The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-02-04
PROVISIONS OF EDUCATIONAL
BILL NOW BEFORE
THE LEGISLATURE


Legislature by the Vermont Education
nj Commission II An act 70 establish
q public educational system and TO
provide for lis maintenance and con-
troll; 10 offer equal educational oppor-
tuniiics TO al children, whether resi-
dents In cities, villages or rural dis
tricts; and 70 equalire taxation for the
support Of schools"
The bin is divided into seven parts
and deals with agencies Of administra-
ton. public schools, teachers, school
property and equipment, specially In
corporated districts, financial support
Of schools, and enumerates sections re-
pealed.
The purpose Of the act is to take
care primarily Of elementary and sec
cndary schools of the state as the in
itial duty Of the state to its citizens.
The bill provides that the sum OF
100000 be appropriated annually as
a part Of the consolidated school fund,
making with income from permanent
school and other funds and state tax,
a grand total Of about $750,000 which
the state will expend on education,
making the measure at any rate, the
mos, notable introduced for several
generations and probably one Of the
most important educational measures
ever introduced in the legislature. The
total sum is to be known as the con-
solidated school fund, for annual
apportionment and distribution under
the provisions of the act.
Distribution of Funds
The method Of distribution Of this
fund shall be as follows: General adj
nninistration and Office purposes Of the
state board of education, etc, $4,000.
Salaries and expenses Of union sup
erintendents and supervisors, sl25,0OO.
Vocational education, $4,000
Teachers training courses in the
secondary schools, $4,000
Summer schools, etc, $4,000,
Transportation and board Of pupils,
sl25,OOo.
instruction of secondhand school
teachers, $4,000.
Agricultural extension instruction IN
cooperation with federal extension
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For inspection Of health, $1,000.
For advanced instruction of nom
resident pupils in high schools, $780,
600.
For payment of the net salaries Of
teachers as provided by enumerated
sections Of the act, 100000
For equalizing opportunities and
rates of expenditure, s235,0O0
The colleges benefit from the act
only so far as the appropriation is
made to apply to pedagogical instruc-
ton of secondardy school teachers,
$4,000; and for agricultural extern
sion work, $1,000.
The bill follows the lines Of report
of the commission on the subject OF
education as applied to the public
school system and the expenditure OF
the money of the state in that direc-
ton, with such equalization features
that the poor towns are helped to
make their standard Of education as
high as the larger communities with a
more favored grand list.
In Effect Next July
The bill takes effect on July /, next,
and provision is made for the continu-
alton of such scholarships in the col
leges as have been arranged for until
they shall have expired.
The bill is SO long and important
that an abstract cannot do it justice
or give comprehensive idea of its
scope, but for the purposes Of the ar
ticle brief resume is here made.
1.-THE public educational system is
defined in section / of the bill in the
following language THE public edu-
cational system of the State Of Yer
mont shall consist of and include all
kindergartens, elementary schools,
secondary schools, vocational schools
teachers training schools or courses
and all educational work supplement
tary thereto and connected Herewith
established or TO be established, by
public authority and maintained at
public expense. 1t shall include also
all departments or courses established
or to be established for the purpose OF
higher education, or Of research, that
are maintained by public authority,
and. either in whole or in part, at
public expense"
The public educational system OF the
state is vested in board Of five men,
bers, appointed by the governor, and
no member Of the board shall be other
wise employed in educational service
or otherwise connected with education
nj institutions, or other special educa-