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Identifier: ruralcentralized00okla (find matches)
Title: Rural centralized, graded and model schools
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Oklahoma. Superintendent of public instruction. (from old catalog) Duke, Eugene Alberto, 1879- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Schools
Publisher: (Oklahoma City, Warden company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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mmon school districts, and the uniongraded district does not assume the indebtedness of any district. TRANSPORTATION The union graded district Board cannot furnish transportation,except when authorized to do so by 60 per cent of the legal votersliving in the district. UNION DISTRICTS IN OKLAHOMA Several of the districts reported to the State Superintendent asconsolidated schools are found upon investigation to be simply uniongraded schools, but the number of such is not known definitely as this time. FORT TOWSON The Fort Towson union graded school district in Choctaw Countyhas an area of approximately 32 square miles, and a taxable valuationof $711,343.00. In the central school at Fort Towson, eleven teachersare employed to teach twelve grades. Three wing schools, the Doaks-ville school, located two miles northwest, the Greenwood school, locat-ed two and one-half miles northeast, and the Dunn school, located twoand one-half miles south of Fort Towson, are maintained for pupils in (58)
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Fort Towson TTnion Graded School District, Choctaw County the first six grades. All pupils in the seventh, eighth and high schoolgrades are required to attend the central school at Fort Towson, butthe district does not furnish transportation for these pupils. A four-year high school course is offered in the union graded school. Last 59) year there were fifteen graduates from the eighth grade and threefrom the high school department. The northeast part of this district is rough and hilly, with con-siderable timber, the central part is good, level land, and the south partis broken by creeks, draws, etc. There is also considerable heavytimber in the southern part of the district. The main line roads eastand west and north and south from Fort Towson are good, but thelaterals are only fair. At present, transportation of pupils is hardlyfeasible for this district and the union graded school is probably thebest under the circumstances. The principal reports that the averagedaily attendance f

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