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§ 773 Penalty for failure to attend or to close schools. Wilful failure on the part of a teacher to attend a teachers institute as required, shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of such teacher's license, and a wilful failure on the part of trustees to close their schools during the holding of an institute as required, shall be sufficient cause for withholding the public moneys to which such districts would otherwise be entitled.

§ 774 Teachers must attend; entitled to salaries. 1 Any person under contract to teach in a school in any commissioner district, is required to attend an institute if one is held for that district, even though at the time of such institute the school is not in session, and shall be entitled to receive full salary for the actual time in attendance at such institute.

2 The trustees of every school district are hereby directed to give the teachers employed in their district the whole of the time, while an institute for the school commissioner district in which their school is located is in session, for attendance thereat and shall make no deduction whatever from the salaries of such teachers for the time so spent.

§ 775 Payment of expenses. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the Comptroller, to the order of any one or more of the school commissioners, such sum of money as the Commissioner of Education shall certify to be due to them for expenses in holding a teachers institute; and upon the like warrant and certificate shall pay to the order of any persons employed by the Commissioner of Education as additional instructors to conduct, instruct, teach or supervise any such teachers institute.

§ 776 Compensation and expenses of teachers attending institute or conference. A public school teacher under contract to teach in a public school who is required pursuant to law or a regulation of the State Department of Education to attend an institute or conference held at a place other than that in which the school is located, in addition to his or her regular salary, shall be paid the sum of one dollar for each day or part of a day actually spent in attendance at such institute or conference, and ten cents a mile for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning therefrom. The teacher shall be paid the foregoing sums by the district in which he or she is under contract to teach in the first order drawn after the 'institute or conference and in the annual report of the trustees of such district the amount or amounts so paid shall be included therein and the same shall be repaid to the district out

of the moneys appropriated for the support of common schools and the amount so repaid shall be apportioned and paid to such district by the Commissioner of Education at the same time and in the same manner as other public school moneys are apportioned and paid to such district. [Added, by L. 1919, ch. 109, in effect March 27, 1919.]

ARTICLE 31

Training Classes

Section 790 Designation of schools for classes

791 Regulations for classes

792 Instruction free

793 School commissioners shall supervise and examine classes; teachers certificates

794 Teachers training schools or classes under superintendents of

schools

§ 790 Designation of schools for classes. The Commissioner of Education shall designate the academies and union free schools in which training classes may be organized to give instruction in the science and practice of common school teaching. Such classes shall be distributed among the academies and high schools of the several school commissioner districts of the State and consideration shall be given to the number of school districts in each and the location and character of the institution designated.

§ 791 Regulations for classes. 1 Every academy and union school so designated shall instruct a training class of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five scholars, and every scholar admitted to such class shall continue under instruction not less than thirtysix weeks.

2 Whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Education that any pupil attending such classes has been prevented from attending the same for the full term of thirtysix weeks, or that for any reason satisfactory to such Commissioner, said classes have not been held for the full term of thirtysix weeks, or have been attended by less than ten members, such Commissioner may excuse such default and allow to the trustees of the academy or union free school in which said classes have been instructed an equitable allowance proportionate to the number of pupils and period of instruction.

3 The Commissioner shall prescribe the conditions of admission to the classes, the course of instruction and the rules and regulations under which said instruction shall be given.

§ 792 Instruction free. Instruction shall be free to all scholars admitted to such classes, who have continued in them the length of time required by the preceding section.

§ 793 School commissioners shall supervise classes. Each class organized in any academy or union school under appointment by the Commissioner of Education for the instruction in the science and practice of common school teaching, shall be subject to the visitation of the school commissioner of the district in which such academy or union school is situated; and it shall be the duty of said school commissioner to advise and assist the principals of said academies or union schools in the organization and management of said classes.

§ 794 Teachers training schools or classes under superintendents of schools. The board of education or the public school authorities of any city or of any school district having a population of five thousand or more and employing a superintendent of schools, may establish, maintain, direct and control one or more schools or classes for the professional instruction and training of teachers in the principles of education and in the method of instruction for not less than two years.

