xt770r9m6808 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt770r9m6808/data/mets.xml Kentucky. Department of Education. Kentucky Kentucky. Department of Education. 1939-11 volumes: illustrations 23-28 cm. call numbers 17-ED83 2 and L152 .B35. bulletins English Frankford, Ky. : Dept. of Education This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed in accordance with U. S. copyright laws. Educational Bulletin (Frankfort, Ky.) Education -- Kentucky Educational Bulletin (Frankfort, Ky.), "Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction", vol. VII, no. 9, November 1939 text Educational Bulletin (Frankfort, Ky.), "Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction", vol. VII, no. 9, November 1939 1939 1939-11 2021 true xt770r9m6808 section xt770r9m6808 ’0 Commonwealth of Kentucky 0 ‘ EDUCATIONAL BULLETIN REPORT " '1‘ of The . SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION I I I g ‘ Published by Order of the ' STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION E3 . H. w. PETERS é) Superintendent of Public Instruction ISSUEDVMONTHLY Entered as second-class mat'ter March 21, 1933, at the post office at Frankfort, Kentucky, under the Act of August 24, 1912. IVO|:VII,O _Nov.ember,1939 0- No.9 LIBRARY ERSITY OF KENTUCKY BIENNIAL REPORT of [/23 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION of #26 Commonwealth of Kentucky . , . " FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDED JUNE 30, I939 .\ L ' I ‘4!_.‘ " LATE u :‘ at I r‘.\ ELL “"1 ....—- Pzzé/z'xlzed 5y arr/er of t/M STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION H. W. PETERS Superiflmz/lmt of Pué/it Imirmtioiz Chain/M72 State Board of Ed’zzmzioiz LIBRARY WIVERSITY OF KKNTECKY RS uction E T E P W Y R R A H 1 t S n I c .1 1 ) _l u f 0 L D u S KENTUCKY STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION PETERS, H. \\"., Superintendent of Public Instrnz-tion, Chairman . BROADY, \V. IL. Canmer BY‘RN, CHESTER, Mnyfield CLOAR, J. L., Niddlesbnro EILERMAN, BERNARD, (Tm’ing‘ton GOODPASTER, MRS. ESPY, Owingsrillc HAMMOCK, \V. G. , I’ewee Valley TURNER, GEORGE R., ('amphellsrille BROOKER, JOHN W'. , Sorretury STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PETERS, H. “C, Superintendent of Public Instruction YOUNG, GORDIE, Assistant Superintendent of Public THSII‘IH‘LIOH RIDDLE, FREDDIE, Sot'retzu'y DIVISION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS BROOKER, JOHN “7., Direvtor DIVISION OF SCHOOL CENSUS AND ATTENDANCE \VALTON, RIOSS, Director DIVISION OF SCHOOL FINANCE EVANS, GEORGE L., Dil‘OCtOr MILLS, J. C., Auditor and Inspectmg EADES, HAROLD, Auditor and Bookkeeper DIVISION OF FREE TEXTBOOKS NEBLETT, P. H., Director DIVISION OF SCHOOL SUPERVISION I GODMAN, MARK, Director TAYLOR, L. N., Supervisor, Negro Education DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION NICHOLS HOMWR W Dire-Ur MOORE bLEin AND" Su L‘ 3‘ ~ ) 4 , x DeIVISOI PATRICK, OLNEY, Supervisor DIVISION OF TEACHER TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION JAGGERS, R. E., Direetor COMBS. LOUISE, Assistant Director DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ’ WOODS, RALPH H., Director, and Supervisor of Agricultural Education WILLIAMSON, MARY LOIS, Supervisor of Home Economics Education VAUGHAN, MARY BELL, Assistant Supervisor of Home Economics Education WILSON, HAROLD, Supervisor of Trades and Industrial Education CLERICAL ASSISTANTS , BELL, LENA HO\VELL. CLYDE SHOCKENCY, ELIZABETH BELL, RACHEL JOHNSON. CHRISTINE SMITH, GENEVA’“ CABIPBELL, BIARY KERSHAIV, CLARA \VALSH. ESTHER CLASBY, ALICE LUTTRELL, JAMIE \VALTERS, GRACE T. CONWAY, HUGH MERKLEY. ELANDOR E. \VOODVVARD, JAMES H. COURSEY. FRANCES 1\IOOR.E, CECIL VVOOTEN, KATHERINE~ DENNIS, CHRISTINE O’DONNELL, LOUISE DOUGHERTY, ADA PENN. KATHERINE FORIQUER. HALLIE ROBERTS. LENA HAMILTON. FLAGET *Away on account of illness. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL .BETH ‘ g-H COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY {NE} DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FRANKFORT To the Governor and the General Assembly of the ‘ Commonwealth of Kentucky: ; In compliance with Section 4384-20 of the Kentucky Statutes, I submit herewith the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion for the biennium ended June 30, 1939. The report is given in two parts: Part I, the Report of the Super- intendent of Public Instruction; Part II, a summary of statistical tables f and detailed financial and general school statistics for the individual school districts 0f the state. Respectfully submitted, } H. W. PETERS, Superintendent of Public Instruction January 1, 1940 TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter of Transmittal ____________________________________________________ Report of Superintendent of Public Instruction .................... 1. Buildings and Grounds ____________________________________________________ Census and Attendance .................................................................. 7. 12 Finance __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13 Free Textbooks ................................................................................... 15 Special Education Supervision ................................................... 