Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-04-14
Many Relate to Education in This
State.
COVER NEARLY ALL SUBJECTS
One Measure Provides That School
Districts Must Furnish Trans
portatIon FOR Children Be-
tween Ages of 2 and "a.

1l6 relate to education. OF this num-
Der " were presented in the assembly
and A In the senate This legisla-
ton covers almost all subjects of edu-
cation. Among the more recent edu-
catlonal bills to attract attention are
those presented by Assemblymen
Dickie and Johnson to give state aid
to teachers to give successful service
in rural school.
Assemblyman Ellingson is the author
OF a bill that would repeal the mill
tax aid to the state university; an
other educational bill in the assembly
provides that school districts must
furnish transportation for children be-
tween the ages of seven and fourteen
years, living more than two miles
from a school house, and another
would increase the rate of nonresi-
dent high school tuition fees. Assem-
blyman Nordman has a bill which will
compel the superintendent of public
property to send a Blue book to every
rural school district in the state. The
state affairs committee has just I'M
favorably reported the Hart bill for a
legislative investigation of the sub
Ject Of teachers pensions and it is un-
derstood that a substitute is being
drawn to the Van Gordon bill creating
central board of education to man
age the university, normal school.
Stout manual training school and the
mining school.
Among other educational bills of i'm
portance are measures to increase
from 10 to 30 the number of high
schools which may receive state aid
for the maintenance of a winter term;
increases from $500 to 81 900 the state
aid that may be received for the cree
ton of one-department school house
upon the consolidation of two or more
rural school districts: increases from
six to nine weeks the attendance of
teachers at professional school; re-
peals the provision of the teachers
retirement fund which makes it com
pulsory for beginning teachers to
come within the provisions of the law;
county superintendent serving a sec
ond term at salary from the county
of $1,000 or under shall receive 500
state aid, and several measures re-
pealing appropriations for buildings
at the university and normal schools
of the state.
Among the bills in the senate touch
ing upon matters of education that
have recently been printed are meas
ures appropriating $27,500 for care
and property occupied b. the indus
trial school for girls at Milwaukee;
four county training schools may joint
ly hire a teacher in domestic science;
bringing normal school teachers under
the provisions of the teachers retire
ment fund act: chat the county board
elect the members Of the county board
of education; makes provision for
training courses in high schools in
counties which do not have county
trfining schools and a bill which in
effect brings those persons within the
provisions of the teachers retirement
fund who had quit teaching before
the law was enacted. but who had
taught the required twenty-five years.
When the senate reconvenes next
week it has before it long calendars
of bills ready for hearings. On
Wednesday, April IA, the special COM
mittee on conservation will hold an
other hearing on the waterpower bills,
including the substitute offered by
Senator Ackley and the measure Of
fered by Senator Bray.
The joint finance committee will
consider on April Is the Tomkins bin
to create an emergency fund to fight
forest fires: the Fairchild bill for the
taxation of grain elevators, and several
measures relating to the exemption OF
property from taxation. All of the
good roads bills will be up for final
hearing before the senate special COM
mittee on highways on April ID.
On the same day the senate COM
mittee on judiciary will give hearing
to the antitrust bill introduced last
week This measure repeats to the so
called Hull antidiscrimination act, but
outlines a complete system for the re-
lation of buying and selling in re-
straint of trade 1t is said that Attor-
ney-General Walter c. Owen. who
drafted a bill on this subject two
years ago for the legislature, which
was defeated, will appear before the
committee in opposition to some of
the features of the antitrust measure
proposed.