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Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
Acts by State legislatures affecting schools, colleges, and universities during 1933 and 1934 are reviewed herein. During this biennium the legislature of every State had one or more legislative sessions; all of them except Alabama had regular sessions. In approximately three-fourths of the States special sessions of the legislature were called.…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Educational Trends, Public Education
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
No argument would seem to be needed to prove that knowledge of contemporary legislation affecting education is of a practical advantage to every educational worker and to all citizens of representative government. Under our system it is the prerogative of a State legislature to overcome legal obstacles, or to set up new legal instruments for…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Education, Private Schools, Federal Legislation
Keesecker, Ward W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
During the biennium 1926-1928 approximately 1,200 educational acts of general application were passed in the continental United States. The outstanding general feature is the increased tendency to employ educational surveys and state-wide investigations as bases for educational legislation. In recent years legislatures and school officials have…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Superintendents, Counties, School Support
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
Public-spirited citizens who desire to improve their educational systems increasingly look to the law. The prerogative of a law-making body is to translate acceptable ideals and reforms into operating public policies. Educational progress in this country has been vitally encouraged and supported by State constitutions, legislative enactments, and…
Descriptors: Public Education, School Law, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality
Deffenbaugh, Walter S.; Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
This study has been prepared to help answer questions frequently asked regarding certain features of the compulsory school attendance laws in the several States, as compulsory school ages, exemptions provided, amount of attendance required, qualifications of attendance officers, State supervision of attendance enforcement, and other provisions for…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Law, School Attendance Legislation, Compulsory Education
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
This publication is designed to encourage and assist those who seek to improve school systems through the improvement of school laws. This is a revised edition of "Know Your School Law," Bulletin 1952 No. 1, by Dr. Ward W. Keesecker, and is part of the Office of Education program to develop a clearinghouse of timely and useful information on…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Law, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
The matter covered by this manuscript has grown out of controversies, yet it is not in itself controversial. At times there are arrayed on one side of this controversy, those who sincerely believe that a reading or teaching of the Bible in the public schools will make for better citizenship; and on the other side are to be found those who believe…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Biblical Literature, Legislators, Religious Education
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This bulletin provides the seventh chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, which has been published in separate chapters dealing with specific segments of the educational system. The purpose of this publication is to make available information on educational legislation enacted during 1931 and 1932. Probably in no previous biennium…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Educational History, School Law, Educational Legislation
Deffenbaugh, W. S.; Keesecker, Ward W. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Boards of Education, Administrators, Administrator Responsibility
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
It is the purpose of this chapter to show some of the more outstanding tendencies and examples of legislation affecting education in the United States during 1935 and 1936. During these years the legislature of every State had one or more legislative sessions, and, in addition, special sessions were called in many States. Moreover, many…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Education, Educational Legislation, Foundation Programs
Lathrop, Edith A.; Keesecker, Ward W. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This study is limited strictly to a consideration of express legislation; and administrative regulations or practice have been excluded from its scope, except in a few cases where their inclusion as a note has been necessary for clarification of a point. Moreover, no attempt has been made to evaluate the laws affecting libraries, but to present…
Descriptors: Financial Support, School Law, School Libraries, State Departments of Education