The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-03-05
YAZELL s SCHOOL
BILL may MEAN new
9Th WARD BUILDING
Many Changes In School System under
Measure Adopted = Six Of Present
Board Members Must Retire

In 1872,
AT a night session Thursday, the
Kentucky Senate adopted the Yazell
Fourth Glass City school bill which /
had been previously adopted by the !
House The measure will probably be
signed by Governor Morrow before the
end of the present week.
This bill is the most far reaching
educational measure that has been
adopted by the Kentucky General AS
sembly in many years and brings
about uniformity of all Fourth class
city school systems, something that
has long been desired.
The new law will bring about many
changes in the present system, chief
Of which is the manner of electing the
members of the Board of Education.
The number of members is cut from
twelve to six and all of the members
are elected from the city at large in
stead of from wards as at present. The
4 election is by secret ballot and can
didate must file petition bearing the
names of at least fifty voters of the
city. This petition must be filed witt
the County Clerk at least fifteen d VI
before the election. Under the new law
the first election will be held in No
vember, 1921, and this means that six
members of the Maysville Board of Ed
ucation, who were elected at last No
vembers election will be required to
retire before their present terms ex-
pire. Those members who will have
to step down and out before their
terms expire are Messrs. Charles
Slack, B. II. Greenlee, Edw. M. Smith.
J. B. Russell, w. C. Crowell and A. R.
IQuigley.
The bill also provides that the City
Superintendent shall be elected for a
term of one year but after the first
trial year, the Superintendent may be
elected for term of either two or four
years. Under the measure, the Super
intendent "shall have general super
vision, subject to the control of the
board, OF the course of instruction,
discipline and conduct of the schools,
text books and studies and all appoint
ments, promotions, dismissals and
transfers of teachers and truant Off
GERS and the change of text books and
apparatus shall be made only upon the
Recommendation of the Superintendent
and the approval of the board" This
is practically the same provision gov
, erning the superintendent as is pro-
vided in the new county school law.
: Another great added feature of the
/ bill is the fact that suburban territory
can be included in the city school sys-
TEN upon agreement. 1t provides that
4 IL a majority of the male voters of
suburban territory sign petition I
the city Board of Education and the
\ County Board OF Education, that ter
ritory can be taken in as city schoo
territory when the City Board will ac
cept them and the County Board dis
! miss them. When a surburb is taleI
+ into the city for school purposes tina
] territory is subject to city school tax
alton but not for city taxation for an!
other purpose.
This phase of the bill is especial.
interesting to Maysville because of tn
. large suburban territory adjoining tn
l ~Rx x1,a atk tkxyt MI t0h x1TflI
ably Immediately come into the cit
for school purposes. The Sixth war
school building is wholly inadequat
and badly In need of repair. 1t is un
derstood that the School Board ca
purchase the ball park property u
q East Second street and II the territor
adjoining the East end Of the city pc
y titions to be added to the city 70
" school purposes, large new schoo
building will probably be erected the
in the very near future.
The one feature of the bill whic
was fought somewhat in the Senat
last night was the taxation claus
which provides that the maximum rat
of taxation for school purposes be IL
creased from 80 cents to $1.50. Loci
school authorities, in discussing tn
measure this morning, stated that
was their opinion that the Maysvill
schools could be operated very SUI
cessfully with the proposed increas
in expense of operation on a taxatio
rate of rs cents.
DR.. w. S. Yazell, Mason county
representative, the author Of the bill
has made for himself a lasting stat
wide reputation through this OF
measure and is to be heartily col
o graduated upon the success of his eI
deavors to improve the school syste
of the state of Kentucky and espec.a
ly those OF the Fourth class cities al