The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-06
The MeddLer
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Now that the state board of educa-
ton has constituted the Brattleboro
incorporated district and the schools of
Centerville and West Brattleboro a
supervision unit and settled upon the
appointment of Miss Wellman as super
intendent at a salary of $1,000 year
there is some feeling among the tax
payers of the incorporated district that
the prudential committee was a bit too
generous in making the offer accepted
by the state board) to pay $1,000 of the
superintendent S salary for the coming
year. This feeling is not due to any
dissatisfaction with the territory in
cluded in the supervision district nor
| to the selection Of Miss Wellman as |
superintendent. 1t is based on a be
lief that Brattleboro should have state
aid to the same extent as other towns
and cities in the state have it. In 9th
er words, number of persons in the
district feel that if the prudential com
mittee had not offered to pay $1,000
of the superintendent s salary the state
board of education would have agreed
to pay large part if not the whole of
lit
payment by the state of all salaries Of
lsuperintendents except in towns or in
corporated districts having more than
% legal schools. In the ease of these,
which have the right to select their own
Isuperintendents at a salary of not less
than $500, the state is required to
pay at least $1,000 and half of the sal
larry above this sum provided the total
district does not exceed $4,000. The
Brattleboro incorporated district has
but % schools within the meaning of
the law and so cannot be considered as
grouped temporarily with the towns of
Halifax, Guilford and Vernon. After the
conference last week between prudential
J committee and representative of the
: state board of education a re-arrange-
ment was effected as stated in the fore
going paragraph, the state board at its
meeting this week accepting the pru-
Dental committees proposition with
regard to division of payment.
! The reason for the state board s viii
lingness to agree to this apportionment
is probably found in the fact that the
! arrangement of the schools as out
c lined made necessary the creation of an
c | additional supervision unit in this coun
t. and consequent increase in ex
lpense, but on the other hand if the 10
' cal committee had not offered to pay
i 81, 900 of the superintendent s salary
it is not improbable that the re-arrange
ment could have been brought about just
Il the same, or at least on basis tina
e would have saved the Brattlcboro dis
o triet considerable money. In defence
= of the committees offer the statemen
fiji made that provision already ha,
A. been made for the payment of $1,00
for a supervisor for the coming year
but the obvious answer to this is tina
it is never too late to save money.
ie However, the present arrangement
20 based on the expectation that by mex
" year Brattleboro will qualify as a p
10 school unit either by increasing tn
ri number of legal schools within the Iii;
- trict to that number or by merging tn
IL incorporated district with the towr
). The latter plan would be equivalent t
OF relinquishing the charter of the incol
= porated district, and in the opinion Q
a good many people would be the mos
he satisfactory plan. In any event thel
no should be such a change as will allo'
- Brattleboro to profit to the fullest e.
mo- tent from the state funds available.