Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-11-23
IDAHO PLAN OF
EDUCATION IS
NATIONAL MODEL
UNITY OF SCHOOL AFFAIRS
MAINTAINED BY SUPERVIS-
ION OF CENTRAL BOARD OF
ALL GRADES.
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Monitor from it's Pacific Coast
Bureau)

| Especial to The Christian Schemes
Monitor from it's Pacific Coast
Bureau)
| BOISE, Ida.-Idaho as a state hai
an organized system of education b.
which all school thought is focus
under one command, one govern.ne
board which holds every co-rse q
study, sustained by common taxes
under its supervision. The Idaho sSs
tenn, now in the fou4 tn var O. Its
operation. stands uni4ue among cd
cational systems in lbs auth r4ty te
handle an educational prof. N In
any and all phases of SCLoo WORK. II
is essentially system aid among
educators is known as the Iuaho
plan.
The Idaho plan provides that a
unity of school affairs shall be MAN.
tanned by bringing all school inter
ests under the supervision OF enc
single board of education, which
acts as a governing board for the
SIX state educational institutions, in
Guiding the university, two normal
schools, the technical institute, the
industrial training school and the
school for the deaf and bhAd, and
also exercises general supel visien
over the public elementary and hlsh
schools. The board is appointive in
character and is composed of bus
ness men. 1t selects commissioner
of education, who. with the superin-
tendent OF public instruction, adj
ministers the states educational mat
tiers.
The one board of administration
holds the state as unit educational
ly after the manner in which the
various schools OF city are pre-
sided over by one board. The Com
missioner of education bears the
same relation to the state that the
city superintendent does to The City
Under the Idaho plan mo-
state institution OF learning has a
separate board of regents or direct
ors. No rivalry exists between the
schools more than may be found IN
The pride of accomplishment in two
schools of the same city; they aleI
parts of a state unit and ea4h one
functions from The standpoint of The
states needs.
Harmony and mutual assistance
among the state institutions and the
public schools are DDstered by the
board, and each Institution is s.r4v-
ng to build itself up, not at the
of any other institution, but
n order to perform it's nilsson to
he state more fully. Conferences at
which the heads OF all state insGitu-
ions and the board of education
'tudy common problems are frequent
vt such joint conferences the appro-
'riations to be asked from the Leg
stature are discussed and the
mount for each institution fixed
The needs of the institution and the
mount Of the appropriation WIKI
he board will ask for are made pub
lc some weeks before the con.en-
ng of the Legislature and DIS -uss-
d in the press. The customary lob
Dying of the school presidents and
cards of regents with the frequ snt I
esort to political methods to Sc
ure the appropriations for their
chools is eliminated by the presen- '
alton to the Legislature by the
of education of one l
budget covering all
lie states expenditures for its
shoots.
Contemplated legislation is also
andled In the same manner, by the
he board, which determines its
purse of action from previous con-
rences with the county swperintend.
It's and at state feathers associa-
ons. The financial saving in
anaging all institutions under one u
,ard and the employment of uni
rm business methods is one of
e quickest benefits to be discern u
in the Idaho plan. The biennial L
port presented to the Legislature
vers the whole school system from IL
e elementary school to the uni "
rsity and takes the place of what -
rmerly was put in seven volumns. :.
dialogues and bulletins combining ~
formation of state institutions I'M
N CT aocot nting viii h pr.yen S II
ase OF supplies which involve the Vi
cling of articles, save great ex- a.
nse to the state. A uniform sys- ~
n of accounting which prevents =.
; mourning OF deficisn iss through az
adequate accounting has been es- ~
olished and no institution is per- ~
tied to become involved in a de- W
iency. PC
Under the Idaho plan the element
7 schools are being standardized