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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION V
JOHN FRED WILLIAMS
Superintendent of Public Instruction
ISSUED MONTHLY
Entered as second-class matter March ,21, 1933, at the post office at
Frankfort, Kentucky, under the Act of August 24, 1912.
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SELECTING TEACHERS FOR 1946-47
The most important task the superintendent faces is that of pro-
curing good teachers for all the schools. It will be a difficult task
in 1946-47. It will probably be more difficult than it has been dur-
ing the war. This means that more effort must be put into the under-
taking than if the task were less difficult. The job can be done, but
if it is done effectively it must take first place in the preparation of
the school program for 1946-47. Securing good teachers must be con-
sidered as the number one problem.
Every superintendent in Kentucky, the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the leadership in the Kentucky Education As-
sociation, and leaders in other professional and business organiza-
tions in Kentucky, have been working as a. unit in trying to secure
revenue for teachers’ salaries. These efforts themselves indicate
popular interest and support of efforts to secure a good teacher for
every classroom.
The task of finding teachers suited to the differing needs in the
school system belongs to the superintendent and board of education.
In the main, the teachers must come from the county, from neighbor-
ing counties, and from the small number Who can be procured from
more remote distances. The key, therefore, to the plans for 1946-47
must, necessarily, be the use of every resource at hand to secure good
teachers and eliminate the poor teachers.
Careful preparation should be made for employing teachers for
the 1946-47 school term. This will require a survey to show how
many of the members of the present staff holding regular certificates
are available for employment. It will require a study to locate re-
turning veterans who want to re-enter.
The Training of the Teaching Staff in Kentucky
A study of teachers employed now in the school systems in Ken-
tucky will show how difficult the problem may be in 1946-47. There
follows here information showing the preparation of elementary and
secondary teachers employed last year. A study of these figures will
indicate the size of the task.
The number of persons teaching on regular certificates in 1945-
46 was lower than any time during the war years. Only about 12,700
of the approximately 17,700 employed in 1945-46 hold regular cer-
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tificates. Said in another way, the number of emergency certificates
in force has increased from 248 in 1942, to 2176 in 1943, to 4500 in
1945 to 5000 in 1946.
The salary schedules cf counties and independent districts were
studied for the school year 1944-45 in order to discover the qualifica-
tions of employed teachers. The study included both elementary and
secondary teachers. » There are included here several tables showing '
the qualifications of teachers in different kinds of school systems and
in different types of schools.
Table I givesthe number of elementary teachers in each county
in 1944-45. at the different training levels. Table II gives the num~
ber of elementary teachers in each independent school system in 1944-
45 at the different training levels. Table III gives a summary of the
training of elementary and secondary teachers in county and in-
dependent systems for 1944-45.
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TABLE I
The Education of Elementary Teachers in County School Systems in
Kentucky in the Year Ending June 30, 1945
(Data taken from Salary Schedules)
Number of Persons with given semester hours
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County College 1-31 32-63 1 64-95 96-119, AB MA Total
10 10 12 62 8 107
10 15 6 25 6 64
Anderson 3 6 5 17 4 37
Ballard 7 10 2 22 3 49
Barren 6 12 ll 37 8 98
Bath ........................ 3 22 10 46
Bell . 16 60 19 49 12 167
Boone ..... i 2 1 7 14 l 36
Bourbon ........................ 1 8 3 45
Boyd 2 3 4 19 6 46
Boyle ........................ 1 15 8 35
Bracken 5 5 2 7 4 25
Breathitt 5 25 11 47 7 107
Breckenridge 41 5 5 21 1 77
Bullitt ........... 8 3 4 19 5 43
Butler ......... 15 15 6 39 5 81
Caldwell 9 7 11 12 8 52
Galloway ............ 2 3 18 6 36
Campbell 2 2 4 13 3 29
Carlisle 1 8 2 6 4 25
Carroll 4 5 2 6 5 23
Carter .. 9 54 13 36 15 134
Casey 11 34 16 52 6 126
Christian 7 26 6 37 16 110
Clark ............ 1 ............ 3 17 10 49
Clay 141 17 18 90 9 165
Clinton 41 4 6 36 1 51
Crittenden 36 9 8 9 64
Cumberland ............ 5 8 16 28 1 65
Daviess 37 11 72
Edmonson ................ 9 20 3 25 1 59
Elliott 27 4 9 14 2 64
Estill . 23 22 5 13 14 83
Fayette 1 53
Fleming l7 8 6 13 6 61
Floyd 26 60 26 154 10 286
Franklin 2 7 22 5 43
Fulton ............ 2 15 3 30
Gallatin 1 4 1 7 ............ 15
Garrard 4 7 4 15 3 40
Grant ............ 3 3 13 3 33
Graves 1 6 5 43 9 83
Grayson 191 28 11 31 51 94
Green 21 18 3 33 21 63
Greenup 151 271 '7 34 81 2 93
Hancock 161 1 3 9 11 1 31
Hardin 91 6 4 471 51 91 ............ 80
Harlan 21 56 35 981 411 491 3 284
Harrison 11 ........................ 131 51 151 21 36
TABLE I—Continued
Number of Persons with given semester hours
County No 1-31 32-63 64-95 96-119 AB MA Total
College .
