The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-01
The OLD COUNTY BOARD
THE SUPERVISOR BUSINESS A
FAILURE.
A BOARD OF TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES
Chairman Craig Has Plan Whereby he Thinks
Inc Peop'e of Each Township Can
Have Advantage Of a Grad
ed School,.

The House Committee Oh Education
meets this afternoon in the office of the
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton.
At this meeting the new school law
will be adopted 1t is therefore an inn
portant meeting and will be largely at
tended.
The present Fusion law viii he re-
pealed and IN entirely new law, modelled
after the Democratic law of 1893, will
be adopted
Among the principal changes from the
law now in force will be:
/. The district system of three COM
nitteemen for each school-wil be re-
turned to. This district committee will
have complete control of the school.
,. The district committee may be ap-
pointed by board of township trustees
tnumber not yet determined).
,. These trustees may give the COM
mitteemen for the white schools control
also of the colored schools: or they may
appoint separate committees.
4. The township trustees will receive
the money for the township, the amount
received being in proportion to the num-
her of children in the township.
;. This money must be so distributed
rs TO give each school in the township
an equal length of term.
6. The township trustees will proba-
bly, be elected by central county board
composed Of three members.
{. The duties of this county board will
lie to elect county superintendent Of
public instruction, distribute the school
fund and have general supervision of
the schools Of the county.
These are the main features of the
new law. | have been able to obtain
them from various members of the COM
mittee. OF course there are also many
minor changes. Of course the present
law being repealed will have the effect
OF abolishing the county board of edu-
cation, the supervisor Of schools, and the
present township committee of five.
These officers will not appear in the new
law.
Mr.. Craig, of Buncombe, than whom
there is no ADLER or more influential
member of the Legislature is chairman
Of this committee
Though unwilling to discuss the gen
eral provisions of the proposed law, in
advance Of their adoption by the conf
nlittee, he said last night he had a pet
scheme he expected TO propose.
I'm i'll favor of allowing the people
of each township to establish a high
school, he said, supported by free
school money, like the other schools of
the district, and with terms of equal du
ration.
.sThis school is to be for the more ad-
yanced pupils of the township. Its OBJ
iect is to give an opportunity to ambltl-
Gus scholars Of the township to receive
a more liberal education than they could
otherwise receive from the common
schools as they are now constituted.
The students that would attend this
high school would be older than the
average attendant of the lower schools,
and could walk from his home to the
school.
by taking the more advanced pupils
from the schools of the township and
placing them in the high school the
teachers in each would have much bet
ter opportunity for properly instructing
their pupils. And by this method each
community could have advantage of
what is generally known as graded
schools.
II would establish this school only by
consent of majority of the qualified
voters Of the township
This plan was suggested to me by
Prof. yenable. of Ashcyille, one of the
most distinguished educators Of the
South"
Don't think the woman who poses as
oars+ ha iuHnpnd n change