This series consists of bound and unbound original and photostatic copies of news clippings, memos and news releases made by the Publications and Information Services Unit. These files all relate to the distribution of information to the news media about the Department of Education, its activities, functions, the various programs offered by the many schools across the state and the events that shape and direct the Department's control over education within the State.

Before 1956, Dr. M.D. Collins, State Superintendent of Schools, appeared or figured in most of the news articles then kept by the Department of Education and these clippings were pasted into scrapbooks and became part of his collection. They are considered to be a great source of information with which to study Dr. Collins' tenure as State Superintendent. Please see RGSGSERIES 12-2-144, Dr. M.D. Collins' Collection, for the newspaper clippings of this time span and for related materials concerning the work of Dr. Collins.