Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-05 | Page 11 | Avers Crisis is Facing Schools

i fis CRISIS IS " I FAGI MGSCH 0 0 LS Educators at Regional Conference Con-ference at Butte Discuss Present Day Problems ;''.W, WyiJi A resolution unrinjf the great edu- nfly eatlonnl fonndntlons of the country Eh to make atudy of the taxation prob-l HH lems of the country, with special ref-1 jHgjH erenee to levies made for educational BH purposes was passed at the one day uH regional conference, which wua held i H in Butto December S. according toi i-llH Supt. W. Karl Hopkins of the Ogden HH school system, who returned yeste.-. JKfl day from the meeting The reaolu- ""W tlon was presented by Chancellor E liU C Klliott of thr Montana State Uni- He veratty after n prolonged dlacuaaion i of the evils of the financial nnder- H m. - nourishment of the nation s educa- HH n tional system D P r Claxton. T nlted States eom- RH missioner of education, will present the resolution before the nine rcninln- 1 OH injc conferences yet to be held In va- Jffl rions parts of the United States and jjH endorsement of each Is expected 1 1 will also be transmitted to the pen- yBlfl eral education board, the Russell Sape rM foundation and the Commonwealth rHwLa hoard. PROmNEXT EDUCATORS III rrominent educators from Mon- II tana, i tah and Idaho, together with Bbvm! members of the Montana legislature. embers of the school boards and ; , itlxena Intereatsed In school work at-5ggfM at-5ggfM tended the conference, which was one 9fv9 of. the greatest ever held In the weal by educators said Supt. Hopkins. TWal Seven Utah men were in attend- KsMm ance at the conference. Including the jM following: Supt. W Karl Hopkins. Snjfcj Og-dcn; Dr. George Thomas state su- IlBlM perintondent-elect of public instruc- fifm tlon. Dr. .T. A. Wldtaoe president of HH the University of I't.-ih. supl. c S. Child. Salt Luke. D C Jensen, super- pB inlendent .Innl.in school-- S-Jtt Henry "WM 1'i-terson Logan schools. tTal The '-onf r n. .- 1m I ' 1 i- the BH first of twelve planned at b recent H V meeting of the national citizens' edu- - itional conferences In-I.l )u W III Ington, T C last Ma More than SHftr' ss educators from the three states were present ut the meeting. PACING ( RJSIS. V' That the educational situation in HfA the United States today is facing B W crisis, particularly in regard to th SQM seruring of competent and proper in- Ba structora fot children living in rural VH communities was contended by many IHh of the speakers. VX Other immediate needs of the edu- fBBM. cational system of the country were IV enumerated as follows: Money for . the schools; better training for teach- Ki era, and the raising of the leaching gBl profession to one of great dlghitj and fl attractiveness through higher require- H ments and better pay for Insti wt. ofl H Dr. Claxton, who was In charge of j the meet ing otl things the handling of primary educa- '.-. tlon through larger admlniatratl B units than is now the practice He i ommended thai il boardi of ed H ucation be composed of seven or nine H individuals, not educators, who should H serve without salary, but should he al- SflB lowed reasonable day's pay and ex- rjjnM Ienses for the meetings II. s'i;frcst- jflfl ed that the state superintendent of !MjM public instruction be appointed by the RttflH hoard and thus be taken from the realm of. pollth - With this plan p suggested the one that the school lax fg he collected from larger areas In or- j V dor that the inequalities in the taxa- tinn and the schools might l. leaaeh-fcRMH leaaeh-fcRMH "d- Instances were citod at the rue. t- jjjflH ing. according to supt. Hopkins, where one district paid school taxes at a rate I H 2il0 times higher than another dl-- ! trict in the same state, and the schoola RHA In the more highly taxed district! wero inferior T TELLS ou UTAH WOIUI MH Reporting for Utah ;. t rhllrls IV former slate superintendent .mi now) supcrintt ndent of the Stilt Like City I ; schools, outlined tht progri tnad ! 'Jaw. hv the st.nte in ih county unit plan J I da laring thai the plan had proven It- self deciiiedly worth While. President John A. Wldisoc of the B Unlverlsty of Utah also addressed the meeting Mayor W T Stodden of Butte en-BBfl en-BBfl tcrtalned the visiting educators dur- BBM ing their visit in Butte, according to BKal Supt Hopkins, the tTl to the mines SBflfX at Anaconda being one of the feature i oo