TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



Oregon. 



There has been but one teacher's cottage built in Josephine County. 

 This is at Grants Pass, Dist. No. 7. Size, 24' x 34' one-story. Wood 

 studding, lathed and plastered, set on cement foundation. Five rooms. 

 Bathroom, toilet, two closets. Cost, $1,000. (Lincoln Savage, County 

 Superintendent, Grants Pass, Ore.) 



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In response to your inquiry concerning teachers' cottages, etc., will 

 state that I am in hearty accord with the idea. So far, we have but one 

 three-room teacher's cottage in this county, which is serving a very good 

 purpose both to the teacher and the district. I should say that it is 

 worth $25 a month to the district, and did not cost to exceed $300. It 

 is continuously occupied. We shall have more of them. (J. W. Allen, 

 County Superintendent, St. Helens, Ore.) 



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No teachers' cottages have been erected in this county. In three dis- 

 tricts cottages are provided for the teachers by renting, but none have 

 been built by the districts. (S. E. Notson, County Superintendent, 

 Heppner, Ore.) 



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In Monroe County, District No. 36, the house is furnished free to 

 the present teacher who is a widow with three children. Without this 

 house it would be impossible for any teacher to find a suitable boarding 

 place and the district had agreed to furnish a house if a teacher could 

 be secured for them. In District No. 8 a new two-room schoolhouse has 

 been completed. The board is fitting up the old building as a cottage 

 for the principal. In District No. 19 last year a house was furnished 

 free to the teacher. She was a lady with three children of school age 

 and the district needed these children to give them the needed apportion- 

 ment. The house was an unoccupied farm house and no charge was 

 made by the owner for rent. The County Superintendent is advocating 

 the employment of teachers during 12 months of the year. During the 

 vacation period, the teacher can direct the industrial work of the pupils. 

 This will require the furnishing of a cottage. (U. S. Bureau of Edu- 

 cation.) 



Pennsylvania. 



I know of no place in which the school board has erected cottages 

 for teachers to live in. In my opinion a school board would be allowed 

 to do this and thus pay for part of the teachers' compensation. 



The State, several years ago, erected a school building with a home 

 on the Cornplanter Indian Reservation. This has been quite successful. 

 (Nathan C. Shaeffer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, 

 Pa.) 



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In the township high schools, Waterford Borough provides rooms 

 partly furnished in an old academy building for the teachers. Two of 

 the County Superintendents wish there were teachers' cottages in their 

 county. Two more trust that the movement may spread. (U. S. Bureau 

 of Education.) 



Rhode Island. 



No cottages reported from Rhode Island. (U. S. Bureau of Educa- 

 tion.) 



South Carolina. 



A considerable number of South Carolina school districts have 

 erected teachers' cottages. This work in the neighborhood depends abso- 

 lutely upon local sentiment and local conditions. Such a cottage is per- 

 missible under the law wherever school funds can bear the expense. 

 (J. E. Swearingen, State Superintendent, Columbia, S. C.) 



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