In the House of Lords the bill received a very few unimportant amendments, and was passed August 5, substantially as it went from the House of Commons. TEXT OF THE PRINCIPAL CLAUSES OF THE BILL AS AMENDED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. The education act, 1902 (in this act referred to as the principal act), shall, so far as applicable, and subject to the provisions of this act, apply to London. 2. (1) All public elementary provided schools within the area of each metropolitan borough shall have a body or bodies of managers, whose number shall be determined by the council of each borough, subject to the approval of the board of education: Provided, That three-fourths of such body or bodies shall be appointed by the borough council and one-fourth by the local education authority: Provided also, That due regard shall be had to the inclusion of women on the said bodies of managers. (2) The site of any new public elementary school to be provided by the local education authority shall not be determined upon until after consultation with the council of the metropolitan borough in which the proposed site is situated, and in the case of compulsory purchase, if the council of the inetropolitan borough does not concur in the proposed compulsory acquisition, the board of education shall be empowered, as a condition of its approval of the provisional order, to require, if it thinks fit, the substitution in the order of any other site proposed by the council of the metropolitan borough for that inserted by the local education authority. RETROSPECTIVE TABLES. STATISTICS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND. a Table I shows the comparative growth of board and "voluntary" schools, the latter chiefly denominational, as indicated by average attendance for successive years from 1870 to 1902, inclusive. Table II shows the accommodation and enrollment in the different classes of schools for the year 1901 in comparison with the same for 1891. TABLE I.-Number of children in average attendance in public elementary day schools, board and voluntary, inspected during the year. Annual reports of the committee of council on education, 1870 to 1898-99, inclusive; report of the Duke of Newcastle's commission, 1861; report of the royal commission on the elementary education acts, 1888; special reports on educational subjects, education department, 1896-97; reports of the board of education, 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901–2. The retrospective tables are derived chiefly from the last-named source and the final report of the committee of council on education (1898-99). Year. TABLE II.-Accommodation and enrollment in the several classes of elementary schools, 1902 and 1891. Total voluntary schools School-board schools Grand total, 1902 Grand total, 1891 14,268 2.069 1.958 11,593 4,773 20,391 3,722,427 3,058,661 2,545,437 TABLE III.-Expenditure on public elementary education (England and Wales), 1871-1902 (current and capital). 1871. 1872. 162,491 581,014 743,505 1873. 251,906 642,650 894.556 1874. 373,859 709,712 1,083,571 1875. 588,845 607,692 699.597 826,244 948.120 441,201 441.201 1876. 868,418 a The law of 1870 authorized school boards to borrow money on the security of local taxes (rates) for the building of schoolhouses. Up to the 1st of April, 1901, the education department had sanctioned loans to the amount of £41,624.464 ($208,122,320). The new accommodation thus furnished is sufficient for 2,788,120 children. The estimated cost per child is thus about £14 18s. 7d. (873). The department has also sanctioned loans to the amount of £132.998 to 10 school boards for providing accommodation for 729 blind and deaf children, and also £26,818 18s. to 5 school boards for providing accommodation for 390 defective children. The grant for this year does not include the grant from the science and art department, which is no longer applied to elementary schools. This grant, now limited to so-called higher schools, amounted in 1902-3 to £649,702. The Government grant to training colleges not included in the foregoing totals was £231,989. TABLE IV.-Expenditure on public elementary education (England and Wales) 1871-1895 (current and capital). PROPORTION OF TOTAL EXPENDITURE WHICH FELL (a) ON THE CENTRAL FUNDS OF THE STATE, (b) ON OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE. TABLE V.-Average expenditure (for maintenance only) per scholar in average attendance. TABLE VI.-Comparative view of income for maintenance only, day and evening schools, 1894-1900; day schools only, 1902. TABLE VII.-Number of teachers in public elementary day schools. a Year ending December 31 for years 1870, 1875, and 1880. Including pupil teachers and probationers: the latter, numbering 2,656 in 1899, are not included in number of teachers given in Tables I and XIV. The Government regulations require that the principal of every school which participates in the public grant shall have a Government diploma; that is, shall be a certificated teacher, except under special arrangements. Candidates for the certificate must pass a specified examination and undergo at least a year's probation in actual service in a school. In determining what is the minimum school staff required the board of education consider the principal certificated teacher to be sufficient for an average attendance of 50, each additional certificated teacher for an average attendance of 60, each assistant teacher for an average attendance of 45, each provisional assistant teacher, each additional teacher, and each pupil teacher for an average attendance of 30, and each probationer for an average attendance of 20. TABLE VIII.-Proportion of each class of teachers to the total number. a Not including additional women teachers first employed in 1880 (numbering 17,955 in 1901). |