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D TEXAS ALMANAC.-1949-1950
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
A program of vocational education is carried
on in Texas among both student and adult
population under direction of the State Board
of Vocational Education which, under both
old and new school administrations, has the
tame membership as the State Board of Edu-
cation. (See p. 406.) The several branches of
this program in operation during the school
year 1947-48 were as follows:
Vocational Agriculture.-There were 26.763
all-day students enrolled, 2,439 part-time stu-
dents. 20.763 adult students. The service is de-
signed primarily for high school students.
young farmers and adult farm people general-
ly. Allocation of funds for the year were.
State. $774.491.76; federal. $1,098,759.49.
Vocational Distributive Education.-These
courses are designed for in-school youth and
adults employed in various phases of the
retail, wholesale and service businesses. In
the co-operative high school program 3.727
students were enrolled, with 102 high schools
co-operating. Adult enrollment amounted to
62,320 students with 2,317 classes in operation.
Allocation of funds: State. $271,200; federal,
$13 .1296.33.
Vocational Homemaking.-Total enrollment
was 110,684 of which 56,104 were youths and
54.580 adults. The courses include time and
money management in the home, food prepa-
ration and conservation, care of clothing,
home decorating and furnishing, family recre-
ation, home nursing, child care and family
and community relationships. Allocation of
tunds: State, $486,756. federal, $352,120.48.
Trade and Industrial Education.-There
were 5.260 students enrolled in full-time train-
ing, and 1,018 in part-time training. ro.ll-
ment in extension classes was 21, 5$. The
courses cover a wide field of trade, ldustrial
and technical vocations. Allocation I funds:
State. $255.139; federal. $570,749.
Vocational Rehabilitation.-The purpose is
to rehabilitate disabled and handicapped
civilians. Number of cases covered in 1947-48
was 3.466. including disability from disease,.
accidents congenital causes and other. Alloca-
tion of lunds: State. $476.374, federal, $1.109,-
76a.2h
Veterans Vocational Training.- These
courses cover a wide range of occupations
including those listed above. Allocation of
funds amounted to $17.298,455.20, coming en-
tirely from the Federal Government.
STATE AND LOCAL SUPPORT
The state paid 53 pei cent and local units 47
per cent of the state-local contribution to
public schools during the school yeai 1946-47.
according to a survey conducted by the Texas
State Teachers Association In co-operation
with the State Department of Education.
(State support is easily ascertained, but local
support Is not entirely reported to any central
agency.) Local support in this year amounted
to $64,116.512 and state support was $73,392.-
576; total. $137.509.018.
The survey found that in 1935-36 school
year, the total cost of public schools had been
$76,706.149, of which the state paid 39 per
cent and the local units 51. Over the long
period the tendency has been for the state
support to increase as against local support.
However, state support took an upward turn
after the passage of an act in 1945 enabling
school districts to increase taxes to a maxi-
mum of $1.50.
However, with the raising of the state's
per capita apportionment to $55 for the school
years 1947-48 and 1948-49, the state's con-
tribution jumped to almost $100,000,000, in-
cluding equalization allocations. This undoubt-
edly put the state contribution considerably
ahead of local. Under the Gilmer-Aikin act,
it is estimated that the state's school cost
will be increased by about $30,000,000 in the
first year of operation.UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
There were in Texas. for the school year
1948-49. 126 colleges giving general academic
training and having senior or junior rank, as
listed by the State Department of Education.
In addition there were nineteen business
junior colleges, four schools of art and music
and three schools of special subjects on the
accredited list. The list of the state's senior
and junior colleges is classified by the depart-
ment as given below (see pp. 417-420):
Senior colleges controlled by the state.......... 13
lndeoendent senior colleges.................. 2
.Municipal senior colleges..................... 2
Technical senior colleges.................... I
*Junior colleges controlled by A&M System... 2
Couni junior colleges......................I
independent junior colleges .................... 15
Munilpal junior colleges.. .................... 19
Negro senior colleges (state controlled)....... 2
Negro independent senior colleges............ 7
Negro independent Junior colleges.. ........ 33
Business Jumnior colleges..................... 19
Schools of music and art.................... 4
Schools of special subjects.... ....... ... 3
Total ....................................152
Largest of the institutions in the state's
higher educational system is the University
of Texas, Austin, with an attendance in 1948-49
of about 17,000. It has one of the large
plants among the educational institutions of
the country and also possesses one of the
largest endowments. Co-ordinate with It in
the state's higher educational system, but
with smaller attendance, are the Agricultural
& Mechanical College of Texas, College Sta-
tion, a land grant college, which furnished for
the Umnited States Army in the Second World
War more officers than came from any other
institution In the country; Texas Technologi.
cal College, Lubbock, and the Texas State
College for Women, Denton.
A&M College System.
On July 9, 1948, the Texas Agricultural &
Mechanical College System was created and it
went into operation Sept. 1, 1948. This system
is the administrative setup for all A&M activi-
ties throughout Texas. Executive head of the
system is the Chancellor, Gibb Gilchrist, who
maintains headquarters at College Station.
With a small staff of administrative officers
he is responsible for the direction of the activ-
ities of the various parts of the system
throughout the state.
All colleges, services and agencies under
the jurisdiction of the Board of Directors of
the Agricultural & Mechanical College of
Texas make up the Texas A&M College Sys-
tem, which includes the following: Agricul-
tural & Mechanical College of Texas. College
btation, Arlington State College; Tarleton
State College, Stephenville; Prairie View
Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas;
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service, Texas Engin-
eering Experiment Station. Texas Engineering
Extension Service. Texas Forest Service, Fire-
men's Training School, Rodent Control Serv-
ice. College Station.
The leading state-supported educational
institution for Negroes is the Texas State
University for Negroes at Houston. The Prai.
ie View Agricultural & Mechanical College
for Negroes is situated at Prairie View, the
former Prairie View Normal School.
There are eight state-supported senior col-
leges which were established originally as
teachers colleges, two of which still carry
the title, though they now serve as general-
purpose state colleges in addition to training
for the teaching profession. They are the
West Texas State College, Canyon; North
Texas State College, Denton; East Texas
State Teachers College, Commerce; Stephen
F. Austin State College, Nacogdoches; Sam
Houston State College, Huntsville; Southwest
*Converted to senior colleges beginning with the
1949-50 school year.-~
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