SCHOOL BOARD ASSN. IN DRIVE AGAINST TENURE LAW
School Board Assn. In DriveAgainstTenureLaw Propaganda Urges Votes for Repeal at A pr. 2 Referendum A propaganda campaign directed against the teacher tenure law, endeavoring to line up votes...
...The bureau of personnel had given a previous oral examination for the position, but only four of more than 30 candidates received passing grades and the commission expressed it.self as dissatisfied with the persons certified to it...
...Following a slashing attack on the tenure act and teacher activities, the association concludes with the statement: "The 25 year history of this association has been one of friendly and cordial relationship with school administrators and teachers, and it is planned that these same mutual friendly understandings of our work will continue...
...Including the public roads administration, the public buildings administration, the public works administration, works projects administration, the rural electrification administration, and corps of engineers...
...2 referendum election, is being carried on by the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, The Progressive learned today...
...At another point the statement is made: "There is no question of the need for some kind of tenure law that would protect "able and conscientious teachers...
...School boards thought that any law as binding as the tenure law should be studied at least a year before being passed...
...The whole tenure act was pushed on the school boards in a disgraceful manner...
...This statement...
...U. S. Disbursed $40,299,451 in Stale in 1939 During the fiscal year 1939...
...A. J. Opstedal, acting director of the bureau of personnel, announced Friday that Browy had placed first with a grade of 90.12...
...was released last week by Sveinbjorn Johnson, state director of the office nf government reports for Illinois and Wisconsin...
...Each effort has been met with defeat partly because educators have one of the most powerful and best organized lobbies in Wisconsin legislative history...
...Robert Russell...
...They were forced to accept only a few months time and being without paid help who might lobby at Madison, the school boards literally and actually were ignored and some felt they were double crossed...
...Actual construction and Improvement work in the .state has been supervised by at least six federal agencies...
...Browy failed pass the first oral examination...
...The commission will choose one of the three men...
...it is stated...
...It is time to take the emphasis off the "teacher and her job" and place It on her qualifications to provide better education for the children," the association's literature declares...
...the federal government disbursed in Wisconsin the sum of $40,299,451 for public works of improvement and construction...
...John Kaiser, Ripon, had placed second with a grade of 82.2, and Robert Russell, Milwaukee, placed third with a grade of 78.9...
...Milwaukee, 3d Calmer Browy, Madison, acting secretary and former director of the state public service commission, placed . first i;i the civil service examination recently conducted for the office of secretary of the commission...
...The director said that federal disbursements of this type In Wisconsin totalled $7,408,650 for repayable and $170,349,224 for non-repayment items during the period 1933-1039...
...The written examination lasted five hours...
...The school board group is sending large quantities of literature out of its central office in Fond du Lac, some of which attacks teacher tenure j as "vicious" and charges that the tenure law "was pushed on the school boards in a disgraceful manner...
...Both written and oral examinations ?ere given this time...
...Kaiser's grade Included 10 points for veterans' preference...
...During the period 1933-IU39, the works progress (project*) administration and lt.s predecessor, the CWA, expended In Wisconsin a total of $207,-259.511...
...Browy Ranks First in PSC Secretary Test John Kaiser, Ripon, 2d...
...The work of these, agencies have been supplanted by local public bodies in the slate...
...Of this amount, $2,349,674 represents repayable and $37,949,777 nonrepayable items...
...The names of these three men will be certified to the public service commission...
...After declaring itself in favor of repeal of the teacher tenure law, the association declares that its stand on the issues "is difficult to debate publicly...
...Other states have amendments to allow the school boards to clean out indolent and bad teaching situations as well as restrict the discriminatory acts of school board members...
...Attempts have been made to amend the law as it now stands...
...A few other states have tenure laws but not one has a law as vicious as the Wisconsin...
...2 Referendum A propaganda campaign directed against the teacher tenure law, endeavoring to line up votes favoring repeal of the law at the Apr...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
