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More than 300 rural schools in Arkansas have been closed. Elementary school teachers have taken pay cuts averaging 22%, high-school teachers 19%. Most teachers are now paid in tax warrants...
Arkansas was not alone in its educational troubles. School systems in many another State have either broken down or are perilously close to collapse: ¶ In 20 Alabama counties 85,762 rural children have no schools to go to, 2,500 teachers no place to teach. Rural schools in 16 more counties may close any day. A few schools are kept open by parent subscriptions-$5 per half-year for grade pupils, $7.50 for high-school students. ¶ Chicago school teachers last week were threatened with a 14% cut on their still-unpaid salaries. ¶ New York City school teachers...
...birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
...Office of Education has been studying schools in big cities, middling cities and rural districts. Last week School Life, the Office's monthly journal, published the first results, an analysis of schools in 41 cities of more than 100,000 population. In making comparisons between this year and last, it is found that figures from the densely populated North Atlantic States change the nationwide averages considerably. With these in parentheses. School Life finds total expenditures off 5.32% (12.24%); capital outlay off 37.98% (39.19%); teachers' salaries off 4.96% (14.62%); State appropriations up 3.13% (off 5.98%); assessed valuation...
...Speakership. My chances are excellent." Ingredients- Aside from House custom the main ingredients of the Rainey candidacy are : 1) a rallying point for Northern Democrats tired of seeing all the party plums go to the South; 2) a liberal outlook to match that of the new President; 3) a rural...