courses in home economics. Much help has been given to the teachers through conferences and visits. In 1917-18 one department in a day school and five evening schools were aided from Federal funds. This year there were 71 part-time classes with an enrollment of 2,243 students and 43 teachers and four departments in day schools with an enrollment of 61 students and 16 teachers. California is offering no work after 6 o'clock which is aided from Federal funds, but they are reaching a large group of women who are home makers, through their part-time courses. The training of teachers of home economics in California is carried on under the direction of the State supervisor of teacher-training, with centers located in six normal schools. The course of study offered is two years in length. The applicants are required to give satisfactory evidence of vocational experience in home making, which is accepted in lieu of two years of academic work. TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. The State of California offers very large opportunities for vocational training. In addition to the large mining fields a large portion of the population is engaged in manufacturing pursuits, including shipbuilding and occupations depending upon raw products from the oil fields and lumber regions. A decided impetus to vocational training was given to the State through the war-training classes. Arrangements have been made for the employment of a full-time supervisor for trade and industrial education. While during the year 11 war training classes, 3 part-time classes, and 11 all-day schools were organized, the present year, although showing a decrease in the total number of evening classes on account of the war-training being discontinued, showed increased activity in shipbuilding occupations. California does not apply Federal money to the reimbursement of classes maintained by evening schools after the hour of 6 o'clock. The evening high schools of California had an enrollment of between sixty and seventy thousand persons. A large proportion of these were receiving instruction which directly supplemented their occupations. The development of these schools has been largely due to the general promotion of vocational education in the State through the application of the Federal act. The University of California is charged with the responsibility of training instructors for trade and industrial subjects. During the fiscal year, through extension courses, classes were organized for shop and related subjects instructors. It is expected that during the coming year other extension courses will be promoted. During the present year evening schools were conducted in three centers with four separate classes, part-time schools in five centers with 10 classes, and all-day schools in nine centers with 50 classes. The Secretary of the Treasury has rendered a decision in effect that the funds deposited with the State treasurers under the provisions of the vocational education act are United States funds. The title to the funds remains in the United States until disbursements are made in accordance with the requirements of the act. Since title is still in the United States during the period in which the State treasurer is custodian of the funds, it follows that any interest earned on the funds belongs to the United States and should be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. It is the duty of the Federal Board and the various State boards to check up the interest received on the funds allotted to the State through the State treasurer as custodian. The Federal Board, therefore, requires the State board on or before September 1, as a part of its annual report to the Federal Board, to include an affidavit from the custodian concerning the amount of funds received by him during the current fiscal year and also the amount of interest, if any, earned on these funds. The following States have filed through the State treasurer an affidavit to the effect that the amount of the interest set opposite each State was earned on Federal funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919: The following States have filed through the State treasurer an affidavit to the effect that no interest was earned on Federal funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919: 1 Includes $500.80 interest earned on Federal funds for year ended June 30, 1918. Statistical returns relating to vocational schools and to vocational teacher training institutions for the year ended June 30, 1919, are tabulated by States in the Tables Nos. 14 to 38. So far as they are available, comparable figures for the preceding year are included in these tables, but it is to be noted that the 1919 reports of State boards to the Federal Board are in some respects more detailed than those of 1918, and where this is the case comparisons of 1919 with 1918 can not be made in full detail. State Tables Nos. 14 to 20 relate to vocational schools; Tables 21 to 24 to teacher training institutions; Tables 25 and 26 to State directors and supervisors; and Tables 27 to 38 to the allotment and expenditure of Federal funds. • Summary totals for the United States and in some cases for regions are brought together in Tables 1 to 13 following. VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS FEDERALLY AIDED. In Table 1 the number of vocational schools federally aided in the years ended June 30, 1919 and 1918, and the amount of Federal reimbursement to these schools are given by type of school, separate administrative units, separately reimbursed from Federal funds being counted as separate schools in compiling the data of State board reports as to number of schools federally aided. Administratively the organization of schools and school centers varies in any year from community to community and varies in the same community from year to year to such an extent that it is difficult to define the term "school" as a statistical unit of enumeration so as to produce figures for different communities and years that are entirely comparable. In a large city an evening, or part-time or all-day school may in any given case represent several school centers organized as a single administrative unit, while in other communities a school may represent only one school center. Again, several school centers of a given type may be administratively separate, and counted, therefore, as separate schools, as is true in the case of Buffalo and of New York City, each of which cities reports in 1919 four all-day trade or industrial schools reimbursed from Federal funds. Evening or part-time school centers reported as independent units in one year, may in a succeeding year in consequence of administrative changes be reported as a single administrative unit. It is clear from the compilation of returns from State boards as regards number of schools federally aided in, the two years ended June 30, 1919 and 1918, that the administrative unit of reimbursement in some States and for some types of schools has in fact changed |