The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-02
NEWS FROM The CAPITOL
New School Code to be Pre-
sented to Next Legislature
VERY RADICAL MEASURE

The proposed new school code which
will be presented to the next legisla-
lature is a radical departure from the
present system, in that it puts the
TeNeral educational system of the
,lnder the direction of tint state
oo,rd Of regents, instead of the state
uperintendent of instruction, who
under the new plan would be an ad-
visary instead Of an executive officer.
1t sets aside the present system of
certitication Of teachers through
marking by the state department and
will the substitution for such Il plan
may be plain enough in the minds of
the trainers Of the new law, to an
outsider the plan to be substituted is
rather vague and uncertain as to just
what method is to be followed.
One place where it will hardly meet
with popular favor is that it attempts
to take away local self-goyernment
from schools, providing for "school
districts to be governed 10y district
boards, which districts will comprise
counties as the unit, with smaller dis
tricts where the counties contain
cities. The people of each local school
are TO select q school director, who is
to be their representative before the
the school board, SO far as talking is
concerned, but is not to have any vot-
ing power in the deliberations Of the
board.
1t attempts to cut loose from direct
state appropriations for the mainte-
nance Of the state educational institu-
tions, and to provide for their support
a direct tax levy to be large enough
to meet the demands of such institu-
tions, and to be kept separate from
and handled outside of the state gen
eral fund, this being proposition
which has been attempted at several
legislative sessions, but has never
been able to muster enough strength
to get much showing. The law as
proposed will have to stand lot OF
changing to meet the varied views of
the legislative members, if it goes
through
The possibilities of the speakership
which are being discussed, does not
meet with favor in some quarters, a
few of the papers of the state demand
ing that the whole matter be stopped
and the members be allowed to do
that work without discussion in ad-
vance. But the press of the state
has not been in the habit of allowing
such selections go by default so far as
they are concerned, and will hardly
do SO this session.
Next to the speakership the heads
OF the clerical departments of the two
houses are considered as important,
and so far the open appearance is that
w. II. Burden, of Lead, wants to be
chief clerk of the house, with George
VanCamp, of Highmore ready to take
up the duties of chief of the senate
force if called upon; and it is even
rumored that L. M. Simons of Belle
Fourche would not reject that same
place if it were offered to him for the
fourth time
The expense accounts Of the candi-
dates in the late election are showing
up in the Office of Secretary Polly.
The heaviest showing yet made is that
of Chauncey l.. Wood, the democratic
candidate for governor, who spent
s2,Ol5. Congressman Burke spen t
S575: State Secretary Policy spent
$3.50 to secure reelection and State
Land Commissioner Brinker paid out
Sl20 to secure his election. Pierre
dispatch.
J. H. Peifer was up from keystone
Tuesday.
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