No argument would seem to be needed to prove that knowledge of contemporary legislation affecting education is of a practical advantage to every educational worker and to all citizens of representative government. Under our system it is the prerogative of a State legislature to overcome legal obstacles, or to set up new legal instruments for…

This bulletin provides the seventh chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, which has been published in separate chapters dealing with specific segments of the educational system. The purpose of this publication is to make available information on educational legislation enacted during 1931 and 1932. Probably in no previous biennium…

Acts by State legislatures affecting schools, colleges, and universities during 1933 and 1934 are reviewed herein. During this biennium the legislature of every State had one or more legislative sessions; all of them except Alabama had regular sessions. In approximately three-fourths of the States special sessions of the legislature were called.…