Background
Victor Moreau Rice was born on April 5, 1818 at Mayville, in Chautauqua County, New York, the son of William and Rachel (Waldo) Rice.
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Victor Moreau Rice
Edit ProfileEducation
His early education was obtained in the schools of his native town, and in 1841 he graduated from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.
After graduating from college he had begun the study of law privately.
Career
Moving from Mayville to Buffalo in 1843, he secured employment as a teacher of Latin, language, penmanship, and bookkeeping in a private school, which subsequently became the Buffalo high school.
In 1845 he was admitted to the bar. That same year he opened an evening commercial school for young people with daily occupations. From 1846 to 1848 he was the editor of the Cataract, afterward the Western Temperance Standard. He was elected city superintendent of schools in Buffalo in 1852 and in 1853 was chosen president of the New York State Teachers' Association, with which he had been prominently identified for several years.
On April 4, 1854, a legislative act established a new department of the state government to administer the common-school system, known as the State Department of Public Instruction, with a state superintendent of public instruction to be chosen by the legislature, at its head. To this office Rice was elected. He at once organized the new department, vigorously enforced the provisions of the common-school law, secured the establishment of the office of local school commissioner, and effected a revision of the state tax laws, thereby largely increasing the subsidy for public schools.
He recommended the establishment of more normal schools, a more liberal appropriation for teachers' institutes, and a uniform day for the holding of annual district school meetings. Returning to Buffalo after the completion of his term, he was elected a Republican member of the state assembly and served as chairman of the committee on colleges, academies, and common schools.
On Feburary 1, 1862, he was returned to the office of superintendent of public instruction, was reelected in 1865, and served until April 7, 1868. During his second incumbency many progressive steps were taken. A training school for primary teachers was established at Oswego, which later became a state normal school. Provision was also made for other normal schools at Cortland, Fredonia, Potsdam, Geneseo, Brockport, and Buffalo.
Teachers' institutes were strengthened and attendance upon them greatly increased. Upon his retirement from the superintendency in 1868, he became president of the American Popular Life Insurance Company. He was afterward president of the Metropolitan Bank of New York City.
Achievements
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The most conspicuous accomplishment of Rice's superintendency, was the abolition of the odious rate bill and the final establishment of free schools throughout the state. The principle that the property of the state should educate the children of the state was one that many public-spirited citizens had fought vigorously to establish, but it remained for Rice to incorporate it into the basic education law, and thereby to erect a memorable milestone in the state's history of education.
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Special Report on the Present State of Education in the United States and Other Countries, and on Compulsory Instruction (Classic Reprint)
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Special Report on the Present State of Education in the United States and Other Countries, and on Compulsory Instruction
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Special Report on the Present State of Education in the United States and Other Countries, and on Compulsory Instruction (Classic Reprint)
Connections
On November 26, 1846, he married Maria L. Winter.
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