Hart 17 16 7 4 5 ........................ 49
Henderson . 6 2 7 26 6 12 59
Henry .. 2 13 ‘ 14 5 7 . 45
Hickman . .................................... 16 7 16 1 40
Hopkins 5 5 6 52 15 7 1 91
Jackson 24 31 6 26 6 3 96
Jefferson 3 4 114 47 130 298
Jessamine ............ 1 15 43
Johnson 38 14 34 115
Kenton 6 51
Knott .. ....... 33 23 12 62 157
Knox 26 33 15 49 143
LaRue 7 9 3 22 45
Laurel 22 16 11 72 133
Lawrence 25 15 7 41 109
Lee 2 23 9 32 74
Leslie 9 34 10 46 112
Letcher 40 41 23 B4 206
Lewis .. 10 17 9 31 75
Lincoln 15 19 11 21 81
Livingston 19 4 4 9 39
Logan 13 5 7 36 79
Lyon ......... 12 4 11 33
McCracken ......... 2 1 37 54
McCreé‘ry 7 16 8 33 76
McLean . 1'7 1 6 8 35
Madison . 5 1 ............ 36 91
Magoifin 42 28 6 51 130
Marion 1 4 5 36 66
Marshall 6 7 5 20 52
Martin 24 21 10 29 86
Mason 1 5 9 22 55
Meade 22 1 3 15 51
Menifee 9 11 4 11 47
Mercer ............ 3 ............ 33 43
Metcalfe 4‘ 17 6 32 64
Monroe 1'7 14 3 43 3 ........................ 80
Montgomery 3 2 1 9 4 17 2 38
Morgan ....... 44 21 12 30 4 9 120
Muhlenberg 25 17 10 46 8 18 2 120
Nelson 5 1 3 26 16 23 ............ 74
Nicholas ............ 3 3 9 1 7 2 25
Ohio 9 12 B 42 3 13 ............ 87
Oldham 2 1 ............ 13 7 10 1 84
Owen 12 6 7 12 3 1 41
Owsley 15 14 5 18 7 2 61
Pendleton 5 10 6 9 3 3 36
12 55 22 109 16 8 222
81 59 32 187 14 15 392
17 9 10 9 2 3 50
Pulaski 10 75 25 75 9 8 202
Robertson 3 2 ............ 4 . 3 12
Rockcastle 12 15 ’ s 37 9 90
Rowan 19 5 1 13 9 24 76
TABLE I—Continued
Number of Persons with given semester hours
County
NO 1—31 32-63 64-95 96—119 AB MA Total
College
Russell 13 15 14 44 4 94
Scott .V 1 1 17 8 13 43
Shelby 14 8 44
Simpson ' ....................... 2 8 5 47
Spencer 11 2 2 19 2 38
Taylor 12 7 9 36 2 69
Todd 7 2 2 23 5 45
Trigg 14 11 2 18 2 51
Trimble 7 1 2 9 1 22
Union .......... - 2 5 29 1 51
Warren .. 1 3 3 49 14 98
Washington 4 4 7 36 7 62
Wayne 6 13 19 44 7 100
Webster 11 6 6 17 43
Whitley 10 23 27 82 156
Wolfe .. 42 17 8 16 92
Woodford .......................... 1 ............ 2 ............ 29
Totals ..................... 1274 152ll| 862 3755| 752| 1238[ 71| 9473
in Kentucky in the Year Ending June 30, 1945
TABLE II
The Education of Elementary Teachers in Independent School Systems
(Data taken from salary schedules)
Nurnber of Persons with given semester hours
‘ ‘ DiStl‘iCt No 1-31 32-63 64-95 96—119 AB MA Total
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Albany ------------ 55
Anchorage 2 4
'Artemus ' 1 ............ g 1 ............ ,7
Ashland~ * ‘ , 13 107
Augusta ‘ 1 ,, 7
Barbouryille ................................................ 8
Bardstown .................................... 2 10
Beechwood . ' 1 M6
Bellevue ............ _. ..... _ 2 ........................ 1 14
Benton $3
Eerea V .. ‘ 5 > 2 ' *8
Bevier-Cleaton : .. 1| “2 ‘4
Bowling Green. .. ' - 1 ......... ‘2 > 24
Erodhead .................................... ‘ 7 "7
Burgin 2 8
‘Burkesville . ............ 1 ............ "6
Burnside 1 ............ 1 4
Cadiz ............ 5
Campbellsville .................. 1 18
Carlisle .. 2 ............ 8
Carrollton . 1 .. 14
Catlettsburg . 25
Cave City ...... 2 7
Central City 3 15
Clay ............. 8
Cloverport 5-
Cold Spring .. 5-
Columbia 8'
Corbin 25
Covington ............................ 26 134
Crofton ............ 5
Cynthiana .......................... 1'7
Danville ......... .. 5 31
Dawson Springs ....1 1
Dayton 4 21
Earlington .............. 1 16
East Bernstadt .................. 4
Eddyville ............ 5