24 Teacher Training and Certification ____________________________________________ 34 . Vocational Education ........................................................................ 43 9. Summary .............................................................................................. 54 Recommended Legislation ____________________________________________________________________________ 57 Statistical Tables F O T N E D N E T m R E P U AD E H T F O T R O P E R 85792005644 r3 111123 N m T. C U R T S m m L B U P. INTRODUCTION This report is made in accordance with requirements of Section 4384-20, Kentucky Statutes. It records developments in the public school system of the Commonwealth for the biennium beginning July 1, 1937, and ending June 30, 1939. The Study of Local School Units of 1936-37 suggested a program of improvement and educational deve10pment for each of the school units of the State. It is the purpose of this report to state the activ- ities carried on and the progress made toward the realization of the suggested program made for these units. Reports from the different divisions of the Department of Education contained herein will give some idea of the work being done by the department staff to aid in this connection and in the development of an adequate and desirable educational program. They will reflect the significant changes in the trend of educational progress which have taken place during this period. During this biennium a new educational service has been provided by the establishment of the Mayo State Vocational School at Paints- ville. Courses in vocational education for white people are provided in this institution. The West Kentucky Industrial College at Paducah was discontinued and in its place was established the West Kentucky Vocational Training School, in which instruction is offered in vocational education for colored people. Probably the most outstanding developments during this biennium have been the increase in building construction and growth in the size of school units. These have resulted in considerable increase in the number of consolidated schools, as well as in the number of pupils transported to these schools. Significant problems demanding attention as a part of the educational program of the State are: Sufficient finance to provide safe and economical transportation to these schools; a curriculum suitable to meet the needs of the pupils of these units; teachers trained to meet the new demands of the increasing number of pupils coming to these schools; and a personnel in the Department of Education to provide the necessary state administrative and super- Visory procedure to insure proper integration of the educational program. The summary at the close of this report will show not only the changes in the educational situation during this period but will indicate some of the needs for the future educational program. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS This Division of the Department of Education was created July 1, 1930, and for five years was financed by the General Education Board. Its personnel consisted of a director, architect and secretary until 1935, when the work was taken over by the State and budgetary limitations made it necessary to dispense with the services of the .4“? 10 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION architect. This has seriously impaired the efficiency of the work of this Division and, as far as architectural services are concerned, has forced it to depend entirely upon stock plans for small school buildings, ranging from one to four teachers in size. Other functions of the Division are— 1. To assist local school authorities in conducting school surveys. 2. To assist in the selection of school sites. 3. To examine and approve or disapprove architects’ plans and specifications for school buildings, in accordance with Section 4384-23, Kentucky Statutes. 4. To aid school officials with their school housekeeping problems. 5. To advise with school officials concerning alterations or extensions to existing school buildings. 6. To advise school officials concerning the program of the Federal Government relative to financial aid for schoolhouse construction. Another extensive school building program was undertaken during the biennium which ended June 30, 1939. A brief summary of the work during this biennium follows: Type of Project Number Total Cost Coggggfiztion Additions and new buildings with P.W.A. aid ........................ 35 $2,623,751 $1,180,690 Alterations, additions, and l new buildings with W.P.A. l aid .............................................. 123 4,007,083 l 2,326,990 | Additions and new buildings with N.Y.A. aid ........................ 34 152,628 97,554 Additions and new buildings] without Federal aid ............... 52 863,000 Total .................................. 