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The legislation designated each local authority; either county council and county borough council; would set up a committee known as a local education authority (LEA). [2] The councils took over the powers and responsibilities of the school boards and technical instruction committees in their area.
The system outlined in the Stanley letter was used as a model in the creation of state primary education in the Australian colony of New South Wales. William Wentworth, a strong supporter of universal and secular education, proposed the introduction of "Lord Stanley's system of national education", with some modification so that: [8]
Andrew Bell; mezzotint by Charles Turner (1825), after William Owen. Andrew Bell FRSE FRAS (27 March 1753 – 27 January 1832) was a Scottish Anglican priest and educationalist who pioneered the Madras System of Education [1] (also known as "mutual instruction" or the "monitorial system") in schools.
National schools, established by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland government, post the Stanley Letter of 1831, and were intended to be multi-denominational. [2] [6] The schools were controlled by a state body, the National Board of Education, with a six-member board consisting of two Roman Catholics, two Church of Ireland, and two Presbyterians.
The methodology was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, [citation needed] and later by the National Schools System. The Monitorial System, although widely spread and with many advocates, fell into disfavour with David Stow's "Glasgow System" which advocated trained teachers with higher goals than those of monitors.
In the American education system, a superintendent or superintendent of schools is an administrator or manager in charge of a number of public schools or a school district, a local government body overseeing public schools. All school principals in a respective school district report to the superintendent.
Included the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995, adding charter schools to the Washington, D.C. school system. Pub. L. 104–134 (text) 1996 Impact Aid Technical Amendments of 1996 Made minor amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Pub. L. 104–195 (text) 1996 Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997
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