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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1973
Page
5
The Comanche Legislature backed an Adult Education Act enabling middle school courses high school equivalency prep and post secondary studies. The district reports 1152 regular students plus 30 in special education with 95 percent daily attendance.
The article traces education in old Comanche from private subscription schools beginning around 1857 through the 1870s. It notes early teachers such as G. G Birdsong and A Kissam, the move of the county seat to Comanche in 1859, and a sequence of local schools taught by various instructors. It details the emergence of a Masonic Academy as a formal high school with a 1871-1874 period under the Comanche Lodge No. 316, followed by professional oversight and later administration changes including Prof. Rogers and Prof. Mann. The piece situates schooling amid frontier settlement, church activity, and civic buildings.
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