ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 15 CENTS PER COPY Superintendent of buildings. Superintendent of supplies or business agent. Table 1.-School boards-Number of members, how chosen, tenure, etc.. Table 2.-Standing committees .... Table 3.-Relation of school board to city government.... I 13 15 17 18 Table 4.-The superintendent of schools, assistant superintendents, and supervising principals... Table 5.-The selection and appointment of teachers.. Table 6.-The examination of teachers for teachers' license.... III LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington. SIR: Superintendents, members of school boards, and other education officers in city schools are constantly wanting to know for one reason or another, as are many students of education and educational administration, what the current practice in school administration is. There being no one source of information on this subject, each school officer or student of education who wants information on any phase of the subject sends a series of letters or a questionnaire to education officers in a large number of other cities asking for information, and then compiles and interprets the replies as best he can, frequently at much expense of time and money. All such information should be obtainable immediately upon request from this bureau, and the bureau should make it possible through its publications for any officer or student of education to obtain information upon any such subject by referring to its printed reports, bulletins, and circulars of information. When the bureau has such support as it should have, this will be possible. To make this possible in some degree in regard to this particular field, I am transmitting herewith for publication, as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education, a manuscript on Current Practice in City School Administration, which has been compiled under my direction by W. S. Deffenbaugh, chief of the division of school administration in this bureau. Respectfully submitted. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. P. P. CLAXTON, Commissioner. |