The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-01
DEPARTMENT Will
SUPPLY TEACHERS
EMERGENCY cERTIFICArEs WILL
BE ISSUED TO MEET DE-
: MANDs or SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS. GO AWAY
MANY HAVE LEFT STATE DURING
YEAR, BUT THERE ARE LEFT
ENOUGH TO sUFPLY DE-
MAND.
TEACHERS GO AWAY

In order to facilitate matters in
the working of the public school sys-
tenn. Superintendent EgglestOn has
resorted to every device imaginable
in order to secure the best teachers,
and to have sufficient number on
the waiting list, so that vacancies
may be supplied at a moments no.
tice.
This year. for the first time. the
certification OF teachers in the public
schools has been centralized and plac-
ed directly under the charge OF the
department of public instruction.
Some delay. and a certain amount of
confusion In some quarters. was I'M
avofdable, yet there has been very
little either OF delay or Of confusion
never enough to be embarrassing.
Pursuing its regular policy of get
ting at the facts so as to give as
good service as possible. the depart
sent out a QUESTIONABLE on October
18th to find out
/. How many teachers were still
needed.
g. How many emergency certifl-
Gates had already been asked for.
s. Total number of emergency GER
tiicates that would probably be re-
CURED
4. The names and addresses of
available teachers still unemployed.
Many Counties Heard From
Ninety-six of the counties and cities
have been heard from and the
figures given are both interesting and
illuminating.
The ninety-six counties and cities
report that they still need 2A7 white
and 81 colored teachers, that they
have asked for lis emergency cer-
tificates for white teachers and ia
for colored teachers, that the total
number Of emergency certificates wilt
probably be 22S for white and ais
for negroes. They give the names
of lao white and Is colored teachers
still unemployed and available. Many
snperintendents report that their lack
of teachers is due to the fact that
persons elected had jumped their con-
tracts at the last minute. Others re.
port that the fault lies In small SAL
aries or difficulty in securing proper
ss,nardiHg place II 4s certainly trn%
that Virginia this year has sent an
unusually large number of teachers
To other States, and vet there appear
TO be enough left TO provide teachers
for the home schools with the small
est number OF emergency certificates
ever issssssts.
All k1FpOFtS NOt LII.
During the year ending June so,
1911. SOC emergency certificates were
issued TO white teachers and $50
To colored teachers. The reports for
the session Just closed are not In
yet but the number La hardly as large
as the year before. since the number
of emergency cSDtiticates has been
gradually decreasing for several
years. This year it will be necessary
To issue to white teachers probably
certificates as year Before last.
Next year the department proposes
10 take up the matter of providing
an adequate supply of colored teach
ers I'm very systematic way, and 1t
is believed that a plan has already
been suggested that will relieve the
situation materially.
During the summer the department
handled between fifty and sixty
thousand examination papers. This
shows that about five thousand per-
sons take the examination each year.
counting as two persons those who
try both Of the examinations. The
heaviest part of this work comes in
August but by lengthening the hours
and asiag extra help the papers wera
handled and the great bulk Of the
reports sent out tn twenty-five days.
The department will now put the
information secured from the ques-
tionaire TO good use by sending the
names OF available teachers to the
counties needing teachers and
wherever d fairly decent salary is
offered it is hoped the need may
be met promptly.