Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1908 — Will Be a Shortage of Teachers. [ARTICLE]

Will Be a Shortage of Teachers.

Superintendent Lam son has made out a list of the licensed teachers of the county. He finds that there are 94 teachers holding license. Of this number 13 hold 3 year license, 51 hold two year license, 25 hold one year license, one holds exemption license and three hold State Normal diplomas. Of the one, two and three year license, 27 have been issued by the state and the applicants fnay teach in any county of the state. Seven or eight of this year’s highschool graduates have made grades for license and are now doing the required normal work, after which license will be issued to them. The highest grade of scholarship on any license is 97.5 per cent, while the highest grade cn any issued by the state is 95.2 per cent. Of the 94 who hold license 10 will probably not teach and eight, will pi pliably .leach, in other counties in graded schools. There may be a few others who hold license and whose grades are not recorded here, the examination being taken in other counties and the papers sent to the state for grading, i »j~t year the schools of the- county’ required 12.6 teaqheis, but It is probable that this year six or seven will be closed on account of small attendance, thus the number of teachers will be somewhat decreased. Even with this decrease it looks like Jasper county would need several more teachers than are now licensed. Some of the counties of the state have an over supply of teachers occasioned by the consolidation of the country schools and the large number of high-school graduates, but this county with only the two commissioned high-schools and small decrease In the number of country schools does not seem to hold it’s own.