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


 power in the superintendent, to de- crease the number of meetings of board members, though regular meet ings of the full board will occur twice a month instead of once. that legis- Iative power is retained in the Board.
 In short, modern book of ru1"s has been adopted, creating a syste-n which much resembles, within the schools, the city manager plan as ap- piled to city government. A small commission, exercising Legislative c powers, 3, manager, the sup perintend- ent exercising executive authority. Here is the report as made by the chairman of the committees:
 This is a copy of the rules sub 1nitted by the com mittee on rules re- vision attested by Lynn W. Wilson Howard Speer and Mary E. Cutting, who were raised committee to create new rules.
 So far as salary schedules are con cerned, so far as qualifications are concerned, so far as the discipline of teachers is concerned, and the disctp- line of janitors-I mean by that the disciplinary rules, and so far as sah- ary schedules for janitors are con cerred, there are absolutely no changes. They are taken from the former rules.
 In the rules that relate to janitors there are, think, only three changes. On makes the janitor subordinate to the principal of the school in certain matters and the other gives the 5ani- tor the benefit of fourteen days pay  vacation.
 Under the old rules of the Board. the Janitors are rather unfaVofaoly situated as measured against teachers and other employees of the Board In that the other employees got leave for sickness without any interference with their vacations. but janitors would be taken away from their vaca-- tious. We have changed that rule.
 Janitors Can't Smoke
 A minor change is that janitors are forbidden to smoke in the school- houses while schools are in session. That was an addition which we made I think that includes all changes in disciplinary rules for teachers or jan
 The important changes in the rules are these The Board of Education has been slowly reduced from tWeLVe E-embers to six members. Onde6 the old twelve man system, we had a number of committees to fac1I1tale action. twelve being a considerabde number. But the Board in a few days is to be six members, and these rules are adopted in the idea that it Will be more convenient for six members to act as a committee of the whole than it will be to split them up.
 If these rules are adopted all bus mess wfll come before all six mem bers of the Board. The Board may as if does now, raise such committees for snecial work as it desires. but generally speaking all business VIII come before the whole Board TOT ac. tion so that the chief change in that arrangeme is that the Board Of SIX won't be split up into committee on schools, a committee on finance an1 a committee On school houses. but a4l those things will be done before the Board.
 The order of business with some siimplification remains substantially as at resent The powers of the Presl- deEt are substantially as at pSesenI' anI the powers of the Secretary Of the Board are substantially as at present. ana the duties of the President, wee President and Secretary are substan- tially the same as now
 The duties of the Assistant Secre- tary of the Board are supStah htisttlS tii. the same as they are now, but there has been withdrawn from the utIe ol the Assistant Secretary ot the boalu' b inc words and Secretary to the sup. erintendent' That is because that office never functioned as Secretary to the Superintendent and the AsslstaLL Secretary is created with the same powers he has now, an ottlcer III rbarpe of the clerical department 1rrecisely as he is now, subordinate oniV to the Board H.,
 In the election and duties or tn Superintendent, there is a marked ana considerable change in the worklnS or tha section and the effect ot this sec ton is to give quite a nttIe HoL mower to the Superlntendent oI Schonls than he has now. That power however is not invented by the men that has been assembled py us ous hers of your committee O. sometnlns of our own unaided judgments, but these are the powers which now arg usually given to Superintenoents ol Schools all over America whereVe5 they have these small boards ana these compact school committees anc a modern system of doing business.
 These rules, think, would get the apDroval of the Teachers College and those groups of experts where this sort of thing is done.
 Power of Supt.
 With respect to the main powers of +bo Snnerintendent, however there is little or no change. l mean by the main poyers, the power to appoint teachers and other employees or the Board assistants and all that person mel of the system Under our former rrIss the Superintendent of schools yer- properly had that power, and retains it here in the same 9egree' put @ not | think in any greater degree, eN- rs-t that when the Superintendent makes a accommodations, It these rules should be adopted. he woplun r1aka ii to a committee on schools, but to the whole Board direct, ans the whole Board would pass upon It direct, but now as then, ne recoAh- rlands to the Board ana the hoaru accerts the recommendation if it de- In these rules. as in the other, the Toard has no power to name teach CT These rules, like our present TI,,es. strip the Board of that power and Iodse it in the Superintendent Tha Board may in these rules pro nosed. as in the past rules, if 1t de- I;,r,s reiect the recommendation of inc Superintendent and he will make anofher.
 Finances Separate
 The Superintendent, as at present boz,.n1er is not given any control over the servants in the financial depart ment: All of those servants are dl- ,sctlI- under the Board through the clerical department headed by Mir Wynkoop. r
 One of the main differences in these rules is the organization o1 schools and school activities. Six departments are created, the Department of Elementary Day Schools the Department of Secondary rN-N r = .A1- 4ln. Da,,a rtr,aenf of Sun