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1950

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An Appraisal Of The Cannon County Board Of Education, J. Paul Turner Jul 1950

An Appraisal Of The Cannon County Board Of Education, J. Paul Turner

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The Cannon County board of education had been operating as a fifteen-man board for twenty years when this study was begun. A Special act¹ of the Extra-ordinary Session of the General Assembly in 1929 made certain exceptions to the General Education Bill of 1925 in its application to counties the size of Cannon County. Among these exceptions were: an increase in the size of the board, from seven to fifteen members; a change in the method of selecting board members, from the county court to the qualified voters of the civil districts; and a shortened term of office, from seven …