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28 MARYLAND MANUAL.

equipment and expenditures for transportation, cost less per pupil
than rural schools having one or two teachers, chiefly because the
classes were larger. Transportation was provided at public expense
for nearly 49,000 county pupils at a cost of $952,600.

There were 57.8 per cent of the white county schools, and 82 per
cent of the colored schools in the counties which reported that they
had active parent-teacher associations organized in 1936.

Maryland's school system is frequently visited and studied by offi-
cials from other States and counties because of its plan for effective
administration and supervision in a county unit system, and because of
its method of distributing school funds on the basis of need through its
Equalization Fund.

Board of Education—Baltimore City.

The public school system of Baltimore is separate and distinct from
the school system of the State, is controlled by a board of nine mem-
bers appointed by the Mayor of Baltimore, and not under the jurisdic-
tion of the State Board of Education.

Forrest Bramble, President.
Mrs. Howard Willis Ford Mr. John D. Steele
Mrs. Louis H. Levin Dr. Norman B. Cole
Mr. John H. Duncan Dr. Charles O'Donovan, Jr.
Dr. Joseph S. Ames Mr. H. Franklin Sheely

Superintendent:
David E. Weglein Baltimore

Assistant Superintendents:

William R. Flowers Baltimore
John W. Lewis Baltimore
J. Carey Taylor Baltimore
Charles F. Willis Baltimore

MARYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION.
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore.
(Terms Expire 1939.)

Advisory to Albert S. Cook, State Superintendent of Schools.
Ex-Officio Members:

Joseph L. Wheeler, Librarian,

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

John M. McCool, Librarian State Library, Annapolis
Members appointed by the Governor:

Ruth B. Bibbons Baltimore
Mrs. Charlotte Newell Baltimore
Mrs. Eva C. Chase Riverdale, Md.
Joseph H. Apple Frederick, Md.
Gilbert W. Mead Chestertown, Md.

State Director of Library Extension:
Miss Adelene J. Pratt Baltimore

 

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