Education.—The Constitution requires that "the legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction" of the children of the state. It is because of this requirement and the desire of the people to enforce it that the state has such excellent schools.
The principal officers of the state department of public instruction are the members of the state board of education, the commissioner of education, and four assistant commissioners. Each county has a county superintendent of schools, and each city and large town has its own board of education and superintendent of schools or supervising principal.
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In the school year 1919-1920 the number of pupils who attended the public schools was 591,798. The number of teachers was 18,873. Because of good schools and of compulsory school attendance, there were in 1910, only 113,502 illiterates, or persons of ten years of age and over who could not read or write, or 5.6 per cent of the total population. Of these illiterates, 93,000 were of foreign birth and less than one per cent were of native white parentage.
State normal schools for the training of teachers are located at Trenton, Montclair, Newark, and Glassboro. City normal schools are maintained for the same purpose by Jersey City, Paterson, Trenton, and Camden. The state maintains summer schools for the preparation of teachers and makes appropriations to the State Agricultural College, a department of Rutgers College at New Brunswick. Special schools maintained by the state are: Farnum School, at Beverly, which is associated with the Trenton Normal School; the School for the Deaf at Trenton; and the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youths at Bordentown. Higher institutions of learning which are located in New Jersey are: Princeton University at Princeton, Rutgers College at New Brunswick, Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, St. Peter's College at Jersey City, College of St. Elizabeth at Convent Station, Mount St. Mary's College at Plainfield, Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, Seton Hall College at South Orange, Upsala College at Kenilworth, Bloomfield Theological Seminary at Bloomfield, and College of Jersey City.
The metropolitan district including northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York
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