Elizabethtown 2 19
Eminence ............ 6
Erlanger 19
Fairview 18
Falmouth .. 7
Ferguson .................. 8'
Ft. Thomas 21
Frankfort ................ 1 37‘
Fulton ............ 2 20
Gatliff 1 ____________ 3-
Georgetown ..l ........................ 14
Glasgow 20
Grand Rivers .................... l 1 ............ Z
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District NO 1-31 32-63 64-95 96-119 AB MA Total
College
Greensburg ml 1 l 5 1 .......... 7
Greenup 1 . 1 1 4 7
Greenville ........................................ 2 5 ............ 9 16
Guthrie 2 1 3 6
Harlan 5 3 18 27
Harrodsburg 9 10 19
Hardinsburg 9 10 19
Hazard 6 31 44
Henderson .......................... 3 1 17 21 '7 55
Hickman .......................................... 1 10 ............ 5 16
Hikes 2 7 9
Hodgenville ............ 4 . 2 ............ '7
Hopkinsville 2 11 13 26 2 54
Horse Cave ..... 1 1 ............ 5 1 8
Irvine 2 1 3 8 3 17
Jackson 1 3; 1 1 1 7
Jenkins 3 8i 6 11 3 32
Kuttawa 2 2 1 ............ 5
Lancaster ............ 4 1 5 10
Lawrenceburg 1 2 ............ 6 1 10
Lebanon iiiiiiiiiiii 4 2 10 ............ 16
Lebanon Jct. _. l 1 ........................ 4 6
Leitchfield 3 5 8
Lexington 3 2 138
Liberty 5 ............ 6
Livermore 4 1 .. 7
Livingston 1 ............ 1 ............ 5
London ..... 5 3 5 2 16
Lone Jack 6 1 3 ............ 10
Louisville 103' 93 455 78 729
Ludlow 2 ............ 10 2 14
Lynch 3 2| 2 13 ............ 20
Mayfield ........... 9 7 18 1 35
Madisonville .............................................. 12 6 10 ............ 28
Marion 4 2 2 2 10
Maysville .................................................... 2 2 12 5 21
McVeigh 1 1 2 1 ........... 5
Middleburg 3 1 .. 4
Middlesboro 12 16“ 15 4 50
Midway 2 ............ y 5 1 9
Monticello 4i 1] ............ l 8
Moreland 1| ............ I 2[ 4
Mt. Sterling 1 2‘: 16 1 20
Mt. Vernon 3 1} 3 7
Munfordville 2 ............ l 2 4
Murray 2 ............ y 8 12
Newport ............ 5; 16 7] 43 95
Owensboro 1 4{ 7 8} 56 84
Nicholasville ............ ‘ ............ l 5] 31 3‘ 11
Owenton 1‘ ............ [ ............ Bi 7
Paducah 1 1 13] 76‘ 103
Paintsville ............ 14 2} 21 ____________ 13
Paris 1 ........................ f 23i 1 25
TABLE II—Continued
Number of Persons with given semester hours
District N° 1-31 32-63 64-95 96-119 AB MA Total
College
Pembroke 2 2 3 ......... 8
Pikeville 14 2 5 . 21
Pineville ............ 3 2 8 13
Prestonsburg . 1 9 4 3 17
Princeton .. ............ 2 2 ............ 15
Providence .................................................. 6 3 5 ............ 14
Russell 6 7 8 4 25
Raceland ..................................................... 7 3 8 ............ 18
Ravenna 2 4 2 8
Richmond 4 2 11 3 21
Russellville . 5 2 6 1 15
Science Hill 1 ............ 2 3
Scottsville 2 2 4 8
Sebree 3 1 ............ 5
Sharpsburg . 2 2 1 5
Shelbyville 3 6 8 18
Silver Grove 2 .. 3
Somerset ............ 13 14 41
Southgate .. .. 1 1 ............ 6
South Portsmouth ............ 2 1 4
Springfield ............ 1 .. 6 ............ 10
Stanford 3 3 9
Stearns 3 3 10
Trenton ............ 1 ............ 5 1 9
Uniontown ............ 1 ............ 4 ............ 7
Upton 3 1 4
Van Lear ................ 3 ............ 1 4 1 9
Vanceburg ........................ 1 4 2 8
Versailles 1 1 2 3 4 7 1 19
Walton-Verona ............ 2 3 1 ............ 1 2 9
West Point ..... 1 2 ____________ 1 ......... 4
Williamsburg ............ 9 2 3 ......... 14
Williamstown ., 2 1 2 1 6
