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Washington D.C. April 15th 1867

Bvt. Sr. Col. W. W. Rogers
A. A. A. General

Colonel:
I have the honor to report the Schools in your Department for the month of March 1867. The number is somewhat diminished by the exchange of Alexandria and Fairfax Counties for West Virginia. The average attendance is remarkable when we consider the exceedingly bad weather during nearly the whole month. A "Programme of Parrallel Studies" has been adopted by the "Association of Teachers," and printed and introduced into most of our Schools. This will make the instruction throughout the District more uniform and enable us to grade the Schools much more perfectly. Five hundred copies of a new "Teacher's Blank" has been printed which is much superior to the one we have been using. There is great need for better School Houses in the city and in the country. The new School House on M Street, between 16th & 17th streets is doing good service, and is worth all it cost; so is the new and better House in Georgetown, and the one on J street, between 19th and 20th streets, in this city. I am glad to report that the land is bought and the contract made for the building of a large Brick School House at the corner of 9th and E streets (Island). Another building of the same size is very much needed near Wisewell Barracks, and another smaller near 24th and F streets. I hope the Bureau will be able to aid very materially in the erection of said Buildings. The Trustees of Colored Schools are willing to do all they can, but they are nearly out of money or will be when the Island School House is paid for. The House in Alexandria, Va. which was nearly completed before that field was taken from us, is an excellent building and gives creditable evidence of your care for the education of the youth in that portion of your Department. I hope the work so well commenced will be completed, and that your successor will erect a similar Building in the northern part of that city. It seems unfortunate that Congress adjourned without doing more for the cause of education in this District. There was an evident desire on the part of many members to do what was needed, but there was a failure on the part of the friends of the cause to draft a right Bill. Two Bills were introduced and printed but both are quite imperfect. Dr Barnard Commissioner of Education, and other eminent educational men are giving this matter their attention. and it is hoped that early in the next Sission the best school system in the country may be inaugurated in this District. In the mean time the White Schools are comparatively in a worse condition than the colored. They are running into debt constantly, while we are able with the assistance of Northern Societies and the Bureau to pay as we go. And this in spite of the very injust action of the city fathers in withholding a large part of the portion of money due the Colored Schools. But it does seem as though the time had come for northern friends to withdraw from the work in this District. With the help of the Bureau and local taxation the Schools should be carried on. Rev. S. B. Gregory has a Theological class numbering five men, which he is instructing in connection with his other duties as Superintendent of American Baptist Home Mission Society Schools.

STATE SUPERINTENDENTS MONTHLY SCHOOL-REPORT.
TO BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS. 
"A school under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one school" To be forwarded as soon as possible after the 1st of each month.
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| No. of Day-Schools | No. of Night-Schools | LOCATIONS, OR THE NAME OF SCHOOL. | When opened | SOCIETIES, &C PATRONS, | No Schools sustained by freedmen | No Schools sustained in part by freedmen | No Teachers transported by Bureau | No School buildings owned by freedmen | No. School buildings furnished by Bureau |TEACHERS whole no. | white 
 colored | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. Male. | Female. |No. pupils enrolled last report | No. left school this month | No. new scholars this month | Average attendance | No. of pupils paying tuition | No. of White pupils | No. always present | No. always punctual | No. over 16 years of age. | No. in Alphabet | No. spell and read easy lessons | No. advanced readers | No. geography | No. arithmetic, | No. higher branches | No. writing | No. needle-work | No. free before the war | No. Sabbath-Schools | No. pupils in Sabbath-Schools |
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