Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-20
EDUCATORS AT WORK ON LAWS
Superintendent PhiIbrook Re- turns from Meeting of Committee in
 Phoenix
SCHOOL LAWS CONSIDERED

C. x. Philbrook, superintendent of the schools of the district has re- turned from Phoenix where he al. tended meeting of the educational committee of She Arizona teachers association. The committee worked for tUo days on the mGucr Jf chang ing the state school laws t1 comply with the new state constitution.
 All of the members of the com mittee were present The work was not completed and there win be an adjourned meeting at Phoenix on De- cember 27 and 2S. The members Of the committee are: Kirk T. Moore, state superintendent of education: 4. II. Wilde. president of the University of Arizona; President Blome, of the Flagstaff normal school President Mathews Of the Tempe Normal and AIessrs. Loper and Philbrook. The st- perintendent of education elect was also present at the committee meet ings.
 Several members of the first state legislature attended the sessions of the committee. The purpose of the meeting was 10 gather and submit data regarding proposed changes in the state school laws. among which will be the matter of free tex books, which had tke sanction of both par ties in the recent election.
 Professor PhilbroOk was named as a committee of one to gather and submit data on this feature ot the new state school law and he is now examining the laws. of all states in the union of which this is fea- ture.
 For Free Text Books.
 At the last session of the teTritor- ial legislature there was bill in- troduced providing for free text books in the public schools of the territory The author of the bill was Reed, of Maricopa county The bili was de- feated at that time but it is under stood that the author is preparing to introduce it, with a few minor changes perhaps, in the first state legisla- ture He will probably be chairman of the educational committee in the lower house. insuring a favorable re- port on the free scfOol books bill
 The territorial school laws will be overloaded to such an extent that the state law will have the appearance of an entirely different act The law as it now stands Is objected to by ed ucators and school experts as being ambiguous. resulting from having been constructed by piece meal by different legislatures.
 As an instance of the faultiness of the law ii is cited that under the present law there gre two boards in the territory that have the power to grant teachers certificates. the board of examiners and the board of educa- tion. A Bisbee case in point, is cited to show the faultiness of the law when two graduates of the l'is- bee high school equal in education and training, applied for license to teach in the public schools. One was examined by the board or examiners and got a first grade certificate. The other was examined by the board of education and got a second srade cer- tiicate This will be remedied in the state school law
 Another change that may be made is to relieve the county stperinteu- dent Of the superintendency over the schools Of a district if there is a dis trict superintendent The aim is to have the county official devote the larger part of his time in the upbuild- ing of the rural schools.
 Under Arizona's state constitution the state university, normal schools and the high schools are all parts of the public school system Under the territorial law, the public schools consisted only of the grades, exclud- ing the high schools, normal schools and the university.