Winchester .......................... 1 1 27 1 30
Totals ........................ 20 41 76 634 380 1706 284 3141
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The Education of Teachers in Kentucky—194445
Elementary Secondary Total
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Number IPer Cent Number IPer Cent Number per Cent
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No College Training ...I 1294 I 10.2 5 I 0.1 I 1299 I 7.4
Sm. Hrs. 0-31 ................ 1554 11.5 I 13 I 0.2 I 1567 8.8
Sm. Hrs. 32-63 ................ 938 7.4 II 27 II 0.5 I 965 5.5
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or Above ...................... 2934 23.3 I 3259 64.8 I 6103_ I 35.1
Master's Degree ............ 352 2.8 II 1303 I 25.9 1655 9.3
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Total ............................ 12587 .......... II 5025 I .......... 17612 ..........
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Median ........................ I 82.0 I .......... I AB I .......... 111.4 ..........
Every evidence now available indicates that the teachers in the
schools today are trained as well as those in 1944-45. There is
evidence that the teachers next year will be about as well qualified as
those this year. Those who are well trained continue to drop out and
there are those in the lower brackets who are called into the system.
In several counties special effort has been made to provide workshop
experiences, and in other counties teachers have returned to the col--
lege campus for additional preparation. Approximately 1403 per-‘
sons attended workshops in 1945, 950 of whom attended county work-~
shops, 330 attended campus workshops and 123 attended all—year'
workshops. Others enrolled in other classes on the campus. The
general level of all teachers was raised only a small amount.
A look at Table I will show that in at least five counties 50 per
cent or more of the teachers in the elementary grades have no college
preparation. Table I also shows that in 104 counties from 1 to 81
teachers have had no college preparation. This condition calls for
a definite and supreme effort to fill positions with persons with
higher qualifications.
The inequality of educational opportunity within the school sys_
tems is dramatized by the figures in Table I. For example, in one
county, approximately 9 per cent of the children have teachers who
have had no college preparation; another 9 per cent have teachers
with some college training but less than one year; another 11 per cent
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have teachers with less than two years of college training but more
than one year; and the other 71 per cent have teachers with more
than two years of college preparation. If training makes better
teachers then 29 per cent of the children in this county work under
a definite handicap. The problem should have the serious attention
of the boards of education, the superintendents, and the college in
whose service area the counties are located. Something should be
done to give the teachers in the lower training brackets the help which
will improve them.
Sources of Teacher Supply
Before the war years there was a sufficient number of persons
finishing teacher education curricula in. the colleges to fill all
vacancies occurring each year. The source of supply was reduced
almost 90 per cent during the war. Figures given in the following
tables indicate-how seriously the teacher supply has been reduced.
