Excerpt from Report of the Principal of the State Normal School: Shewing the Condition of the Public Schools of Maryland; With the Reports of the County School Commissioners, for the Year Ending September 30, 1868 The School Law requires that the Principal of the State Normal School shall "on or before the fifteenth day of January, in each and every year, make a report to the Governor of the condition of the schools of the State, a statement of the apportionment of money to the counties and the city of Baltimore for the support of schools, an abstract of the reports received from County School Commissioners, and shall make such suggestions for the improvement of the schools and the advancement of public education as he shall deem expedient." The Condition Of The Schools. The Constitution of Maryland, adopted in 1867, provided that the Public School system then in operation should continue to the close of the next session of the Legislature, and should then expire, except in so far as it should be adopted or continued by the General Assembly. It was morally certain that the school system of 1865 would neither be adopted nor continued by the General Assembly of 1868; but how far it would be changed, or what kind of substitute would be provided, it was impossible to conjecture. The schools thus entered upon their new year in September, 1867, surrounded by an uncertainty as to the future which was calculated to embarrass and discourage both Commissioners and Teachers. Consequently, the statistics of the year show but little improvement on those of the preceding. The schools have perhaps held their own, and that is all. Nor is this to be wondered at. 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.