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quality of supervision provided for them. Briefly, our problem is: more than 106,000 Negro boys and girls who attend 1486 small rural schools. This is nearly one half of all Negro children enrolled in our public elementary schools. These schools spend over practically the entire area of North Carolina. They recieve very little expert supervision in instruction, health, physical education, or other-wise from county or state personnel. if it were possible to consolidate all or most of these schools within the next year or twom that might change the picture, but it would not remove the urgent need which now exists for some well-trained person in every county where needed to visit and to help these small schools frequently.
It would no doubt be wise for the state to adopt a policy of supervision now for both white and Negro schools While that we belive is true, it is likewise true that there is not now any similar comparable group or classification of white schools where the urgency for help is so great. Nevertheless if it would be both wise and proper to provide supervision for both races, certainly all persons con-conrned withh education in North Carolina would agree to have it for both, and now if possible.
If, after full consideration of this part of the recommendations of the study committees, it is decided to establish a real program of supervision in the areas of the Negro schools fully described in the bulletin in the following points in mind:
1. Such a program would be of tremendous value now and throughout the period of transition from the 1486 small schools to a consolidated well organized system of schools.
2. Any county system of white schools in which similar or even neer-similar situations exist of supervision should be provided with expert supervisions.
3. the cost of supervision might be shared by and between the state and the counties.
4. The requirements for a county suppervisor's certificate, the salary and the