The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-15
MORE SALARY NOT
ALONE NECESSARY.
State Board of Education Took
Up important Question at
Meeting Yesterday.
PRESIDENT KELLY THERE
RECOMMENDING CONCERN
ING SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
SENT TO GOVERNOR HANLY
FOR HIS ENDORSEMENT.
PRESIDENT KELLY THERE

President Kelly, of Earlham col
lege, member of the State Board of
Education, was at Indianapolis yes
terday attending what probably was
the most important meeting the
board has ever held. as it dealt di-
rectly with. the salary question. a
matter which has been disturbing the
minds of Richmond and Wayne coun-
ty pedagogues fully as much as those
in any other part of the State.
Adopt a Report
The board yesterday adopted a re-
port concerning the salary question
which was sent to Governor Hanly
and which in all probability will be
sent to the General Assembly with
the fullest endorsement of the execu-
tive.
In part the report follows:
THE people are asking that the
common schools be better housed
and equipped; better taught by
teachers of better qualifications and
larger salaries: and that they be
brought into closer and more vital re-
lation to the life and occupations of
their patrons.
1.-THE State Board of Education re-
CARDS this tendency as healthful and
sound and it desires to record it's
endorsement of all reasonable efforts
directed along the above mentioned
lines
Without desiring to anticipate the
action of those charged with investi-
eating or reporting on specific edu-
cational questions, the board wishes
at this time to express it's approval
of legislation calculated to secure
the following ends, viz:
ITO increase the minimum length
of school term as now required by
law in order that school children in
rural districts may have opportunit-
les more nearly like those of towns
and cities.
Propose Amended Laws.
''To amend existing laws relating
to school Capitalization SO as to
make it possible to extend this plan
where conditions are favorable. The
wise consolidation of weak country
schools into central schools with
ers has proved to be not. only eco
nomical but greatly to the advant-
age of the pupils, and should be en-
couraged within all reasonable linn
its.
Standard of Teachers.
'To raise the standard of the tea
ching profession so as to render it
more attractive to the most compe-
tent persons. This will not be ac-
complished by merely increasing sal
aries. There must be a correspond
ing increase in the qualifications of
teachers; and there tenure of posi-
ton should be better assured. What
ever contributes towards making the
and more permanent will react to the
greater efficiency of the records
A resolution was passed, dividing
the present noncommissioned high
schools into two classes, one class
called the certified schools" and the
other class the ''noncertified
schools" The certified schools are
to be those noncommissioned high
schools that gave twenty-four
months school, teachers equal to
those of a commissioned high school,
follow a course outlined by the State
Board; and have the material equip
ment of the commissioned high
school.
The change from the noncertified
class to the certified class can be
made on recommendation of a visit
ing member of the State board
Pupils of certified school can get
their credits allowed in commits
stoned high school. This new classi-
schools-the highest. the commits
stoned high school; the noncommis-
stoned. but certified high school, and
the commissioned, noncertified
high school