244 | $7,646,462 $3,605,234 | l As shown by the above table, contracts were awarded for 244 projects at a total cost of $7,646,462 during the biennium and of this amount $3,605,234 was a direct grant or gift from the Federal Govern- ment. These grants or gifts were made by the Public Works Adminis. tration, the Work Projects Administration or the National Youth Administration, and this office wishes to express its sincere apprecia- tion to these organizations for their splendid cooperation and support. The total value of all school property in Kentucky at the time this Division was created in 1930 amounted to approximately $50,000,000. Since that time 1,758 new school building projects have been com- pleted at a total cost of nearly $25,000,000. The following table shows the amount of construction which has taken place annually during that period: BIENNIAL REPORT SCHOOLHOUSE CONSTRUCTION IN KENTUCKY IN NINE-YEAR PERIOD From July 1, 1930, to June 30, 1939 Year Projects Total Cost Cogigfilfiion 1930-31 90 $ 1,500,000 1931-32 109 500,000 1932-33 137 1,160,000 1933-34 222‘ 702,254 1934-35 259 1,466,400 $ 405,250 1935-36 458 1 7,957,859 4,145,720 1936-37 139 I 3,847,652 1,552,717 1937-38 86 I 3,871,927 1,636,300 1938-39 158 I 3,774,535 1,968,934 | Total 1,758 I] $24,780,627 $9,708,921 It should be pointed out again that this fine record was made possible because of the large grants made for this work by the Federal Government. As will be noted from the table, the government has contributed $9,708,921 toward the construction of needed school build- ings in Kentucky during the past five years. These projects con- structed with federal aid vary in size and cost from small one—room schools costing less than $1,000, to large centralized school buildings costing more than a half million dollars. It is extremely gratifying to know that fewer but larger and better school buildings are now being constructed in Kentucky. A great majority of the small one-room schools, which have been constructed in this state in recent years, are in remote and isolated places where consolidation will be impossible for many years to come because of the topography of the land, the sparseness of the population and poor road conditions. The future, insofar as federal participation in schoolhouse con~ struction in Kentucky is concerned, is very uncertain. Although great progress has been made in recent years, the need is still very great. Conservative estimates indicate that approximately $20,000,000 must be invested in new school buildings in Kentucky within the near future, in order to provide anything like adequate physical facilities for all school children of the state. 12 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION CENS’US AND ATTENDANCE The Division of Census and Attendance was established July 1, 1934. As indicated in the school laws, the function of this Division is to supervise the enforcement of the Compulsory Attendance and School Census Laws within the school districts of the Commonwealth. The report of the activities of this Division must of necessity be a report of the services rendered by the attendance officers in the local school districts. It is interesting to note that at the present time over fifty per cent of the attendance officers are college graduates and eXperienced teachers. This is an important factor when consideration is given to the fact that a person is not required to have more than two years of college and no teaching experience to become an attendance officer. It appears from this that school administrators are increasingly recognizing the importance of this work. This fact is further emphasized by the comparatively small turn over from year to year in the position of attendance officer. The attendance officers are looking at their jobs from the stand- point of eliminating those conditions which cause non-enrollment and irregular attendance rather than from a legal standpoint. lIn view of this attitude, attendance officers have made approximately 500,000 visits each year to schools, homes, business firms and other organiza- tions. This has been done in order that there may be a better under- standing between the home and the school to the end that the two institutions will work together for the good of the child. These efforts have produced slow but steady improvement in school attendance. One of the duties of the attendance officer is to maintain a continuing school census. As the name implies, such a census represents a correct accounting of all eligible children in the school district from day to day. This is a radical departure from the former procedure of having the census taken every two years by an enumerator who was not qualified for the job. As a natural result the school census has shown a remarkable increase from 721,265 in 1934 to 795,374 on June 1, 1939. To facilitate the proper functioning of the school census laws, each attendance officer makes a monthly census report to the state office which shows the census at the beginning of the month; the number of additions during the month; the number of children becoming ineligible during the month and the net census at the close of the month. In order that the census of any school district will be free from duplications there is established in the office of the attendance ofiicer a master file for each school district in addition to the regular census file. The following table gives a partial picture of the results of the work that has been done within the last two years. 1933-34 1934-35 1935-36 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Census ................ 