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Public Ledger
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
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Leon Trousdale, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, reports from Nashville that no laws affecting Tennessee's public school system were passed in the recent General Assembly session, except for an act redirecting state poll tax collections to county trustees for school distribution and establishing a Board of Education with potential for Normal schools.
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No Law Affecting Our School System Passed.
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 31, 1875.
To the Editor of the Banner:
For the information of the friends of our public school system, please state that no law affecting the present status of the schools, in any manner, was passed at the late session of our General Assembly. An act was passed requiring collectors of taxes to pay over the State poll tax, levied for the benefit of schools, to the County Trustees, instead of the Treasurer of the State as heretofore, and thence to be distributed to the school districts. It is also hoped that a noble beginning may be made for Normal schools from the act establishing a Board of Education. But this depends upon plans which will be developed hereafter.
Very respectfully,
Leon Trousdale,
State Supt. of Public Instruction.
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Nashville, Tenn.
Event Date
March 31, 1875
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no law affecting the present status of the schools was passed; an act requiring collectors of taxes to pay over the state poll tax to county trustees for distribution to school districts; act establishing a board of education with hopes for normal schools depending on future plans.
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Letter to the editor stating that no law affecting the public school system was passed at the late session of the General Assembly, except for the specified tax collection act and the establishment of a Board of Education.