ARTICLE 32

Normal Schools; State College for Teachers

Section 810 Normal schools continued

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Local boards shall have management of buildings and property
Courses of study

816-a Department of extension teacher training in the State Normal
School at Geneseo in connection with the Craig Colony at
Sonyea

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Teachers, salaries, et cetera

Commissioner may perform duties of defaulting local board
Diplomas

820 Requisites for admission; privileges and duties of pupils
821 Practice departments in Fredonia school

822 Special policemen

823 Village or city may insure normal school property

824 Expense of insurance a village or city charge

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Deposit of insurance moneys in bank

Acceptance of grants and bequests authorized 827 Education of Indian youth

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Section 829 Age of youth and limit of time for support

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Contracts for the education of children, residing in a city or

district in which a state normal school is located

835 Industrial teachers' scholarships

The state normal schools

§ 810 Normal schools continued. heretofore established at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, New Paltz, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburg and Potsdam, are continued.

§ 811 Local boards. There shall continue to be a local board of each of said state normal schools, consisting of not less than three nor more than thirteen persons and the members thereof shall hold their offices until removed by the concurrent action of the Chancellor of the University and the Commissioner of Education. A vacancy in any of the said boards shall be filled by appointment by the Commissioner of Education.

§ 812 Powers of local boards. 1 Local boards shall have the immediate supervision and management of said schools, subject, however, to the general supervision of the Commissioner of Education and to his direction in all things pertaining to the school. Said local boards shall have power to appoint one of their number chairman, one secretary and another treasurer of the board. The secretary may also be treasurer.

2 A majority of each of said board shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, and in the absence of any officer of the board, another member may be appointed pro tempore to fill his place and perform his duties.

3 It shall be the duty of such board to make and establish, and from time to time to alter and amend, such rules and regulations for the government of such schools under their charge, respectively, as they shall deem best, which shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Education.

4 They shall also severally transmit through the Commissioner of Education, and subject to his approval and in the form which he directs, a report to the Legislature on the first day of January in each year, showing the condition of the school under their charge during the year next preceding, including, especially, an account in detail of their receipts and expenditures, which shall be duly verified by the oath or affirmation of their chairman and secretary.

§ 813 Bond of treasurer. The treasurer shall give an undertaking to the people of the State for the faithful performance of his trust in an amount fixed by the Commissioner of Education. The undertaking shall be approved by said Commissioner and filed in the office of the Comptroller.

§ 814 Salary of secretary and treasurer. The secretary and the treasurer shall each be paid an annual salary to be fixed by the local board with the approval of the Commissioner of Education, but the aggregate amount of such salaries shall not exceed four hundred dollars.

§ 815 Local boards shall have management of buildings and property. The local boards of managers of the respective normal schools in this State shall have the custody, keeping and management of the grounds and buildings provided or used for the purposes of such schools, respectively, and other property of the State pertaining thereto, with power to protect, preserve and improve the

same.

§ 816 Courses of study. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Education to prescribe the courses of study to be pursued in each of said schools.

§ 816-a Department of extension teacher training in the State Normal School at Geneseo in connection with the Craig Colony at Sonyea. The Commissioner of Education shall establish a department of extension teacher training at the State Normal School at Geneseo in connection with the Craig Colony at Sonyea, which department shall conduct all educational activities at the Craig Colony at Sonyea. The members of the teaching staff employed at the Craig Colony schools when this act takes effect shall become a part of the teaching staff of the said normal school, and they and all other teachers, instructors and supervisors hereafter employed in such department shall be employed and classified under the provisions of the law relating to teachers in state normal schools and their salaries shall be fixed as therein provided, with proper deductions for maintenance which shall be furnished by the board of managers of Craig Colony for all such supervisors, instructors, teachers, or students as are assigned to the Craig Colony schools for teaching or observation. All instruction given in the said Craig Colony schools shall be under the direction of the principal of the State Normal School at Geneseo, subject to the supervision of the Commissioner of Education. [Added by L. 1922, ch. 38, in effect July 1, 1922.]

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