Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 257, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 28 December 1948 — Page 4

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iSTJIUVAN DAILY TIMES .TUESDAY, DEC. 28. 194S.

SULLIVAN. INDIANS

Many School Units Too Small; School Study Commission Says

Editors Note: This is an- program Indiana should make

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j written about the reports of c the Indiana School Study h Commission. Others in .the ' f series will follow. t Many local public school adninistative units, especially fjown and township units, are entirely too small to meet acceptable standards and a satisfactory (School program can never be Offered in these small units un'Uer the present plan of organisation, according to a report released yesterday by William T. Kinder, Tipton, Chairman of the Indiana School Study Commission. The Commission recommends that in the interest of economy and an improved educational

the entire county one unit for .administration except for city school systems. The 57-member Commission, composed of prominent laymen and educators, has had the Indiana public school system under study and consideration for the last eight rapnths. The fads gathered by the Commission reveal that the most serious deficiency of the small high school is that the school program which can be provided

f for the pupils is too narrow and

restricted to meet their needs for living in a modern complex world in spite of the fact that the expenditure per pupil for instructional and other services (excluijve of transportation) range as high as two or three times those of high schools of

adequate size. For the 96 townships maintaining six-year high schools (grades 7-12) the highest expenditure per pupil in the average daily attendance in 1946-47 was $719, the lowest : was $135 and the median was $230. For the townships with fewer than 50 pupils in average daily attendance the median expenditure was $425; for those with from 50 to 99 pupils in average daily attendance, $306; for all townships with fewer than 100 pupils in average daily attendance, $309, and for those with 300 or more, the median expenditure was $188. The median per pupil expenditure in the townships maintaining high schools with an average daily attendance of fewer than 50 pupils was $237 higher than that of the townships with an average daily attendance of 300 or more. In the townships maintaining four-year high schools (9-12) with an average daily attendance

of fewer than 100 pupils the median per pupil expenditure was

'$79 higher than those with an

average daily attendance of 200 or more. The excessive cost, the report points out, of the small township high school is clearly shown by these comparisons. The Commission report indicates that the recommended change in the organization for administration of schools would mean that the school program could be much better administrated and much more easily financed than at present and that the way would be opened for Indiana to have a much better educational program in every way than is now possible under the present township organization. The recommendation adopted by the Commission states that each county should have a county board of education responsible to the citizens of the county for the organization and operation to te school program and that the

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county board of education be composed of five persons elected on a non-partisan ballot for fouryear overlapping terms on a majority vote of the citizens of the county. Under the provisions of this recommendation the county superintendent of schools would be employed by the county board of education and would be designed by law as the executive officer and secretary of the board and would be responsible for administering the entire educational program of the county exclusive of cities. The Commission also recommends that the law should make it easy for any city school corporation and especially a small city corporation to combine or merge with the county school corporation when such a merger is found to be desirable. The report points out that after the town and township school administrative units have been reorganized and have , become a part of the county school system, comprehensive local studies should be undertaken in ea'ch county to determine the location of permanent elementary and high school centers where new school buildings should be constructed and to establish

attendance areas, and to work out practical steps to, etfect needed reorganization of schools in order to meet minimum acceptable standards. The Commission recommends that the studies should provide the needed safeguards to assure that no school or schools will be arbitrarily discontinued.

The recommendation adopted by the Commission emphasizes that wherever practicable the objective should be to organize elementary schools having a minimum of 150 to 200 pupils depending somewhat upon the number of grades; to organize junior-senior high schools having a minimum of 300 and preferably of 400 pupils and to organize four-year high schools having a minimum of at least 200 pupils. . It further recommends that county and city boundaries should not be permitted to become barriers to the arrangement of satisfactory attendance areas for schools and emphasizes that provision should be made by law to facilitate the arrangement of attendance areas on the basis of careful studies so as to enable pupils to attend the most convenient school providing a suitable program regardless of

boundary lines. It states further that the Jaw should permit either transfers by agreement between counties or by consolidation of part of the area from a contiguous county. The data in the Commission report show that if the local administrative units are small, such as townships, the program of education is likely to be exceedingly costly or ine children will have! inadequate facilities and services or more likely still the program will not only be costly but the services will also be inadequate. In 1946 there were 778 public high schools in Indiana. One hundred nine of tyese had fewer than 49 pupils enrolled and another 314 high schools

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