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Secretary of State. Report on the condition of common schools, <1841>-
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**Doc. No. 47 Report of the Secretary of State on the condition of common schools in the State of Ohio; made to the thirty-ninth General Assembly.
William Trevitt reported on January 27, 1841. The position of Superintendent of the Common Schools was eliminated and the duties added, without
appropriation, to those of the Secretary of State. Mr. Trevitt waxed eloquent on the value of an education to a person and society. Immigrants had
recently been allowed to attend the common schools, which was a fine thing. There were many tax exemptions which put an unnecessary burden on school
funding. It would be helpful to add a teaching curriculum to one of the existing colleges. County superintendents were to report annually, but this was
imperfectly done. Each county was to count the number of white youth from the ages of 4-21 who resided within its borders. These figures determined
the amount of the school appropriation to be received by that county. He included examples of the reports on p. 20-33 with the name of the county and
its townships, number of school districts in each, number of schools, number of teachers, both male and female, number of potential students, number
who actually attend, teachers' wages, with public and private sources for the money, months school was in session, number of school houses built that
year and their cost. He included remarks from the reports on pages 34-39. Nearly everyone wanted copies of the school laws and forms. Please don't
cut back on the school appropriation. The Section 16 funds had often been badly handled. Pages 44-47 showed the number of students per county and the
various sources of school funding.
**Doc. No. 58 Report of the Secretary of State on the condition of the common schools in the State of Ohio made
to the fortieth General Assembly. J. Sloane reported on January 24, 1842. There were 79 counties in Ohio, but only 45 submitted reports on their
schools, all flawed to a greater or lesser degree. He thought the system was in danger of failure. The school appropriation was sometimes mis-handled;
he suggested a remedy. He also thought three year terms for school officers would be helpful. He had been given a full set of the Massachusetts
School Library; it would be good to purchase a set for each township. Table One was the usual statistical information and Table 2 was an audited record of
the school fund distribution. Each table was completely illegible, which is a great pity.
**Pub. Doc. No. 61 Annual report of the Secretary of
State on the condition of common schools in the State of Ohio made to the forty first General Assembly. J. Sloane reported on January 24, 1843. Two
tables of data were completely illegible. Reporting was still inadequate, but Sloane had hope for the future because school laws and forms had been
distributed to every township. The situation of lands sold to benefit schools was still unclear.
**Doc. No. 55 Annual report of the Secretary of
State on the condition of common schools in the State of Ohio for the year 1843. J. Sloane reported on January 22, 1844. The first table was the
apportionment of school funds, with county names on the left, share of surplus revenue, 5% interest on the same, tax for school fund, total, four columns of
other sources of revenue, grand total. The second table was statistical data laid out in the same way as in 1841. Even fewer counties had reported
for the year; there were several suggestions that the school officers were not competent to fill out the forms. Sloane again asked for an
appropriation to buy sets of the Massachusetts School Library.
**Doc. No. 31 Usual title for 1844. Samuel Galloway reported on January 15, 1845. The first
table was audited school funds; the second was statistical data, but was based on incomplete returns. Mr. Galloway offered several pages of criticism
of data gathering and then went after incompetent teachers. He was firmly in favor of County Superintendents and a State Superintendent, including a
long list of duties for each. [There was a first mention of girls in schools.] Ohio was being left behind because of illiteracy. He included
eloquent paragraphs on the value of education. Pages 16-19 listed remarks from some of the statistical reports.
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Title:
Annual report of the Secretary of State, on the condition of common schools, to the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio, for the year ...
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OCLC Number:
721443381
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