There is little prospect that many teachers can be supplied by
the colleges for the coming year. This statement is based upon facts
related to college enrollment since 1940. This information is given in
the tables which follow.
The. number of persons who finished college rarrimlums in
1939-40 and prepared to teach. in the elementary grades was 1412.
In 1944—45 the number of persons who had j'trzished college eur-
‘réealazms preparatory to teaching in the elementary grades dropped
to 292. Indications are that in 1945-46 the number completing cur—
riculums preparatory to entering teaching in the elementary grades
may not exceed the number available in 1944—45. Table IV gives the
information upon which the foregoing statement was based.
TABLE IV
Number of Persons Taking Supervised Student Teaching at the
Elementary Level for a Six—Year Period Ending June 30, 1945
Colleges ............ I 1939-40 I! 1940—41 1| 1941-42 1942-43 1943—44 1944-45
:State ........................ l 715 i 657 359 297 159 137
.4 Year Private I 186 1'75 144 99 58 35
.2 Year Private 4'72 461 376 199 104 93
Total (white) ........ 1373 1293 879 637 321 265
Negro ........................ 39 48 ' 32 42 - 37 7
Total (W and C) .. 1412 1341 931 679 l 358 272
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The number of persons yruduuling from college and preparing
to teach decreased from 1035 in 1039-40 to 336 [in 1911-45. Table V
gives the figures for the six-year period ending {June 30, 1945. Not
all of these persons entered teaching, and a large percentage who did
enter went into other states and are not available for teaching in
Kentucky. Due to a longer term length in secondary schools than in
elementary schools, those who enter college will more likely prepare
for teaching in secondary schools. It. is predicted that the shortage
of secondary teachers for 1916-47 will not. be increased over 1945-46.
TABLE V
Number of Persons Taking Supervised Student Teaching at the
Secondary Level During a Six-Year Period Ending June 30, 1945
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Colleges I 1939—40 I 1940-41 I 1941-42 I 1942-43 I 1943-44 1944—45
State ........................ I 669 i 779 668 533 245 241
4 Year Private ....I 266 271 197 102 109 67
2 Year Private ...I I
Total (w) ................ I 935 I 1050 I 865 I 675 I 354 I 308
Negro ...................... I’loo I 80 I 74 I 40 I 35 I 28
Total (:v and c) I 1035 I 1130 I 939 I 715 I 389 I 336
College Enrollments
When the decrease in the number of white persons receiving the
baccalaureate degree over a six—year period is considered. the pros
pects are not encouraging. Table Vl' gives the number of white per-
sons receiving the lmccalaureate degree in 1939—40 and the number
receiving the degree in 1944-45. These figures represent all grad-
uates at the four-year level, including law, liberal arts, engineering,
commerce, agriculture, home economics, teaching, etc. The decrease
is approximately 50 per cent.
In 1940—41 the number who did supervised student teaching at
the secondary level represented approximately 55 per cent of the
total number of graduates at the 4—year level. By 1044—45 this per—
centage had been reduced to 31. In other words, a very much smaller
percentage of the college graduates are entering teaching. This trend
may continue unless superhuman efforts are made.
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TABLE VI
Number Baccalaureate Degrees Granted by All Colleges in Kentucky
1939—40 and 1944-45
College Group Number Baccalaureate Degrees Granted
1939-40 1 1944—45
State (white) ................................................ 1505 I 592
4-Year Private (white) ............................ 722 ‘ 473
Ky. State College (colored) .................. 102 54
Louisville Municipal (colored) ............ 25 31
Total (white) ................................................ 2227 2 1065
Total (colored) ............................................ 127 85
Y onng people should be encouraged to enter college. The num-
ber of young people attending colleges in Kentucky decreased 47 per
cent from 1940-41 to 1944-45. This means that the source of campus
enrollments has decreased. In some counties the decrease far exceeds
50 per cent over the period of years. This condition calls for em—
phasis upon getting young people, qualified to do so, to enter college
from the localities. “Getting children and young people in school
and keeping them there” is a slogan which should apply at the col-
lege entrance level as well as at the elementary and secondary level.
