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REPORT
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‘ SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

Published by Order of the

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

JAMES H. RICHMOND
Superintendent of Public Instruction

ISSUED MONTHLY
Entered as second- class matter March 21,1933, at the post office at
Frankfort, Kentucky, under the Act of August 24, 1912.

Vol Ill 0 December, 1935 O No.10

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BIENNIAL REPORT

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SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
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Commonwealth pf Kentucky

FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDED
JUNE 30, 1935

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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

JAMES H. RICHMOND
Superintem/Mt of Puﬁ/z'r Imtmttz'wz
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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

‘JAMES H. RICHMOND, Superintendent of Public Instruction

SARA W. MAI-IAN, Secretary of State

BAILEY P. WOOTTON, Attorney General. . .
ELLSWORTH REGENSTEIN. Ky. Home Life Bldg., Louisvzlle, Ky.
0. H. POLLARD, Jackson, Ky.

MRS. J. FRED PACE. Marrowbpne, Ky.

FRED BESHEARS, Dawson Springs, Ky.

F. D. PETERSON, Secretary

STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

JAMES H. RICHMOND, Superintendent of Public Instruction
GORDIE YOUNG, Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction

DIVISION OF FREE TEXTBOOKS

H. W. PETERS, Director
J. VIRGIL CHAPMAN, Assistant Director

DIVISION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

JOHN W. BROOKER. Director
HUGH MERIWETHER, Consulting Architect

DIVISION OF RESEARCH
JAMES W. CAMMACK, JR., Director

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
G. IVAN BARNES, Director
F. G. BURD, Supervisor Agricultural Education
ATA LEE, Supervisor Home Economics Education
A. N. MAY, Supervisor Trade and Industrial Education

' DIVISION OF CENSUS AND ATTENDANCE
MOSS WALTON, Director

DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
HOMER W. NICHOLS, Director
CLEVELAND MOORE, Supervisor
OLNEY M. PATRICK, Supervisor

I” 0 J J DIVISION OF SUPERVISION
. . ONES. Supervisor
MARK GODMAN, Supervisor

DIVISION OF TEACHER TRAINING
R. E. JAGGERS, Director

DIVISION OF CERTIFICATION
A. P. TAYLOR. Director

L ' DIVISION OF NEGRO EDUCATION
- N. TAYLOR, State School Agent
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‘H. W. Peters after January 6, 1936.

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DIVISION OF FINANCE

F. D. PETERSON, Director
C. A. MANEY, Assistant Director
HAROLD EADES, Member

DIVISION OF SCHOOL LIBRARY SERVICE
RUTH THEOBALD, Supervisor

DIVISION OF INSPECTION AND ACCOUNTING
J. C. MILLS, Auditor and Inspector

CLERICAL ASSISTANTS

CLARA KERSHAW FRANK SORG HALLIE HOWARD
LENA ROBERTS KATE McCANN ALICE SEIBERZ
MRS. GRACE T. WALTERS CLYDE HOWELL RACHEL BELL
JAMIE LUTTRELL ORA MAE MUNDAY ELANDOR MERKLEY
LOUISE O’ DONNELL ALICE CLASBY ANN CON LYE

CHRISTINE JOHNSON MRS. ESTHER WALSH HUGH CONWAY
ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY CLERICAL ASSISTANTS ARE EMPLOYED AS
NEEDED

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COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
DEPARTMENT OF ENDUCATION
FRANKFORT

To The Governor and the
General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky:

In compliance with Section 4384-20 of the Kentucky
Statutes, I submit herewith the report of the Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction for the biennium ended June 30,
1936.

The report is given in two parts: Part I, the State-
ment of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; Part II,
a summary of statistical tables and detailed ﬁnancial and
general school statistics for the individual school districts
of. the state.

Respectfully submitted,

JAMES H. RICHMOND
Superintendent of Public Instruction

January 1, 1936

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PART I

STATEMENT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

INTRODUCTION

In this report an effort has been made to record briefly the
progress of public education in Kentucky during the biennium be-
ginning July 1, 1933, and ending June- 30, 1935. The separate sections,
reﬂecting the activities of the different divisions of the State Depart-
ment of Education, will speak for themselves. Although the bien-
nium just closed represents a period of great distress in social and
economic affairs generally, the record of public education in Ken-
tucky Within that same interval is one of real achievement. The
citizenry of Kentucky may well be proud of this chapter in the history
of educational progress in the Commonwealth.

It is believed that at least two facts will stand out as this record
is read section by section: The ﬁrst has to do With the great and
signiﬁcant changes in the direction of educational progress already
taking place, which have been made possible by the provisions of the
New School Code; the second, the devotion to service in’ the cause of
public education on the part of the educational leadership of the
state reﬂected by a recital of the accomplishments brought about in
the brief period of time of this biennium.

The friends of public education in the Commonwealth join With
me in expressing the earnest hope that the New School Code shall be
left intact until ample time has passed to reveal any minor defects.
The General Assembly of 1934 advanced the cause of education in
Kentucky immeasurably when they enacted the New School Code, and
the educational leadership of the state is conﬁdent that the General
Assembly of 1936 will protect this code from any ill-advised attacks
that may be made upon it.

