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salary, adequate initial preparation, larger school adinis,-
trative units, reasonable sick leave provisions, and sound
annuity and ret iren ent systems. in other words, the speaker
was in favor of comprehensive school legislation which
would combine much of our scattered legislation today. For
example, in Texas today we have no correllate;d system of
legislation on these different subjects -- certification
law, retirement law, a nd various others. Improve ents in
teachar-training have been made possible mostly by standards
of individual schools, and by standards set up for accredit-
ed schools by the State Department of Education. The Rural
Aid Fuid has helped in raising standards because aid has
been granted on the basis of the schools meeting experience
and certificate requirements. High Schools of Texas, for
example, must employ teachers with college degrees or lose
their affiliation credits.
ill these makeshift laws are moves or subterfuges to
some extent to get around the fact that Texas has no unified
educational program. The recommendation here is not that
new regulations be made, but that existing laws governing
teacher-training, certification, renumeration, and retire-
ment be written as one laP with the added provision of
teacher tenure.
/The Committee on Tenure, in its years of investigation,
has found that many teacher's contracts are illegally drawn,
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Martin, Wesley. To Determine the Need for Teacher Tenure in Texas, thesis, 1946; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc53455/m1/35/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .