2 TO TRANSFER THE AUTHORITIES, DUTIES, DISCRETION, AND POWERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO THE COMMIS- JANUARY 19 AND 20, 1916 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1916 9.0.2.57/11/17 BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Ben Johnson (chairman) presiding. Mr. JOHNSON. The committee will please be in order. This is a hearing on House bill 7569, which has for its purposes to transfer the authority, duties, discretion, and powers of the board of education of the District of Columbia to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. I believe that it will be better for those who will read the hearing hereafter to have a copy of the bill under hearing, and I will therefore give the stenographer a copy of the bill and ask him to insert it, and I think it will also be well to have a copy of the school law inserted immediately following the bill, so that those who will not have the advantage of being at the hearing, but will have to depend on reading it, may also understand that, so the stenographer will please insert a copy of the school law immediately following the insertion of the bill." [H. R. 7569, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.] A BILL To transfer the authority, duties, discretion, and powers of the board of education of the Dis. trict of Columbia to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the authority, duties, discretion, and powers now vested in the board of education, created by the act of Congress approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia," shall be, and are hereby, transferred to and vested in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to take effect and be in force on and after the date of the approval of this act. The position of superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia is hereby abolished, and the said commissioners are authorized and empowered to appoint a director of education for all the public schools in the District of Columbia, who shall receive a compensation of $6,000 per annum, and who shall, under the said commissioners, have the dire tion of and supervision in all matters pertaining to the instruction in all the publis hools cf the said District, and who shall perform such other and additional duties as may be required of him by the Commissioners of the District of Colum ia, in luding the duties now imposed upon the superintendent of the public s hools by the a t approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled "An at providing for the compulsory education in the District of Columbia," and the act approved May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An act to regulate the employment of child labor in the District of Columbia"; and the appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for the compensation of the superintendent of public schools, are hereby made available for the compensation of the director of education herein provided for. Except as provided otherwise herein all the authority, dis retion, and powers now vested in the superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia are hereby transferred to and vested in the Commissioners of said District. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized and empowered to appoint a board of education to consist of five members, all of whom shall be residents of the District of Columbia and 3 |