The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-04

Department of Census and Vocational Guica ance, the Department of Health and Hygiene, and the Department of Maintenance and Operation.
 The object of this Departm ental org6 ntzation is not to break up the system into isolated parts, but rather to bring to them under unified con- trol the most closely related activi- ties; and to establish and make clear the responsible relationships of every one in the system towards his work and associates. Through the medium of the Superintendent, the educational leader and executive head of the whole system, every departn ent must be made to work in active harmony. in helpful cooperation with each other"
 Saves Time
 The purpose of these rules then is to take the time of the Superir1te der1 and his chief supervising officers as Htt'e as possible for BoaSd meetings, to allot to each supervising officer the sp ecif1c headship of a department, to Iiace all of those departments CO., ordirated under the head of your chief executive officer, the Superin- tendent, to diminish the constant drain on the Superintendent, and other officers by meetings of these little boards, which is acco nDplished by having all business done in the presence Of one board of six members, and to bring the whole educational system into that coordination and simplicity of operation which seems 10 your the pest qudII41eu to get economy, efficiency, good serv- ice for the children and good results for the taxpayers.
 The several departments are de- sions employed in modern schools sys- teTls organized. The Department of Health and Hygiene is an example. That brings together under one super vision the various health activities of the school and gives them co-ordina- tion and unity, and takes them out of their status of being broken up and scattered and under no common sup erv1sfon.
 Few Changes
 The general regulations are quite the same. The article on dIe-~icts, the article on pupils, the article on high school system, organization or administrative officers and their du- ties, principals and their duties, teach CTS and their duties, qualifications and certificates of teachers, the various kinds of qualifications, the salary schedules, salary for absence during illness, rules governing janitors ex- cept those I have enumerated, the of janitors' salaries, the rules governing the use of the high school auditorium and gymnasium. the rules governing the general use of buildings, the rules governing hold ing entertainments in the schools, are all they are in the old rules:
 It might be proper to say that in addition to what I have said, that the portion of the former rules Is left untouched, that the mat ter of teachers pay for sickness is the same as in the old rules, and that notking whatever of controversial nature now appears in that part Of the rep ort.
 Make Transition
 You are going to make you transi- ton. A majority of this Board will be a majority of the next. It has seemed to your committee that it is important to the well-being of our that we be prepared to make this transition without friction and without delay. The Board has had consi derable experience of the diff cuIties and inconvenienceS and dis putes and delays that arise when one type of Board disapip ears and an other type of Board comes into being without any provision being made for the change.
 It may be said, and perhaps pro nerly, that these rules ought to De made by the new Board and that they may be reconsdered by the new Board even though we prepare them in the utmost detail for the transi- tion even though we facilitate that ransition as much as we can, yet the new Board one being organized, find ing any of these rules that it doesn't like, may proceed with these rules precisely as it might proceed With any rules; ae we are proceeding now.
 The fact that this Board prepares for what is going to happen, prepares to put the school system On sound basis given it something substantial adapted to a Board of six to work on when that Board comes in, achieves a result greatly beneficial to the school system.