The sun., 1894-12-28
REPORTS MADE TO THE 70.
ONE INVOLVES REMOD EELING
SCHOOL zDMIHISTRATION.

Practically the Rtu Reported By Mayer Gil
roy's Cou-ission n n 1eea-The Report oi
HIs esrbsge Cou-,issieu Aiss Adopted
The Executive Committee Of the Committee
OF Seventy met in the rooms Of the Chamber OF
Commerce yesterday afternoon and received re-
ports from four Of the committees Of experts
who were appointed to report on various pro-
posed municipal reforms. The reports were on
public schools. on disposal Of garbage, on street
cleaning, and on civil service reform.
The Committee on Public Schools. OF which
Stephen II. Olin is Chairman, reported pro-
posed bill for the entire reconstruction Of the
administration Of the school system. II is prac-
tically the same bill prepared by the Mayors
Commission Of 1898, OF which Mr.. Olin was a
member. some OF Its points are:
]. A Board of Education Of moderate size, APP
pointed by the Mayor without regard to politi-
cal considerations or local political divisions;
this Board to he the ultimate source Of all au-
thorlty in the school administration. The
powers of the present Board of Education are
increased. but its labor is diminished by the
provisions freeing II from the petty details Of
administration, and its functions chiefly
those Of supervision and business admins
tratiOn.
2. The creation OF Board. Of ofsuperntende ents,
apermancnt, dignihed. and responsible body OF
trained experts, to whom Is committed the edu-
cational adm mnistrat ion of the schools.
shall be- ' by Ike Board Of r supernen
dents from an eligible list appointed only on
such nomination by the Board Of Education.
I. the complete separation Of the business
from the educational administration, and the
assignment of each to single responsible au.
thority. The superintendent Of buildings and
supplies to have charge Of the school buildings
and the purchase OF supplies, thus relieving the
Board OF EdHcation iH OF on The one hand and the
.. The abolition Of the present Inspectors of
Schools and Of the present powers of the Ward
Trustees. both having been demonstrated In
reference with progressive and efficient adj
minstraton. and both being relics Of a system
long since OutgrOwn. The present powers OF the
Ward Trustees are q survival from the time
when no central authority had been created,
and they exist, not because they are reasonable
or OF advantage to the schools, but because the
dispensers Of patronage have been loath to give
1t up and have successfully resisted all attempts
to take II from them. The bill recommended here
with contains the provision as to trustees origi.
nally framed by Mayor Gilroy sCommission. aud
Of conference with the Board OF Education.
This Is the one material feature in which the
bill recommended here differs from that ap-
proved by the Board of Education in April last.
1t is proper to add that the change made in the
Commissions bill at the request OF the Board OF
Education probably had no motive except the
desire to prevent opposition on the part Of the
trustees to the other features Of the bill. IL 10
our prop9sal pc thst the IT Trustees BE- retained with
The public school teachers retirement fund
act Of 1894 is included in the bill as presented;
conclusions of the advisory committee APP
pointed by Mayor Gilroy to consider the same
subject and append the report of that commit
tee to their own. They estimate that the plant
would cost So4T 200.
Everett =. Wheeler in the civil service re.
the competitive examination idea and bewails
the fact that all the laborers in the city's EN-
poy are not registered In the civil service books.
He would have men who. like the deputy comp
troller, the assistants to the Corporation Coun:
sci, the City amberlain, the Supervisors OF
the Citu Record, heads Of bureaus, and secre-
taries of Boards, who are now exempt, tell what
they know to civil service examiners.
The contents of the report of the Committee
on Street Cleaning were not made public.
The subcommittee on legislation Is to have
its report.