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Document D:
Excerpt of Meeting Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Tempe School District No. 3
21 October 1925, Tempe, Arizona

Reprinted from the OAH Magazine of History
15 (Winter 2001). ISSN 0882-228X
Copyright (c) 2001, Organization of American Historians
The Board of Education of the Tempe State Teachers College met in the office of the President at three p.m....

It was moved and carried that the arrangement agreed to between the Board of Trustees of School District Three and A. J. Matthews and I. B. Payne of the State Teachers College in regard to the temporary plan for conducting Eighth Street School, be approved and President Matthews was authorized to take such steps as may be necessary to provide permanent adjustment of work including the employment of two critic teachers possessing the preparation, experience, and degrees required by the Board of Education for critic teachers.

A short meeting was held Sunday evening, Oct. 11 to consider what action would be taken the next morning regarding the work at the Eighth Street Building....

The report of the Committee was presented and discussed, and after due consideration the following procedure was agreed upon, subject to the approval of the Board of Education of Teachers College.

That two more critic teachers be employed by Teachers Colleges. That the six critic teachers be the regular teachers of the six classes of the Eighth Street School. That seniors be allowed to observe and make such reports on observation as may be prescribed by the Director of the Training Schools, and render such assistance as shall not include class instruction.

It was further agreed that when the organization was completed and in working order that the children of such Spanish-American parents as would voluntarily or preferably accept the usual form of Training School teaching might be organized into classes or groups for such instruction.

On this basis, the Eighth Street school was organized Monday morning, October 12, 1925. Two extra teachers holding valid certificates were supplied with the understanding that such appointments would be temporary, and teachers of the usual preparation, degrees, and experience should be employed later[.]