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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
Georgia s Educational Facilities
By M. L. BBITTAHT, State Superintendent of Schools.
The public school system of Georgia is new, compared with
that of many other states. By nature the Georgian has pronounced
individualism and passed with difficulty from the old idea of the
private school or academy. Beginning with the year 1870, how
ever, the feeling that education is a public duty has grown more
strongly each year, and is so well entrenched in popular favor that
even the old-line politicians who still oppose it at heart, are care
ful to guard this fact from the public. The State appropriates
$2,700,000 to the public schools. In addition the cities, towns,
and thirty-nine counties give more than two million dollars from
local taxation. In this way many, even of the most remote rural
districts have supplemented the State appropriation, lengthened
their school terms from five to nine months, erected excellent
school buildings, and made it practically impossible to get out of
reach of an education.
Within the last ten years the public four-year high schools
have increased from 4 to 81 and the private and denominational
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