Excerpt from Report of the Survey of the Public School System of School District No; 1, Multnomah County, Oregon: Report of Committee Appointed at the Taxpayers' Meeting, Held on December 27, 1912, Submitted, November 1, 1913 All these powers come from the state and not from the city, and all of them apply to any school district in the state of the same class or size. The district is numbered and takes its legal name from the county and state organiza tion; its powers all come from the state; it could be changed in form or purpose at any time by the state, and it exists primarily for the carrying out of a purpose which our American states long ago decided to be in the interests of the state. Whatever the state decides to be wise, in the mat ter of public education, it can thus order the Portland school district to do or to provide. The provision of education for its children is thus not left to local desire or local initiative, as is the case with street lights or sidewalks, but is required by the state in the exercise of its inherent right of preserva tion and improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.