Organization of Board. Majority vote, when necessary. Meetings of the Board. General powers and duties of the Board Rules. Rules. Course of study. Books for district libraries. Educational diplomas. Life diplomas. Revoke diplomas. Printing. Seal. Record. issued. Life diplomas, to whom issued. Official journal. 1518. The Governor is the President and the Superintendent of Public Instruction the Secretary of the Board. 1519. A concurrence of a majority of all the members is necessary to the validity of any act of the Board. 1520. The Board meets at the call of the Secretary, and not less than four times in each year. 1521. The powers and duties of the Board are as follows: First-To adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this State for its own government and for the government of the public schools and district school libraries. Second-To recommend rules for the examination of teachers. ries. Fifth-To grant educational diplomas, valid for six years, and life diplomas. Sixth-To revoke for immoral or unprofessional conduct or evident unfitness for teaching, life diplomas and educational diplomas heretofore issued or which may be issued hereafter. Seventh-To have done by the State Printer or other officer having the management of the State printing, any printing required by it. Eighth-To adopt and use in authentication of its acts an official seal. Ninth-To keep a record of its proceedings. Tenth-State educational diplomas may be issued to such persons only as have held for one year a first grade, a grammar grade, a grammar school course, or high school city or county, or city and county certificate, and who shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching for at least five years. Every application for an educational diploma must be accompanied by a certified copy of a resolution adopted by a city or a county Board of Education, recommending that the same be granted. The term five years shall be construed to mean five years of not less than seven months each. Eleventh-Life diplomas may be issued upon all and the same conditions as educational diplomas, except that the applicant must furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching for at least ten years. Ten years shall be construed to mean ten years of not less than seven months each. Twelfth-To designate some educational monthly journal as the official organ of the Department of Public Instruction. One copy of the journal so designated shall be furnished by the County Superintendent to the Clerk of each Board of District Trustees, to be by him placed in the district library. The County Superintendent of Schools shall draw his warrant semi-annually in favor of the publishers of such school journal for a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents ($150) per district for each school year, and charge the same to the library fund of the district; provided, that the publishers of such journal shall be required to file an affidavit with the Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the tenth day of each month, stating that he has mailed one copy of said journal to the Clerk of each school district in the State. It is hereby made the duty of the Clerk of each Board of District Trustees, and the Secretary of each Board of Education, to place each number of such journal in the school library of his district on or before the end of the month in which such number was issued. expenses of, 1522. The actual traveling expenses of the members, incurred Traveling in attending the meetings of the Board, must be audited by the how paid. Controller, and paid out of the General Fund in the State Treasury. 1757. Every person receiving a life diploma must pay to the Fee to defray Board three dollars, to defray the expenses of issuing such diploma. issuing life ARTICLE II. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. SECTION 1532. Duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Subs. First, Second-To superintend schools and report bien- Third-What tabular statements to accompany the report. Fifth-To draw his order on Controller in favor of County Sixth-To furnish school officers with all necessary blanks. Eighth-To whom they shall be furnished. Ninth To visit orphan asylums assisted by State money. Tenth To visit and examine into condition of schools of dif- Eleventh-Must authenticate with official seal, what. Traveling expenses allowed and how paid. Twelfth Certain documents in his office to be bound. Traveling expenses of County Superintendents to be paid. expenses of diploma. 1532. It is the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruc- Duties of tion: Superintendent of Public Instruction. Governor, First-To superintend the public schools of this State. Second-To report to the Governor, on or before the fifteenth of Report to December preceding each regular session of the Legislature, a when made. statement of the condition of the State Normal Schools, and other educational institutions supported by the State, and of the public schools. statement to accompany Third-To accompany his report with tabular statements, show- Tabular ing the number of school children in this State, the number attending public schools, the number enrolled in the grammar school report. course and the average attendance, the number attending private schools, and the number not attending schools; the amount of State School Fund apportioned, and the sources from which derived; the amount raised by county and district taxes, or from other sources of revenue, for school purposes, and the amount expended for salaries of teachers, for building school houses, and for district school libraries. Apportionment of funds. Draw order on Controller. Print and furnish blanks, etc. Print laws in pamphlet form. Distribution of pamphlets. Visit orphan asylums. Visit schools. Official seal. School reports bound. Deliver to his successor what. Convention of County ents. Fourth-To apportion the State School Fund, and also the Grammar School Course Fund, at the rate of three dollars for each pupil enrolled in the grammar school course, the apportionment of these funds to be separate. An abstract of such apportionment to be furnished to the Controller, State Board of Examiners, and each County Treasurer, and County Superintendent. Fifth-To draw his order on the Controller, in favor of each County Treasurer, for school moneys apportioned to the county. Sixth-To prepare, have printed, and furnished all officers charged with the administration of the laws relating to public schools, and to teachers, such blank forms and books as may be necessary to the discharge of their duties, including blank teachers' certificates to be used by County Boards of Education. Seventh-To have the law relating to public schools printed in pamphlet form, and annex thereto forms for making reports and conducting school business, the course of study, rules and regulations, a list of library books, and such suggestions on school architecture as he may deem useful. Eighth-To supply school officers and teachers, school libraries, and State libraries with one copy each of the pamphlets mentioned in the preceding subdivision. Ninth To visit the several orphan asylums to which State appropriations are made, and examine into the course of instruction therein. Tenth To visit the schools in the different counties, and inquire into their condition, and the actual traveling expenses thus incurred, provided they do not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum, shall be allowed, audited, and paid out of the General Fund in the same manner as other claims are audited and paid. Eleventh-To authenticate