The news & observer., 1901-02-24
THE NEW LAW FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
A Sub Committee Appointed
to Draft 1t.
The MEETING LAST MIGHT
Prof Joyner Explains Teachers Re.
concentrations.
TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY o. SCHOOLS
The Sub Com nitee Viii Work With R presen-
tatives of Teachers Assembly Com
mittee in the Pr.p ration of
LIS Bill
Its Bill.

Its Bill.
The joint Committee on Education, at
meeting held last night appointed a
subcommittee to confer with the COM
mittee appointed by the Teachers Assem-
bly, and formulate public school law
| to be reported to the full joint commit
tee Monday night in executive session.
This committee is composed of
| Messrs Russell, Broughton, Bedding
| field and Mcintyre.
| Prof. Joyner, chairman CT the Teach
er's Assembly committee, was seen at
| the Marlborough last night after ad
| journment of the Education committee
and was asked to explain the changes
| that the teachers of the tate are re-
commencing. He said:
',ln accordance with the ringing decla
ration of the Democratic platform, and in
| fulfillment of the pledges made by host
| of Democratic speakers last summer, il
seems agreed that the present able Legis-
! lature will make sufficient appropriations
for the public schools TO place q four>
| months school within the reach of every
| child of school age in North Carolina
| large direct State appropriation will be
| necessary to redeem this righteous pledge
| to the children and the parents of the
| State.
| Increase in the appropriations for
| schools without corresponding increase in
| the efficiency and service of those schools
| would be folly and extravaganza, would
| not be fair and honest dealing with the
| taxpayers, and would not receive their
| approval 1t would be contrary to the
| dictates of good conscience, good bust
! ness, good policy, and good sense. In
| creased appropriations for public schools
| logically demands, then, such Legislation
| as will insure increased efficiency in these
| schools. Increase of money without such
| legislation would probably result in in
creasing the scramble for positions in the
| public school system by making them a
| mere tempting bait and in paying more
| money for no more efficient service. In
many cases the service would be oven less
| efficient, because increased compensation,
without the necessary safeguards of pre-
/ scribed qualifications and duties enforced
| by strcter supervision would increase the
| political pull for places and multiply in
| stances of nepotism and favoritism.'
by what legislation then, may this
| increased efficiency in the public schools,
| logically demanded TO justify increased
| appropriations for them be securcd?'
| Prof. Joyncr was asked
The committee appointed for this pur-
| pose by the North Carolina Teachers AS
| sombly at its last meeting have under
taken respectfully to suggest in num-
| Der of carefully considered recommenda-
| tCns such legislation as they believe will,
| if enacted, secure far greater efficiency
| in the entire public school system. 1t
must be admitted, | think, by its best
and most optimistic friends that the pub
| lie school system is still in somewhat
cha otic state Every county supcrintend-
| cnL and every teacher of every county
| is largely a law unto himself with his
own system or no system and his own
| course of study or no course for his own
county or school; both superintendent and
| teacher, in most cases, without intelll-
gent conception of the relation of the
work of the county to the work of any
| other county, of the work Of one school
| of the county TO that of any other school
| of the county, or of the work of one year
| to that of any other year. Even il they
| had such an intelligent conception of their
| respective work in its relation to the
| whole and the parts of the system, they
| are at present, largely without the
| means, direction, and inforamton neces
sary for bringing about cooperation, uni
| formity, organization.
ITO improve this state of things-bring
| about cooperation, uniformity and or
| ganization in the public school system of
| the State and insure an increase in
| every way in the efficiency OF the peO-
| pies schools the committee have outlined,
/ in their recommendations, plan which
| looks to-
| Il. An increase in the efficiency of
| the teacher by raising the standard or
| his qualifications, enarging his duties,
| multiplying his opportunities for improve
| mcnt inspiration and direction, insuring
| him better pay for better service, and
| placing schools under more strict, compe-
| tent and helpful supervision.
| % An increase in the efficiency of the
| county superintendent and of county su-
| pervision by throwing the safeguards of
| higher qualifications around the Office OF
| county superintendent, enlarging his pow
| ers, duties, and opportunities for i'm
| provcment, inspiration, direction and IN
| formation about his work requiring him
| to give all his time and thought to his
| work, insuring him better pay for bet
| ter service and placing him under compe-
| tent and helpful supervision.
| "3. An increase in the efficiency o.
| State supervision by providing as assis-
| tants to the State Superintendent. several
| able, practical, enthusiastic, energetic
| State supervisors of education who shall
| be five great strong arms to the State
| Superintendent with power under his di
| rection, to plan. stimulate, organize and
| exercise The powers and duties of these
| supervisors are somewhat fully set forth
| in the following recommendation of the
/ committee:
1.-The State Board of Education shall,
1 on - day of -, 1901, elect not more
| than five State Supervisors OF Education,
| whose term of office shall be four years
! at such salaries as shall be fixed by
| said board. to be paid out of the general
| school fund OF the State The whole work
! of said supervisors shall be under the
direction and supervision of the State Su-
perintsndent Of Public instruction. 1t