Table VII gives enrollments in public and private colleges in
Kentucky from each of the counties. The figures were taken from
the annual reports filed by colleges. This table reveals an important
task ahead. It means that every effort possible should be made to get
young people to enter college. It means that colleges should do
everything possible to adjust programs to meet needs.
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TABLE VII
y Number of Persons from Each County Enrolled Full—Time and Part-Time
in Residence in Colleges in Kentucky in 1940—41 and 1944-45
: (Paducah and Loretto not included)
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County .................. | 1940-41 1 1944-45 County ............ l 1940—41 [ 1944—45
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Adair .. l 119 50 .. 51 26
Allen 77 42 Laurel ..... ., 192 101
Anderson , 39 14 Lawrence V. 110 33
Ballard 65 32 Lee ....... 98 36
Barren 151 83 Leslie 73 17
Bath 74 33 Letcher 213 79
Bell 239 74 LerS 61 40
Boone 58 19 Lincoln 145 64
Bourbon 176 71 Livingston 34 18
- Boyd .. 348 160 Logan 98 57
Boyle .. 191 87 Lyon 54 23
Bracken 73 24 Madison 424 211
Breathitt 144 > 52 Magoffin 86 32
Breckinridge 66 42 Marion 87 58
__ Bullitt 61 27 Marshall 156 36
Butler 51 20 Martin 73 27
Caldwell 104 26 Mason ..... 103 62
1- Calloway . 455 176 McCracken 150 109
Campbell _ 190 92 McCreary 61 53
gr Carlisle .. 53 19 McLean 94 25
Carroll 28 15 Meade , 41 19
1S Carter 164 62 Menifee 46 7
Casey 114 91 Mercer 153 59
is Christian 195 62 Metcalfe _ 34 33
Clark .. 199 88 Monroe 60 27
a- Clay 108 67 Montgomery , 95 55
Clinton 41 35 Morgan .......... 116 38
re Crittenden 57 23 Muhlenberg 158 84
3 Cumberland 39 33 Nelson 503 245
01 Daviess ..... 282 191 Nicholas . 51 33
Edmonson 19 16 Ohio ..... 126 45
>1- Elliott 6 17 Oldham 36 25
Estill 1 ' 106 Owen 54 19
31, Fayette 1340 787 Owsley 62 13
_ Fleming 82 15 Pendleton 60 24
111 Floyd ...... 423 163 Perry 250 83
Franklin , 174 87 Pike 1. 362 251
m Fulton 109 16 Powell 39 13
Gallatin 18 25 Pulaski 258 233
at Garrard 84 37 Robertson 16 8
Grant 103 17 Rockcastle 61 45
et Graves 200 86 Rowan 173 82
Grayson 75 37 Russell 67 46
'10 Green 76 90 Scott 177 34
Greenup 164 51 Shelby 112 40
Hancock 29 6 Simpson 51 37
Hardin 124 54 Spencer 29 16
Harlan 385 195 Taylor .. 132 68
Harrison . 111 47 Todd 7 57 31
Hart ........... 70 43 Trigg . 70 27
Henderson 144 57 Trimble 13 16
Henry ....... 83 28 Union 126 94
Hickman 77 26 Warren 450 222
Hopkins 194 152 Washington 94 36
Jackson 53 33 Wayne 98 78
Jefferson . 2484 1944 Webster 96 37
Jessamine 159 76 Whitley , 294 185
Johnson 179 58 Wolfe ...... . 54 16
Kenton 350 171 Woodford 120 40
Knott 185 58 —- —-—-
Knox 263 122 Totals ................ 19054 10001
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Selecting Certificated Teachers
It is difficult. to say how we are to fill the positions now existing
in the schools and to reopen those positions which have'been closed.
Suggestions are offered which it is hoped will be useful to superin-
tendents and boards of education.
1. Regularly certificated persons should have first considera-
tion. It must be rememlmred that approximately 13,000 teachers
have remained on the job. These should be encouraged in every
legitimate way to remain in the system. They should be given first
consideration in employment and in placement.
2. Teachers who left their positions and went into the armed
forces should be placed promptly. Many of this group will enter col-
lege immediately for further training and will not be available for
service in the school systems. Some, however, will be available for
immediate service. These should be contacted and places should be
found for them where they are most needed and where they can work
with greatest effectiveness.
3. A small number of young people are coming from the college
classrooms into the profession. These are well—prepared and will hold
valid certificates. These persons should be located and placed where
they can work.
