School History Of Virginia Classic Reprint

Author : Alsen Franklin Thomas
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ISBN 13 : 9781331172390
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Primary Education and the Race Problem written by Alsen Franklin Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Primary Education and the Race Problem: An Address to the People of Virginia The inauguration of the public free school system in Virginia dates from the adoption of the Underwood Constitution by vote of the people on July 6th, 1869. Article 8, Section 3 provides: "The general assembly shall provide by law at its first session under this Constitution, a uniform system of public free schools and for its gradual, equal and full introduction into all the Counties of the State by the year 1876, or as much earlier as practicable." Coming as it did upon the heels of a great war in which was involved the question of liberating four millions of people for whom it was claimed, by the victorious side, equal civil and political rights, there is left no room to doubt that it was the purpose of the framers of the Constitution that every child in the State should have equal opportunity to get an education. Not willing to leave the matter of developing this system to the discretion of the legislature, the framers made it mandatory that the law inaugurating the system should be passed at the first session held under the Constitution. Nor willing to rest here, they evidently mistrusting the legislature (with how much reason its subsequent acts will show), limited the time for complete inauguration and establishment in all the Counties of the State to the year 1876. Article 8, Section 8 provides: "The general assembly shall apply the annual interest on the literary fund, the capitation tax provided for by this Constitution for public free school purposes and an annual tax upon the property of the State of not less than one mill nor more than five mills on the dollar, for the equal benefit of all the people of the State, the number of children between the ages of five and twenty-one years in each public free school district being the basis of such division. Provision shall be made to supply children attending the public free schools with the necessary text-books in cases where the parent or guardian, by reason of poverty, is unable to furnish them. Each County and public free school district may raise additional sums by a tax on property for the support of public free schools. All unexpended sums of any one year in any public free school district shall go into the general school fund for re-division the next year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.