to Maryland for the purpose of studying teaching and
supervision.

in the fall of 1929 there were fifty three supervising or helping
teachers employed for the 3,078 white elementary teachers scattered
over the 9,859 square miles in the Maryland counties, an average of
58 teachers for each supervising or helping teacher. The large progres-
sive school systems of Cleveland and Detroit have a. supervising prin-
cipal for each group of 25 professionally trained teachers, localized in
a single building, ill Connecticut each supervisory agent has from 30
to 40 teachers under his supervision.

The average current expense coat in 1929 of educating a pupil in
tiro schools of the twenty three counties was $55. Graded schools having
three or more teachers with better trained teachers, more equipment,
and expenditures for transportation coat less per pupil than rural
schools having one or two teachers chiefly because the classes were
larger. Transportation was provided at public expense for 18,928 pupils
at a cost of $512,385,

Nearly 46 per cent of lire white county schools, and two thirds of the
colored schools in the counties reported that they had parent teacher
associations organized in 1929.

Maryland's school system is frequently visited and studied by other
states and counties because of its plan for effective administration and
supervision in a county unit system, and because of its plan of dis-
tributing school funds on lire 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
members appointed by the Mayor of Baltimore, and not under the
Jurisdiction of the State Board of Education.
William L. Rawls, President.

Theodore E. Straus Mrs. John Wesley Brown
Dr. Frank J. Goodnow Mrs. Louis H. Levin
J. Alan Fledderman John H. Duncan
Addison E. Mullikin Lewis W. Lake

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

Assistant Superintendents:

Carlton E. Douglas . Baltimore
Miss Laura Frazee . . .. Baltimore
William R Flowers Baltimore
J. Carey Taylor Baltimore
John W. Lewis Baltimore

MARYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION.
520 North Charles Street, Baltimore
(Terms Expire 1931.)

Advisory to Albert S. Cook, State Superintendent of Schools.
Ex-Officio Members:
Joseph L. Wheeler, Librarian,

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
Miss Mary E. Shearn, Librarian . State Library, Annapolis