TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



Colorado. 



building is in the form of a square, about 26 x 26. It is a very comfort- 

 able building for a small family. Their idea is to keep the teacher in 

 the community, and let him be, therefore, a part of the community life. 

 Their school is a 2-room building, and their policy is to keep a male prin- 

 cipal. (S. S. Phillips, County Superintendent, La Junta, Colo.) 



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I am sorry to say there are no teachers' cottages in Jefferson County. 

 The nearest approach to one is in one of the mountain districts where 

 one of the patrons built a house for the teacher since it was imperative 

 that the teacher have a boarding place and there was no place in the 

 district where she could go. (Berness Bunger, County Superintendent, 

 Golden, Colo.) 



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There are no teachers' cottages in this county, but some are 

 certainly badly needed, for only this morning a teacher came to me and 

 said she didn't know where she could get a place to stay, no one 

 wanted to keep her; the only American family that had been in the 

 district have moved away, leaving only Mexicans in the district. (S. J. 

 Capps, County Superintendent, La Veta, Colo.) 



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We have one teacher's cottage in this county. This cottage is situ- 

 ated in District No. 5, which is in the north central part of the county, 

 in an agricultural district. It is 24'x24', cost about $700, and has four 

 rooms. It accommodates the two teachers who have charge of the 

 school in this district. (Emma Full, County Superintendent, Montrose, 

 Colo.) 



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In two isolated communities are little two-roomed cottages pro- 

 vided for the teachers. In one case the house is well furnished and 

 cozy, costing $300, perhaps. The other is only a temporary house, 

 costing perhaps $100. (Florence Salabar, County Superintendent, Du- 

 rango, Colo.) 



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We have no regular teachers' cottages in this county, but there are 

 five districts in which teachers are keeping house, near the school- 

 house. (Allie V. Richmond, County Superintendent, Las Animas, Colo.) 



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We have no cottages for teachers' residences in Logan County, but 

 at Crook and in School district Number 25, rooms have been arranged 

 in which the teachers reside. We are to have a new consolidated school 

 at Dailey, and I hope that a teacherage will be provided there. (Flora 

 A. Allison, County Superintendent, Sterling, Colo.) 



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One district had to build a room for two teachers. A log, two-room 

 schoolhouse is used for the teachers' cottage in one of the rural districts. 

 "We surely need it, hasten the day." "We have one cottage that is a 

 complete success and hope to have more." Three rural districts are now 

 using old schoolhouses partly furnished for the teachers. "Hope to have 

 two at the end of the year." "I wish there were some in my county." In 

 Huerfano County they have adopted the plan of building one or two rooms 

 onto the schoolhouse, in which the teacher may live. These are owned 

 by the district and no charge is made. By having these rooms they are 

 able to employ a better class of teachers and it is more agreeable to the 

 teachers and the expense to the district is small. (U. S. Bureau of Educa- 

 tion.) 



Connecticut. 



In one place the plan has been considered, in another place six teach- 

 ers rent a house and run their own "mess." (U. S. Bureau of Education.) 



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