Excerpt from The Consolidation of Rural Schools With and Without TransportationThis plan of transporting pupils at public expense from out lying districts was first authorized in Massachusetts in 1869, where they found that it was cheaper to transport the pupils in the country to the well established village schools than to support even a poor grade of separate country school. In other States the rural districts which have no central village soon adopted the plan of consolidating their own little scattered rural schools, sometimes with, sometimes without, transportation. Among the States now practising consolidation are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ver mont, Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, and North Dakota. It is practised also in Victoria, Australia, with great advantage. In all these states it has proved successful and is rapidly spreading.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.