The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-03-27


House Bill No. 304-This changes
the minimum census from twenty-five
to fifteen The result will be a some
what fairer distribution than the pres
ent law provides.
Oh Raising the maximum appor
tionment for teachers in consolidated
and rural high schools from 5000 to
$500 year.
Both of these provisions are really
based on the new SIS minimum county
levy.
House Bill No. 32O-Makes the fol-
lowing modification in the bond law
for common school districts:
(a) Sec Raising the limit from
to and requiring that all bonds
shall be issued on the amortization
plan.
90 Sec. 77-Checking extravaganza
by allowing protest when more than
one-half of the property is owned by
residents.
(c) Sec. Requiring bonds to be
offered first to the State Board of
Land Commissioners.
cd Sec Placing responsibility
for payment of bonds on the county
commissioners and treasurer.
House Bill No. 324-This bill en-
powers school districts employing
thirty or more teachers to establish
teachers retirement fund. The prin-
cipal conditions are that the teachers
to be pensioned shall be not less than
fifty-five years of age in case of wom-
zen and not less than sixty years Of
age in case of men; shall have taught
not less than thirty-five years, fifteen
of which. including the last ten, shall
have been in said school district in
case of men. and case of women shall
have taught for thirty years, fifteen
of which, including the last ten, shall
have been in said school district.
House Bill No. 375-This bill con
tains three provisions as follows: (a)
Section 129 m-The first provision re-
fers to the special tax which may be
levied for maintaining a gymnasium
At present this tax is limited only by
the provision that the grand total dis
trict tax may not exceed twenty mills
This means that it would be legally
impossible for some districts to levy
ten mills for the support of gymnasi-
UNI This bill limits the gymnasium
tax absolutely to a miximum of one
mill.
The amendment also cuts out GER
tain complicated provisions which are
of no real value and have already given
rise to legal conflicts.
CD Sec. 129c-The second pro-
vision allows Independent districts to
levy over the maximum of ten mills
up to fifteen mills with the approval
of the State Board of Education.
(c) Section 129 aa-This provis-
ion was passed in 1913, but owing to
conflict with other bills has been
passed in by the courts of non-effect.
1t attempted to change the number of
teachers required to constitute an in
dependent district Glass "AN from
| thirty-five to twenty.
The educational system has been
running on this basis for three years
and this amendment is included sim
ply to validate the intention of the
legislature in 1913 and the actual
conditions now existing.
Senate Bill No 1877 amends the
present laws which contain mass
of ambiguous and conflicting provis-
ions concerning the qualifications of
voters at school elections. After the
most thorough study of this question
with the aid of county superinten-
dents, schools, trustees, and legal adj
vice, this Act is submitted, which
clears up the whole matter and re-
duces it to absolute simplicity; the
new provisions are as follows:
% All persons over the age OF
twenty-one who have resided in the
district where they offer to vote at
least thirty days Immediately pre-
ceding the election and who are:
(a) freeholders, including both
; husband and wife, when the freehold
is community property; or,
CD parents having children under
.. twenty-one years of age.
Senate Bill No. 110-This is prob
. ably the most far-reaching measure
in the educational field. 1t has an
exceedingly interesting history fol
this bill as passed is redically differ
! ent from the original, although aimed
to solve the same problem.
In its first form the bill provide!
two contrasting courses of study, ont
! for the rural population, sever
months a year for ten years, the 9th
er for centers of population nin'
months a year for eight years. 1t al
so provides in all districts, both com
mon and independent, that the boar
: should fix the length of terms, thu
repeating the present minimum o
nine months for large districts.
The new bill makes no change il
the law as to school term, but call
for % a course of fundamentals TO
minimum term schools and (2)
commission to study the whole prob
lem of the curriculum and work G
schools.