Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-29
LESS POWER FOR
COMMISSIONER OF
EDUCATION BOARD
Code Revision Committee len
tatively Agrees Upon This
Change.
NEW PLAN is PROPOSED
srec,a, p,spascb From stan Correspondent

specia, pispasch From staff Correspondent
SrsrE HOUSE,, DOVER, April 20.
The commission appointed by the
LEGISLATURE to revise the School Code
tentatively agreed yesterday afternoon 10
take arbitrary power from the state COM
missioner of education and give IL 10 the
state Board of Education. His term OF
office was tentatively changed IRON two
wears To one year Although the state
poard of Education fixes his salary, that
tenn is put in the boards budget, and The
Legislature may let the item stand or de-
.rease or increase IT, At present perins-
sion to erect new school buildings or re-
oair old buildings must be obtained IRON
he commissionep, but the revisionis's
tentatively decided that IN the future
such WORK could be done on endorsement
hv the State, county or local Boards Oh
Education.
II WAS tentatively agreed TO divest
county school superintendents OF arbl-
lrary mower and give the county Boards OF
Educa,ion such power. Their term Of
,frice was tentatively changed from two
years to one year.
Considerable time was devoted to dis
,t,ssing bond issues for school purposes,
mt decision on that subject was not
reached
The State Board of Education was
tentatively authorized to provide list oi
textbooks. instead of prescribing the
hooks
Anticipating equal suffrage, the re-
visionists tentatively struck the word
male" from the section describing per-
sons qualified To vote at school elections.
Tie words cat least" were tentatively
stricken from the section reading the
tate Department Of Education shall
lcrcinafter he provided with at least
tho following clerical and professional
assistants" etc.
Heclsion was not reached on proposal
~ abolish all the special school districts
was tentatively decided, however, that
special district may come under county
,vernment If a majority OF the taxpayers
the district 80 petition or u such desire
oppressed at a special election, m which
vent the State Board of Education wlll
nr,s,cribe the terms for coming Under
o,u,tv government. According to tenta-
1--WE agreement, the question OF decreas-
q or increasing the size of a special dis-
.ri,.t must be submitted at a special elec-
ion
Although th commission is progressing
satisfactorily. il is believed that when the
Legislature reeonvenes next Thursday,
IL will ask for an extension OF the two
weeks i'm order to complete its labors.
This was the announcement made TINS
afternoon by members of the commission
After today's session the commission
will hold public hearings tomorrow AZ
Newark; Monday at Dover; Tuesday at
Georgetown and Wednesday confer rel
ative TO the extension o. the session.
The time OF the morning conference
was taken up with the consideration OF the
consolidation Of school districts. II was
tentatively decided that when any group
of districts was proposed for consoiida-
iion. that if 25 per cent of the taxpayers
opposed such move, that the question
could he taken from the county board and
presented to the State board on this sp.
neal. If there was still 35 per cent opposed
10 consolidation. then the matter should
be referred to a referendum.
In discussing the bonding issue, there
seemed to be the opinion that state
school building program might be the
best meth cd.