OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

Bonorable L. A. Uoods State Superintendent of Public Insmuctl AUStlIl, Texsa

Dear Sir: opinion Iio.

### O-6535 Re: Whether under fat

oarafully COESI request as toll haa been recairbd urd We Quote from your

2 of House Bill islature, vhich On Aid 

### IAV, provocational **agrl** approved for 12 1 that **ArtiCi8** 2657 8 Superlntandent t0 is8Ue regulations, or intsrpretasohool lav.

e the lav does not deilne vocath8 Comittee on the classi6 ACCr8ditatiOn of Schools, of vNch I a chairmm, and vhich aonslsts of 20 memb8rs and represents all types of achoola and colleges and aerv8s 

### a8my advisory committee in making such regulations pnd lnterpretationo h8s defined vocational woric on page 18 of Bulletin 438. This deflnltlon **stat88** in part:

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"Whe;;her or not **the** credit 15 VoCatiOnCtl depends upon th8 subject matter offered and credits 8arn8d rather than the method Of fiXlanCing the Cost Of instruction.'

'Thie means that If the work is accrediLed, it is vocational; and if it la not accredited, it la simply agriculture, Or Vhat8V8r the subject might be.

"TheSweet Home School Districr in Guadalupe County has a tVO-teacher colored school .that 16 uneccrsdited. The principal, Mr. Robert V. Arnold, teaches agrAoultur8 a8 **0n8** of his aubjeota, and they have requested $127.50 per month for 12 months from ~quallcatlon Aid Funds for his annual salary. We have approved him 

### for 

### $127.50per month on an 8-months' basis for a total of $1,020 for the reason that the work is not accredited. The State Board for Vocational Education has added $43 State and Federal subsidy to this amount.

“This qwstion: **Since bhe**  vork is not Bccrsdited and since the teacher is not a full

### time agriculture teacher, **are** ve authorleed to approve his salary on a 12-months' basis?"

Section 2 of Article 

### 3,H. B. 

### 176of the 48th Legislature of Texas, as amended~by II.B. 

### 3,Acts of the 49th Legislature of Texas, 

### 1945,reads as follow8t

"'Section 2. Salary Schedule and Zength of Term. The base pay for classroom teachers in unaccredited schools shall be Xinetg-five Dollars 

### ($95)per month for eight 

### (8)months. The baae pay for classroom teachers in accredited schools shall b8 One Hundred Dollar8 ($100) per month for nine (9) months. Two Dollars and Fifty Cent5 ($2.%) per month shall be added for each year of college credit
over one year not to exceed Ten Dollars ($10). One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) per month shall be added for eaah year of teaching experience; provided such **EUUOtIXIL**added for experience shall not exceed Fifteen Dollars 

### ($15)per month. Additional allowances for teachers serving as prdacipala and/or superintendent5non. L. A. Woods - P438 3

shall be the seme as was provided for the year 1942-43. The annual ealary of teachers in accredited schools shall be the monthly salary multlplled by nine (9). The annual

monthly 

### salarya8 det8wined by said schedule multiplied by ten (10). All euoh euthorieed ealrrlee may be paid in twelve (12) equal paymenU, vhioh shall not exceed the contract
or the'salary ech8dul8, beginulng with Septsmb8r let Of each year. SE&lari88 Of SUperill- ,tendente and Vocstioxlal teachers may begin
on July 1st rather than SepteeIb8r let. All echoole 

### of th8 oocredited clase 

### receivingaid shall provide **a** tsratof approximately nine (9) montha, and achoole of the UWCCredit8d class receiving aid shall provide a term of approximately eight (8) months. An accredited school is herein defined 

### as a school teaching either the elementary 

### grades,the 8lWWItary grades plus 

### tvo (2) yeare of hi h echool, or the elementary grades and fOUr 74) years of high echool~and recognieed by the State Department of Eduoation as doing standard work. Should any echo01 district eligible to receive Salary Aid under the provisions of this Act maintain
a salary schedule fn exceee of the 8elary ecbedule 8tat8d herein with revenue listed as receipts in the budget, the amount of salary aid r8GeiV8d by euah school dietrior; shall be reduced by the amount of such excese. It.is further provided as a teeIporary method to more adequately Compensate teachers in State aid sohoole for the echo01 year 1944-45, that in addltlon to the base salary, Increments, and 83.1OWlLnC88, authoriesd iu this SeCtiOn, there shall be paid t0 t8aoh8re, teaching in State

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bid schools,anamountnottoexoeedaeventyfiVSDOllam ($75)attb 8adOfeachof 

### laetfour (4)eohoolrant&eof theschool the

year1944-4~5;

provided,hoverer, 

### thleincreeeeshall

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pplyonlyto those 

### teaohere vhoreoeivetheirsalaryuolu8ively from Stat0AvaUabls, Looalnalntuunoe andRural AidFunds.'" (mphaelr oura.)
Underthefaotr8tated,vethinkyouhave oorreotl~daaldeil the utter. Your

### quo8tlon,therefore, i8rooordinglyaa8veredIn thsrugetlvs.

ATTO= ORBRRAL OF TEXAS

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