By JOHN COX 

 lAA Director of Rural School Relations 



FROM the State Advisory Commission 

 we have received the information that 

 21 counties have sent in their tentative 

 reports. 



The number of school districts in the 

 21 counties listed in the fall of 1945 

 was 2218. The number of districts 

 recommended in the 21 reports is 299, 

 of which 193 districts are in the Ver- 

 milion and Cook counties. Sixty-one of 

 these remaining 106 districts recom- 

 mended in the other 19 counties are 

 Community Unit districts. 



In spite of an early tendency of some 

 county survey committees to consider 

 only grade school reorganization, 14 of 

 the first 21 counties to report recom- 

 mended unit districts, 9 of the commu- 

 nity type, 5 of the county-wide type. In 



addition to the 21 counties reporting as 

 listed below, Scott county has already 

 voted to set up a county 12 grade dis- 

 trict, thus increasing the unit district 

 majority to 15 out of 21 counties. 



County s ^ 



Reporting tS2J 



Henderson 73 



Warren 129 



Brown 67 



Morgan 114 



Greene 105 



Macoupin 185 



Christian 149 



Montgomery ......... 149 



Bond 79 



Clinton 74 



Pulaski 32 



Lawrence 79 



Richland 82 



Jasper 112 



Douglas 95 



Vermilion 187 



Ford 114 



Kendall 59 



Cook 194 



Edwards 42 



Rock Island 98 



2218 



.2 



1 



2 



7 



1 



1 



3 

 16 

 11 



4 



4 



3 



1 



1 



3 



9 



9 

 89 

 18 



4 

 104 



1 



8 



299 



Although the Rock Island County 

 Survey Committee recommended unit 

 districts in the main, they also recom- 

 mended one or two dual system districts 

 for a section of their county. Omitting 

 Rock Island, in the other 20 counties 

 reporting, together with Scott county 

 that has voted but not reported, the score 

 is: Unit District — 14, dual system dis- 

 trict — 7. 



The numbers mentioned above have 

 nothing to do with school attendance 

 units but refer only to districts for ad- 

 ministration and tax purposes. 



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 less Cargo." This film will do much 

 to assure doubting parents of the pre- 

 cautions being taken to transport their 

 children safely to and from school. 

 "Priceless Cargo" can be secured free of 

 charge through the State Department of 

 Highways, Traffic Safety Section, Spring- 

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 motion picture in the field of traffic 

 safety. Local community groups will 

 find "Priceless Cargo" interesting and 

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NOVEMBER. 1947 



