(a) housed in basement rooms; (b) housed in rooms used beyond their standard capacity; (c) housed in rooms or buildings representing a fire hazard, (d) half-day sessions, and (e) housed in buildings obsolete educationally.

4. Twice a year. An analysis of promotion and failure by grades, subjects, and schools.

5. Annually. A report upon age-grade, height-weight, nationality, social and economic conditions.

6. Annually. (November membership.) The distribution of children geographically by buildings.

7. Every three years. An age-grade-progress study.

The operation of the child accounting activity has been graphically developed in the accompanying diagram 11.

II. RELATION TO POLICY

The policy of the Board of Education is to provide adequate records, instructional and executive, that are essential to the individual child during his (a) pre-school life; (b) his school life, and (c) his post-school life.

The State has provided by law for the technique of keeping basic records during school life. This technique has been accepted and means developed for the administration. The need for preschool and post-school records is being studied, experimentally, and no means of procedure are now ready for administration. Internal current and contact records are developed as the need arises.

III. EVIDENCE UPON WHICH SELECTION HAS BEEN MADE The requirements for child accounting records during the child's school life are determined by State Law.

IV. TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PLAN

The efficiency of operation of the several activities shall be judged1 upon level D.

The worth and value of the activities in relation to the efficiency of instruction shall be judged upon level D where possible.

1Appraisal methods:

Appraisal may be conducted by means of four methods.

Appraisal by Method A is the crudest means of arriving at a judgment. In the absence of scientific evidence judgment may be based upon presentiment, intuition, or "hunch."

Appraisal by Method B proceeds through the collection of a series of readily available facts interpreted in terms of training and experience.

Appraisal by Method C is judgment based upon inconclusive trial of activity or practice.

Appraisal by Method D is judgment based upon the results of conclusive evidence secured through the results of scientific experimentation.

Sec. 1-Approval of plans and additions to school buildings.

Sec. 2-State Superintendent has the authority to inspect and condemn school buildings.

Sec. 4-No tax above $300.00 shall be expended until State Superin-
tendent has certified plans and specifications.

Sec. 5-State Superintendent to approve of heating system.
Sec. 6-Unlawful for officer, architect, or builder to vary from
approved plan.

B. Permissive Laws.

1. Part 1, Chapter 6.

Sec. 15-To borrow money for purchase of sites, erection and equipment of buildings.

2. General.

Part 1, Chapter 6.

Sec. 15—And in general to do anything not inconsistent with this act which is necessary for the proper establishment, maintenance, management and carrying on of the public schools of such district.

C. Interpretation by the Board of Education.

The organization of the school plant activity is in accord with the spirit and letter of the state law in respect to building school houses.

D. Adjustment to life needs in advance of formal legislation.

The organization of the activities, essential to school plant development, under the direction of the executive.

Purpose

I. THE PLAN

The purpose of the school plant shall be considered as: (1) an agent in the facilitation of the instructional process and (2) an agent in satisfying the educational and social needs of the adult community.

Organization

The physical plant activity shall be considered in three divisions: (1) operation, which includes the heating, ventilating, and the

cleaning of buildings, and the care of grounds; (2) upkeep, which includes the making of essential repairs and replacements; and (3) new buildings and changes in existing buildings, or the activities generally classed under the head of the building program, including determination of need, location and size of site, and the educational planning of the proposed building.

The operation of the school plant shall be under the supervisory control of the chief engineer under the direction of the Superintendent.

The upkeep of the school plant shall be under the administrative control of the chief engineer under the direction of the Superintendent.

The building program shall be under the direct control of the Superintendent of Schools.

Operation

The operating personnel shall consist of building custodians, firemen, cleaners, bath attendants, matrons, and others engaged in servicing, cleaning, heating, and ventilating the school buildings. These shall be under the direct administrative control of the building principal, except as such control is delegated by him to the assistant principal. The principal shall be responsible to the Superintendent for the efficiency of the operating activities and shall rate, as directed, the efficiency of operating personnel. The chief engineer shall act in the same relationship to operating personnel as the director of instruction to the teacher. At the direction of the Superintendent, he shall make inspections and report the results of these inspections both to the principal and to the Superintendent. He may be called into conference by the principal to aid in the solution of any technical problem arising and shall work in this capacity under the direction of the principal. He shall also engage in research activity, under the direction of the Superintendent, to improve the efficiency of operating service. Upkeep

The upkeep of the school plant shall be under the administrative control of the chief engineer and he shall be responsible for all of the personnel and materials required in this activity. The need for repairs may be determined initially by the building principal or by the chief engineer. When determined by the latter, the principal shall be notified of such findings. The principal