4. Teachers who went into other states during the war will be
coming home. This possible source of recruits should not be over-
loo‘zed.
5. Teachers who left the profession to go into industry may be
ireturniug soou. Some of them may hold valid certificates and will be
available. This source of teacher supply should not be overlooked.
Diligent effort may make it possible to fill more positions with
teachers who have regular certificates. In almost every instance the
person who holds such certificate is a better prospect. than one who
does not since a certificated person has had the specific preparation
for teaching.
Selecting Emergency Teachers
When a board of education has done all it can to fill all teaching
positions through the employment of certificated teachers, it may ap-
ply for an emergency certificate for a person to fill any additional
vacancy. On recommendation of the superintendent, the board must
certify under official oath that there is a vacancy for which no teach-
cr is available. \Vhen this is done the Superintendent of Public ln-
struction may issue an emergency certificate.
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son who can be found. '
2 The person recommended should be one who is accepted by her col—
leagues and held in high esteem by the citizens.
3. The person recommended should be genuinely interested in teaching
and in making the school serve the children.
4 The person recommended should be professionally minded to the
.. extent that she will attend teachers’ meetings and respond, to
supervision. '
The person recommended should be suited to the kind of. position
andvkind of community in Which she will work.
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'6. No person should be recommended if there is any person with “a
certificate Who will take the job. Exception should be made only
on condition that legal reasons be filed in writing showingwhy the
certificated person was not employed.
Who should be recommended for an. emergency certificate for
teaching in. the elementary grades? The following order should (be
strictly observed in recommending persons for emergency certificates
for elementary teachersfl
1. Graduates of 4—year standard colleges who have not met detailed
' certifiCation requirements. '
2. Persons with three years of college training who have 'not‘met
detailed certification requirements. . . .
3. Persons with two years of college who have not met detailed
certification requirements. ‘
4. Persons who have some college training but less than two years
should not be recommended until the supply of persons whohave
more than two years of training is exhausted, and in this group those
who are on the higher training level should be selected first.
5. No person should berecommended for an emergency certificate who
> does not have some college preparation for teaching or who has not
'. hadtexperience teaching on a regular'certificate; *
tho should be recommended for (m emergency certificate for
secondary teaching? . V .
1. For all academic subjects persons who have training in the subject
fields in which they will teach should be recommended in order of
the total amount of preparation, with none less than 64 semester
hours of standard college credit.
2. For those who teach in special fields the best prepared person should
be recommended first. No one should be recommended who does not
have some college preparation.
Up-Grading Teachers Through College Attendance ' .
In 1944-45 there were 1274 persons employed in elementary
grades in county schools who had no college preparation whatsoever
and in 1945-46 the number will exceed 1400. In the same counties
1521 had some college preparation but less than two years. Another
19
862 had one year of college training and less than two years. In all
there were 3657 persons teaching in the elementary schools with less
than two years of college preparation.
In 49 counties there were 30 or more teachers with less than two
years of preparation. In 13 counties there were more than 60
teachers, each of whom had less than two years of college prepara-
tion. In 19 counties there are 20 or more teachers each of whom had
no college preparation whatsoever.
1. These teachers should have additional preparation. As
much as possible should be done before school opens. The program
should be continued after schools start. Attempt should be made to
get all teachers in the elementary grades, who hold emergency cer-
tificates but who have two years of college or more, to complete the
requirements for certification. Many persons who have almost two
years of college preparation should be encouraged to go to spring and
summer terms with an effort to complete certification requirements.
Others with one or more years of preparation should be encouraged
to continue in school and select their program of studies from the
teacher education curriculum.
It should be the goal of every superintendent to recommend for
emergency certificates only those persons who have some college
preparation. The increased salaries and longer school terms seem to
justify setting this goal. The policy developed should be approved
by the board of education. Every teacher should be informed as to
essential features of whatever policy is adopted concerning emergency
certificates.
2. No effort should be spared to get teachers to go to the col-
lege campus for training during the spring and summer terms. Not
all of those who should go will do so. This is no reason why other
kinds of training should not be provided for them. Every teacher
should be required to participate in some kind of training program.
For those who cannot go to the college campus, other types of train-
ing should be provided. I
(a) It may be that the services of a college can be secured in provid—
ing workshop programs for those who cannot go to a college.
Such a workshop could be for five, four, three, or two weeks, de-
pending upon how much