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For Immediate Release Bryant for GoVernor Headquarters
0081a, Florida
EDUCATION
"Education on a national scale is held fast in a dilemma of its
own, with rising enrollments on one hand and inadequate finances on
the other," said C. Farris Bryant in stating his ideas on education
when he announced his candidacy. That be fully realizes the
immediacy of this dilemma and has a clear picture or the measures
needed to meet Florida's constant growth and urbanization can be seen
by his leadership in the legislature toward a broader program and
greater expansion in the field of education.
Bryant has been in the forefront in the campaign to build a
university system to meet the demands or a population expected to
more than triple by 1970. Among the first to recognize the value of
community colleges, he has advocated the idea in speeches and
proposed it in a bill before the Bones.
At Florida's rate of growth, her college population will top
130,000 by 1970. In 1954 the total state college enrollment was
54,000. "If the problem isn't solved, young people will rind it
impossible to get a college education by 1970." Bryant said in 1954.
"were community colleges and four year state supported universities
are vital if the situation is to be eased."
Bryant envisions Florida as the cultural center of the world.
To fulfill such visions, far-sighted leaders are needed to plan for
the future, not with the intent of merely keeping up with the expand-
ing population, but earnestly laying out a concentrated program to
raise the level or existing standards, producing education w hich is
the beat in quality 88 W011 as education in quantity enough to meet
the requirements of all who desire it.
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To meet these needs Bryant foresee a two-year college in almost
every population center and several 4-year colleges will have to be
created. Top-flight quality will extend into the graduate fields.
Bryant feels that no person should have to leave the state to receive
training in any field on any level. Our medical schools should be
expanded until they attract students from all over the country; we
should have the best law schools and the best engineering schools.
All of these things are seen by Bryant not as imaginary fantasies but
as necessary, real programs to fulfill a destiny being created by the
ever-growing population and wealth of Florida.
Extensive, intelligent planning under the guidance or a governor
able to coordinate all the programs and activities and able to insure
passage of the needed legislation is necessary.
The plan advanced by Bryant in 1954 for a system of two year
colleges in the centers of population would be a step toward rcalisa~
tion of these goals. With the establishment of such state supported
institutions many more people would get an education than could
afford it otherwise. Expenses would be reduced for students because
they could stay at home while going to college. The two years
additional education received in the community colleges would add to
the educational level of those who did not go farther} making them
more useful citizens, and it would provide incentive for thousands
more to go on to higher achievements. Everyone in Florida would
benefit immensely from the higher standards of living and the happier.
more secure society which would to the result.
Since August 1954 Bryant has been a member of a special
committee of the Council for the Study of Higher Education to work
cut a program for the state in overcoming problems which Florida
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faces in preparing for a three-fold increase in college enrollments
by 1970. He has actively supported a plan presented to the Cabinet
Board of Education to set up 12 to 16 two-year colleges.
This plan also involved eventual setting up of 3 or a four-year
colleges. developing the three existing universities further and
creating the Job of chancellor to head the university system under
the policy-making Board of Control.
Always on the alert for plans to obtain maximum efficiency from.
the existing educational facilities, he introduced a bill in 1953 to
relieve the Board of Control of some of its extra-curricular activiti-
es such as the School for the Deaf and Blind at St. Augustine and the
Ringling Museum at Sarasota, so it could devote full time to higher
education. The bill would also empower the Board to select an
executive secretary to concentrate on business affairs and an
educational secretary to study academic matters.
On both the grade school and university levels, Bryant has fought
for higher teaching standards, more construction, better paid
instructors, and better equipment. "The Florida Minimum Foundation
Program for public schools deserves continued support, with particular
emphasis toward meeting spiraling needs for classrooms," he continued
in his statement of policy. His record shows his constant belief in
the value of the minimum foundation program.
In over? 593310" from 1947 to 1955, at least one bill was into-
duced to increase the benefits and coverage in the teacher retirement
system. Bryant supported these measures, including one to allow
substitute teachers to be included.
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Every bill introduced requesting an increase in teachers'
salaries received Bryant's whole-hearted support. In 1951 he led the
fight in the House to give the teachers a $300 pay raise. His pro-
posal to use a sales tax on machinery as a method of financing the
bill has been heralded as the only logical one proposed. This bill
was defeated in the closing minutes by a recalcitrant group in the
Senate who insisted on using a sales tax on clothing as a means of
financing.
To get maximum use from school facilities and alleviate crowded
classroom conditions, Bryant, in the last session of the legislature,
proposed a study of year-round schools. He presented a bill to
establish a ten-man interim study committee to study the feasibility
of the idea in the two years following the session.
Bryant strongly believes that a well-functioning educational
system is a necessary part of a democracy. He has fought to improve
Florida's system, trying to make it the best in the country, resulting
in Florida citizens being the best educated, most useful citizens.
to governor his efforts toward the continued growth in quality and
quantity in educational fields will be directed into well-planned,
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