Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-02-03
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL

The bill prepared by the education
commission which is the result of their
investigation of the educational needs
of the state made during the past two
years, was introduced in the house last
week. The bill contains lis printed
pages and 225 sections The title ex-
presses in succinct form the contents
of the bill and is entitled IAN act to
establish a public educational system
and to provide for its maintenance and
control; to offer equal educational
residents in cities, villages or rural
districts; and to equaIize the taxation
for the support of schools
The bill is divided into seven parts
and deals with agencies of administra-
ton, public schools, teachers. school
property and equipment, especially
incorporated districts, financial sup
port of schools, and enumerates Sec
tons repealed.
The purpose of the act is to take
care primarily of elementary and sec
ondary schools Of the state as the
initial duty of the state to its citizens
The bill provides that the sum Of
$500, 900 be appropriated annually as a
part of the consolidated school fund,
making with income from permanent
school and other funds state tax.
a grand total of about $3.50, 900 which
the state will expend on education,
making the measure at any rate, the
most notable introduced for several
generations and probably one Of the
most important if not the most impor-
tant educational measure ever intro
duced in the legislature. The total sum
is to be known as the consolidated
ooboo1 nj n,f
and distribution under the provisions
| of the act.
I The method Of distribution Of this
fund shall be as follows: General adj
ministration and office purposes of the
state board of education; ETC.. $50, 600.
| Salaries and expenses of union super
intendents and supervisors. S125, 900.
Vocational education, Is, 1000.
| Teachers training courses IN the
secondary schools. $40, 900.
Summer schools. etc. So 900
Transportation and board of pup Is,
Sl25, 900.
Instruction of secondary school teach.
ers, SIS, 900.
| Agricultural extension instruction in
cooperation with federal extension
work in agriculture, $1,000
For inspection Of health, $1,000
For advanced instruction of non
resident pupils in high schools, $50, 900.
= For payment of the net salaries of
teachers as provided by enume GRATED
sections of the act, 100000.
For equaliZing opportunities anc
rates of expenditures, 1926, 000
The colleges benefit from the act
only so far as the appropriation is
made to apply to pedagogical instruc
ton Of secondary school teachers
SIS, 900, and for agricultural extension
work, 1000
The bill follows the lines of repor1
of the commission on the subject Of
education as applied to the publ,
school system and the expenditure Of
the money of the state in that direc
ton, with such equalization feature:
that the poor towns are helped to make
their standard of education as high a.
the larger communities with a NOR.
favored grand list. The bill take
effect on July l next and provision il
made for the continuation OF suci
scholarships in the colleges as hav,
been arranged for until they shall hav,
expired.
RESUME OF BILL
The bill is so long and importan
That an abstract cannot do 1T justice o
give comprehensive idea of its scope
but for the purposes of this article
brief resume is here made.
''The public educational system j
defined in section l of the bill i
the following language; 1.-The publ
educational system of the state O
Vermont shall consist of and includ
. all kindergartens, elementary schools
vocational schools, teachers trainin,
schools or courses and all educations
work supplementary thereto and con
nected Herewith established, or to b
established, by public authority an
maintained at public expense. It sha
include also all departments or course
, established or to be established fo
the purpose of higher education. or q
research that are maintained by publ
authority. and, either in whole or j
part. at public expense.
Tho Yprh1ia nlr oil cxye 49, & 4 /,