Show constitutional amendments PROVIDING FOR TUB REMOVAL OF TITE STATE superintendent OF SCHOOLS FROM PARTISAN 1 POLITICS amendments 1 2 aal an 3 are non nonpar par aisan in character r sli aiice e both major political parties in their platforms at a 1 1934 4 pledged themselves to work for the tl ie removal of the atme superintend ent of schools from politics the last legislature almost unanimously ani without regard to party lines approved these thee amendments dr C N jensen former superintendent of public instruction said in ill his hig last biennial report 1932 wp we agree a ree with the view that the staff superintendent or state commissioner of if education should lie appointed by a heard rather than to be subjected to the upheavals upheaval of a pait partisan isan election the present incumbent superintendent charles II 11 SUd Slid inore in his report of recommended the same ime policy loading leading educators school officials and teachers generally both in utah and throughout the united states have consistently advocated making the state superintendent a professional leader to a board of education in utah spent approximately for a survey of our schools by the U S department of education among the strung stron recommends recommend a lions made was the removal of tur state superintendent of schools from froin partisan politics in conformity modern lilo dern ideals and progressive practice lit in 1934 1034 the investigating committee of the utah governmental eints also recommended this change the present constitutional and statutory provisions provide divided and contradictory responsibility for the administration of the schools artcle VII NII section 1 I of the constitution makes arakes the state superintendent an officer of the state government while article X section 8 states the general eral control and super supervision villon of tile the public school system s shall ball vested in I 1 a state board of elation the sell school ool laws of state stat ahat state superintendent shall be chare cliar eil with the administration of the system continued on page three |