SUGGESTIVE LEGISLATION FOR STATES-ALTERNATIVE 1.

(An act to provide for the acceptance of the benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to provide for the promotion of vocational education.)

The people of the State of enact as follows:

·‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒, represented in senate and assembly, do

SECTION 1. The State of hereby accepts all of the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, entitled "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," approved February 23, 1917.

SEC. 2. The State treasurer is hereby constituted and appointed the custodian of the moneys paid to the State of for vocational education under the provisions of such act, and such moneys shall be paid out in the manner provided by such act for the purpose therein specified.

SEC. 3. The of the State of ‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ is/are hereby designated as the State board for the purpose of carrying info effect the provisions of such act, and is/are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Federal Board for Vocational Education in the administration and enforcement of its provisions, and to perform such official acts and exercise such powers as may be necessary to entitle the State to receive its benefits.

SEC. 4. The State board for vocational education shall have full power to represent the State in any and all matters in reference to the expenditure, distribution, and disbursements of funds received from the United States Government in said State and to appropriate and use said moneys in whatever way will in their discretion best subserve the interests of the State and carry out the spirit and intent of said act of Congress in conformity with its provisions. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That such board is hereby authorized to make such expenditures for the actual expenses of the board for the salaries of assistants and for such office and other expenses as in the judgment of the board are necessary for the proper administration of this act; there is hereby appropriated out of any funds of the State treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $per annum for the actual expenses of said

board for vocational education mentioned in this section.

SEC. 6. (A section providing the State board designated for vocational education with sufficient funds to at least match Federal teacher-training funds.) This section should be drawn so as to provide the State board designated for vocational education with an annual appropriation not less than the maximum which the State can receive for each ensuing year from the Federal funds for teacher training and authorizing the said State board to expend the sum appropriated exclusively for the training of teachers in accordance with the act of Congress. The source of the fund will vary among the various States. In some it may be obtained annually from unappropriated funds from the State treasury; in others by annual or biennial appropriation granted by the State legislature; and in others by the levy of a special tax.

SEC. 7. (A section providing the State board designated for vocational education with annual funds sufficient to at least match Federal funds received for salaries of teachers.) This section should be drawn so as to provide the State board designated for vocational education with an annual sum not less ⚫ than the maximum which the State can receive from the Federal funds for each ensuing year for salaries of teachers of agricultural, trade and industrial, and home economics subjects, and also authorizing the said State board to disburse said fund to schools which may meet the requirements of the SmithHughes Act.

SEC. 8. (Section empowering the State board to certify teachers.) The State board designated for vocational education should be empowered to set up standard specifications for and to examine and duly certificate all teachers which may be employed in day, part-time, and evening schools for agriculture, trade and industry, and home economics which may receive Federal funds under the Smith-Hughes Act. It may be necessary in some of the States, in making operative the provisions of this section 8, to revise some of the statutes now in operation within the States for certifying teachers.

SEC. 9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect immediately.

SUGGESTIVE LEGISLATION FOR STATES-ALTERNATIVE II.

(An act to provide for the acceptance of an act of Congress approved February 23, 1917, to accept the benefits of all the respective funds therein designated; to designate the State treasurer as custodian of all moneys paid to the State from said funds; to (create) (designate) a State board to cooperate with the Federal Board created by said act; and to provide funds for the administration of said act.)

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Be it enacted by the people of the State of in senate and assembly: That the State of hereby accepts, together with the benefits of all the respective funds appropriated thereby, all of the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 23, 1917, entitled "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture, the trades, and industries; to provide for the cooperation of the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure."

SEC. 2.1 That the State treasurer is hereby designated and appointed custodian of all moneys received by the State from the appropriations made by said act of Congress, and he is hereby authorized and directed to receive and to provide for the proper custody of the same and to make disbursement thereof in the manner provided in the said act and for the purposes therein specified. Form if board named by governor is to be continued as State board:

SEC. 3. That the board heretofore designated by the governor to cooperate with the Federal Board composed of is hereby designated and continued as the State board for vocational education, and all acts performed by said board by virtue of its designation by the governor, as aforesaid, are hereby ratified and approved and are declared to be of the same force and effect as if performed under and by virtue of the designation herein made. The term of office of said board shall be for a period of four years, etc. That (a State board consisting of is/are, hereby created (or) (theinsert name of board-) is/are, hereby designated as the State board for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of said act of Congress.2

