N, J.ATTENDANCE BUREAU NEEDED

Cora Kendall Advocates Creation of Attendance Bureau to Enforce Compulsory Education.

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Trenton.—with kHiooI houses mined at more than $80,000,000, a school Ijsteni tha; 1l coatluj; over *25,000,000 and employing laooo teach. . the achools are In session from 170 to 180 flays In the year, the average attendance la 88 per cent and the "average pupil" •• in school about HO days in the year for five and one-half hours each day. These figures are from a recent report of Commissioner Kends 11. rho asks that an attendance bureau 1hcreated to enforce the compulsory education law as It should be enforced

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bu.*e Is not getting the results that should u • obtained from auch a t Investment and under "a thorough ana efficient system of free public schools" which the legislature is imand.-d by the State Constitution to maintain and snpport. Lack of an agency to enforce the compulsory attendance law Is but one of the weaknesses. “The loss In the efficiency of the schools due to poor attendance Is ter than that due to poor and inadequate teaching." In the opinion o.

Commissioner Kendall.

If by the expenditure of $12,000 to •lb .000 a year on an attendance bureau the percentage of truancy and Illiteracy can be materially reduced, the money will be wisely Invested; In fact, by the practice of economy In other directions there may be u saving sufficient to more than offset the ted cost of tbe proposed new bu-

»bwuro mem, tne state may well give consideration to the struggling Woman's College, which now has nearly 200 students enrolled. New Jersey is one of only two or three states that lack such an Institution properly financed. In these days w hen women are taking such a large part In affairs the State Normal Schools will not suffice.

figures quoted refer only to the for children between the ages of five nud eighteen years. With s\i"h

For Better Education. A campaign for better education was Urged by W. J lllckett, su|K-rint.-ndent of schools of Trenton, at the closing lon of State Council of KducnMr. Itlckctt's reiummandatlon part of the n'lsirt be presumed as chalrmas 0 f the council's committee on i constructive educational program. It •mpbaslied the Importance of the peode at large taking port In planning for the schools instead of leaving the whole matter In the hands of professional educators. The comml'tee recommended that “no definite program of education or radical changes In our slate school laws be attempted, except In so fur ns they are In perfect accord with public sentiment as it may be Interpreted not only by professional educators of the state, but by direct expression from the i>eople of .he state." Tills was followed by the proposal of the development of same type of organisation Including b'ith. “We must get the people Into the schools, declared Mr. lih-kett. “This council,” he said In conclusion, “has been the leatler in the state along professional lines. Will It extend Its sphere of Influence to the people who own the schools and. In connection and co-openuinn with all other educational association* of the state, make a definite move to the end that then- shall no longer lie a question of the school and the peopleT' Public Utility Snarl. In refusing a writ of certiorari to review the acllun of llovemor Edwards in removing the public utility commisilouers Justice Swayxe jmli ted out the i in which the mutter might properbecome the subject of Judicial in,uiry- The correct method, lie said, was by writ of quo warranto, and It will now- he employed by Attorney Uenwral iicOran, The members of the

commlsafon wm be requireiT to show by wba warrant they assume to continue to function after having been rcnoved from office by tbe governor actng under authority seemingly conferred upon him by tbe statute from which the commission derives It* pow •r. By this process there will lie no .•onfilet between the executive and the ludlclal departments of the govemnent as there would have been had :he writ of certiorari been granted

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