The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-01-09
TO COME
TO THE AID
Of The Rural Schools Of
Ohio
viii Be The Request To The
Legislature
At Its Special Session By
Governor Cox
The State To Help Pay
Salaries OF Teachers
Well Worked Out Plan To
Promote Education

Recognizing education as a state
matter and determined that the boys
and girls in the village and rural
schools shall have an advantage at
least equal to those who attend the
city schools, Governor Cox has called
a special session of the Ohio legisla-
ture to meet January 10Th, to effect
a complete reorganization of the Ohio
school system, based upon the report
of the Ohio State School Survey COM
mission
The work of the commission is rap
idly drawing to close, and the results
of it's efforts, which have extended to
every county of the state, will guide
the governor in making his recon-
mendations and the legislature in
making laws that will prove the most
beneficent ever considered for the
schools of Ohio.
The governor believes that the time
is ripe for the beginning of an era in
which the state will pay adequate at
tention to the support Of education in
those rural and village communities
upon which the burden of taxation
falls most heavily.
Better Supervision
The state through TIE governor, vir-
tually declares that there shall be com.
pulsory supervision of the schools of
these communities along the same
general lines as have been in exist
ence i'll cities, with only such modifica-
tions as are made necessary by condi-
tions. AS in the case of the cities, the
rural communities will have absolute
charge of the supervision of their own
schools and the home rule principle
for the rural and village districts will
be maintained entirely intact, the
state to assume no further right of di-
rection than it has at present.
The plan includes the establishment
of certain articulated system for the
training and supervision of teachers
in every county in Ohio along lines
similar to those now in vogue in the
various cities of the state.
Features Of Plan
The principal features of the plan
by which the rejuvenation of the
schools will be accomplished are:
1. A county board of education and
a county superintendent over which
the tate authorities are to have abso
lutely no control, not even an eligible
list being kept in the office of the state
superintendent of instruction.
2. District superintendents elected
by boards of education in the dis
tricts on the nomination of the county
superintendent, the power to rejec1
the nomination and elect over the
nomination being reserved to the loca
boards by three-fourths vote.
8. State-supported courses for the
training of teachers in connection
with from one to three high schools il
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schools being city high schools. Eacf
one to receive state aid of $1,000.
State Aid Proposed
A. Payments by the state per an
mum to every one-room rural schoo
that comes up to certain standard.
5. Payments by state to the amour
of from $50 to $3.50, to schools of mor'
than one teacher in either village o
rural districts, according to the mum
Der of teachers.
6. Payment of half the salary o
county and district superintendents b,
the state directly, $1,000 being tn
maximum state payment toward tn
saalry of district superintendent.
After the new system gets well int
working order, the state aid payment
win amount to about 100000 annua
Iy, In addition to the regular payment
from the common school fund. TIL