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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 240 Print image (71K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 240 Print image (71K) |
| 10 REPORT WITH RECOMMENDATIONS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS There are few private schools for the Negroes of Maryland. In scholastic and industrial lines there is Princess Anne Academy in Somerset County, affiliated with the University of Maryland and doing good work. The Cardinal Gibbons Institute, recently established at Ridge, St. Mary's County, is doing excellent work of an industrial, agricultural and high-school character. Both of these schools exert inestimable influence on the people of their respective sections. The School Code of Maryland requires* that the school authorities employ teachers with college training for the high schools of the State. The 18 high schools already established, and others to be established, must be conducted according to this wise and helpful law. How are the candidates for these high school positions, and other positions requiring thorough advanced training, to be provided? It has been, and still is, the educational policy of the State to aid private schools and colleges because the service of the graduates of these schools is valuable to the public, especially to the public schools. The colored population of the State is nearly 250,000, about 1/7 or 14 % of the total population. The State-aided schools, omitting charitable and penal institutions, receive: 12 white schools, $251,000 per year; 1 colored school (Morgan College), $7,000 per year. Princess Anne Academy is a branch of the University of Maryland. One-seventh of the population receives one-thirty-seventh of the State Aid Fund. We do not ask even a proportionate share of the State Fund, based on population, but we do ask that the manifest needs of the colored people be met on a basis of these needs and of equity. Private philanthropy has largely maintained Morgan College for the higher education of the Negroes of Maryland. The public-spirited citizens who have contributed from year to year to the support of this college have a right to feel that |