages six and twenty-one. Sections 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10 concern the state public school fund and trust lands. Section 17 sets minimum levels of financial support for schools. Section 8 bans the teaching of sectarian tenets or doctrines in public schools and the use of religious criteria in hiring teachers or admitting students. Section 11 empowers the general assembly to require school attendance or education by other means.


1971 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Stein

Annie Stein draws upon thirty-five years of broad experience as a research analyst. During her long association with the New York City Public School System she has served as consultant, curriculum evaluator, community advocate, and staff aide to Dr. Milton A. Galarnison when he was vice-president of the New York City Board of Education. These selections from her field notes present a range of observations on various school practices.


2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Burkholder

On the evening of May 17, 1946, more than 1,200 festive supporters streamed into the Brooklyn Academy of Music to honor a New York City teacher who had survived, by the skin of her teeth, charges of “un-American” teaching. Since 1935, New York City's public school teachers faced the threat of investigation and dismissal for potentially subversive radical political beliefs or affiliations. Tonight, however, the audience breathed a collective sigh of relief that the Board of Education hearing had turned out well and that the teacher in question would retain her position.


1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 378-379

Problems 1–3 and 5–8 were contributed by Claudia Carter, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus, Mississippi: Anita Clark, Marshall High School, Marshall, Michigan: Catherine Mulligan, Bishop Fenwick High School, Middletown, Ohio; and Susanne Westegaard, Montgomery-Lonsdale Public School, Montgomery, Minnesota. Problem 4 was offered by Richard G. Brown, 7 Nelson Dr., Exeter, NH 03833. Problems 9, 10, and 16 were prepared by Margaret J. Kenney and Stanley J. Bezuszka, S.J., of the Mathematics Institute, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-3809. Problems 11-15 and 30 were adapted from Discovering Mathematics: The Art of Investigation by A. Gardiner (Oxford: Oxford Science Publications, 1987). Problems 19 and 20 were provided by Robert H. Becker, 526 Harding Ave., Schillington, PA 19607-2802. Problems 17, 23, and 24 appear in the Second Book of Mathematical Bafflers, edited by Angela Fox Dunn (New York: Dover Publications, 1983). Problems 18, 21, 22, and 25 were adapted from Cariboo College High School Mathematics Contest Problems 1973–1992, edited by Jim Totten (Kamloops, B.C.: Cariboo College, 1992). Problems 26–29 were submitted by Barry Scully, York Region Board of Education, Aurora, ON L4G 3H2. Problem 31 was adapted from The Mathematical Funfair by Brian Bolt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).


Author(s):  
Jon Hale ◽  
Clerc Cooper

Chapter documents the strategies employed by local governing officials to resist the implementation of a racially desegregated public school system in Charleston Country, South Carolina in the wake of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. It discusses the role of student-led activism in maintaining the momentum of the desegregationist movement, as well as recounts the often traumatic experiences of black children who were among the first to attended desegregated schools in Charleston County. The chapter also considers later battles for education reform in South Carolina and, as such, highlights the ongoing struggle to realise the promises of quality education throughout the state.


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