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EDUCATION IN FBANCB. 365
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4§Kb- ' No. Iii. The A Variety Present O...
tain amount of revenue by the assessment of its inhabitants , and employs the funds so raised in executing the various local duties committed
to its charge ; "while at the head of each Department is a Council-General , elected by all the communes within its limits , charged "with
the general administration of the Department , and the raising and disposal of the Departmental funds , and presided over by a Prefect ,
who is in . communication both with all the Communal authorities of the Department , and with the General Government of the Empire .
It will also be remembered that France is divided into sixteen Academic Circumscriptions , each of which has its own Academic
Council and Faculties , presided over by a Rector , and charged with _, the direction and oversight of all educational interests within its
limits , enforcing the local execution of the laws with regard to education on the one hand , and communicating with the Supreme Council
at Paris , presided over by the Minister of Public Instruction , on the other .
The law now requires that one or more Public Primary Schools shall be opened in every rural communeand in each arrondissc ? nent
, of the towns , by the Municipal authorities of each locality ; one or more of these localities being authorised by the Academic Council of
their Department to unite for the maintenance of a common school whenever their separate resources are insufficient . When any
neighbouring localities are too poor to support a common school by thus uniting their effortsthe Council-General votes the funds for
, its support out of the public revenue of the Department , and when a Department contains a greater number of such indigent localities
than its funds caji supply with schools , the latter are provided for by the General Government . Normal Schools are provided in like
manner in each Department for the training of teachers for the Primary Schools .
The choice and fitting-up of the building appropriated to a _Pri" mary School , the assessment of the commune for its support , the
decision as to the amount of salary to be paid to the teacher , and the number of children to be admitted , together with the oversight
of every detail connected with the material conditions of the school , are vested in the hands of the municipal authorities of each com »
mime or _arrondisscment . They also choose the teacher ; if a layman , from a list of candidates prepared by the Academic Council of the
Department ; if an ecclesiastic , on the recommendation of the authorities of the religious body to which he belongs . In localities
in which either of the three non-Catholic religious bodies authorised by the State ( the Reformed Church , the Church of the Confession
of Augsburg ' , and the Jewish Consistory ) is able and willing to maintain a separate school for itself , the teacher is chosen in like
manner from a list presented by the local Consistory of such body . The choice thus made by the Municipal authorities is transmitted by
them to the Rector of the Academy of the Department , and by him to the Minister of Public Instruction , who thereupon " institutes "
the successful candidate into his post .
Education In Fbancb. 365
EDUCATION IN FBANCB . 365
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/5/
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