721,265 762,690 784,802 790,032 792,079 795,374 Enrollment ._ 609,684 625,776 634,861 635,109 618,318 614,036 Average Daily Att ..... I 471,920I 489,932I 490,220I 501,566I 1182,1241 494,339 m—Fv‘_ BIENNIAL REPORT 13 The advent of the new Compulsory Attendance Law naturally brought an increase in school enrollment. The total public school enrollment for the school year ending June 30, 1939, was 614,036. This is an increase over the year just preceding the enactment of the new Compulsory Attendance ‘Law. In this connection it should be pointed out that during the period from 1934 to the present time the child accounting methods have been revised. This revision has made it possible to secure from each school district an enrollment figure which is free from duplications. if the same basis had been used in reporting the enrollment in 1938-39 as was used in 1933-34, there would have been a large increase since in 1933-34 the methods of reporting made no provision for eliminating t1 ansl’ers between school districts. It is difficult to measure the work of the attendance officers in an objective manner. The increases in school census, school enrollment, and average daily attendance reflect to a certain extent the results of the conscientious efforts which have been made by these people. There is no way to adequately show the great effort which has been made to provide the necessary food and clothing for those children who are in need and are thereby forced out of school and become irregular in attendance. The numerous contacts made with the civic organiza- tions, parent-teacher associations, and public spirited citizens have made it possible to relieve many of these conditions. As a result of the conscientious efforts of these attendance officers, those children enrolled in the public schools are attending more regularly than in any period of the history of Kentucky schools. FINANCE During the past biennium the Division of Finance has been engaged in giving assistance to school authorities on problems of finance and other related work. Summed up in a few words, the main work of this division consists of advising public school administrators and boards of education concerning proper budgeting of funds, outlining good and uniform bookkeeping practices, and seeing that individuals and institutions handling state school funds are properly bonded. If these ends are accomplished, the school children of Kentucky are insured of getting $1.00 worth of education for each $1.00 spent in the name of education. In 19§7_—38 the expended sum of the state appropriation for common public/schools was $9,148,570.56, or a per capita distribution of $11.5_§L This sum was increased by revenue brought in from local lfiéfiue sources, making available aproximately $23,000,000. Thus the state exDended approximately 40 per cent of the total amount for this year. In 1938-39 the state expended $9,599,997.48, or a per capita of $12.12, While the entire amount expended for education on the public corninon school level amounted to about $24,000,000, or again almost exactly 40 per cent. As compared with ten years ago an increasingly larger proportion of the cost of education is being paid by the state. If the State were t0 pay the entire cost of public education on this level, and no part 14 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION of the revenue for schools came from local taxes on property of highly-valiable assessed value, then the present plan of distributing funds on a census-pupil basis would admit of equality. Further increases in the amount of state support will tend toward equality. The school dollar makes many purchases. Chief among these purchases are: (1) the employment and payment of approximately 18,500 teachers to serve nearly 800,000 children of school age; (2) employing a competent, well-trained school executive; (3) pro- viding for school buildings and grounds; (4) the transportation of about 90,000 boys and girls to school centers where more modern and better service is being given; (5) such other expenditures as are necessary to make it possible to present the best program possible in a particular district. All of these services are given at a cost of about Whom all sources for each of the 800,000 school children. It has been stated that one of the services made available by school expenditures was the teaching. It will be interesting to see just how well Kentucky pays her teachers. In 1937-38, 3,267 while men teachers were employed in the elementary schools of the Commonwealth. The median salary paid for this group was $567 annually. The same year 9,411 white women teachers were employed in the elementary schools. This group received salaries such as the median fell at $645.00. The same year 2,161 white men were employed on the high- school level with a median salary of $1,176.00. Two thousand two hundred seventy-one white women teachers were employed in the high-school field with a median salary of $1,006.00. To supply the same data for the negro schools, it is necessary to point out that 186 men were employed in the negro elementary schools. These men received a median salary of $689.00, while 870 negro women worked