Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1903 — Several Educational Bills. [ARTICLE]

Several Educational Bills.

The State Board of Education reoommended a number of bills at a Joint meeting of the educational committees of the Senate and House. It favors one raising the qualifications of county superintendents so that a five years’ instead of a three years’ license shall be required. The board has also indorsed a bill allowing the connty superintendents from $250 to SSOO a year for expenges. The board will support a bill providing for the sale of text-books by regular dealers instead of by school officers and township trustees. It will also make an effort to readjust the salaries of school teachers by abolishing the minimum scale and substituting a sliding scale based on the teachers’ experience. In addition to asking that the school tax levy be restored to 16 cents, and that a high school inspector, with an annual salary of $2,600, be appointed, the board recommends a law providing that city superintendents may be employed for a longor term than one year and fixes qualifications for them.