The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-25
Rules Announced.


The State Board of Education has an
| nounced the new rules relating to the Sc
lection of supervising principals Of
schools under the law passed by the last
! Legislature. The act legislates out Of
Office June 80 next all present supervis-
ing principals and provides that such
offices shall not be filed in future except
upon approval of the county superin-
tendent of schools. the state superintend-
ent of public instruction and the state
board of education.
The state board also gave out state
ment correcting an erroneous impression
which prevails with reference to the Sc
lection of supervising principals under
the new law. Some school authorities
haYe thought that the person to be Sc
lected as supervising principal must be
approved by the state board of education.
The state school authorities say that such
is not the case, but that the local school
boards may appoint any persons they see
fit as supervising principals provided the
creation of the Office In the school districts
have been approved by the county and
state school authorities as provided in the
new law.
The new rules referred to are as follows:
1. Each board of education desiring to
create the Office of supervising principal
shall make application to the county SUI
perintendent, stating the salary, the num-
Der of school buildings in the district the
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their respective salaries and the number
of pupils under the supervision of each
teacher. Said application must be accom-
panied by diagram of the school district,
giving the location of the several school
buildings and their distances apart by
way of the usual coarse of travel.
2. Two or more school districts desiring
to unite in the employment of superYis
ing principal shall furnish a combined
outline or diagram of said district to-
gether with the aforesaid data.
8. The state superintendent shall pre-
pare the forms required to carry the pre-
ceding regulations into effect.
4. The Office of supervising principal
shall not be created in any district in
which there is but one school building.
]. Brognard Belts, assistant state super
intendent of public instruction, gave the
reason for the passage of the law legislat-
ing all supervising principals out of office.
He said that the act creating the Office of
supervising principal had been in oper
alton about ten years and had been great
benefit In most instances, but in some
cases had been greatly abused. He ex
planned that the act provided that any dis
trict with supervising principal should
receive 5000 in the apportionment of the |
state school money. Several small school
districts appointed supervising principals
and fixed the salary in each instance at
just the amount to be received from the
state. He declared that supervising prin-
cipals were not needed in such districts |
and the apportionment of 5000 to pay the
salary in question decreased to just that
extent the amount of money going to the
other school districts in the county. The
new law was passed by the last legislature
to correct this situation.
The act amends the old act by providing
that no district shall appoint supervising
principal unless it pays salary of at least
81, 900 year. Another important provis-
ion, as already stated, is that before the
Office shall be created it shall have the
approval of the county superintendent,
the state superintendent and the state
board of education. Another provision
requires the state board of education to
prescribe rules for the appointment of
supervising principals, and it is in accord
ance with that provision that the rules
here given haye been drafted and adopted
by the state board at special meeting.
State Superintendent Baxter, pursuant
to rule three, is now preparing the neces-
sary blanks for carrying the new regula-
lions into effect.
In the item in THE News, last week, on
this subject, there was an error in the
statement that two townships might join,
draw 81 200 from the state, and paying
81 900 to the supervisor, thus making $780,
The section which refers to this point,
reads thus:
IF two or more districts shall have
united in employing supervising princi
pal as aforesaid, the six hundred dollars APP
portioned for such principal shall be APP
portioned among said districts in the pro-
portion that the number OF teachers en-
ployed in each of said districts shall bear
to the total number of teachers employed
in all of the districts uniting In employing
said supervising principal"