The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-12-12
CHANGES RECON-.
MENDED BY SURVEY

The Educational Survey commits
sion, after a three days session in
the executive offices at the capitol,
adjourned yesterday to December IS.
| 1917.
After a discussion which was wide
IN its scope. though informal, because
of the absence of several members of
the board, upon the reorganization of
the public school system, a number
of recommendation were made and
! will be submitted to the members of
the committee who were absent, and
if they are met with approval will be
submitted to the Legislature as the
report of the Educational Survey
| commission and their findings.
The members who were present at
the informal conference were Cover
nor Boyle, Professor J. e. Bray, Pro-
fessor w. j. Hunting, Judge ]. A.
Langwith. DR.. George f. James, ex-
| ecutive secretary, and Mrs Harvey
Edwards, as official reporter.
Following are the recommendations
and report:
That the present State Board of
Education be abolished and in lieu
thereof a State board consisting of
five members to be appointed by the
Governor be created.
That the Superintendent of Public
Instruction be made an appointive
officer. the appointing power resting
with the State Board of Education.
However, since this office is a consti-
tutional office. it will take six years
to put this thing into effect in the
event that the Legislature approves
the recommendation.
That the present system of school
district supervision be abolished and
in lieu thereof, that the county unit
plan be adopted. In short, this plan
contemplates the administration of
school affairs within each county by
by the people. In lieu of the school
trustees abolished by this plan, the
county board will appoint school dis
trict agents to represent the various
school districts. Districts of the first
class - that is TO say, all districts
employing ten or more teachers-are
eliminated from the jurisdiction of
the county board, although given an
opportunity to come under the juris-
diction of the county board by popu
lar vote of the district affected This
leaves the larger centers under ex-
actly the same form of school admin
istration as at the present time
That the present system of school
supervision be radically changed, as
follows:
That each county board of educa-
tion appoint its own county super
visor who may be:
(a) A county supervisor of schools
who will devote all of his time to
such work; or
(b) The principal of the county
high school; or
(c) The superintendent of a school
district of the first class within such
county.
Provision was made for the consol-
idation of two or more counties into
supervision districts. the supervision
in both or all of the counties to be
done by one person to be appointed
by the joint boards of the said coun-
ties.
That in order to bring the central
State authority and the local super
visory and administrative authority
into better relations and into closer
touch. a commission be created, to be
known as the Nevada School Super
visory commission. to be composed
of the members of the Board of Edu-
cation, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the supervisors of the
various counties, all of whom are to
meet as a commission at least once a
year for the purpose of determining
on the school policy of the State, of
establishing and purchasing text
books, and of adopting the courses
of study. 1t was supposed that the
cost of this supervisory work should
be borne jointly by the State and the
counties.
Serious work has been done look
ing to a better system of apportion-
ing State school moneys to the vari-
Gus counties and districts of the
State. and of providing better and
more equitable systems of finance for
the school system in general; but the
committee having this in scharge was
not prepared to report at the time of
the meeting, and the matter was car
ried over to the next meeting.-Car
son News.
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