JANUARY, 1925
THE UNITED AMERICAN
Page Seven
qualify for Adult Immigrant Education service, weekly, the aliens will in the majority of cases be
wherever there is a country school.
found only too willing to pay a pro rata tuition to
An instructor in public education having taken compensate the teacher, on a basis commensurate
the Americani
with the regular
zation course,
pecuniary com-
A BILL
acting under the
pensation f o r
For an act providing a uniform plan of Immigrant Education and qualifi
immediatesuper-
teaching.
cations for citizenship; creating a Department of Adult Immigrant Education
vision of the
In e v er y
and Americanization under supervision of the State Superintendent of Public
State Superin
Instruction; providing training for such educational work in .the State Institu
country district
tions of higher learning; creating an Advisory Board of Americanization to
tendent of Pub
and every small
function without compensation, the Board to advise with the Superintendent of
lie E d u c a t ion,
town communi
Public Instruction in the matter of plan, procedure and the appointment of an
should have little
Assistant to supervise this branch of public education.
ty where aliens
difficulty in a-
BE IT enacted by the State of Oregon.
reside, the Amer
rousing the
SECTION ONE. For the purpose of incorporating in the State program
ican neighbors
of public education a uniform plan of Adult Immigrant Education in the State
people in every
are generally
of Oregon, comprising a course of instruction in elementary training, civics and
county and com
citizenship and for the further purpose of promoting intelligent American
familiar with the
munity in the
citizenship among the immigrant people, assisting those who apply for natu
present
diffi
ralization as well as those who have already become naturalized who are lack
state to organ
culties. encoun
ing the literacy qualifications required in the State Constitution, there is here
ize such educa
by created a STATE DEPARTMENT OF ADULT IMMIGRANT EDUCATION
tered by these
tional activities
AND AMERICANIZATION.
aliens. Little it
according to the
SECTION TWO. The said Department of Adult Immigrant Education and
matters how
Americanization
shall
be
conducted
under
the
immediate
supervision
of
the
state plan and in
worthyithey are;
State
Superintendent
of
Public
Instruction
in
accordance
with
such
regulations
no time put to Ë as hereinafter set forth.
when they make
an end the blot
application for
SECTION THREE. It is hereby provided that pursuant to an intelligent
of illiteracy that
procedure in the matter of Adult Immigrant Education and Citizenship training
natu realization,
there shall be incorporated in the curriculum of the State Normal Schools, the
is upon every
their real diffi
Oregon Agricultural College and the State University of Oregon, a limited course
community,
of preparatory training, consisting of Racial Back-ground, Cultural attributes
culties in Amer
where illiterates
of the Nationalities and People who are eligible to American citizenship, Immi
ica begins, with
grant Elementary and Citizenship Instruction and Assimilation Problems, quali
reside, until the
no adult immi
fying teachers engaged or engaging in public education to facilitate the es
| last individual
tablishing of evening classes or day classes for Adult Immigrant Instruction
grant school
in every Public School District in this state where aliens live, either as perma
within its con
anywhere nearer
nent
or
temporary
residents,
and
wherever
such
teachers
may
be
employed
and
fines is able to
than, perhaps,
the local school boards are willing to provide financially for such courses or
speak, read and
otherwise arrange for such instruction on a nominal tuition plan.
one, two or three
write the lan
SECTION FOUR. There is hereby created an Advisory Board of Americani
hundred miles.
zation consisting of five citizens who shall serve without compensation, whose
guage of Amer
Reading the
duties it shall be to advise with the Superintendent of Public Instruction on all
ica.
matters pertaining to a comprehensive plan of Adult Immigrant Education and
govern ment’s
I Where the
Americanization activities for the ultimate assimilation of the foreign-born
n a t u r a lization
who reside in the State of Oregon. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent
school
budget
Manual may be
of
Public
Instruction'to
confer
with
the
Advisory
Board
on
all
matters
pertain
will not allow an
ing to said Educational and Americanization activities.
•all right—that’s
increase in the
SECTION FIVE. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be
all the Naturali
day teacher’s
provided with one Assistant whose qualifications shall include a certificate of
zation Examiner
recognized Adult Immigrant Education and Americanization training or shall
salary, for adult
can tell them to
'have
taken
post-graduate
work
ini
these
studies
as
specified,
including
Racial
immigrant
in
Back-ground, Cultural attributes of the Nationalities and People who are
do—but to most
struction, two or
eligible to American Citizenship, Immigrant Elementary and Citizenship In
of the hard
struction
and
Assimilation
Problems,
and
whose
duties
it
shall
be
to
utilize
as
three evenings a
working aliens
much of his time as necessary to promote community interest in such Educa
week, at the
tional and Americanization activities wherever adult immigrants reside and
who have little
are employed, to organize such Educational and Americanization activities
school house or
else than a mea
and otherwise co-operate with all agencies engaged in Educational and Ameri
any other ap
canization work having for their purpose the Education, Americanization and
ger common
pointed place,
Assimilation of the Immigrant in conformity with the adopted state plan. The
school
education
appointment of the aforesaid Assistant shall be made by the Superintendent of
such training
in their native
Public
Instruction
upon
approval
of
the
Advisory
Board.
The
Assistant
to
the
might, under
Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall be assigned this Department
country to their
community and
of Adult Immigrant Education and Americanization, shall act as Seretary to
educational
the
Advisory
Board,
which
shall
meet
quarterly,
or
monthly
when
necessary,
in
school board
credit, the Manu
the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Superintendent oi
supervision, be
Public Instruction to be present at 'the Advisory Board’s meetings. Provisions
al looks very
inducted under
for a reasonable salary of the said Assistant shall be made and included in the
much like a
budget of the Superintendent of Public Institution.
tate direction
complicated
SECTION SIX. The five Advisory Board members designated herein shal
)y any volunteer
Chinese puzzle.
be appointed by the State Board of Education, provided that the appointees
a the communi-
shall have had experience in Americanization activities and be generally
* * *
y who has taken
familiar with immigrant assimilation problems. Each member of this Advisory
Board
shall
serve
two
years
consecutively.
Re-appointments,
new
appointments
he special course
An accredited
or filling of vacancies shall be made in the manner herein provided.
state system of
í Americaniza-
ion at one of
adult immigrant
he state educational institutions.
educational training would become a great saving of
In the cases where the school board cannot make time and money to the state in shortening the natura
llowance for two or three night-school periods, lization sessions of the court where the time is now