Smyrna times., 1923-01-31
LEGISLATURE VIEWS SCHOOL
PROBLEMS IN A BIGGER WAY
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCA-
TION OPPOSE RADICAL CHANGES
Approve Some Amendments Wanted
But Report UnfavOrably ANY Move
to Go Back to the Old System


The committee on education of the
lower House of the Delaware Legis-
lature' Monday afternoon reported un-
favorably Representative Gray's bill,
introduced in the House last week, to
repeal the present school law and re-
vert back to the laws that prevailed
prior to the enactment of the School
Code in 1919. The committees report
is believed to sound the death knell
of this and other drastic school mea-
sures. The committee on education,
at the same time, reported favorably
five more of the twenty-three propos-
ed amendments to the present school
law, making a total of ten reported
favorably and one unfavorably. DR.,
Lea L. Driver, director of rural edu-
cation in Pennsylvania with the con-
| sent of the House, over the opposition
of Representative Nelson, of Frank
ford, spoke for five minutes in sup
port of the advanced steps Delaware
has taken in education in the past
few years.
Looking at Big Things in Big Way
Delaware" he said, "has taken
one of the most advanced steps of any
state in the Union by dividing the
States school revenue in way which
would promote the education of every
boy and girl in the State. When Del
aware began to look upon the question
of education as state problem" ht
declared, at made things worth while
We have got to look at it in a bis
way. Schools may be destroyed in ;
day, but they cannot be made in a day
1t can be done only when the good o
the child is being considered, becaus
when the child receives benefit tn
, state also receives benefit. As tn
state guides the child today, the chill
is gsing to guide the state tomorrow
1t is up to every citizen to see tha
the boy and the girl get the very bes
: opportunity we can give them."
;. School Budget Calls for $4,000, ,O0O
DR.. H. v. Holloway, State Superb
tendent Of Public instruction, has sui
1nitted to Governee- Denney and Chair
man Collins of the legislative budgt
o committee the State Board of Educ;
: tion budget for the operation of ii
h public schools Far the rext two year
4 The State board recommends an al
: preparation of S2,500;06O for the fir
: year and $2,6e5, 900 for the year 1872.
: 25, which would make a total appr
: pria1Son for thle two years of S5, 10C
:. OO0. These amounts were arrived a
q it is explained, by taking the bulge;
4 as presented from an the school di
h tEEts of the State and reducing Il
total by $3UO,000. These do not il
clude the appropriation to meet Il
: prov isions ,Ef the Smith Hughes Fe
! erzll vocational act and the American
: izaflon act, which are provided for
4 the general fund.
e Appropriation Will be Equally Divide
* The State board also recommend
d thEa the appropriation be divided {
# follows: General control not more tha
o 5J5 per cent; instruction, not less tha
20 per cent operations, not more tina
9.5 per cent; maintenance, not MOI
than per cent; auxiliary actiYitie
such as libraries, transportation ar
health, not more than 5 per cen
:. fixed charges, not more than p,
CEN; capital outlay, not more than
per cent, and debt service, not mo-
than 3 per cent.