in this same field with a median salary of $714.00. In the negro high-school division, 217 men received a median animal salary of $1,044.00, while the high-school women working in the same field received a median salary of $956.00. To arrive at less complicated data, let us use the median salary for all teachers in all districts for this same Year, 1937-38. This was $717.00, or slightly less than $13.80 per week for the typical teacher when based on fifty-two weeks in the period covered by the annual salary of a teacher. With this condition prevailing, we should stop defending the amount of money we spend for teaching service and, instead, apologize for spending so little. If we take passage on one of the large ships of our airlines, we ride with a pilot who receives $6,000.00 annually for his expert knowledge and service, yet we are content to have the “co~pilot" of our children receive $717.00 for a year’s work and prepara- tion. Not all teachers receive these extremely low salaries. In fact, some districts are able to pay reasonably good salaries. These wide differences are brought about by the variance of ability of the different school districts to secure revenue locally. Under the present law, a city of the third or fourth class may budget for the proceeds of a levy of $1.50, while a county district may BIENNIAL REPORT use a maximum of only 750. This is an inequality which cannot be justified, for in addition to the variance in the levy, usually the assessed valuation of property in cities is considerably higher per census pupil than in the county district. in addition to the variance in the levying authority, there is a vast difference in the amount of taxable property in districtsot‘ the same classification. For instance, in Wolfe County the assessed valuation for each census pupil was $286 in 193839, while in Woodford County it was $10,307.00 or a range of $10,021.00. Wolfe County might reasonably expect to receive less than $2.25 per census pupil from local sources while in Woodford County, by making the same levy as Wolfe County, over $75.00 could be raised for each of its census pupils. Such inequal- ities should not exist. The only way by which these inequalities may be removed under the present law is for the state to assume the responsibility of main- taining the minimum program required by law. Instead of 40 per cent of the cost of education in Kentucky being borne by the state and 60 per cent by income from local sources, 60 per cent should soon repre- sent the part that the state pays and 40 per cent the amount coming from local sources. If such provisions were made in the near future, certainly this would be a long stride toward insuring all districts a minimum program of education. FREE TEXTBOOKS Free Textbooks have been a vital factor in accelerating the slow but steady progress in the development of public education in Kentucky during the period they have been supplied by the State. Adequate buildings, transportation, libraries, and other supplies have placed within the easy reach of every boy and girl a High School education. Along with such service of the State came FREE TEXT- BOOKS. No longer are we compelled to argue the point that free textbooks are essential to the equal opportunity in educational advantages. The present Free Textbook Law though enacted in 1928 was inoperative until 1934 because the General Assembly failed to provide funds at the time. In 1934, the “Appropriation Act” provided five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) per annum with which to buy and deliver books for the pupils of the public schools in Kentucky free of any charge to them. According to the provisions of this Act books were purchased beginning in the first grade and so on as far as the funds for the year would provide (Sec. 4421c-7, Kentucky Statutes). The first free books were furnished in the school year 1934-35 at which time one million, three hundred and thirty-three thousand. four hundred and two (1,333,402) books were purchased. This number supplied completely the first three grades, serving approximately 300,000 pupils and in addition supplied three subjects in the fourth grade. In 1935-36, one million, ninety-three thousand, three hundred and 16 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION sixteen (1,093,316) more free books were purchased. These supplied replacements in books bought the year before and new books up through one section of the fifth grade. In 1936-37, one million, forty-one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two (7,041,952) more books supplied the necessary replacements in the lower grades, and provided the second section of the fifth grade and one section of the sixth grade. In 1937-38, one million, one hundred and sixty-one thousand, five hundred and thirty-three (1,161,533) new books were supplied which furnished replacements in the first five grades and one half of the sixth. New books were then supplied to the second section of the sixth grade. In 1938-39, nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand, five hundred and seventy-nine (929,579) books of which five hundred and eighty- seven thousand, nine hundred and eighty-four (587,984) were for replacements and three hundred and forty-one thousand, six hundred and eighty-five (341,685) were seventh grade books, supplied all in this grade except music, art, spelling, civics and one of the social science books for the grade. From present indications, it would seem that from funds available practically all books in the required subjects in grades one to eight will be supplied for the year 1939-40. S‘ome Observations: 1. Approximately five hundred and sixty thousand (560,000) pupils are now using free textbooks in Kentucky. 