The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-12-21
STATE BUDGET
RAPED BY CARY
State Superintend-
ent Cary Raps Educa-
tiOnal Program.
TOO MUCH EXPLOITING
(By United Press)

Madison, Wis.-Declaring that the
state board of education is a super
numerary, and that the state educa-
tional budget has in it handicap
that no budget has, E. P Cary, former
state superintendent of schools, today
issued another statement rapping the
comprehensive educational program"
announced by that body.
"a comprehensive educational pro-
gram" Cary said,s "has been defined
as follows:
whatever the state board of educa-
ton happens to advocate.
"The state board of education's
talking point when it wants to make
good impression.
at is anything that will permit the
board to say that till now there has
been only drift and chaos in educa-
ton; but now we are to have the real
thing, thanks to the state board"
"But more generally" Cary added,
81 have heard it defined as an educa-
tional joke" GnA 49,
For Much Explorations
Cary's own definition, he said, was
this: Anything that permits the board
to exploit itself and get into the pap
ers; add to this fatal tendency to
thrash over old straw and to present
for consideration things that every
body knows. to be impossible even if
in themselves desirable"
"Suchs a program" he said, "con-
fuses the public and likewise the leg
islature, and as a result, good legis7.
lation that might have been enacted
gets thrown into the dump along with
the program.
Here Is His Program.
A half dozen sweeping changes in
the educational policy of Wisconsin,
some of them which have been under
discussion for several years, will be
included in the legislative recommen-
dations of the state board of educa-
ton, announced to the United Press
by E. A. Fitzpatrick, secretary of the
state board of education here today.
The most radical change sponsored
by the board is the proposed institu-
ton of Junior colleges, one of the
main arguments for this feature be-
ing that the size Of the state univer-
sity under present systems probably
will jump to the bulky figure of
10000 in 1929.
Suggests More Consolidation.
The other recommendations are for:
1. A public education fund to be
made up of the state inheritance taxes
which now go into the general fund
of the state.
2. Thee Consolidation of Schools
wherever possible. This includes, ac-
cording to the board, the limiting of
one-room rural schools to six grades,
the building up of high school dis
tricts in the country and more equip
ment for teaching.
3. Appointment of county superin-
tendants of schools instead of election.
4. A high school program, includ-
ing the creation of capital fund for
high schools, more state aid, revision
of the conditions and scope of present
state aid to high schools, organization
of high school districts to include a
larger number of children, the organi-
cation of general rural high schools"
with campGses not less than ten acres
each, longer and more specific train
ing for teachers, and provision for
teachers to instruct only in those
subjects in which they are qualified
to teach.
5. A constitutional amendment to
allow the appointment of the state
superintendent of schools, instead of
election as at present.
6 Specifically dafninr tho aativi-