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DRAFT OF

THE EDUCATION LAW.

PREPARED BY

The Commissioners of Statutory Revision.

(TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE OF 1899.)

WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO.,

STATE PRINTERS,

NEW YORK AND ALBANY,

1898.

KEN 5648 A24 1898

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY

PRELIMINARY NOTE.

The education law is intended to embrace all general provisions relating to the subject of education, including the two great departments, namely: The university, and the department of public instruction, and also miscellaneous provisions relating to educational institutions which are directly or indirectly under the supervision of either or both of these departments. The whole law on this subject has been substantially rewritten and rearranged, and an effort has been made to make a scientific classification of the subject. Many new provisions have been added, which seemed necessary to produce harmony in the scheme, and also to supply defects in former laws.

The subject of education in this state, from the colonial period, has been passing through a process of evolution. Little was done for education under the colonial system, except to provide temporarily for instruction in the grammar schools or other high schools. Public schools were not provided for all the people.

The university is the oldest educational institution, antedating by several years the establishment of common schools. The common school law of 1795 was continued only a few years, and it was not until 1812 that a general educational system was es tablished. Since then the subject has been developed and broadened and the plan much enlarged, and many lines of instruction have been added which were not within the purview of the original scheme. In 1894, the common schools and the university were put into the constitution, and it was made the duty of the legislature to provide schools for the education of all the children of the state.

The consolidated school law of 1894 was apparently not intended to be a revision of the statutes relating to education, but rather a compilation of existing laws. It contains many repetitions and provisions which can properly be omitted in a general law so classified and arranged as to reach all parts of the common school system. Besides, many subjects are included in the miscellaneous statutes which should be brought together into one general law. While the functions of the university and the department of public instruction are in many respects quite distinct, they are nevertheless closely related as to many branches

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