TEXT-BOOK SERIES IN EDUCATION THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION By PAUL MONROE, Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University. THE PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION By ERNEST N. HENDERSON, Ph.D., Adelphi College. STATE AND COUNTY EDUCATIONAL REORGANIZATION By ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY, Ph.D., Leland Stanford Junior University. TO BE ISSUED PRINCIPLES OF STATE AND COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION By ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY, Ph.D., Leland Stanford Junior University, and EDWARD C. ELLIOTT, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. SOURCE BOOK SERIES IN EDUCATION A SOURCE BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION FOR THE GREEK AND ROMAN PERIODS By PAUL MONROE, Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University. TO BE ISSUED A SOURCE BOOK IN STATE AND COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION By ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY, Ph.D., and EDWARD C. ELLIOTT, Ph.D. SELECTED LEGAL DECISIONS RELATING TO EDUCA TION By EDWARD C. ELLIOTT. EDUCATIONAL REORGANIZATION THE REVISED CONSTITUTION AND BY ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 All rights reserved PREFACE 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 Coa 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. It has accordingly made education an important state interest in its new constitution, organized a strong and helpful state department of education, and abolished the |