SEC. 4. That the board hereby (designated) (created) shall have full and complete authority and power to cooperate with the Federal Board for vocational education, created by the act of Congress aforesaid, in the administration of the provisions of the said act and to do all things necessary to entitle the State to receive the benefits of each of the respective funds by said act appropriated; to represent the State in any and all matters arising out of or connected with the administration of said act of Congress, in so far as the same shall apply to this State; to represent the State in any or all matters in reference to the expenditure, distribution, and disbursements of moneys received from said act; to designate such schools, departments, or classes as may be entitled to participate in the benefits of moneys received from the appropriations made in said act as in its judgment and discretion will best subserve the interest of vocational education in the State and carry out the spirit, purposes, and provisions of the said act of Congress; to establish and determine, by general regulations, the qualifications to be possessed by persons teaching agricultural, trade, industrial, and home economics subjects in schools coming under the provisions of said act of Congress in the State, and to enforce rules and regulations concerning the granting of certificates and licenses to such teachers, and to duly certificate such teachers. The board shall make an annual report to the governor describing the conditions and progress of Vocational education during the year, and including therein an itemized statement showing the receipts and expenditures of all moneys used in connection with such education.

If the State passes sections 6 and 7 of the proposed acts (which set aside special State funds for teacher training or for salaries of teachers), this section (2) should be phrased so as to make the State treasurer the custodian of these funds also.

Where the regular State board is designated to carry out the provisions of said act of Congress the State superintendent of public instruction or State commissioner of education, who is executive officer of the regular board, should also be designated in this section as the executive officer of the board.

A section might well be added giving board authority to also set up standards and license those who teach teacher-training classes.

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SEC. 5. That the board herein (designated) (created) is hereby authorized to make such expenditures for the expenses of the board, for the salaries and expenses of assistants and supervisors, for office assistance and maintenance, including printing, and for such other expenses as in the judgment of the board are necessary for the proper administration of said act of Congress. For the purposes mentioned in this section, there is hereby appropriated for the use of said board out of any funds of the State treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $per annum.

SEC. 6. (State funds for teacher training.) This section should be drawn so as to provide the State board designated for vocational education with an annual appropriation not less than the maximum which the State can receive for each ensuing year from the Federal funds for teacher training and authorizing the said State board to expend the sum so appropriated exclusively for the training of teachers in accordance with the act of Congress. The source of the fund will vary among the various States. In some it may be obtained annually from unappropriated funds from the State treasury; in others by annual or biennial appropriation granted by the State legislature; and in others by the levy of a special tax.1

SEC. 7. (State fund for salaries of teachers of agriculture, trade, industrial, and home economics subjects.) This section should be drawn so as to provide the State board designated for vocational education with an annual sum not less than the maximum which the State can receive from the Federal funds for each ensuing year for salaries of teachers of agricultural, trade and industrial, and home economics subjects, and also authorizing the said State board to disburse said fund to schools which may meet the requirements of the SmithHughes Act.

SEC. 8. (Empowering State board designated by legislature to certify teachers. This section (8) should not be enacted if section (4) above is enacted.) The State board designated for vocational education should be empowered to set up standard qualifications for and to examine and duly certificate teachers who may be employed in day, part-time, and evening schools for agriculture, trade, and industry, and home economics which may receive Federal funds under the Smith-Hughes Act. It may be necessary in some of the States, in making operative the provisions of this section (8) to revise some of the statutes now in operation within the States for certifying teachers.

SEC. 9. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. That this act shall take effect upon its passage and approval by the governor.

APPENDIX E.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, MEMBERSHIP, DIRECTORS, AND SUPERVISORS OF STATE BOARDS FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

ALABAMA.

Executive officer: Spright Dowell, State superintendent of public instruction, Montgomery.

Membership of State board: Spright Dowell, State superintendent of education; T. W. Palmer, president Alabama Girls' Technical School; J. J. Doster, professor, secondary education; Zebulon Judd, principal of secondary education; E. M. Wright, normal school; C. A. Brown, principal, high school; J. Alex. Moore, principal, high school.

State director: None.

State supervisors for agricultural education: J. B. Hobdy (whites), James L Sibley (negroes).

State supervisor for home-economics education: Martha Patterson, Montevallo. State supervisor for trade and industrial education: James L. Sibley.

1 A section might well be added giving board authority to also set up standards and license those who teach teacher-training classes.

ARIZONA.

Executive officer: C. O. Case, State superintendent of public instruction, Phoenix.

Membership of State board: C. O. Case, State superintendent of public instruction; Hon. G. W. P. Hunt, governor; Dr. R. B. Von Kleinsmid, president University of Arizona; A. J. Matthews, president Tempe State Normal; Dr. R. H. H. Blome, president Northern Arizona Normal; John D. Loper, city school superintendent; J. W. Brown, county school superintendent; G. E. Cornelius, high-school principal.

State director: I. Coloduy.

ARKANSAS.

Executive officer: J. L. Bond, State superintendent of public instruction, Little Rock.

