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amination be admitted to classes corresponding to those in the school which he has left.

4. To sit as a board of arbitration in matters concerning the management of each state normal school that may need adjustment.

5. The joint board shall also have the power to pass any general regulations that may be applied to all the state normal schools, thus affecting their well-being.

6. Members in attending the meetings of the joint board shall receive mileage while in actual attendance upon the meeting, the same to be paid out of any appropriation made by the legislature for that purpose.

7. The superintendent of public instruction shall be the secretary of the joint board. The secretary shall keep a full record of all proceedings of the joint meetings of the trustees, and shall notify the secretary of each board of trustees of any changes made in the course of study, or the text-books to be adopted. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1887, 138; 1897, 235; 1899, 78; 1903, 161.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 136, 215; 136, 218.

§ 1493. Apportionment of

March 12, 1872. Rep. 1873-4, 79.

pupils.

(Repealed.) En.

§ 1494. General qualifications for admission as pupils. Every person admitted as a pupil to the normal school course must be:

First-Of good moral character.

Second-Of sixteen years of age.

Third-Of that class of persons who, if of a proper age, would be admitted in the public schools of this state, without restriction. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 76.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 136, 216.

Teachers holding

1495. Pupils from state at large. valid certificates to teach in any county in this state, may be admitted to any state normal school in the state. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1897, 236.

1496. Pupils from other states. Persons resident of another state may be admitted upon letters of recommendation from the governor or superintendent of schools thereof. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 77.

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Pupils to file certain declaration. Every person making application for admission as a pupil to the normal

school must, at the time of making such application, file with the president of the school a declaration that he enters the school to fit himself for teaching, and that it is his intention to engage in teaching in the public schools of this state, or in the state or territory where the appìicant resides. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 77; 1897, 236.

1498. Competitive examinations before county boards. (Repealed.) En. March 12, 1872. Rep. 1873-4, 79.

§ 1499. Manner of examination. (Repealed.) En. March 12, 1872. Rep. 1873-4, 79.

Persons passing to be admitted as pupils, in (Repealed.) En. March 12, 1872. Rep.

§ 1500. what order. 1873-4, 79.

1501. Principal to make annual report. The president of each state normal school must make a detailed annual report to the board of trustees, with a catalogue of the pupils, and such other particulars as the board may require or he may think useful. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1887, 138; 1897, 236.

1502. Principal may be permitted to attend county institutes. The board of trustees of any normal school or its executive committee, may grant permission to the principal or any teacher of such school to attend any county institute, and give instruction on subjects relating to education in the public schools. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1893, 302.

§ 1503. Issuance of certificates or diplomas of normal school. (1) The board of trustees of each state normal school, upon the recommendation of the faculty, may issue to those pupils who worthily complete the full course of study and training prescribed, diplomas of graduation, either from the normal department or the kindergarten department, or both.

(2) Such diploma from the normal department shall entitle the holder thereof to a certificate corresponding in grade to the grade of the diploma from any county, or city and county, board of education in the state. One from the kindergarten department shall entitle the holder

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to a certificate to teach in any kindergarten class of any primary school in the state.

(3) Whenever any county, or city and county, board of education shall present to the state board of education a recommendation showing that the holder of a normal school diploma from the normal department of any state normal school of the state of California, or of a diploma from any other normal school, that the state board of education shall declare to be equivalent to a diploma from the normal department of a state normal school of this state, has had a successful experience of two years in the public schools of this state, subsequent to the granting of such diploma, the state board of education shall grant to the holder thereof a document signed by the president and secretary of the state board, showing such tact. The said diploma, accompanied by said document of the state board attached thereto, shall become a permanent certificate of qualification to teach in any primary or grammar school in the state, valid until such time as the said diploma may be revoked, as provided in section fourteen hundred and eighty-nine of this code, or until such time as the document issued by the state board, as aforesaid, may be revoked or suspended as provided in subdivision five of section fifteen hundred and twenty-one of this code.

(4) Upon presentation of the diploma and document referred to in subdivision three of this section to any county, or city and county, superintendent of schools, said superintendent shall record the name of the holder thereof in a book provided for that purpose in his office, and the holder thereof shall henceforth be absolved from the requirement of subdivision one of section sixteen hundred and ninety-six of this code.

(5) Said diploma of graduation from any state normal school in this state, when accompanied by a document granted by the faculty of the state university on or before the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and three, showing that the holder of such diploma has successfully completed the course of instruction in said university prescribed for students who are graduates of a normal school of this state, shall entitle such holder to a high school certificate authorizing the holder to teach in any grammar and primary school, and in any high school in this state.

En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 77; 1887, 138; 1893, 267; 1897, 236; 1901, 667.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 117, 521; 117, 522; 117, 523; 128, 448; 136, 216. State board of examination abolished: Post, sec. 1757. State board of education: Post, secs. 1517 et seq.

(Repealed.) Rep.

§ 1504. Secretary and board of trustees. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 78; 1887, 139. 1897, 237.

1505. Supervision by superintendent of public instruction. The superintendent of public instruction must visit each school from time to time, inquire into its condition and management, enforce the rules and regulations made by the board, require such report as he deem proper from the teachers of the school, and exercise a general supervision over the same. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 78; 1897, 237.

Superintendent of public instruction:

1533.

§ 1506.

Post, secs. 1532,

Biennial appropriation to be made. (Repealed.) En. March 12, 1872. Rep. 1887, 139; 1897, 237.

1507. Orders on controller, how drawn. Each order upon the controller of state by the board of trustees of a state normal school must be signed by the president of the board and countersigned by the secretary. Upon presentation of the order aforesaid, signed and countersigned as aforesaid, the controller of state must draw his warrant upon the state treasurer in favor of the board of trustees for any moneys or any part thereof, appropri ated and set apart for the support of the normal school, and the treasurer must pay such warrants on presentation. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1873-4, 78; 1887, 139.

Article I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.
VII.

VIII.

CHAPTER III.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

State Board of Education, §§ 1517-1522.

Superintendent of Public Instruction, §§ 1532, 1533.
School Superintendents, §§ 1542-1553.

Teachers' Institutes, §§ 1560-1565.

School Districts, §§ 1575-1583.

Elections for School Trustees, §§ 1593-1602.

Boards of Trustees of School Districts and City Boards of Education, §§ 1611-1625.

District Census Marshals, §§ 1634-1640.

Clerks of School Districts, §§ 1649-1652.
Schools, §§ 1662-1674.

Pupils, §§ 1682-1687.

District Libraries, §§ 1712-1717.

Educational Journal, §§ 1726-1731.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

Teachers, §§ 1696-1704.

XIII.

XIV.

(Repealed.)

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§ 1517.

§ 1518.

§ 1519.

§ 1520.

§ 1521.

§ 1522.

§ 1517.

District School Tax. §§ 1830-1852.

General Provisions Relative to School Funds and Taxes,

§§ 1857-1861.

Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Public
SS 1867-1891.

ARTICLE I.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Board, how constituted.

President and secretary of.

Concurrence of a majority of all members necessary.

Meetings of.

General powers and duties of.

Traveling expenses of.

Board, how constituted. The state board of education consists of the governor, the superintendent of public instruction, and the principals of the state normal schools. En. March 12, 1872. Am'd. 1880, 28; 1889, 178. Education: See Const. Cal., art. IX.

§ 1518. President and secretary of. The governor is the president, and the superintendent of public instruction the secretary of the board. En. March 12, 1872.

1519.

Concurrence of a majority of all members necessary. A concurrence of a majority of all the members is necessary to the validity of any act of the board. En. March 12, 1872.

Cal.Rep.Cit. 60, 124.

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