ARTICLE XI. PUPILS. SECTION 1683. Pupils, how admitted. 1685. Suspension and expulsion of. 1686. Defacing school property, liabilities for. admitted. SEC. 1683. Pupils must be admitted into the schools Pupils, how in the order in which they apply to be registered. SEC. 1684. All pupils must comply with the regulations, pursue the required course of study, and submit to the authority of the teachers of such schools. SEC. 1685. Continued wilful disobedience or open defiance of the authority of the teacher constitutes good cause for expulsion from school; and habitual profanity and vulgarity good cause for suspension from school. Must sublations. mit to regu Suspension pulsion of. and ex school SEC. 1686. Any pupil who cuts, defaces, or otherwise Defacing injures any school house, fences, or outbuildings thereof, property. is liable to suspension or expulsion. liabilities for. ARTICLE XII. TEACHERS. SECTION 1696. General duties of teachers. 1697. School month in relation to salary of teachers defined. 1699. Appeal allowed from order removing teacher for incompetency. 1700. Appeals in other cases. 1701. No warrant to be drawn in favor of a teacher unless he performs his duties. 1702. Nor unless he hold certificate and was employed. SEC. 1696. Every teacher in the public schools must: 1. Enforce the course of study, the use of books, and the rules and regulations prescribed for schools; 2. Hold pupils to strict account for disorderly conduct on the way to or from school, on the play grounds, or during recess; suspend for good cause any pupil in the General teachers. duties of School month in relation to salary of teachers del.ned. Teacher not required to teach on holidays. Appeal allowed removing teacher for incompetency. school, and report such suspension to the Board of Trustees or Education for review; 3. Keep a State school register; 4. Make an annual report to the School Superintendent at the time and in the manner and on the blanks prescribed by the Superintendent of Instruction; 5. Make such other reports as may be required by the Superintendent of Schools or Board of Trustees or Edu cation. SEC. 1697. In every contract between teachers and Board of Trustees a school month is construed and taken to be twenty school days, or four weeks of five school days each. SEC. 1698. Teachers are not required to teach school on a holiday, and no deduction from the teacher's time or wages must be made by reason of the fact that a school day happens to fall on a holiday. SEC. 1699. In case of the dismissal of any teacher from order before the expiration of any written contract entered into between such teacher and Board of Trustees for alleged unfitness or incompetence or violation of rules, the teacher may appeal to the School Superintendent, and if the Superintendent decides that the removal was made without good cause, the teacher so removed must be reinstated. Appeals in other cases. No warrant to be drawn in favor of a teacher unless he performs his duties. Nor unless he holds certi cate and was employed. SEC. 1700. Any teacher whose salary is withheld may appeal to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. SEC. 1701. No warrant must be drawn in favor of any teacher unless the officer whose duty it is to draw such warrant is satisfied that the teacher has faithfully performed his duties. SEC. 1702. No warrant must be drawn in favor of any teacher, unless such teacher is the holder of a proper certificate in force, nor unless he was employed by the Board of Trustees or Education. ARTICLE XIII. DISTRICT LIBRARIES. SECTION 1712. Library Fund, how expended. 1713. Of what Fund consists. 1714. Same. 1715. Control and location of library. 1716. Who may use. Fund, how SEC. 1712. The Boards of Trustees and of Education Library must expend the Library Fund, together with such expended. moneys as may be added thereto by donation, in the purchase of books for a school library. Fund SEC. 1713. Except in cities not divided into school of what districts, the Library Fund consists of ten per cent of the consists. State School Fund annually apportioned to the district, unless ten per cent exceed fifty dollars, in which event it consists of fifty dollars annually taken from the Fund so apportioned. SEC. 1714. In cities not divided into school districts Same. the Library Fund consists of the sum of fifty dollars for every five hundred children between the ages of five and fifteen years, annually taken from the State School Fund apportioned to the city. location SEC. 1715. Libraries are under the control of the Board Control and of Trustees or Education, and must be kept when practi- of library. cable in the school houses. may use. SEC. 1716. The library is free to all pupils of a suita- Who ble age belonging to the school, and any resident of the district may become entitled to its privileges by the payment of such a sum of money for life membership or such annual or monthly fee as may be prescribed by the Trustees. 32 Journal to be by Board of ARTICLE XIV. EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. SECTION 1726. Journal to be designated by Board of Education. 1729. Subscription to and distribution of. 1730. Subscription price. 1731. Subscription, how paid. SEC. 1726. Some journal published in this State, and designated devoted exclusively to educational purposes, must be Education. designated by the State Board of Education as the "State Educational Journal." Superintendent of SEC. 1727. The Superintendent of Public Instruction Instruction must be one of the editors of the journal. to be one of the editors. What Journal must contain. Subscrip tion to and distribution of. Subscription price. Subscription, how paid. SEC. 1728. It must contain a department devoted to the publication of the monthly reports of the State Normal School; the decisions and apportionments made; and the instructions and circulars issued by the State Board of Education or the Superintendent of Public Instruction. SEC. 1729. The Superintendent of Public Instruction. must annually subscribe for a sufficient number of copies of such journal to supply each School Superintendent, City Superintendent, District Clerk, and District School Library with one copy thereof. SEC. 1730. The price paid for each annual subscription of twelve monthly copies must not exceed one dollar and fifty cents; and the State Board of Education has power to reduce the rate whenever the journal can be creditably sustained at a lower rate. SEC. 1731. At the beginning of each school year the Superintendent of Public Instruction must draw his order in favor of such journal on the State Controller for an amount sufficient to pay for such subscriptions, which order must be certified by the State Board of Education and allowed by the State Board of Examiners, whereupon the State Controller must draw a warrant therefor on the State Treasurer, payable out of any unapportioned school moneys in the Treasury. ARTICLE XV. STATE BOARD OF EXAMINATION. SECTION 1741. How composed. 1742. Chairman. 1743. Meetings. 1744. General powers. 1745. Limitations on power to issue life diplomas. 1746. Same, as to educational diplomas. 1747. Applications for life diplomas. 1748. Examination of applicants for diplomas and certifi cates. 1749. Standing to be indorsed on certificates. 1750. Certificates may be issued without examination, when. 1752. Revocation of certificates and diplomas. 1753. Renewal of. 1754. Eligibility to teach of holders of diplomas. 1755. Same of holders of certificates. 1756. Fees from applicants for diplomas or certificates. 1757. Fees from persons receiving life diplomas. 1758. Compensation of members of the Board. SEC. 1741. The State Board of Examination consists of How the Superintendent of Public Instruction and four teach composed. ers holding State educational diplomas appointed by him. SEC. 1742. The Superintendent of Public Instruction Chairman. is Chairman of the Board. SEC. 1743. The Board must meet at such times and Meetings. places as the Chairman directs, and must hold at least two sessions in each year. SEC. 1744. The Board has power to grant: 1. Life diplomas; 2. State educational diplomas, valid for six years; 3. State certificates of the first grade, valid for four years; General powers. |