Identifier: reportofsurveyof00port (find matches)
Title: Report of the survey of the public school system of School district no. 1, Multnomah County, Oregon
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Portland School District. Survey committee Montague, Richard Ward, 1862-1935 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Subjects: Portland Public Schools (Or.) Education
Publisher: (Portland, Or., Schwab printing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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into eight committees for fur-ther work. The work of maintaining the schools is also furtherorganized under two main departments, practically independentof one another—one for the business work, under the SchoolClerk; and one for the educational work, under the Superintend-ent of Schools. These relationships are well shown in the dia-gram, given on the opposite page. An examination of this diagram, and a comparison of thisdiagram with the one given on page 22, showing a desirable re-organization, will prove both interesting and instructive. InFigure 2 the independence of the two main administrative de-partments, as well as the lack of co-ordination of the differentcity departments working at the educational problem, is seen;in Figure 3, on page 22, the unified educational organization isthe prominent feature. CHAP. II. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION 11 e • 7 • C ■•• « W » *i ■K C §S r o a i, % E -f- V E n, 3 1 •>« «4 +- (H *-t <*. V3 O 0) £ 3 u U ■o n. S; *
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12 SCHOOL SURVEY REPORT Business Department OrganizationThe business department, as organized under the SchoolClerk, is further subdivided, as follows: / Secretary. Truant Officei Cashier, PurchasingAgent. SCHOOLCLERK. Bookkeeper.Assistant Bookkeeper.Checking Clerk.Head Stenographer.Assistant Stenographer.Filing Clerk.Telephone Operator. Storekeeper.Delivery Man. Stenographer. Superintend-ent ofProperties. Office Boy. Chief Draftsman. Inspector of Groundsand Buildings. Supervisor of Electricaland Mechanical Plant. Two Draftsmen.Structural Engineer. Heating and VentilatiiEngineer. Carpenter Foreman.Mechanics. ;i Plumber.Mechanics. Janitors. This department seemed well organized, and quite efficientlymanaged throughout. The work seemed to be handled both ex-peditiously and economically, and an examination of the meth-ods and forms used seemed to indicate that fairly good businessmethods were employed. (See criticism of reports and formsin Chapter XVI.) In the judgment of the different m

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