The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-30
Provisions of Educational Bill
NOW Before the Legislature

The title of the bill presented to the
legislature by the Vermont educational |
commission IS An act to establish a pub |
nc educational system and to provide for |
It's maintenance and control; to offer equal |
educational opportunities to all children, |
whether residents in cities, villages or
rural districts; and to equalize taxation
for the support of schools
The bill Is divided into seven parts and
deals with agencies of administration,
public schools, teachers, school property
and equipment, specially incorporated dis
tI1cts, financial support of schools, and
enumerates sections repealed.
The purpose of the act is to take care
primarily OF elementary and secondary
schools of the state as the initial duty of
| the state to its citizens
| The bill provides that the sum of $780,
900 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 $4,000 which the state will eX
lpend on education, making the measure
at any rate, the most notable introduced
Tor several generations and probably one
of the most important educational meas
| ure ever introduced in the legislature.
| The total sum is to be known as the con-
l
tionment and distribution under the pro-
i visions of the act
Distribution of Funds
The method of distribution Of this fund
shall be as follows: General administra-
ton and office purposes of the state board
lof education, etc, $4,000.
| Salaries and expenses of union Superln-
Itendents and supervisors, 1926, 900. No-
tcatiOnal education, $4,000.
Teachers training courses in the see
ondary schools, $4,000
| Summer schools, etc. $4,000
transportation and board of pupils,
= 1926, 900.
Instruction of secondary school
teachers, $4,000.
Agricultural extension instruction in
cooperation with federal extension
work in agriculture, $4,000.
For inspection Of health, 900.
I For advanced instruction of non-res
t ident pupils in high schools, 100000.
9 For payment of the net salaries OF
teachers as provided by enumerated
sections of the act 100000.
For equalizing opportunities anj
4 rates of expenditure, $235,0O0.
L The colleges benefit from the ae'
: only so far as the appropriation l:
= made to apply to pedagogical instrue
i ton of secondary school teachers, $l5,
600; and for agricultural extension
work, $4,000.
The bill follows the lines of repor
of the commission on the subject o
education as applied to the publ
/ school system and the expenditure 0
the money of the state in that direc
# ton, with such equalization feature
-. tla+ tho ha1nal
Ie make their standard of education a
p high as the larger communities with
o more favored grand list.
4 In Effect Next July.
. The bill takes effect ON July l, mex
a and provision is made for the contint
-, alton of such scholarships in the co
10 leges as have been arranged for unit
4 they shall have expired.
~ The bill is so long and importar
r. that an abstract cannot do it justiC
= or give a comprehensive idea of il
i; scope, but for the purposes of this a
u ticle a brief resume is here made.
n THE public educational system"
l. defined in section l of the bill in IL
H. following language: THE public e
Iv vocational system of the state of We
,g mont shall consist of and include q
lie kindergartens, elementary schools, Sc
is. ondary schools, vocational school
teachers training schools or cours
is and all educational work supplemental
a thereto and connected Herewith e
lr- tablished, or to be established, by pu
nd lie authority and maintained at publ
tn expense. 1t shall include also all
is partments or courses established or
lc- be established for the purpose of hig
re err education, or of research, that a
d. maintained by public authority, an
.es either in whole or in part, at publ
he expense.
IRE The public educational system of t
at, state is vested in board of five me-
ne bers. appointed by the governor, a
III no member of the board shall be otht
zee wise employed in educational servi
or otherwise connected with educatio
al institutions, or other special ed
cational interests.
The board shall have the exclusi
administrative government and cont
lie of the public educational system a
ere shall through its executive officer q
al his assistants regulate and supervi
adj the organization and work of the 5,
We tenn and provide for the effective {
rts ministration of the educational p
the icy of the state. The executive Office
INV shall be the commissioner of educ
The tion trained and skilled in the wo1
ere appointed for an indefinite term, a
uld subject to removal only upon a II
re- iOrity vote of the entire board, W
the with two deputies shall be delegat
has
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