EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE:
An Inventory of Its Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Department of Education. Commissioner's Office. | |
| Title: | Subject Files. | |
| Dates: | 1941-1976 (bulk 1960-1976). | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, memos, reports, minutes, newsletters, and similar materials relating to most areas of departmental activity, including general administration, personnel, finances, legislation, and other subjects of interest to the department. | |
| Quantity: | 6.25 cubic feet (7 boxes). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Topics for which the files are particularly extensive include civil rights, consolidations, Indian education, individual school districts, private trade schools, reciprocal high school tuition, regulations, junior colleges, non-public schools, planning and development, superintendents, special and vocational education, vocational rehabilitation, and relations with the Minnesota State High School League, Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, Equalization Aid Review Committee, Liaison Committee on Higher Education, United States Office of Education, Governor's Loaned Executives Action Program, and Legislative Advisory Committee.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Department of Education. Commissioner's Office. Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 981-72; 983-25; 984-21; 986-44
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017074760104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
1941-1969:
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 114.K.9.3B | 1 | Albert Lea, 1960-1969. | |||||||||||
| Austin, 1961-1969. | |||||||||||||
| B, 1965. | |||||||||||||
| Cabinet minutes, September 1961–December 1969. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Chaska, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Civil rights, 1965-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Compact for Education, 1965. | |||||||||||||
| Comptroller General—U.S., Report, May 1966. | |||||||||||||
| Consolidations, 1966-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Cook County. | |||||||||||||
| Cold Spring. | |||||||||||||
| Columbia Heights. | |||||||||||||
| Cottonwood. | |||||||||||||
| Guidelines for Development and Codification of Policy for State Departments of Education, Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, D.C., 1965. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Department of Education, 1958-1959. | |||||||||||||
| Dawson. | |||||||||||||
| Duluth. | |||||||||||||
| Edina. | |||||||||||||
| Education Council, Minnesota, 1968-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Education Finance Project (Hill Family Foundation—Dr. D. M. Schweickhard), 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Equalization Aid Review Committee minutes, 1951-1968, and reports, undated and 1955. 1 volume and 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Questions and Answers Regarding EF’70, Educational System for the ‘70s, May 23, 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Reported Primary Network Innovations, May 23, 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Prepared under the supervision of the EF’70 Executive Committee by E. F. Shelley and Company, Inc., under contract number OEC-1-7-071037-3596 with the U.S. Office of Education. | |||||||||||||
| Federal-State Relations in Education, by Dean M. Schweickhard, 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Felton, 1961-1966. | |||||||||||||
| Gale Institute, 1962-1964. | |||||||||||||
| GEM, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Materials regarding apparent unauthorized use of state of Minnesota letterheads by GEM, a discount store. | |||||||||||||
| Gilman, 1962-1966. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 114.K.9.4F | 2 | Hanley Falls, Independent School District No. 895. | |||||||||||
| State Education: Structure and Organization, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Higher Education, Liaison Committee on, 1959-1966. | |||||||||||||
| Hill City, 1960-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Indian education, 1958-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Institute of Medical Technology, 1961-1964. | |||||||||||||
| Junior colleges, 1958. | |||||||||||||
| Typescript for The Junior Colleges in Minnesota, a joint study by the Department of Education and the Governor’s Committee on Higher Education. | |||||||||||||
| Junior colleges: Proposed sites, 1958. | |||||||||||||
| LaPorte, 1960-1968. | |||||||||||||
| L, 1960-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis, 1962-1965. | |||||||||||||
| Newsletters, 1941-1966. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Northwest Institute of Medical Laboratory Technique, Inc., 1962-1964. | |||||||||||||
| Personnel Department. | |||||||||||||
| Pierz School District No. 6, Morrison County, Supreme Court Case, 1950-1968. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 114.K.9.5B | 3 | WHAM, August 12, 1960. | |||||||||||
| Private trade schools correspondence, 1960-1969. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Project 70, 1961-1962. | |||||||||||||
| Reciprocal tuition agreement, 1964-1968. | |||||||||||||
| High schools. | |||||||||||||
| Pupil Expulsion: A Study of Selective Legal Aspects and Their Application in Minnesota, by Ralph R. Doty, February 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Regulations, official signed copies, 1960-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Richmond, 1960. | |||||||||||||
| R, 1960-1969. | |||||||||||||
| St. Louis County. | |||||||||||||
| St. Michael. | |||||||||||||
| St. Paul, Independent School District No. 625, 1962-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Sartell, 1966-1969. | |||||||||||||
| School districts A-Z. | |||||||||||||
| Statistics Relating to School Costs, State Aid and Local Effort for Minnesota School Districts Maintaining Secondary Schools—1961-1964, January 1965. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Prepared for the Standing Education Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives. | |||||||||||||
| State Department of Education, Plan for, 1960. | |||||||||||||
| State Department of Education, photographs, 1961. | |||||||||||||
| State Fair exhibit, 1967-1968. | |||||||||||||
| Tests and assignments, 1959-1960. | |||||||||||||
| Teachers’ convention dates, 1963-1968. | |||||||||||||
| Title V—Section 505 Project, State Boards of Education, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Upper Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 1966, 1971. | |||||||||||||
| Verdi School District No. 408. | |||||||||||||
