Excerpt from The Ohio Educational Monthly, Vol. 21: January, 1878 Local directors control and direct the educational interests and affairs Of the sub-districts. They take the enumeration Of children of school age; employ and dismiss teachers; make con tracts for building, repairing, or furnishing school houses, for providing fuel, for purchasing school-house sites or renting school rooms, and make all necessary provisions for the convenience and prosperity Of the sub-district schools. Practically, the manage ment Of our country schools and the disbursement of all school moneys for their support are entrusted to them. 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.