The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-14
WOULD INVESTIGATE.
 SCHOOL CONDITIONS
Board of Education is Asked
 to Bring Expert Here
COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER

| Year Term at Salary Of
 s, New Princi-
 pal For Shelton
 School ~''~
 Nathaniel W. Bishop at the meeting
 of. the School board last night asked
 for the naming of a special commit tee of four to consider the adVisabil-
 ity of having an expert, from the Ma I tional Bureau of Educa tion come here and make 8 thorough inquiry into To- cal school conditions. Mr. Bishop said ] he believed. that it would be agreed
 that such an inquiry would result
 in much good and he brought it for ward so that the special committee l to be named by President Lieberum I might thrash it over and report upon
 the matter at the next monthly meet I iEg in June
 I While there was no dissenting voice
 when the. votesson this motion was l called for there were some prelimi- nary expressions that. indicated an
 unfavorable reception of the plan. 1 In New York, Paul H. Hanus of
 Harvard university, as chairman of
 an inquiry committee, has just made l a report after nine months work and 1 the results of this investigation have appealed to Mr. Bishop as -invalua- | ble. He thinks it is just the thing
 that Bridgeport needs He said that members of the school board were I not professionally trained so as to | realize the educational requirements of l it's school system and he thought that 1 a complete and thorough investigation would amount to great deal. He | oya%; <h~sv nI,4H, ,1n nRA- would have on the Board of Appor- | tionment when the school. board ap- l. -peared before it to get acquisitions for the year. He said: "We should | have a well recognized expert to
 make this investigation and it is my belief that the best that can be se- cured is what we want. I. am tired of hearing this city boast about edu- eating a child for less money than other cities do. We should boast that we pay more money than other cities to educate our children"
 l. MT. Bishop was asked what. such an
 investigation would cost. He replied
 probably. $500 but not over $1, 900 any way. He said that New York paid ~$50, ,OO0 for the investigations made there. William R. Webster wanted to
 know where the money could be. se- cured, if. there, was an appropriation from which it could be taken. MT. Bishop said that the money question
 was of secondary consideration. 'I guess if there is no appropriation from which. we could take it now, we could raise it until the Board of Apr portionmenb meets again. he said. A. William Bell wanted to know
 what good would come from such a
 plan. sI cant. expect anything good
 from such an. investigation" he said.
 We have had experts of all sorts and for all purposes lately. and fail to
 see of what good they have been. Here recently the Park board had a tree experts come 4 to the city to- look oversis the weeS ss He, didn't tell the Park board A@anything but sWhatg has led to nothing. Our school system has
 never been criticized and can see
 nothing in this plan but foolish .ex- pense'' .,..
 John F. Brady didn't like the idea of matter of the kind coming be- short notice. s"This motion comes as surprise to me" he said, "and I think it should lay s.over for a. month so that members of this board could study the subject"
 The motion was carried howeves dent of the board, William Lieberum will appoint the committee and the committee, acting with Superinten- dent Charles w.. Deane, will gather all the data and information relating to such an investigation and submit it to the board at it's next monthly meeting.
 Superintendent Deane, was re-elect- ed, for term of three years at a salary of $3,90O. He expressed his qualification overs the action of the board He said that many perplexi- ties had confronted the schools of the city. The rapid increase in population has made puzzling condition and a problem of no easy solution. The
 schools have had to be conducted on an economic basis and at the same time new schools were required con con corps has not been the best because tL.. salaries paid weren't the best.
 This has changed to big extent ana now Bridgeport schools can offer as
 good inducements to teachers as any schools in the state. Supt. Deane said he considered the schools of Bridge port entering upon new era. The increase in teachers salaries meant much and leads to the expectation of better work and better teachers. Bridgeport is now becoming city. Iti has hithertofore been an overgrown town. but it is now awakening to the] need of educational facilities.
 Supt. Deane then said that the rights of initiative should' be more closely defined. The board com DOS0Q or DuSluSSS IhCAA AS oNPIOoS~ - look after the bushes affairs per taining to the schools l am a pro- fessional man and as such should not handle the business affairs of the schools I should be be expected to take the initiative only in professional matters Tn suggesting this pho fessional initiative I don't seek more authority or power. My idea is that there should be certain professional matters left to the initiative of the superintendent" !"
 Everett P. Cartwright, recently a member of the New York state in- stitute, was elected as principal of the Shelton school. to succeed War 1 rer w. Porter, whose death occurred 1 recently. His salary is to be $1,60O. MT. Cartwright substituted at the high school a few years ago as phy- sics instructor and is known here. He has taught at Hartman, N. Y.. and at Cornwall-on-the-Hu He was superintendent at Cornwall and is now teaching at a military academy at the same place. He has taught 20 years,-rfive years in graded work. E and f2 in supervisory work. He will ! arrive in Bridgeport, May 20.
 The teachers of the shelton. school desire to mt a memorial window in |