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...conference, which is aimed at graduate students interested in careers in teaching, will also include a talk by Associate Dean Shaplin on "Why Study Education?" and a panel discussion moderated by President Wilbur K. Jordan of Radcliffe on "American Schools and Selectivity: The Great Talent Hunt...
...chairman of th School Committee so that each committee would have some tie with the local city government. However, in the case of Cambridge, this provision has served only to place the school system under a political influence from which it was originally intended to be free. As Shaplin plans to recommend, state control over education should provide tighter and more complete minimum requirements for the qualifications of teachers and curricula, as well as outlining stricter methods for administration of the school systems. Cambridge's example should illustrate that even the field of education is not free from political maneuvering...
...Cambridge Civic Association, represented in the School Committee by minority member Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of Education, has protested the appointments as "illegal" and collected over 11,000 signatures, which by law require a popular referendum on the subject...
There are two statutes in the General Laws of Massachusetts, however, which do somewhat confine the School Committee statutes upon which Shaplin is relying to obtain a permanent injunction against the appointments. Chapter 71, Section 38, of the General Laws reads: "it (the committee) shall elect and contract with the teachers of the public schools, shall require full and satisfactory evidence of their moral character, and shall ascertain their qualifications for teaching and their capacity for the government of schools." Section 59 of the same chapter also reads in part: A superintendent... shall be the executive officer of the committee...
Even so, state courts are hesitant to take actions which might tend to weaken the power of local school committees, or to set themselves up as "super school committees." Shaplin is by no means certain that his group will win its case, but he has a strong conviction that the school committees have too much power. At present the Dean has begun a survey of school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served...