with his official seal all drafts or orders drawn by him, and all papers and writings issued from his office. Twelfth To have bound, at the State bindery, all valuable school reports, journals, and documents in his office, or hereafter received by him, payable out of the State School Fund. Thirteenth-To deliver over, at the expiration of his term of office, on demand, to his successor, all property, books, documents, maps, records, reports, and other papers belonging to his office, or which may have been received by him for the use of his office. Fourteenth-He shall have power to call, biennially, a convenSuperintend- tion of County Superintendents, to assemble at such time and place as he shall deem most convenient, for the discussion of questions pertaining to the supervision and administration of the public schools, the laws relating thereto, and such other subjects affecting the welfare and interest of the public schools as shall properly be brought before it. It is hereby made the duty of all County Superintendents to attend and take part in the proceedings of such convention, when it is called; and the actual expenses of County Superintendents in attending the convention shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors, and paid out of the same fund as the salary of the County Superintendent is paid; provided, the several County Boards of Education may be represented in said convention by one delegate elected from each Board of Education, said delegate to be paid the same as is herein provided for the Superintendent attending said convention. to Controller each year of children 1533. The Superintendent of Public Instruction must report Must report to the Controller, on or before the tenth day of August of each year, the total number of children in the State between the ages total number of five and seventeen years, as shown by the latest reports of the in State County Superintendents on file in his office; and in addition, the between five total number of pupils in the State enrolled in the grammar teen years of school course, under the provisions of section one thousand six age. hundred and sixty-three of this Code, as reported by the several County Superintendents. ARTICLE III. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS. SECTION 1543. Duties of County Superintendents of Schools. Second-To apportion money to districts quarterly. May require from Auditor statement of money on hand when Money of lapsed districts, how apportioned. Third-To apportion money to grammar school course. Fourth-On order of Board of Education, or Board of Trustees, When requisition must be drawn. When requisition for teacher's salary must not be drawn. Seventh-Must preside at Institutes and secure lecturers. Must enforce all regulations and use of text-books. Ninth-To distribute documents. Tenth-Must keep in office what reports. Eleventh-Keep certain records. Twelfth-Pass upon plans for school houses. Thirteenth-To appoint Trustees, when. Fourteenth-When required to make reports to Superintendent Fifteenth-Must preserve and turn over records to successor. What grades teachers can teach. Schools, how designated. Seventeenth-Must keep record of grammar school course pupils. 1544. Forfeits for failure to report to Superintendent of Public Instruction one hundred dollars. Forfeiture, how enforced. 1545. May appoint teachers and open schools, when. In such case expenses, how paid. 1546. When may require Trustees to repair school buildings. 1548. Money allowed for binding of school documents. Postage and expressage allowed Superintendent. 1549. May appoint deputy. 1550. Compensation of deputy in cities having over thirty thousand inhabitants. 1551. When must report to Superintendent of Public Instruction Must keep copy of what records in regard to school district When boundaries are conflicting must inform Supervisors. May have descriptions of boundaries printed for guidance of 1552. Salary of Superintendent, how estimated. How paid. Not less than twenty dollars per district, exclusive of traveling expenses. In incorporated cities three hundred pupils equal one district. 1553. When School Superintendents shall not teach. and seven Duties of ents of Schools. To apportion school moneys. 1543. It is the duty of the County Superintendent of each county: First-To superintend the schools of his county. Second-To apportion the school moneys of each school district quarterly, and for that purpose he may require of the County Auditor a report of the amount of all school moneys on hand to the credit of the several school funds of the county not already apportioned; and it is hereby made the duty of the Auditor to furnish such report when so required; and whenever, at the close of the school year, any money has accumulated to the credit of a school district, by reason of a large census roll and small attendance, in excess of a reasonable amount required to maintain the school six months in each district, the Superintendent of Schools shall apportion the same as other school funds are apportioned. If in any school district there shall be an average attendance for three consecutive months of only five pupils, or less, such When dis- district shall lapse, and the moneys in the treasury of the county tricts lapse. belonging thereto shall be apportioned by the Superintendent of Schools among the other districts of his county, in proportion to the number of census children between five and seventeen in such districts. The property of any school district that shall lapse shall be sold by the Board of Supervisors, and the proceeds of such sale, after the payment of any indebtedness of the district, shall be placed in the County School Fund. The territory included within the boundaries of said district shall, by order of the Board of Supervisors, be attached to one or more adjoining school districts. Property of lapsed districts. Territory of lapsed districts. Grammar School course. Draw Third-To apportion to each school district where the grammar school course is taught, all moneys provided by the State under section four hundred and forty-four of this Code, at the rate of three dollars for each pupil enrolled in said course on the first day of May preceding the date of apportionment. Fourth-On the order of the Board of Trustees, or Board of for expenses. Education, to draw his requisition upon the County Auditor for all necessary expenses against the School Fund of any city, town, or district. The requisition must be drawn in the order in which the orders therefor are filed in his office. Each requisition must specify the purpose for which it is drawn; but no requisition shall be drawn unless the money is in the fund to pay it; and no requisition shall be drawn upon the order of the Board of Trustees against the County Fund of any district, except for teachers' salaries, unless such order is accompanied by an itemized bill showing the separate items and the price of each, in payment for which the order is drawn; nor shall any requisition for teachers' salaries be drawn unless the order shall state the monthly salary of the teacher, and name the months for which such salary is due. Upon the receipt of such requisition the Auditor shall draw his warrant upon the County Treasurer in favor of the parties for the amount stated in such requisition. Register of requisitions open to Fifth-To keep open to the inspection of the public a register of requisitions, showing the fund upon which the requisition has inspection. been drawn, the number thereof, in whose favor, and for what service, and also a receipt from the person to whom the requisition was delivered. |