Membership of State board: J. L. Bond, State superintendent; Jack Bernhardt, lawyer; D. A. Bradham, lawyer; L. P. Anderson, teacher; Sidney Pickens, teacher; J. C. Futrall, president University of Arkansas; J. W. Kuykendall, business man; B. W. Torreyson, president State Normal School.

State director: A. B. Hill.

State supervisor for agricultural education: N. M. Whaley.

State supervisor for home-economics education: Connie Bonslagel

CALIFORNIA.

Executive officer: E. R. Snyder, commissioner of vocational education. Membership of State board: E. P. Clarke, editor and publisher; Charles A. Whitmore, editor and publisher; George W. Stone, retired minister, bank inspector, mayor; Mrs. O. S. Barnum, housewife; Mrs. Agnes Ray, housewife. State director and supervisor for trade and industrial education: E. R. Snyder. State supervisor for agricultural education: J. B. Lillard.

State supervisor for home economics education: Maud I. Murchie.

COLORADO.

Executive officer: A. A. Edwards, president State board of agriculture, Fort Collins.

Membership of State board: A. A. Edwards, retired; Charles Pearson, farmer;

R. W. Corwin, surgeon; H. D. Parker, farmer and banker; Mrs. Agnes L. Riddle, farmer and State senator; J. C. Bell, lawyer and farmer; E. M. Ammons, president Farmers' Insurance Co., and farmer; J. C. Gunter, lawyer and farmer; Charles A. Lory, president State Agricultural College; J. S. Calkins, farmer.

State director: C. G. Sargent.

CONNECTICUT.

Executive officer: Charles D. Hine, secretary State board of education, Hartford. Membership of State board: Marcus H. Holcomb, governor and lawyer; Clifford B. Wilson, lieutenant governor and lawyer; Charles F. Smith, manufacturer; Howell Cheney, manufacturer; Edward D. Robbins, lawyer; Dr. John G. Stanton, physician; Schuyler Merrett, manufacturer and Member of Congress; Charles D. Hine, teacher (connected with board, but not a member); Henry C. Morrison (connected with board, but not a member); Frederick J. Trinder, engineer (connected with board, but not a member).

State director for industrial education: Frederick J.-Trinder.

State director for agricultural education: H. C. Morrison.

State supervisor for agricultural education: T. H. Eaton.

State supervisors for trade and industrial education: James C. Tucker, Augustus S. Boynton, Everett D. Packard, Herbert J. Hanson, George W. Buck, Herbert H. Wilber, William C. Holden, F. C. Lawrence, J. J. O'Donnell.

DELAWARE.

Executive officer: A. R. Spaid, commissioner of education, Dover. Membership of State board: C. J. Scott, superintendent of public schools; Harry Hayward, dean of agriculture; Dr. S. C. Mitchell, president Delaware College; Frederick Brady, business; Albert Worth, lawyer; Frank B. Sirman, business; Charles H. Le Fevre, lawyer; A. R. Spaid, commissioner of education (not a member of the State board).

State director: None.

State supervisor for agricultural education: L. C. Armstrong.

FLORIDA.

Executive officer: W. N. Sheats, State superintendent of public instruction,

Tallahassee.

Membership of State board: W. N. Sheats, State superintendent of public instruction; Sidney J. Catts, governor; J. C. Luning, State treasurer; H. Clay Crawford, secretary of state; Van C. Swearingen, attorney general. State director: W. N. Sheats.

State supervisors for agricultural education: S. Philips, Williston; R. S. Turner, Inverness.

State supervisor for home economics education: Edith M. Thomas.

GEORGIA.

Executive officer: M. L. Brittain, State superintendent of schools, Atlanta. Membership of State board: M. L. Brittain, State superintendent; D. C. Barrow, chancellor, University of Georgia; Dudley M. Hughes, ex-Congressman and planter; B. H. Hardy, editor; Sam Tate, manufacturer and planter; J. Randolph Anderson, ex-president Georgia Senate and lawyer; Ross Copeland, plumber and lawyer.

State director: M. L. Brittain.

State supervisor for agricultural education: Robert D. Maltby.

State supervisors for home-economics education: Julia Robertson, Valdosta; Edna M. Randall, Athens; Eda A. Lord, Milledgeville.

IDAHO.

Executive officer: E. A. Bryan, commissioner of education, Boise.

Membership of State board: Evan Evans, capitalist; Ramsay M. Walker, banker; J. A. Keefer, banker; J. A. Lippincott, merchant; William Healy, lawyer; Ethel E. Redfield, State superintendent of public instruction.

State director: E. A. Bryan.

State supervisor for agricultural education: C. B. Wilson, Moscow.

State supervisor for home-economics education: Amy Kelley.

ILLINOIS.

Executive officer: F. G. Blair, State superintendent of public instruction, Springfield.