The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-06
Last Educational Hearing.

Last Educational Hearing.
The fourth and probably the last
public meeting on the educational bill /
was held Thursday night in Represen-
tative hall Lieut.. Gov. Darling. who
drafted the bill known as house bin
10 at the request of the educational
| commission, was the first speaker.
/ Lieut.. Gov. Darling stated that in pre-
/ pairing the bill he had adhered closely /
4 to the commission $ report and retain |
| ed snch parts Of the present law as |
We're not inconsistent with the recon- |
mendations of the commission The
/ draft of the bill was submitted to
the commission and has been carefully |
/ revised by the chairman, the clerk ana
other members. Mr.. Darling stated
that in appearing before the committee
he dill not propose TO argue for or
against the bill saving that he had
taken the attitude that owing to his
official position it would be unbecom-
ing for him 10 advocate or oppose leg
iSlation, but that it had been suggested
that he might without improperly
state some facts to the committee
which bear uncn a question which we
frequently hear asked in regard to the
bin and riehtfullv asked. The cues
ton is: What powers and duties are
deVOlved upon the state board of edu-
cation which this act creates that are
not now performed by the state
through the present board of educa-
tiCu or through it's executive officer
the superintendent of education2 Mr.
/, Darling then made m exhaustive COM
pariscn of the provisions OF the bill as
compared with the existing law show
y, IL
>. mentcd on the provisions of the intend
MI Cd law were founded on and in accord
: ance-with provisions at the present
M statute.
Horace F. Graham. member Of the
: commission, spoke upon the financial
i features Of the bill and made some
+ caustic comments upon the question Of
a so-callcd expert assistance saving
- that tn" employment Of such assistance
p was not = new thing in Vermont; that
4 when the University of Vermont want
= ed expert assistance it went outside
n the state and secured the services OF
~ Guy Potter Benton and the same thing
= had occurred with experience 70 NCr
T. witch university and AIiddlcbury col
II Iegc and that recently Gov Gates had
lie sought outside expert advice in ref
Il creugc to the Theodore \. Vail gift
proposition. He stated that the pro
in posed bin would increase the expense,
h 100000 more than the expenses fol
in each of the years 1914 and 1915 an,
ne that such expenses were necessary
&c if the elementary schools of RI,
ry state were to he maintained and tina
RI the increase is to be provided for b,
K increasing the school tax from : Z
ID 10 cents and by approPriating the rc
r. naming $4,000 from the state treas
ed ury, In speaking of the colleges h
s. said he believed that the first ,lutv O
at the state was towards the commo
al schools and that it wac not right t
d give 100000 to the colleges until We
~ got the money for the schools is onl
ea about per cent of the graduates o
'e' such schools attended college
on George l.. Hunt. clerk of the con
OF mission, devoted himself to an exam
&c nation OF the claims of the norma
ne schools. He attacked statements EN-;
a. rating from the principals Of the stat
sa normal schools which had appeared j
y the public press. He said that tn
NJ idea of the commission was not t
F, u" abolish permanently the normal Schot
Ne training from the state hut was d
~ rected against the present institution
!" and that ut present the funds ia
training teachers should be used /
- the teacher training course in hig
70 schools and that sometime il might IA
- advisable to have a normal school bu
w. it should be mt one place instead c
bo two as at present
ho Hon. Porciyal w. Clement Of Ru
~ land was the next speaker ami in
Ia brief address he discussed the eeutra
IN ization features Of the bill saying tn;
ira the Capitalization of power WAS a ne
essarv element in the production of t
,iu ficicncv. The bill. he said, gives ii
no. board Of education the power, and IL
ich commissioner of education viii car,
of out the rules and regulations of Il
Of board as its executive head. He cor
the pared the proposed plan TO what