Wisconsin. and Iowa received from the lands granted them by Congress. Thus in 1915. the Minnesota school fund amounted to $21.500.000 in actual interest bearing securities. with more than a million acres of school land still unsold. I have taken the time to present the situation in the iron range in detail because I wanted to illustrate that while these towns had serious unemployment and immigration problems. with sufficient capital they were able to meet the challenge and established an extraordinary public school system. By 1919. Virginia had two high schools. one academic and the other vocational. and it also had plans for an $800.000 addition to the vacational schoolall this in a mining town where over 90 percent of the population were foreign born or firstgeneration Americans. The schools not only held classes for the children in the day. they also conducted extensive adult education courses at night. Thus with sufficient funds and an imaginative program. the iron range area was able to create a completely homogeneous poulation within a generation.
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