Milwaukee
Year: 1905
Type: article
Abstract: The executive management of the schools.is entrusted to one chief superintendent and two assistants, all chosen by the board and removable by it.The school accommodations are entirely inadequate.We have 26,000 white and 5,000 colored children in our public schools, and there are still 30.000white and io,ooo colored children out of school, for whom accommoda- tions should be provided.We have sixty-three school buildings for the white children and nine school buildings for the colored children.About two or three buildings are added each year.From all of which it will be seen that, while the provision made by New Orleans for local education is wofully deficient, yet it indicates improvement.Our public school system is supplemented by many private and parochial schools, the Roman Catholic Schonls alone counting over 10,000 pupils.In the higher schools we have Tulane University and four well-endowed or supported negro universities, to-wit, Straight University, Leland University, Southern University and New Orleans University.These universities are well attended, and they afford fitting cap- stones to the system of lower schools.One great want is a system of normal education that will prepare teachers for the colored pupils in the grammar and primary schools.There is a normal school, under the City School Board, for white teachers, while the colored universities are relied upon to furnish the negro teachers; but so
Author: John A. Butler
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4233851469