Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1920 — TEACHERS’ WEEK MARCH 7 TO 14 [ARTICLE]

TEACHERS’ WEEK MARCH 7 TO 14

STATE EDUCATIONAL BOARD ASKS PUBLIC TO BECOME INTERESTED. • ; II ■ ■ The state board of education has designated the week of March 7-14 as “Teachers’ Week,” and have asked all school superintendents to get, in touch with divic bodies, fraternal orders, churches, and in fact all bodies and to have them put forth the cause of the teachers as much as it is possible to do so. The teaching situation has become acute in Indiana and the state educational board feels that the public should be correctly informed as to the cause, which is principally believed'to be the small salaries offered to competent men and women. , In calling for a state “Teachers’ Week” they hope to have the cause and remedies for all difficulties pertaining in any way to the school system, thoroughly discussed and commented upon by the public. Many of the teachers of the state have left their books and have gone into other walks of life simply because in the fact of present high prices they have found it impossible for them to continue teaching at the present rate of pay. In the state there now exists a shortage of 3,000 teachers, according to reliable information. ' z