§ 563. Contract when teacher is related to trustee or member of board. 1. No person who is related to any trustee by blood or marriage shall be employed as a teacher, except with the approval of two-thirds of the voters of such district present and voting upon the question at an annual or special meeting of the district. 2. No person who is related by blood or marriage to any member of a board of education shall be employed as a teacher by such board, except upon the consent of two-thirds of the members thereof to be determined at a board meeting and to be entered upon the proceedings of the board. Any person § 564. Individual liability of trustee. employed in disregard of section five hundred and sixty-one or of section five hundred and sixty-three shall have no claim for wages against the district, but may enforce the specific contract made. against the trustees or board of education consenting to such employment as individuals. § 565. Dismissal of teacher. No teacher shall be removed during a term of employment unless for neglect of duty, incapacity to teach, immoral conduct, or other reason which, when appealed to the commissioner of education, shall be held by him sufficient cause for such dismissal. § 566. Teacher's salary payable as often as monthly. The salary of any teacher employed in the public schools of this state shall be due and payable at least as often as at the end of each calendar month of the term of employment. § 567. Common schools free to resident pupils; tuition from nonresident pupils. 1. A person over five and under twenty-one years of age is entitled to attend the public schools maintained in the district or city in which such person resides without the payment of tuition. 2. Nonresidents of a district, if otherwise competent, may be admitted into the school of a district or city, upon the consent of the trustees, or the board of education, upon terms prescribed by such trustees or board. 3. The school authorities of a district or city must deduct from the tuition of a nonresident pupil whose parent or guardian owns property in such district or city and pays a tax thereon for the support of the schools maintained in such district or city the amount of such tax. ARTICLE 21 Contract System Section 580. District meeting to authorize contract system. 581. District or city with which such contract may be made. 582. Trustees or boards of education may contract to receive such children. 583. Form of contract. 584. Validity of contract. 585. Apportionment to contracting district. § 580. District meeting to authorize contract system. Any school district may decide by a majority vote of the qualified voters present and voting at any district meeting: 1. To contract for the education of all the children of such district in another district or in a city instead of maintaining a home school; 2. To contract for the education of part of the children of such district in another district or in a city and maintain a home school. § 581. District or city with which such contract may be made. 1. Such contract may be made with one or more districts or cities. The district meeting authorizing such contract may designate the districts or cities with which such contracts may be made. 2. If the district meeting fails to make such designation or if any district or city so designated refuses to make such contract, the trustees of the district authorizing such contract may enter into a contract with a district willing to make such contract. § 582. Trustees or boards of education may contract to receive such children. The trustees or board of education of any district or city may enter into a contract to receive and educate in the schools of such district or city the children of any district which shall authorize its trustees to contract for the education of its children as provided by section five hundred and eighty of this chapter. § 583. Form of contract. Such contract shall be written and in the form prescribed by the commissioner of education. § 584. Validity of contract. Such contract shall not be valid or binding upon either party thereto until a copy thereof is filed with the commissioner of education and approved by such commissioner. 1. § 585. Apportionment to contracting district. Whenever the period of time which a district contracts for the education of its children or such period together with the time school is actually taught in said district shall amount to one hundred and sixty days and the contract shall include all the children of school age in such district, such district shall be entitled to receive one district quota. 2. Whenever a district maintains a home school and contracts for the education of at least twelve of its children in another district or city, it shall be entitled to one teacher's quota in addition to its district quota. 3. No school district operating under the contract system shall receive a greater apportionment than the total expense incurred in payment of tuition and transportation of pupils as shown by the report of the trustee to the school commissioner. § 586. Report of pupils from other districts. The children attending a school under any such contract shall be reported to the commissioner of education by the trustees or board of education of the district or city wherein such children attend school as though they were residents of such city or school district. ARTICLE 22 General Industrial Schools, Trade Schools, and Schools of Agriculture, Mechanic Arts and Home Making Section 600. General industrial schools, trade schools, and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, may be established in cities. 601. Such schools may be established in union free school. districts. 602. Appointment of an advisory board. 603. Authority of the board of education over such schools. 604. State aid for general industrial schools, trade schools, and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making. 605. Application of such moneys. Section 606. Annual estimate by board of education and appropriations by municipal and school districts. 607. Courses in schools of agriculture for training of teachers. § 600. General industrial schools, trade schools and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, may be established in cities. The board of education of any city, and in a city not having a board of education the officer having the management and supervision of the public school system, may establish, acquire, conduct and maintain as a part of the public school system of such city the following: 1. General industrial schools open to pupils who have completed the elementary school course or who have attained the age of fourteen years, and; 2. Trade schools open to pupils who have attained the age of sixteen years and have completed either the elementary school course or a course in the above mentioned general industrial school or who have met such other requirements as the local school authorities may have prescribed. 3. Schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, open to pupils who have completed the elementary school course or who have attained the age of fourteen, or who have met such other requirements as the local school authorities may have prescribed. § 601. Such schools may be established in union free school districts. The board of education of any union free school district shall also establish, acquire and maintain such schools for like purposes whenever such schools shall be authorized by a district meeting. § 602. Appointment of an advisory board. 1. The board of education in a city and the officer having the management and supervision of the public school system in a city not having a board of education shall appoint an advisory board of five members representing the local trades, industries, and occupations. In the first instance two of such members shall be appointed for a term of one year and three of such members shall be appointed for a term of two years. Thereafter as the terms of such members shall expire the vacancies caused thereby shall be filled for a full term of two years. Any other vacancy occurring on such board shall be filled by the appointing power named in this section for the remainder of the unexpired term. 2. It shall be the duty of such advisory board to counsel with and advise the board of education or the officer having the management and supervision of the public school system in a city not having a board of education in relation to the powers and duties vested in such board or officer by section six hundred and three of this chapter. § 603. Authority of the board of education over such schools. The board of education in a city and the officer having the management and supervision of the public school system in a city not having a board of education and the board of education in a union free school district which authorizes the establishment of a general industrial school, a trade school, or a school of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, is vested with the same power, and authority over the management, supervision and control of such school and the teachers or instructors employed therein as such board or officer now has over the schools and teachers under their charge. Such boards of education or such officer shall also have full power and authority: 1. To employ competent teachers or instructors. 2. To provide proper courses of study. 3. To purchase or acquire sites and grounds and to purchase, acquire, lease or construct and to repair suitable shops or buildings and to properly equip the same. 4. To purchase necessary machinery, tools, apparatus and supplies. § 604. State aid for general industrial schools, trade schools, and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making. 1. The commissioner of education in the annual apportionment of the state school moneys shall apportion therefrom to each city and union free school district the sum of five hundred dollars for each independently organized general industrial school, trade school, or a school of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, maintained therein for thirty-eight weeks during the school year and employing one teacher whose work is devoted exclusively to such school, and having an enrollment of at least twenty-five pupils and maintaining a course of study approved by him. 2. The commissioner of education shall also make an additional apportionment to each city and union free school district of two hundred dollars for each additional teacher employed exclusively in such schools for thirty-eight weeks during the school year. |