Excerpt from Vocational Education, Plan of the State Board for Vocational Education, Vol. 1 The Assembly of Virginia of 1918, passed a law accepting the conditions under which the Federal aid provided by the Smith-Hughes Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education may be secured. The Virginia statute appropriated money to meet dollar for dollar the Federal funds for the following purposes: (a) For the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects. (b) For the salaries of teachers of trades and industrial subjects and home economics. (c) For the maintenance of courses preparing teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects, and teachers of trades and industrial and home economics subjects. Under the Virginia Act. the State Board of Education is named as the State Board for Vocational Education and therefore assumes the responsibility, in co-operation with the Federal Board for Vocational Education, of carrying out the provisions of the Federal law. Previous to the opening of the present school year the Governor of Virginia, by proclamation, had accepted the provisions of the Federal Act. A committee of the State Board presented a carefully prepared plan for vocational education in Virginia, which plan was approved by the Federal Board. Under this plan eighteen or twenty high schools are operating departments of vocational education in agriculture and home economics and in the City of Richmond courses in the trades and industries as well as in home economics are maintained. The present plan is offered in order to define as clearly as possible the policy of the State Board for Vocational Education. It attempts to furnish pertinent information to local school boards or institutions which may apply for funds for vocational education, and also to give those which accept or have accepted funds, sufficient directions to insure full compliance with the provisions of the law. The State Board earnestly desires that vocational education receive the serious consideration it deserves. Social and economic conditions in our State demand that constructive thought be given to the development of trained workers on the farm, in the shop and in the home. It will be the policy of the Board to co-operate in every way possible in the development of this training. 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.