RESEARCH ACTI‘VITI ES

Although the bulk of the work of. the Kentucky Educational Com-
mission was completed durin’g the preceding biennium, there remained
the task of editing the Report and other work incidental to its prepara-
tion for the printer and its subsequent distribution. The Report of
the Kentucky Educational Commission was published as Bulletin
Number 8, Volume I, of the Educational Bulletin for October, 1933.

The preparation of the New School Code took place in' the fall
0f 1933. This work represented the translation of the major recom-
mendations of the Commission into proposed legislation, as Well as
the revision, simpliﬁcation, and rewording of many of the sections
carried over from the old codes. Assistance was rendered on' the
Code by other Divisions and by the Bureau of School Service of the
UniVBFSity of Kentucky, but formal responsibility for the work rested
with the Division of Research. Educational Bulletin Number 11 of

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Volume I for January, 1934, contains the “School Code Submitted to
the Kentucky General Assembly Session, 1934.” The New Code as
adopted by the General Assembly in' March, 1934, was published as
“Kentucky Common School Laws” in Number 4 of Volume II of the
Educational Bulletin for June, 1934.

The New School Code greatly increased the responsibilities of
the new State Board of Education. On July 30, 1934, the Director of
the Division of Research was elected to serve as Secretary of the
State Board. A large part of the work of setting up the machinery
for carrying out the provisions of the Code cleared through the
Division.

In December, 1933, the Director of Research was asked to serve on
an advisory committee of the Tennessee Valley Authority in planning
and directing certain CWA—TVA projects. Actual responsibility was
assumed for the direction of some of these projects in the Kentucky
State Department of Education. Approximately thirty previously un-
employed persons were used in the work of assembling data for these
projects during December, 1933, and the ﬁrst four months of 1934.
The projects under the immediate supervision of the Division of Re-
search included the following:

(1) Collection and Management of School Funds and the Relation
of the Handling of School and Other Governmental Funds

(‘2) Development and Present Status of Library Service in Ken-
tucky Schools

(3) Inﬂuence of Court of Appeals' Decisions and Attorney Gen-
eral’s Opinions upon the School Law of Kentucky

(4) School Costs in Kentucky

A series of studies having to do with the handling of school funds
in Kentucky was made through the Division of Research and brought
together in a report entitled “Protecting Public School Funds in
Kentucky.” This report was published as the June, 1935, Bulletin of
the Bureau of School Service of the University or Kentucky. The
bulletin contains some 216 pages, including appendices. This study
shows that Kentucky school districts have done a better job in DI‘O'.
tecting the school funds during the past three years than those of
practically any other state in the Union. ‘

National Program for Federal Emergency Aid to Education

The Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky was drafted
as Chairman of the National Committee for Federal Emergency Aid to
Education in the school year 1933-34. From January, 1934, to April
1935, the Director of Research served as Secretary of this Committee-
While the Director continued to carry on his work in the State De-
partment, it was necessary that he spend most of his time in Wash’
ington in the interest of the work of the Federal Aid Committee dur-
ing the ﬁrst six months of 1934 and the ﬁrst three and one-half monthS
of 1935. One of the functions of this Committee was to 91385611t to

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Congress an emergency program which had been prepared by a
national committee representing thirty-two national organizations.
This program called for considerable legislative contact work as well
as the coordination of the emergency educational plans of the co-
operating agencies. As a result of the activities of this Committee,
a total of more than $17,000,000 was made available to some thirty
states by the Federal Government in 1934.

Public education in Kentucky shared in these Federal emergency
appropriations. During the school year 1933-34 public school districts
in Kentucky received $316,000 from the government for the extension
of school term to normal length for that year.

Other liberal Federal Emergency Aid received for education in
Kentucky during the biennium includes the provision of funds for the
Emergency Education program administered by the Division of Special
Education; the ﬁnancial assistance from the PWA and the WPA for
the purpose of schoolhouse construction; and the FERA aid for stu~
dents in the colleges and universities.

THE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
DISTRICTS

The public school indebtedness of Kentucky, exclusive of the city
of Louisville, was reduced from $10,969,000, as of June 30, 1932, to
$9,542,000, as of June 30, 1934. The net decrease was $1,427,000, or
almost exactly 13 per cent. This percentage decline in school debt
becomes the more impressive when it is noted that between the same
two dates the decrease in the public school indebtedness of the United
States as a whole was less than 1 per cent. Moreover, the substantial
lightening of the burden of the indebtedness of school districts of
the state was achieved in spite of the fact that public school revenues
in‘ Kentucky from local, state, and federal sources combined, declined
from a total of $21,840,000 for the school year 1931-32 to $17,816,759 in
1933-34, a decrease of income within the biennium of more than
$4,000,000.

A comparison of the amounts budgeted each year by the county
school districts with the amounts expended reveals ﬁgures that show
great improvement since 1930. For the year 1930-31 the actual ex-
penditures of county school districts exceeded budgeted ﬁgures by
$1,526,239. In 1931-32 the total expenditures exceeded the total budget
provisions by $831,688. Two years later a check was made which
showed that the total budget provisions of the county school districts
actually exceeded the total expenditures by $79,599. In other words,
a situation has been brought about in the ﬁnancial administration of
the county public school systems throughout the state wherein sound
buageting procedures have replaced relatively uncontrolled practices
in school district expenditures.

To say the least, the above ﬁgures reﬂect credit upon the ﬁnancial

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