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Show ! NATION'S EDUCATORS MEET IN WASHINGTON ! WASHINGTON, May 19. State ! school ' superintendents from thirty states met yesterday wiih Commis-j Commis-j sioner of Education Claxton to discuss needs of the educational departments in their respective districts as a preliminary pre-liminary to the opening today of the national conference on education. Com-jmlssloner Com-jmlssloner Claxton said ihe last figures) j obtained by the federal bureau of edu-1 i cation show that between 300,000 and 1-100,000 children in the United States i last year were without schooling. Delegations from various states submitted sub-mitted reports on the shortage of teachers ranging from a deficit of 400 in the case of Indiana to 17,700 in California. Only Massachusetts reported re-ported a normal supply of instructors. nn |