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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATICIN

BOSWELL B. HODGKIN
Superintendent of Pubiic Instruction

ISSUED IVEONTHLY

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

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BIENNIAL REPORT

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SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

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Commonwealth of Kentucky

FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDED
JUNE 30, 1949

Published by order of the
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

BOSWELL B. HODGKIN
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Chairman State Board of Education

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KENTUCKY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

BOSWELL B. HODGKIN, Superintendent Public Instruction, Chairman

CHARLES J. HAYDON, JR., Springﬁeld VIRGIL D. PICKLESIMER, VVliitesburg
JOHN M. I-IUNNICUTT, 301 Deverill, Ludlow

MRS. J. KIDWELL GRANNIS, Flemings- CHARLES B‘ STACY’ Pmev‘u“

burg RUMSEY TAYLOR, Princeton
A. E. MEYZEEK, Louisville, 1701 \V. Chestnut
W. Chestnut \V'ILLIAM D. CHILTON, Secretary

STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

HODGKIN, BOSW’ELL B., Superintendent of Public Instruction
YOUNG, GORDIE, Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction

BUREAU OF ADMINISTRATION

YOUNG, GORDIE, Head of the Bureau
DIVISION OF SCHOOL LAW
DIVISION OF PUPIL TRANSPORTATION
DODSON, J. M., Director
DIVISION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
THURMAN, PAUL W., Supervisor
DIVISION OF SURPLUS PROPERTY
WILLIAMS, J. B., Director
JUETT, GAYLE, Assistant Division Director

BUREAU OF FINANCE

CHILTON, \VILLIAM D., Head of the Bureau

DIVISION OF FINANCE

CHILTON, WILLIAM D., Director

GARRISON, EARL E., Assistant Director

KASH, SHELBY, Supervisor of Local District Accounting

MARTIN, ROBERT R., Supervisor of Research and Statistics

ALEXANDER, SAMUEL, Accounting Supervisor ‘

HOOKS, N. T., Accountingr Supervisor

JONES, JOHN Al, Accounting Supervisor

LAWRENCE, ROY LEE, Accounting Supervisor

ROSCHI, W. \V., Accounting Supervisor
DIVISION OF CENSUS AND ATTENDANCE

WARD, C. T., Director

HOGE, ANNE, Supervisor Pupil Personnel

BUREAU OF INSTRUCTION

GODMAN, MARK, Head of the Bureau

DIVISION OF SUPERVISION

GODMAN, MARK, Director

TAYLOR, SAM, Assistant Director

GALLO‘VAY, LOUISE, Library Consultant

TAYLOR, ELIZABETH, Supervisor of Conservation Education

WHALIN, E. B., Supervisor of Health Education

TAYLOR, L. N., Supervisor of Negro Education (Retired)
DIVISION OF TEACHER TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

COMBS, LOUISE, Director of Certiﬁcation and Assistant Director of Teacher Training
DIVISION OF FREE TEXTBOOKS

TRIPLETT, ISHMAEL, Director
DIVISION OF EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN

RETHERFORD, GWEN. Director I

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INTRODUCTION

The biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is
presented in bulletin form. This report covers the school years 1947-48
and 1948—49. The activities of the bureaus and divisions of the Depart-
ment of Education are presented. Information is given concerning the
progress which has been made in the schools of the State and their
imperative needs are reﬂected. The needs of our schools should be met
immediately if our youth are to be provided the educational opportunities
to which they are entitled. An educated citizenry is essential to the
progress of Kentucky. Achievements are noted, but there are many
things which should be done to improve our schools. We desperately
need qualiﬁed teachers, buildings, expanded transportation facilities
and more educational materials for our boys and girls, who are as ﬁne
as can be found in our great nation.

1. Additional services have been provided through the State De-
partment of Education. The increased appropriation made by
the 1948 Legislature to the State Department of Education made
it possible to provide the following additional positions: Super-
visor of Health Education, Library Consultant, Director of Edu-
cation for Exceptional Children, Director of School Transporta-
tion, additional Supervisors of Public School Finance, and addi-
tional Supervisors of the School Lunch Program.

2. Supervision of Health Education has been expanded. Beginning
July 1, 1948, the State Department of Education assumed for the
ﬁrst time the ﬁnancial responsibility for the service of a Super-
visor of Health Education in the public schools. During the four
previous years the health program was ﬁnanced through a special
grant of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and the program was in
operation in only twelve pilot schools. As you know, this was
an experimental program the value of which was so signiﬁcant
that it was made a permanent part of the total public school
program beginning July 1, 1948. Approximately eighty per cent
of the high schools have employed additional teachers to direct
the program of health and physical education. The school code
has been well accepted and established. A State committee is
at work on a very important study in an effort to strengthen the
program of teacher preparation in the area of health and physical
education. A Health Council has been organized for the purpose
of bringing to bear on school and community health problems
the health services of all agencies. This renewed emphasis
which has been placed on health education in the public schools
promises to be a very real contribution to the well-being of our
p0pulation.

