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SCHOOL SURVEY
is COMPLETED
Commissioner Thatcher Makes
Report Of Investigation.
URGES SWEEPING CHANGES

communities Right TO govern own
Educational Institutions Wants
State to Undertake Task Of Edu.
eating Rural District Teachers For
Their Profession.
Columbus, O., Nov. S.-Representa.
tive o. ]. Thatcher of Clinton county,
chairman of the Ohio school survey
commission, today made public the re.
port of that body.
The report starts out with the state.
ment that the commission will make
no effort to deprive local communities
Of the fullest, control of their schools,
and follows with a refutation of tho
charges that Governor Cox has at.
tempted to use the commission as q
tool to put the schools of the state
into politics and to create of them a
great political machine.
The constructive suggestions with
regard to the supervision of rural and
village schools will call for compul.
sorry supervision along the same gen.
erai lines as nave been in existence
for many years, with only such modi-
hcations as are made necessary by
rural conditions. AS in the case OF
cities, the rural communities will
have absolute charge of the super
vision Of their own schools and the
home rule principle for the rural and
village districts has been maintained
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chief features Of the plan:
county board of education elected
at large on nonpartisan ballot by all
registered voters OF the county out
side of cities, which already have full
time supervision. This will not dis
turb the local boards OF education in
any sense, but will leave them in full
control of their own schools.
county superintendent of schools
elected by the county board Of educa-
ton entirely without outside dicta.
ton. This county superintendent
shall be professional man and may
be seleced from any part of the state.
The state shall pay half the salary OF
the county superintendent up to a
maximum payment by the state OF
81 1000.
Division of the county into super.
vision districts by the county board |
of education, these supervision dis.
tricts to be made up of rural and vii. |
iage school districts according to the |
number OF teachers employed. The |
maximum number of teachers per dis
trict superintendent shall be 20 and
The maximum 80. In counties where
centralization is common, a superin-
tendent should be able to SUPERVISE
30 teachers as well as he would be
able to supervise 20 in districts where
schools are widely separated with
only one teacher In a building.
Election of District superintendents.
The election Of the district superin.
Hendent, as follows: BY the board of
education in case there be but one
school district in the supervision dis.
trict; by Joint meeting of the boards
or education in the district where
hhere are either two or three school
districts in the supervision districts;
10y the presidents OF the various
boards of education in all supervision
districts which contain more than
three school districts.
The nomination but not appoint.
ment of the district superintendent
by the county superintendent, tho
boards or presidents of boards, as the
ease may be, having the power to
elect over this nomination on three
sourths vote.
That local boards of education re
main exactly as at present with the
night to elect the teacher on the nom.
anation OF the district superintendent,
as is the case now in the cities.
The protection OF all efficient super
visors now in the service by a provis.
ION In the law that three years sue
eessful experience In supervision
places a man automatically on the ell.
Eible list.
The payment OF half the salary OF
each district superintendent by the
county up to a maximum payment by
Ythe county OF $3.50.
The requirement OF professional
Nraining OF superintendents by n pro.
vision which will enable young men
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'had three years successful teaching I
'experience, and II they are willing to
Cake one-year graduate or senior
course In the principles OF school ad.
sninistration and supervision such
nourse to be taken In some reputable
professional school.
In order to secure better trained
eeachers for rural schools, the com.
mission proposes that from one 10 ,
three rural schools and small village ,
nigh schools be subsidized by the
state 10 establish one.year training
courses for rural teachers; the estab.
sishment OF more summer courses for
the training OF teachers; the gradual
tncrease OF professional requirements
'of teachers, so that by 1920 every
|teacher in Ohio who entered the pro.
fession since 1913 will have had one
gear professional training; revision Of
the examination system, reducing the
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