New Mexico Department of Education records, 1847-[ongoing].

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New Mexico Department of Education records, 1847-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37782491

Summary: As of 1997 collection consists of records of the New Mexico Department of Education, State Board of Education, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and their predecessors the Territorial Board of Education, Territorial Superintendent of Schools, and Superintendent of Public Instruction (1847-1988). Includes annual and other reports, minutes, administrative correspondence, directories, certificates, legal documents, laws, rules, one scrapbook of clippings (1905-1908), and one letterpress copybook (1915-1920). Also within the collection are materials concerning student transportation, school curricula, Indian education, vocational education, special education, bilingual education in New Mexico, and two letters from 1847 and 1856 concerning public schools.

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New Mexico State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7396655

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New Mexico. Territorial Superintendent of Schools.

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New Mexico. Territorial Board of Education.

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New Mexico. Superintendent of Public Instruction

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New Mexico. State Board of Education

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New Mexico. Dept. of Education.

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The Territorial Board of Education and the Territorial Superintendent of Schools were both established by a legislative act in 1863. In 1891 a legislative act abolished the Territorial Superintendent of Schools (1891 Laws of N.M., Ch. 25, Sec. 45). The same legislative act established the Superintendent of Public Instruction (1891 Laws of N.M., Ch. 25, Sec. 45). Upon New Mexico's attainment of statehood in 1912, the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction were...