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Show . $ THE SCHOOLS AND POLITICS. Last week we called attention to the attempt made in New York state to place the public school system in charge of the Republican machine. ThIn-dependent, ThIn-dependent, we are glad to see, has realized real-ized the true inwardness- of the scheme, but we would be pleased to see it give some more virile expression of approval than what is contained in the fallowing: fallow-ing: ' "A state commission has prepared a bill, now before the legislature, and approved, it is eaid, by Governor Roosevelt, Roose-velt, which unifies the system, and puts the schools, so far as the state controls them, under the charge of a Chancellor of the Board of Regents, to be appointed, appoint-ed, in the first case, by the Governor, and afterward by the regents. The Re- ' publican organization is said not to like it, and the Regents oppose some features of it, such as the election of the first Chancellor by the Governor, and the appointment of the Regents in the same way. It is possible that some modification of the commission's plan may be wise, but the pirpose to unify 5t a right one, and the way which most divorces the schools from politics is to be preferred. We want no politics in the state control of our public schools, and it ought quite as much to be banished ban-ished -from the municipal administration." administra-tion." The alleged opposition of the Republican Re-publican organization is unreal and is given forth simply to deceive the 'unthinking. 'un-thinking. The Independent is appar ently ashamed of some of its friends. |