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Excerpt from State and County Educational Reorganization: Revised Constitution and School Code of the State of Osceola The revision of the Article on Education of the Constitution and the Revised School Code which follows it, for the hypothetical state of Osceola, which is presented in the following pages, is an expression, in concrete form, of certain fundamental principles relating to the administration of public education in the United States which the author of this Constitution and Code, in collaboration with Professor Edward C. Elliott, of the University of Wisconsin, expects to set forth, a little later, in a book to be entitled Principles of State and County School Administration. It was originally intended that this Constitution and Code should form a part of a companion volume of Sources, - a volume of illustrative supreme court decisions, laws, extracts from public documents, etc., - but the size of the material here presented made it seem desirable that this be issued as a separate volume, as will also be done in the case of the Legal Decisions. Osceola is, of course, a hypothetical state, supposed to be located somewhere in the upper Mississippi Valley, and to contain a few large manufacturing and commercial cities, a number of smaller cities, and large and important rural and agricultural interests. The state is not supposed to be one of more than average size or wealth, but it is supposed to be one which has recently become clearly conscious of the need and purpose of public education, and to have resolutely set to work to perfect an administrative organization for its schools capable of meeting the educational needs of the future. 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.