The State Superintendent of Schools is the executive officer of the
Board. The members of the State Board of Education and the State
Superintendent of Schools are ex-officio trustees of the State Teachers
Colleges.

State Superintendent of Schools.

The State Superintendent of Schools is appointed by the State
Board of Education for a term of four years and is ex-officio secretary
and treasurer of the Board. He is the executive officer of the State
Board of Education, which, in addition to having general control of the
State School System, is charged with the duties of interpreting school
laws and acting without expense to the parties concerned in all contro-
versies and disputes involving the proper administration of the public
school system. He carries out the education policies of the State Board
of Education. He conducts conferences of school officials and teachers,
issues teachers' certificates, passes upon proposals for the sale of school
sites and buildings, and the plans for the construction of new build-
ings. He directs the taking of the bi-ennial school census, prepares
courses of study and an annual report. He also issues bulletins from
time to time on the conditions and needs of the schools.

Either in person, or through his assistants, he has general supervi-
sion over the educational conditions in the counties and co-operates
with county school officials in welding together school interests in a
State system. He certifies to the Comptroller each year a list of schools
entitled to receive State aid, and the amount due each county in part
payment by the State of the salaries of superintendents, supervisors
and attendance officers. He audits the accounts of the county boards
of education and sees that their expenditures conform to the law. His
approval is necessary in the appointment of county superintendents,
supervisors, and attendance officers by the County Boards of Education.
The State Superintendent is a member ex-officio of the Board of Trus-
tees of the State Teachers' Retirement System.

All communications pertaining to the supervision and administra-
tion of the State School System (Baltimore City not included) should
be sent to the State Superintendent of Schools, or to him as secretary
of the State Board of Education.
Work of the State Department of Education.

The twenty-three counties of the State in 1935-36 enrolled over
173,000 pupils in 1,462 public elementary and secondary schools in
charge of 5,010 teachers. Nearly 36,700 of these pupils were in the
last four years of work of the 180 high schools distributed in the
twenty-three counties of the State. In the same year the counties
expended on schools approximately $8,712,000 for current expenses,
of which $3,665,000, of 42 per cent., was received by the twenty-three
counties from the State of Maryland and Federal vocational funds.
Baltimore City received $1,578,000 from State and Federal school funds
for the maintenance of schools and the retirement system for teachers.

There were *10,859 graduates from county white elementary schools
and 5,318 from county white high schools in 1936. Of the white girl
graduates from county high schools, 3.3 per cent. entered the Towson,
Frostburg and Salisbury Teachers Colleges. The three teachers col-
leges had an enrollment in the fall of 1985 of 662 students, which
included 193 enrolled from Baltimore City at Towson.

Approximately 26 per cent. of the white county high-school grad-
uates of 1934 continued their education beyond high school in colleges,
universities, normal schools, hospitals, commercial schools, etc., in
1934-35.

Towson, Frostburg and Salisbury Teachers Colleges gave diplomas
in 1935 to 244 young men and women, of whom 70 were from Balti-

Includes eighth grade promotions in junior high schools.