Excerpt from The Rise of Local School Supervision in Massachusetts: The School Committee, 1635-1827
The development of school supervision in the common wealth of Massachusetts accompanied the evolution of a state system of public schools. As more and more public money was devoted to the fostering of education, it was natural that the people should desire to control and supervise the schools to which such money was given. The outcome of the increasing support of education was a system of public schools. The out come of the tendency in the direction towards controlling the schools supported by public funds was the evolution of the special functions and agencies of school supervision.
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