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. School library services have been provided. The State Depart.

ment of Education assumed on July 1, 1948, the ﬁnancial re-
sponsibility for the position for a school library consultant fol-
lowing a seventeen months grant by the General Education
Board. This service had not been provided in Kentucky since
1937. In March, 1949, the State Board of Education approved
for the ﬁrst time in its history elementary library standards
and revised high school library standards.

. A program of education for exceptional children has been

inaugurated. The State Department of Education has expanded
its services to include a Division of Education for Exceptional
Children with a full—time director. The 1948 Legislature created
a Division of Education for Exceptional Children within the
State Department of Education and made an appropriation of
$70,000.00 for the biennium. This appropriation covers the ad-
ministrative costs of the Division, and reimbursement to local
school districts which provide special educational facilities, the
additional cost of such facilities for services rendered excep-
tional children. Seven independent districts and ﬁve county
school districts provide special facilities and meet legal require-
ments to participate in this state appropriation. These twelve
school districts are serving approximately one thousand handi-
capped children during the 1948-49 school year.

. The program of pupil transportation has been strengthened. The

Division of Pupil Transportation has had a full-time director
since September 1, 1948. Since that time the director has devoted
most of his time in working with the county school superinten-
dents on their transportation problems; buses have been in-
spected and recommendations made for the improvement of
safety in many counties throughout the State. Several counties,
with the assistance of the director of transportation, have made
surveys of their transportation system with the view to improve-
ment from both the standpoint of safety and economy in the
next year. This division is now compiling a set 0f uniform
records and reports on pupil transportation which will be kep'C
by the district superintendent. This will enable the superinten-
dents to determine more accurately their transportation COSt
and to plan more efﬁciently for the future. Plans have already
been formulated whereby school bus drivers will be taught ﬁrst
aid. Driver training for school bus operators is contemplated for
the near future.

. Supervision of school ﬁnance has been provided in all local

districts. The services of the Bureau of Finance of the State De-
partment of Education have been expanded and strengthened
this year through a new program of supervising public school
ﬁnance. This program provides a more effective accounting 0f
public school expenditures. For the administration of this Pro‘
gram of ﬁnance supervision, the State of Kentucky is divided
into six regions with approximately the same number of schoO1

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districts in each region. The ﬁnancial program of all school
districts except three will have been audited by June 30, 1949.
This program of regional supervision of school ﬁnance has now
been well established and more effective service will be avail-
able to the local superintendents and boards of education as the
program continues next year.

The school equalization law has been strengthened. One of the
major problems submitted to the Legislative Research Commis—
sion by the 1948 General Assembly was that of studying and
surveying the administration of school affairs within the State.
Immediate attention was given to the assessment problem and
school equalization aid. The Department of Education and the
Department of Revenue collaborated in this signiﬁcant study.
A special session of the General Assembly was called to give
attention to this problem. Amendments to the present equaliza-
tion law were passed. This signiﬁcant legislation provides for a
more equitable distribution of the equalization fund to less able
districts of the State. Since the local property assessment prob-
lem is closely related to the program of school equalization aid,
a prime factor in determining eligibility of a school district to
participate in the equalization fund under the new law is a local
property assessment on a fair cash value basis.

. Supervision of instruction has been more widespread through a

regional plan of supervision. Since January 1, 1948, the State
has been divided into four areas of supervision. Each of four
members of the Bureau of Instruction was assigned to one of the
four areas consisting of thirty counties each. Under this plan
the supervisors have had opportunity to work with all local
school authorities on problems involved in providing a legal
twelve grade program for all children. The regional plan of
supervision has helped to achieve ,a more uniﬁed program of
instruction.

. The program of attendance officers has been improved. In

1948—49 the attendance ofﬁcers of the State were organized into
nine groups for the purpose of giving the attendance ofﬁcers in—
service training. These organizations emphasized (a) the impor-
tance of accurate census records and (b) the need to make a
Change from the enforcement of attendance laws to a program
of achievement of children to the school curriculem. An accurate
census has been made. In order to establish an accurate census
as a basis for distributing the per capita fund on a fair basis,
the census records in every school district were checked this
spring. This is the most accurate census ever submitted, and on
basis of the 676,383 school age children, the per capita this year
has hit a new high amounting to $28.60 per pupil.

School districts have continued to merge. Since January, 1948,
the State Department of Education in the interest of efﬁciency
and economy has assisted nine independent school systems in

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uniting with county school systems. The total number of school
districts in the Commonwealth has been reduced to 237 at the
present time. This is a wholesome trend in the total program of
education.

. Approval of plans for school buildings have increased. The

Division of School Buildings and Grounds of the Department of
Education has approved projects on new buildings, additions
and repairs in school buildings, since January 1, 1948, which
are estimated to cost approximately sixteen and one-half million
dollars. This estimated cost is for the erection of new buildings
in ninety districts which will cost approximately thirteen million
dollars, and additions in forty—one districts which will cost ap-
proximately three million dollars.

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