Wednesday, December 2, 1840.Springfield, IL.
| Lincoln offers resolution: "That the committee on education . . . inquire
into the expediency of providing by law for examination as to qualifications of persons,
offering themselves as school-teachers, that no teacher shall receive any part of the
public school fund who shall not have successfully passed an examination." This
resolution is embodied in sec. 81 of common school code adopted at this session.House Journal. |