History of Public School Education in Arizona

by Stephen Beauregard Weeks

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF EDUCATION

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BULLETIN, 1918, No. 17

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HISTORY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
EDUCATION IN ARIZONA

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By STEPHEN B. WEEKS
BUREAU OF EDUCATION

 

 

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WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1918

CONTENTS.

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Chapter I.—The setting for public schools	5
Early history; educational efforts by the church	5
Statistical view of population growth	7
Chapter II.—The beginnings of public-school legislation, 1864–1869	9
Organization of the Territory	9
The Howell code and its educational provisions	10
Education in the legislature of 1864	10
The school law of 1867	13
The school law of 1868	14
McCrea on these early efforts	16
Chapter III.—The administration of Gov. Safford—The State superintendency established, 1869–1877	18
Gov. Safford’s message to the legislature of 1871	18
I. The basic act of 1871	20
Reports on the act of 1871—Gov. Safford’s work	22
The situation in 1873	24
Wasson’s review in 1874	26
II. The situation in 1875	27
The church and state situation in 1875	28
Last years of Safford’s administration	29
III. Progress up to 1879—Beginnings in the cities	30
The development of schools in various centers	31
Chapter IV.—The superintendent made an independent officer—Administrations of Sherman and Horton, 1879–1885	37
I. The act of 1879 and the new development	37
II. Sherman becomes the first independent Territorial superintendent	40
III. Horton becomes superintendent, 1883–1885	45
Chapter V.—Organizing the school system, 1885–1887	51
I. The school laws of 1885 and 1887	52
II. Administration of Supt. Long, 1885–1887	55
Chapter VI.—Reaction and progress, 1887–1899	61
Summary of this period	61
Reaction in 1887	62
Educational legislation in 1891	66
Further fortunes of the schools	66
Chapter VII.—Further growth and development during the Territorial period, 1889–1912	73
I. Second administration of Robert L. Long, 1899–1902	74
II. Administration of Nelson G. Layton, 1902–1906	76
III. Third administration of Robert L. Long, 1906–1909	80
IV. Administration of Kirk T. Moore, 1901–1912	85
Chapter VIII.—The first State administration of schools	88
Public lands provided for the schools	88
Supt. Case becomes State superintendent	89
Territorial Industrial School	91
School for the deaf, dumb, and blind	92
Rural supervision and pensions	92
I. The county superintendent	95
II. Arizona Teachers’ Association	96
III. Educational journalism	97
IV. School surveys	98
V. City and high schools	100
VI. The normal schools	108
The Tempe Normal School	109
The Flagstaff Normal School	111
Chapter IX. The school lands	116
I. The public school lands	117
(a) The Salt River school lands	118
(b) Amount and distribution of school lands	121
(c) National forest lands	122
(d) School lands and Indian reservations	123
II. The institutional lands	124
III. The land law of 1915	126
Chapter X.—The past, the present, and the future	129
Public school statistics, 1870–1916	136
Bibliography	138