The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30
WOULD TAKE SCHOOLS
OUT OF OLITICS
Legislative Comnittee of Min
nesota EDUCATIONAL Asso-
ciaIion Has a Plan

County supe'intendents of Mime
sofa country schools will have their
salaries, whin now range from $500
to $4,000 inc-eased to $1,000 minimum
and $4,000 maximum, and superin-
tendents. wIo now pay their own tray-
cling expresses, will obtain an annual
allowance for that purpose of $240 to
$780, if me legislature should adopt
next win.er the recommendations pre-
pared yesterday, at the capitol, by
the legislative committee of the Min
mes pta Educational association. This
bo ~ is composed of public school
tie; ehers from all parts of the state.
The suggestions of the committee
" II be laid before school teachers,
sc dool superintendents and others in
terested throughout Minnesota, by
means of circulars. The matter will
then be submitted to the educational
association at its annual meeting just
before Jan. l. If, finally, the associa-
ton grants its approval, the proposals
outlined yesterday will be presented
to the legislature.
County superintendent receive at
present SO a year from each of the
school districts in their respective
counties. Such districts may be as few
as eighty or as numerous as two hun
dred Superintendents get no allow
ance for travelling expenses.
The committee recommended that
each superintendent obtain hereafter
$15 from every school district an
nually: also travelling expenses not to
exceed SO district.
Take Schools Out of Politics
20 take county school matters out of
politics a county educational board
should be constituted, the committee
believes. The board should consist of one
member from each of the five county
commissioner districts, and the board
should be elected at the annual school
election. The educational board, as is
proposed, would appoint the county
superintendent. This would permit
qualifications to be fixed that are mad
missible. under the constitution, so
long as the superintendentship remains
an elective office.
The principal qualification advised is
that every superintendent, except those
now holding Office be required to show
first grade state certificate as
teacher
That many of the present inadequate,
unsanitary school houses may be va
Gated, the educational board, as the
committee agreed, ought to have power
to condemn such school houses, and to
disapprove plans for new school houses.
Want Appropriation Raised
The committee proposes, further, that
state aid to the amount of $500 annu-
ally be given to all high schools or
graded schools maintaining a manual
training department; that a fee of 81
be imposed upon each person taking
the biennial examinations for state Ger
tificates-these fees to pay the cost 5of
reading several thousand examination
papers and that the state appropria-
ton to the Minnesota Educational as
sociation be increased from $500 to
$4,000.
The committee consists of State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction j.
w. Olsen; w A. Shoemaker, superin-
tendent of the ST. Cloud normal school;
G. NJ. Cesander, superintendent of the
Sibley county schools; George C. Boz
chardt, superintendent of the Lac qui
Parle county schools, and Andrew Nell
son. superintendent of the Austin city
schools