tied to afford institutions of their own, they are sent to those of the neighboring states.[1] The great majority of the states have, however, one or more public institutions to which all may be sent. In some cases both classes are educated in different departments of one institution, in others in separate schools.[2]
These educational facilities are usually offered to children of "school age." Sometimes the term of instruction is fixed, and in many cases is very short.[3] In most of the states, however, this entire matter is left with the board of directors of the institution. Usually maintenance and tuition are provided for all by the state free of charge. In some sixteen states, however, a distinction is made between indigents and those able to pay, the latter being compelled to pay their expenses.[4] In Missouri the
- ↑ In the following states both the blind and the deaf and dumb are sent to private institutions or to the institutions of neighboring states : Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. The same is true of the blind in Rhode Island and New Jersey, and of the deaf and dumb in Oklahoma and New York.
- ↑ In Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, W'ashington, and California one institution serves for the education of both the deaf and dumb and the blind. In Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Oregon they are educated in separate institutions, each state having two. Kentucky has three, one for the blind and one for white and one for colored deaf-mutes. Alabama has two institutions, a second one having been established for the colored blind and mute. New York has a school for the blind, while Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New Mexico have institutions for the deaf and dumb.
- ↑ The term of instruction is fixed in Texas and Oregon at two ; in Georgia, four ; in Kentucky and West Virginia, five, and in Alabama, six years.
- ↑ In the following states all are maintained and educated free of charge, the county, as a rule, paying the cost of clothing and transporting the indigent: Massachusetts (ch. 329, Supplement), Maine (126, 206, ch. 11), Connecticut (Act of May 23, 1893), Rhode Island (23, ch. 85 ; 4, ch. 86), New York (8, p. 284), West Virginia (ch. 45, as amended in 1895), North Carolina (2230, 2238), Georgia (1215, 1235), Texas (121-136), Arkansas (4039-4044), Louisiana (No. 49, Acts of 1888), Michigan (1851-1853, 1871), Indiana (2807-2809), Ohio (665-668), Illinois (97, ch. 23), Minnesota (3442-3443), North Dakota (960-963), South Dakota (261,269,271), Iowa (2762-2765, 2776-2779), Nebraska (25138-9), Kansas (6153-6154), Montana (3442-3443), Wyoming (Act of 1890), Utah (2102, 2ii6), Colorado (3253, Mills' Supplement), Washington (1981, 2010), and California (2238-2240). In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Minnesota the pupils may reimburse the state. In New Hampshire (i, ch. 86), Vermont (684, 687), Maryland (1-5, art. 30), New Jersey (1-12, p. 1 179), Pennsylvania
