Author: Legislative Publicity Commi Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780656417414

Excerpt from The Crisis in Public Education in Illinois: March, 1921 The safety and very life of the state depend on an intelligent body of voters and upon the ability and good citizenship Of the people. Good public schools are our only means of secur ing future intelligent voters and good citizens. Public schools cannot function without funds. While costs have increased at least 100% in four years, school funds have increased Schools are now plunging into debt for running expenses alone at the rate Of some per year. And education is not being carried on effectively. Three - fourths Of the schools Of the state are using undertrained teachers, children are being taught in basements, children are being taught in rooms not suited for school purposes, and over children are being taught in rooms actually condemned as unfit for use. This condition is not improving. It is not even standing still. It is rapidly becoming worse. An increase in the state distributive fund sufficient to prevent the schools from going further into debt is the least anyone dares to ask. This means an increase from the present fund to a fund - the difference, is even less than the amount by which the schools are running behind in spite of all makeshifts. All public educational bodies in the state are united in their demand for a distributive fund for the schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.