| Vocation rehabilitation, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Vocational Rehabilitation, Survey of Minnesota Division, 1956. | |||||||||||||
| Weekly Progress Reports, Commissioner to Governor: | |||||||||||||
| June 1957–June 1959. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 105.D.11.9B | 4 | July 1959–August 1960. 1 folder. | |||||||||||
| Youngbauer, Roger, 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Articles written by Dean M. Schweickhard and Earling O. Johnson for Minnesota Journal of Education, 1943-1963. | |||||||||||||
| Report of Committee on State Aid for Public Schools in Minnesota, 1946. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Schweickhard was Executive Secretary. | |||||||||||||
1970-1976:
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 114.A.6.5B | 5 | Administration Department, 1972-1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Advisory committees and commissions, 1972-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Affirmative action programs, 1972-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Attorney General, 1972-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Auditor, State, 1972-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Service Department, 1970-1973. | |||||||||||||
| Committee to Develop Guidelines for Delivery of Services, 1972-1973. | |||||||||||||
| Congress, testimony before, 1972. | |||||||||||||
| Congressional delegation, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| C miscellaneous, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Department objectives, 1972, 1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Department reorganization, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Deputy and assistant commissioners, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Education Commission of the States, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Education Council, Minnesota, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Environmental education, 1973-1975. | |||||||||||||
| Finance Department, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Goals and objectives (Wayne Erickson), 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Governor’s Advisory Committee on Education for the Seventies, 1970. | |||||||||||||
| Governmental Advisory Committee, 1973-1975. | |||||||||||||
| Governor’s Loaned Executive Action Program (LEAP), 1972-1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Grygla, Independent School District No. 447. | |||||||||||||
| Higher Education Advisory Council, 1972-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Higher Education Coordinating Commission, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Human Rights Department, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Indian education, 1970-1974. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Junior colleges and board, 1970-1973. | |||||||||||||
| J miscellaneous, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| K miscellaneous, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Legislative Advisory Committee, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Legislature, 1971-1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 114.A.6.6F | 6 | Library, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||
| L miscellaneous, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Management by Objectives, 1974-1975. | |||||||||||||
| Manpower Planning Council, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Manpower Services Department, 1972. | |||||||||||||
| Memoranda to staff, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis—Special School District No. 1. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), 1973-1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota State High School League, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| M miscellaneous, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| National Committee for Citizens in Education, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Non-public schools, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| N miscellaneous, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Out-of-state travel plan, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Personnel Department, 1970-1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Planning and Development Division, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Private trade schools, 1970-1971. | |||||||||||||
| Publications, 1970-1972. | |||||||||||||
| Public Safety Department, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| P miscellaneous. | |||||||||||||
| Regulations, 1970-1972. | |||||||||||||
| Right to Read, 1972-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Rimestad, S. K., 1973. | |||||||||||||
| School districts: | |||||||||||||
| A-L. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 114.A.6.7B | 7 | M-W. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Saint Paul—Independent School District No. 625. | |||||||||||||
| Seminar on Educational Management Systems in Computer Technology for Chief State School Officers, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Sex bias, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Superintendents, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| S miscellaneous, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Special education, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Teacher Standards and Certification Commission, 1973-1976. | |||||||||||||
| Transitional years between secondary and higher education, 1972-1973. | |||||||||||||
| United States Office of Education, 1970-1973. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Vocational Education, State Advisory Council for, 1970-1973. | |||||||||||||
| Vocational education, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Vocational rehabilitation, 1971-1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Civil rights -- Minnesota.
- Education and state -- Minnesota.
- Educational planning -- Minnesota.
- Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota.
- Junior colleges -- Minnesota.
- Private schools -- Minnesota.
- School districts -- Minnesota.
- School superintendents -- Minnesota.
- Schools -- Centralization -- Minnesota.
- Special education -- Minnesota.
- State departments of education -- Minnesota.
- Trade schools -- Minnesota.
- Vocational education -- Minnesota.
- Vocational rehabilitation -- Minnesota.
- Organizations:
- Liaison Committee on Higher Education in Minnesota.
- Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.
- Minnesota State High School League.
- Minnesota. Equalization Aid Review Committee.
- Minnesota. Governor's Loaned Executives Action Program.
- Minnesota. Legislative Advisory Committee.
- United States. Office of Education.
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