the counties are helping teachers to improve instruction with a rela-
tively small corps of supervisory officials.

The average current expense cost in 1939 of educating a day school
pupil in the schools of the twenty-three counties was $61.91. Graded
schools having three or more teachers, with better trained teachers,
more equipment and expenditures for transportation, costs less per
pupil than rural schools having one or two teachers, chiefly because
the classes are larger. Transportation was provided at public expense
for over 61,000 county pupils at a cost of $1,202,800.

There were over 62 per cent. of the white county schools, and 90 per
cent. of the colored schools in the counties which reported that they
had active parent-teacher associations organized in 1939.
Maryland's school system is frequently visited and studied by offi-
cials from other States and counties because of its plan for effective
administration and supervision in a county unit system, and because of
its method of distributing school funds on the basis of need through its
Equalization Fund.

Board of Education—Baltimore City.

The public school system of Baltimore is separate and distinct from
the school system of the State, is controlled by a board of nine mem-
bers appointed by the Mayor of Baltimore, and not under the jurisdic-
tion of the State Board of Education.

Forrest Bramble, President.

Mrs. Howard Willis Ford Mr. John D. Steele
Mrs. Louis H. Levin Dr. Norman B. Cole
Mr. John H. Duncan Dr. Charles O'Donovan, Jr..
Dr. Isaiah Bowman Mr. H. Franklin Sheely

Superintendent:
David E. Weglein. ............................................ Baltimore

Assistant Superintendents:

William R. Flowers............................................ Baltimore
John W. Lewis................................................. Baltimore
J. Carey Taylor................................................... Baltimore
Charles F. Willis. ................................................. ..Baltimore

MARYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore
(Terms Expire 1941)

Advisory to Albert S. Cook, State Superintendent of Schools.

Ex-Officio Members:
Joseph L. Wheeler, Librarian,

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
Robert F. Leach, Jr., Librarian. ..... ..State Library, Annapolis

Members appointed by the Governor:
Mrs. Charlotte N. Newell.......................................... Baltimore
Mrs. A. M. McFadden. ............................ ..Mt. Rainier, Md..
Mrs. James W. Thomas. ............................ ..Cumberland, Md.
Joseph H. Apple. ........................................ ..Frederick, Md..
Gilbert W. Mead. .................................... Chestertown, Md.