The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-06
P. T. A. ConUention
 For School Relief
Seuli.Annual Meeting in Washington Last Month
 Adopted and Recommended Important Measures

Washington. Oct e--Two meas ures locking toward relief for Americas crippled school system Asers of the national congress of parents and teachers at its semi- annual meeting in washington, D. C., September IS to 22.
 First-support of emergency leg islhtion providing federal aid to schools was incorporated in the years legislative program of the congress.
 seccnd--a modern program of financing public schools, 0 course of study designed to familiarize parents with the problems of school finance, was adopted. Based upon the report of the national confer ence on the financing of educa- , ton, held in New York July 31 to August Il, 1883, under the atis- pices of the joint commission on the emergency in education, the study program will be promoted on q nationwide basis through par- ent-teacher associations. Presidents of the state congresses of parents and teachers were consultants on this conference.
 4l6 9tuuy RlGtt Wa9 DEQR4h Vo 1S Miss Charl o. Williams, fifth vice. president and director of the de- pertinent of education of the na- tional congress. In proposing the study for consideration of the board, Miss Williams said: "This report represents the very latest thinking on the subject of school finance by experts in the field of education. Because pareft-teacher associations are more closely re- lated to the emergency than any other group they need to under stand the problems of school fl- nance. It Is hoped that laymen, particularly members of parent teacher associations, will join with educators in 8 study of this re- port" Miss Williams points out that study of the recommendations of the joint commission does not im- ply agreement with them, but that tho purpose of the study course is to give laymen a better under standing of the problems of financ- ing public schools.
 Recommendation of the Joint commission on which the study program is based include the fol- lowing:
 Better methods of taxation must be enforced to continue existing educational offerings and to de- velop school programs to meet modern social needs.
 State responsibility for the foundation program of education must Do assumed in the future in order to ease the burned of atxation on local communities.
 Federal aid for education must be extended beyond its present scope if educational opportunity is to be maintained in the states.
 Recognition of local school units in some states must be effected before a genuinely economical ad- ministration of the schools Is pos. sible.
 Puplic education in our mod ern complex society must be broad in scope.
 High school Tuition Opposed
 A resolution was adopted by the board of managers opposing the school education on q tuition basis. The resolution follows:
 Resolved--that the board of man. agers of the national congress of parents and teachers in regular ses- sion assemb bied, September 2f. 1888, in Washington, D. D., deplores the efforts to put high school educa- tion on a tuition basis and thus to destroy equality of educational op- portunity at the very time when such opportunity Is most vitally ne- cessary to both individual and so- cial well-being. The board urges officers and members of the na- tional congress of parents and teachers and other citizens to take an active part in defending the rights of all American youth to free and equal educational oppor- tunity until 1t shall become pos sible or desirable for them to have suitable employment.
 High School Survey
 Plans for 6 nationwide survey or high school parent.teacher asso- by the United States office of educa- ton in cooperation with the nation- al congress to parents and teach- CTS. were outlined by Miss Bcss Goodykoontz, assistant United States commissioner of education. This survey will seek to discover the range, of activities or high school units; tho type of programs promcteh: the attitude of faculties, the extent of student participation; and such other information as may be requested by the state presi- dents.
 High school units will be urged this year to promote as a project health examinations, including tuberculin tests. among high school students. according to plans of tho health director of the congress, Mrs Herman Ferger "Parents' Recovery Act" Suggested
 A Parents Recovery Act" to do for the nations home what the national industrial recovery act Is doing for the nations business was suggested by Mrs Hugh Bradford. national president, in an address broadcast over a nationwide net wrok of the National Broadcasting company, September 20.
 "we have before us the psycho- logical moment for making homes
 
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