Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-03-04
PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW
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Special Order in Senate Yes
terday And Today.
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Terms OF Members of County Boards
OF Education Changed to Two
Four and Six Years Re-
SpectiVeIy SO That
Term Of enlys0ne
Member Expires
Every Two
Years.

Ne Special OTO0T Ill Iu6 OOAdJS
yesterday in Raleigh, was the bill by
Mr.. Blow to amend the public school
law. Among the important features
of the bill are the following:
Section 2 gives the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction author
ity to issue educational bulletins as a
part of the public printing.
Section 8 provides for the payment
of the general State appropriation for
public schools of a part of the salary
and expenses of the superintendent of
the colored normal schools and the
supervision of the teacher-training
work for white teachers, fixing a max
imum of $1,000, or less than $122
per county in case the maximum is
needed. He will be paid out of the
annual appropriation for the colored
normal schools for experimenting
those schools.
Section 4 makes more specific what
is meant by "freeholders'' as used in
section 4115 of the Revisal and pro-
vides machinery for new election in
special tax districts to repeal the tax
under such conditions as will give re-
lief where relief is really needed, and
at the same time undertakes to pro
vide such safeguards as are necessary
to prevent too frequent eelctions as
will guarantee reasonable permanency
and stability to these special tax dis
tricts. Provides also a remedy at
home, in case the remedy is really
needed, without having to trouble TIE
General Assembly for special bills
and will leave the granting of these
elections in the hands Of the local
authorities, who are better Informed
as to the conditions and can there
fore usually act more wisely in such
matters.
Section repeals all special acts
changing the method of apportioning
the county school fund for the bene-
fit of certain cities and towns, and
makes the method of apporticnment
of the city and county school funds
uniform, SO as to place rural and ur-
ban districts upon exactly the same
footing in the distribution of these
funds.
Section 6 changes the terms Of the
members Of the county boards of edu-
cation to two, four and six years, re-
spectively, so as to have the term of
only one member expiring each two
years, instead of having the terms Of
al three members expiring every two
: years.
Section Z guarantees a county in
stit1 in every county at least once
in every two years, and not oftener
This will enable the State Department
of Education with the assistance OF
the teacher training work and profes-
sional bulletins issued from the de-
partment, to organize and direct 6
syst sD1atic and Uniform plan of homs
study for the professional improve
ment ef teachers and secure a trained
corps of workers each summer for a
least one-half of the counties of tn
State.
Section s gives authority to use an,
accumulated balance of the biennia
appropriation for supplemental
libraries at the end of the biennial pc
riod for the establishment of new ru
raj libraries.
Section restores to the high schoo
the $4,000 of it annually set aside fo
maintenance of the East Carolin
Teachers Training School, under tn
act Of 1907, making available for tn
public high schools the entire $500
appropriated in that act, as was th
original intent of the bill. Separa1
provision for the East Carolina Teacl
ers' Training School will be made, III
der special bill for that institute
now pending before the General Al
sembly, and this institution will her
after be provided for in the san
manner as other State institutions.
Section 10 is an amendment to Il
compulsory act of 1907 simply alloy
ing compulsory attendance to be o
dered upon petition Of majority
the parents of the children of scho
age, without the delay, expense, tro
BILE and friction Of an election. II
county board of education, howeve
is not required to order compulso
attendance upon such petition un1e
it deems it wise to do so. The boa
could decline to order 1t, or could,
it prefers, order an election. tt
petition clause will also make t
compulsory attendance law practio
and available in the east as well
the west, without complication WI
the race problem.
Amendments were adopted whi