Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-08
u BILLS PUT
IN HOPPER BY
SCHOOL HEADS
Sending of Money Where Chill.
dren Are Held Important
in School Support.
LAW REVISION ASKED

OluneHueQ Dy the COuAcEenCe VI iSsls41-
tive committees on education of the STATE
Teachers Association, have been printed
and will be distributed to members of the
Legislature when they meet again Mon
day after the weekend recess. The bills
were returned today from the State
printer to L. n. Hines, State superin-
tendent of public instruction, and presi-
dent of the educational committe.
The bills recommended by the COM
mittees deal with matters from regula-
ton of children in industry to teachers
salary and retirement laws. The pam
phlet containing the recommendations of
the bills carries each measure in full.
and a request for careful study of the
bills is made to the Legislature.
NEW BASIS
OF DISTRIBUTION.
One Of the most important recommen-
datiOns is that which provides for in
creased State support for schools, with
& new basis for distribution.
This was one of the objects of the re-
cent statewide campaign for support Of
rural schools and for those communities
that have not enough funds to properly
run the school systems. In short, the
property where it lies, and the sending
of the money where the children are"
Codification of the school laws will
also be asked OF the Legislature. This
bill would provide for the appointment
Of a commission of not less than three
nor more than five members to revise
and readjust the school laws Of the
State. The members Of the commission
would serve without pay, but would be
allowed all travelling expenses.
Recommendations OF the commission
would be made to the Governor for
transmission to the Legislature not later
than Dec. l, 1928 An appropriation Of
$3.50 annually for two years would be
made to carry out the provisions of the
act.
Another bill included in the recon-
mendations Of the committee would
provide for the levy OF a tax to support
the common schools of the State and
provide for the apportionment aud dis
tribution Of the money so raised.
PROVIDES 20 CENTS
LEVY On EACH 500.
Section 1 of this bill would provide
that in the year 1921 and annually there
after, there would be assessed and col
lected as State and county revenues are
taxable property. real and personal, in
the State, and in addition thereto, a
poll tax OF 80 cents on each legal voter in
the State, 90 per cent of which money
would be paid into the State treasury
for ! common school tuition fund, and
the remaining 10 per cent to be paid into
the State treasury, to constitute a relief
fund for common school purposes, and
all OF the money so derived from the
provisions Of the act would be appor-
toned to the several counties and school
corporations in the manner provided In
section ? Of the act
Section provides that the distribu-
tiOn should be made: (a) one-third on
the average daily attendance for the
preceding school year. the average daily
attendance Of all pupils in high school
10 be counted as one and One-half times
the actual school attendance; % one
third on the number Of teachers en-
plOyed; (c) one-third on the basis Of the
adequacy of the local support. according
to regulations adopted by the State Board
Of Education.
Other bills recommended by the legis-
lative committee are: Amendment OF
retirement law. health supervision, sum
mer-time and full-time teaching Of agri-
culture and other vocational subjects,
amendment Of attendance law, civil serv-
ice for teachers, increased attention TO
physical training, part-time schools for
permit workers, inspection OF high
schools and elementary schools, increased
qualifications and adjustment of salaries
for county superintendent, giving the
State superintendent the power to call
the county superintendents in conference
on rural school work, requiring that all
teachers shall be citizens of the United
States, provision for a minimum school
term of eight months, giving the State
board of education power to assist In the
school work in State benevolent, charita-
BILE and correctional institutions; bill con-
corning employment Of children, amend
ments to the 1910 State life license law.
increasing the State vocational levy to 1
cent giving township trustees power to
build homes for teachers, dealing with
the problem OF illiteracy, transportation
of high school pupils. providing a law
permitting the furnishing Of school
lunches, annual contracts for teachers,
providing for classifying the schools and
recommending equipment, exempting ex-
perienced teachers from certain require
ments in regard to training, provision
for holding joint township institutes.
The legislative committees met again
today for final consideration OF the bills
which they will ask the Legislature to
pass.
The legislative program of the State
department of conservation also has been
perfected, and number of measures
will be submitted by that department
for passage by the lawmakers of the
State.
Many Of these bills have been recon-
mended by the division OF fish and game.
Several important bills, however, have
been recommended by the department
of geology, and by the commission as
a whole. Perhaps one of the most i'm
portant Of these bills is that providing
for the establishment Of a State engineer
to have charge of the Typographical
survey of the State and to have charge
of and give advice relative to drainage
matters. The engineer would work in
conjunction with Purdue University in
the same manner in which the State
geologist works with Indiana University.
Sixteen bills have been prepared and
are ready for submission by the fish and
game division. These bills relate to re-
vision of game laws and further protec-
ton of birds and game.
All the bills of the department OF
conservation have been printed and are
ready for distribution to the Legislators.
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