. The consolidated rural school . ress in consolidation are Washington andMinnesota. Washington has paid from the State schoolfunds to consolidated schools an annual bonus of $170 foreach school abandoned less one. To illustrate, if six dis-tricts combine and establish a single consolidated school,the new school has received each year from the State fivetimes $170. In Minnesota, previous to 1912, practically noconsolidations were effected. In 1911 the legislature passedthe Holmberg Act, under which consolidated schools areclassified and aided from State funds. The first year un-der the operati

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. The consolidated rural school . ress in consolidation are Washington andMinnesota. Washington has paid from the State schoolfunds to consolidated schools an annual bonus of $170 foreach school abandoned less one. To illustrate, if six dis-tricts combine and establish a single consolidated school,the new school has received each year from the State fivetimes $170. In Minnesota, previous to 1912, practically noconsolidations were effected. In 1911 the legislature passedthe Holmberg Act, under which consolidated schools areclassified and aided from State funds. The first year un-der the operation of the act 141 old districts were formedinto 60 new districts. In 1916 the State had 220 consoli-dated schools which replaced 454 schools of the old Dakota, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Iowa adopted, inthe 1913 session of their legislatures, measures somewhatsimilar to the Holmberg Act. North Dakota had at thiswriting 401 consolidated schools, Missouri 122, and Iowa211. The greater progress in North Dakota is due to the. A Wyoming consolidated school

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