Kept by Eugene Meyer, Assistant Director (1951-1953) and Director (1953-1955) of Rural Schools. The files consist mainly of correspondence with constituents, superintendents, school boards, parents, other states' education departments, and vendors and cover such diverse topics as state aid, school term, available drinking water, Minnesota Education Association, compulsory attendance, traffic and school safety, legislation, consolidation and school board meetings, equipment, division of rural districts for high schools, teacher contracts and dismissals, drivers education, tax assessments, Indian and migrant enrollment and education, hot lunch, use of school buildings by religious groups, county teachers' institutes, tuition, laws and standards for regular and consolidated schools, rental and sale of closed school buildings, attorney general opinions on religious literature and Bible reading during school, and transportation, particularly bus routes, transport of resident and parochial pupils, bus driver qualifications, minimum standards for school buses (1953), and bus overcrowding.
