Milford chronicle., 1922-12-29
TEACHERS ENTERTAIN
STATE LEGISLATORS.
At A Meeting In Dover Yesterday
Persons Interested In Educa-
tiOnal Matters Discussed
CHANGES IN SCHOOL LAW
Plan To Have Bill Ready For Pre-
sentatiOn When Legislature
COnvenes In January.

NOuVeueS III JANUARY
If the plans of the State Board OF
Education concerning the drafting of
a bill to be presented to the General
Assembly, embracing the % proposed
changes in the State School Law ma
ture as hoped for, then the school bill
will be No. l bill of the measures in
troduced into the Legislature at the
coming session. Henry Ridgely, at
torney of Dover, has been authorized
by the State Board to prepare the bill
which is to be ready for presentation
on January l, 1928.
AS the Chronicle goes to press the
members of the State Legislature are
the guests of the State Teachers AS
sociation, at a luncheon meeting in
the Capitol Hotel, at Dover. Members
of the State Board of Education and
many others throughout the State
who are interested in educational mat
ters were present at the meeting.
While the various changes to the
School Law have been discussed
throughout the fall, at meetings OF
Parent Teachers Associations and al
so at Grange meetings, yesterdays
meeting afforded a fine opportunity
for discussion of the proposed changes
prior to the changes being presented
to the legislature.
The State Board of Education has
about decided, it is said, to present all
of the % proposed changes in the
bill. to the legislature. Many of these
amendments to the State law have the
approval of Parent-Teachers and the
State Grange, and where changes have
been disapproved, the members of the
State Board believe that this disap-
proyal may be due to misunderstand-
ing as to the intent of the amendment.
In any event the State Board will sub
NIT to the General Assembly the %
changes announcing at that time
where and by whom the changes have
been approved and also those Organi-
cations that may disapprove of any OF
the amendments. In other words, the
State Board of Education is going to
place all of it's cards on the table, face
up, with all the information it has
been possible to obtain and then leave
the bill for the consideration OF the
legislators.
Will Ask Increase of 100000
If it is possible, the State Board of
it is said, will not attempt
to emphasize the financial needs of the
Public School System of Delaware |
other than to present the budget to
the legislature. For the conduct of the |
School System in the next two years |
the State Board of Education will ask |
the sum of S2,300,000 for each year.
This is an increase of 100000 over
last year, due it is said, to the extra |
cost of transportation and the in
creases in salaries of teachers. The
latter item is trivial when compared
with the cost entailed of transporting
pupils.
The budget will also seek $3,000,000
10 be divided over two years to defray
The cost of new buildings and repairs
10 old ones. The necessity and urgency
If districts where school conditions
are the most deplorable, will receive
over others, if the State
Board of Education plan goes thru.
How the State shall raise this money |.
S a question and problem that the
members of the State Board do not
wish to become involved with.
1--WE are practically prepared for
he coming session of the legislature
insofar as suggested changes in the
school law and our budget is con-
,erned," said DR.. Thomas R. Brown, I
PRESIDENT of the State Board of Edu-
,ation. "Our program has been given
he widest publicity. All Of our meet !
ngs, all of our records, and all of our
have been open to the pub
lc at all times. We have done the best :
re could. We may have made some J
but they were errors of T
Judgment brought about often times !
y our zeal to do the best and most 7
hat we could in meeting certain con- +
itions. V
"All of the members of the State i
ioard," continued DR.. Brown, "have +
iven valuable time and have cooper n
ted heartily in every thing looking I
1wards the improvement of educa- I
onal matters in Delaware. That the q
peration of the State School Law h
-as as successful in the past two a
ears as it has worked out is due to ii
le cooperation of the Board as O
hole. None of the changes that are h
lggested to the legislature in our bill O
re startling. In many cases it is a
lestion of selecting a stronger or T
ore efficient way of conducting the O.
cards affairs after we have tried IT
1t the method fixed by the State law il
day." el