Arizona republican., 1914-02-16
First Critical Investigation of Any State Educational System is Completed With Vermont Institutions Un- der Fire
FINANCIAL
 RIVALRY SHOWN
Recommendation is Made That More Money Be Ex- pended on Public Schools and Less on Colleges and Universities
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCH1

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
 NEW YORK, February 14.-The first critical investigation of all the educational facilities of any state in the union has just been completed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The state selected was Vermont, and the work was undertaken at the request of a committee of the state legislature, which desired to examine and im- prove it's entire educational system.
 A summary of the Foundations re- port was made public today. One of the recommendations s the transfer to the public schools of the money that the state now gives to colleges. The University of Vermont, Middle bury College and Norwich University, no one of which is owned or con- trolled by the state, have recently re- ceived increasing state aid, a total of S20,000 a year in 1909; $50,O0O in 1911, and s100,000 in 1913. The re- port commends the withdrawal of these subsidies because Vermont can not afford a regular state university; because it is unwiSe to give public money and public prestige to private corporations; because the colleges have not used their subsidies wisely, and because they got along very well before they were given state aid and it is evident that they will be cared for through private ,benevo- lence.
 The report says that the University of Vermont neglected agriculture and used it's appropriation for medical school that can never be successful with the small amount of clinical material that is available in Bur lington. Norwich University used it's appropriation for engineering in a location and with an equipment far inferior to those of the University or Vermont Middlebury College also used it's appropriation for subjects already provided by the other insti- tutions and for a department for training high school teachers, or which the state has already an over supply. The effort to gain these subsidies from the legislature. more over. according to the report, ln- volved the institutions in an unfor- innate educational and financial riv- airy.
 The public schools, on the other hand, need money. They provide the entire education of more than nine tenths of the children in the state. Half of the teachers, however, have had no professional training and are paid only nine dollars week or less The report recommends that the state spend on the common schools what it now gives the col leges and as much more as 1t can afford, giving the teachers better training and better salaries: pro- viding them with more aid ana guidance through better supervision and a more helpful state adminstra- ton. It is recommended that the dozen training classes for teachers that were established in the hlgh schools in 1910 be multiplied, so that every new teacher in the state shall be a high school graduate with professional training. These classes graduated more than nun dred such teachers last year. ana soon will be able to supply the en- tire four hundred that the state needs annually The two state nor maj schools. the abandonment or which is recommended. have provid- ed less than dozen such teachers each year.
 It is further recommended that the teachers. together with a new state commissioner of education. several deputy commissioners and number of supervisors, gradually work out a new program of studies for the schools which, without interfering with it's academic character, will re- late it more closely to the daily lie | " (Continued on Page Six)