2. The cost per pupil per year is ninety cents ($.90). This is approximately one-third of the cost per pupil when the parents were purchasing the books. 3. The average life of a book is three and a half or four years. 4. Superintendents, teachers and parents are offering splendid cooperation in the care and use of State owned books. 5. Free books appear to be a vital factor in attendance and pro- motion of pupils. 6. One of the greatest problems connected with State owned books is: What should be done with these books when they become wholly unfit for use? 7. No state that has ever had FREE TEXTBOOKS has ever reverted to the old plan of parent bought books. 8. Superintendents, teachers, and parents favor FREE TEXT- BOOKS through the twelfth grade. SPECIAL EDUCATION Vocational Rehabilitation The State Board of Education of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in cooperation with the Federal Government, provides vocational rehabilitation for physically handicapped persons as a training process to prepare them for remunerative employment in occupations for which they are best fitted and in which they will be able to earn a living wage for themselves and families. To be eligible for this service one must have a permanent physical BIENNIAL REPORT 17 disability, but must be physically and mentally capable of learning a trade or vocation and engaging in that vocation to the degree that he becomes a. self supporting citizen. The major services of vocational rehabilitation offered by the State Board of Education are advice in the selection of a prOper vocation, advice in the methods of preparing for that vocation, advice in the methods of entering and making progress in that vocation, and vocational training required in preparing for that vocation. Vocational rehabilitation is maintained by ‘State and Federal Governments on the thesis that it is socially and economically sound for governments to promote public welfare by aiding individual members of society to become a part of and to take their places in that society. In view of this thesis, the Federal Government included vocational rehabilitation as part of the recent Federal Social Security Act. Because of the increasing demands for these services by eligible applicants, Congress increased federal money available from $40,423.30 to $71,432.85 for vocational rehabilitation in this State. Rehabilitation Service Defined: Vocational rehabilitation is generally accepted as the process of rendering a disabled person fit to engage in a remunerative occupation. It is designed to assist (1) in removing inequalities of opportunities for the disabled; (2) in preparing physically handicapped boys and girls for some vocational pursuit; (3) vocationally handicapped individuals who have been engaged in one occuation to become readjusted to another in which they may be self supporting. It is a case study designed to provide for adjustments and readjustmenis of eligible disabled persons to the employment world. The service rendered may be guidance, prosthesis, training, retraining, placement, or any combination of these, provided such service results in placement in remunerative occupation. Rehabilitation—a Public Responsibility: Rehabilitation through Vocational preparation is a new phase of educational systems. Such Special preparation satisfies a demand not otherwise provided. This new idea in education contends not only that vocationally handicapped people should be prepared but that the preparation provided be specifically adapted to the needs of the individual. This special service is provided by the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Federal Government because it is considered to be sound economic business. It adds to the social order as well as to the productive power of the Commonwealth and the /Nation. It is accepted as a public policy of government. The inability of a person to earn a living wage or support dependents brings not only discouragement, but also a loss of morale which consequently threatens the welfare of the social order. It is a well-founded principle and an accepted fact that injured citizens should be rendered fit to engage in remunerative employment. Service Extended to All Groups and Communities: Local educa- tional officials and social agencies in many cities have become interested in organizing within their departments rehabilitation 18 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION programs which are carried on in cooperation with state plans. The service of this division reaches every county and community in the Commonwealth. Policies Add to Public Education: Since exploratory training is provided and vocational trends indicated during the pe