The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-28
MANY NEEDED REFOR Ms.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION'S
METHODS.
Report of the Committee to Examine
Them-What l. Found aud Recon-
mended.

The Committee ON the Board Of Edu-
cation, composed Of President Dole.
Alexander Young ana John Emmeuth.
reported to the Councils to-day.
The report finds that the sources of
the Boards revenue are as follows: In
terest on Government bonds, rent and
sale of school lands, sale of text and
copy books, materials. etc, school
taxes, tuition fees and legislative ap.
preparations. In the purchase of text
and copy books. etc, the Board is found
to have made purchases in remote mar
kets at greater cost than the same
articles could have been had from San
Francisco.
The cost of education is increasing by
almost double the percentage of the in.
creae in pupils.
The methods of transacting the bust
ness of the Board are antiquated.
An expert testified TO the committee
as follows THE so-Called books of
said bureau are practically unavoidable
and do not record in any sense intel
lightly its financial transactions What
is said of the books is equally true of
the routine business OF the office.
Too much administrative authority is
given to the secretary and this is com
planned of by teachers.
1t is found that no system exists i'm
regard to the appointment of teachers,
fixing the amount of their salaries,
transfers, removals, etc. Some teachers
have been engaged at the lowest rates
possible, while Others receive compare
lively exOrbitant salaries, and this, to a
certain extent, regardless of their teach
ing abilities. The table shows one
school of ITO pupils taught by one
teacher at $500 per annum, while an
other school in the same district, with
an attendance of l13 pupils has three
teachers at an expense of $2,44O per
annum. The cost of tuition per pupil
varies in the different schools from S1.;j
to S3l 40 per annum.
The Normal work of Professor Scott
is approved.
Transfers Of teachers have been made
from one school district to another on
account of complaints of moral short
Comings or intemperance in their previ-
GUS positions-causes for dismissal rather
than of transfer to a new field.
1t has become an open question to
what extent Independent schools should
receive Government aid.
1t is recommended that the reforma-
tory school should he made an annex to
the Government experiment station
about to be located on PunchbowI. where
the boys would have an opportunity for
practical work.
Several important recommendation
are made, among them that women
shall be eligible to membership in the
Board; that the revenues of the Board
be paid into the treasury that teachers
should be classified and paid according
to the character of their work: that Nor
NAL instruction be developed at home;
that teachers should be consulted in
convention at Honolulu about systems
of instruction and the selection of text
books; that second Inspector be APP
| pointed and that in the matter of assist
ance to Independent schools in the
future such assistance shall only be by
way of scholarships and capitation fees,
which shall not exceed fixed proper
| ton of the school attendance.
Following is an analytical table:
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF LEGISLATIVE AP-
Preparations AND TOTAL BIENNIAL EX-
PENDTCRES, WITH PERCENT AGE OF In
CREASE * IpE SANE ASp IN PupMs
ATTENDING SCHOOL.