The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-09
State Code Commission VIII
Study Conditions.
Secretary Pinet Is Highly
Pleased With Measure.
SHEFFIELD INGALLS, HEADS 1T
Bill Was Prepared by State
Legislative Committees
Brief Digest of Various Educa-
tiOnal Acts.

Only one educational measure of
major importance was enacted into
law by the 1921 legislature. in the
opinion of Frank L. Pinet. secretary
of the Kansas State Teachers ASSOC
citation. This was the provision fora
state school code commission which
is to study the needs of Kansas
schools and make recommendations
for a complete revision of school laws
to the 1923 legislature. The bill was
originally prepared bysthe legislative
committee of the association and in
troduced by Representative Green
leaf of KIowa county.
Sheffield Ingalls, Appointed.
Governor Allen has appointed on
this commission Sheffield Ingalls,.
member of the Atchison board of edu-
cation, and Prof. C. E.. Rarick of the
Fort Hays Normal Lieutenant Cow
ernor Huffman has appointed Senator
Paul Kimbal, Parsons; and Senator
]. M. johnson, Hiawatha, who was
chairman of the senate committee on
education. Speaker Harvey has app
pointed Rep. Minnie Grinstead OF
Liberal, and Representative Ida
walker of Norton. The appointee of
the state superintendent has not been
announced.
Secretary Pinet has prepared the
following brief digest, of other new
educational laws:
House bill 556 places the approval
Of rural high school district bound
aries Jointly in the hands of the
commissioners.
House bill 90 provides for Transport
tation of pupils in rural high school
districts.
Senate bill 100 places township nigh
schools under laws now governing
rural high school districts.
House bill $50 fixes dates of COM
mon school diploma examinations for
rural schools on the third and fourth
Saturdays in April, and for graded
May and the Friday preceding.
Special provision is made for these
dates in the year 1921
House bill 524 changes the term of
county superintendent to begin OF
the first Monday in July of each odd
year beginning with 1928, and giyes
| to the board of county commissioners
the power to fill the short term from
the second Monday in May, 1928, TO
the first Mondhy in July, 1928.
House bill 337 fixes a penalty for
violation of the 1917 law relative to
| instruction in the English language.
House bill 4s provides for the dis
organization of any school district
| that shall for two successive years fail
or neglect to maintain a school for at
| least seven months for each year, and
I provides also for the attachment or
the territory to adjoining districts
| Senate bill AZ provides for the pay
| ment of tuition at the rate of 81 per
week by the board of county com
! missioners for pupils not accessible to
accredited high schools.
| Senate bill 76 fixes the rate of pay
ment for services on the county ex-
| aiming board at IS a day.
Senate bill 517 provides for the pay
| ment of debts made by original school
| districts when consolidated with other
school districts into a consolidated
| district, and relieves such consolidated
district from the payment of obliga-
tons incurred by original school dis
tricts.
House bill 449 reduces the number
of pupils in normal training courses
necessary to make high school eiigi-
BILE to receive state aid for normal
training from ten pupils each semester
to four pupils each semester, and
specifies subjects to be taught in the
fourth year.
Senate bill 24f makes normal trainz
ing certificates permanent certificates
at the expiration of the first renewal
A Dctrimcnt to Schools.
Much of the associations effort was
directed against certain measures con-
sidered detrimental to the schools.
Among such measures defeated were
these:
Senate bill 544. which was directed
against the continuance of the five
day professional institute. and which
allowed college credit for institutes
from twenty to thirty days in length.
Senate bill sos, which was planned
to take away from the state normal
schools the right to issue one-year
state certificates.
Senate bill 654, abolishing the pres
emit state board of education and pro-
yidins a new board composed of the
state superintendent, the secretary OF
state and the state auditor.