Civic improvement; Urban women; Women in public life
Games Public School Athletic League
Relief School Association
Clinics Inspection Medical
Dental
Visiting Nurses School
Music Gardens Music Gardens
Playgrounds Playgrounds
Home Visitors Visiting Teachers and Truant Officers, Vocational and
High Schools, Open-air Classes, Popular Lectures,
Mothers’ Clubs, Libraries, Defective and Catch-up
Classes.
This indicates that the school has already in the most progressive
cities become one huge settlement with a thoroughly democratic basis in
place of a philanthropic foundation.
The public education associations in our leading cities are among the
livest of civic organizations. In all these associations, women
participate on equal terms with men, where they do not direct the aims
and activities themselves. More than one such association, like that of
Worcester, Massachusetts, owes its origin directly to the work and
agitation of women.
The Public Education Association of the City of New York is an outgrowth
of the Committee on Schools of the Council of Confederated Good
Governments, a women’s civic organization. Women are very active on the
committees of the Association and Mrs. Miriam Sutro Price is chairman of
the Executive Committee. This organization has grown from a small
committee of women interested in improving the public schools to an
organization of over 850 capable members, men and women, under the
direction of two trained educators, who supervise a regular staff of
trained workers, besides experts employed from time to time and
volunteer workers organized in standing committees. Its programs have
included bills affecting the educational chapter of the city charter,
compulsory education enforcement, truancy and child labor laws,
permanent census laws, oversight of the school budget, and the
initiation, extension or improvement of many new types of schools for
special classes, and the extension of the use of library and school
plants.
The Public Education Association of Worcester, Massachusetts, developed
from the Committee on Public Schools of the Woman’s Club. Mrs. Eliza
Draper Robinson was the energetic organizer of this influential
association.
In Philadelphia we have a Public Education Association whose history,
“since its organization, is the history of school progress in
Philadelphia. To date, it has had a busy career of over thirty years,
covering the conspicuously constructive period in the development of
city school administration in all the United States and particularly in
Philadelphia.”
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