Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

buildings and school furniture, has
been passing away during the pest
five years, so that at this day the ma
jority of the districts have neat, com.
Portable school houses, we'll furnished
with school apparatus.
The following facts are compiled
from statistical records in the County
Superintendent's office:
The teachers are required to pass a
thorough examination in all the
studies taught in the public schools to
obtain certificates. The examinations
are conducted bv the County Board of
Examination, which, by the law OF
the State, is composed of the Superin-
tendent of Schools and three teachers
holding first grade certificates. Exam
iaations are held quarterly, commence
ing the first Wednesday in March,
June, September and December, and
the sessions last three or four days.
Certificates are granted to applicants
who may be successful, of first grade
certificates, valid three year; second
grade, for two years, or third grade for
one year. The printed questions used
in examination are prepared by the
State Board of Examination and sent
sealed to every County Superintend-
ent in the State. There are also State
certificates of the same three grades as
county certificates, and in addition
State diplomas, valid for six years,
issued only to persons who have been
employed in teaching for five years
and who have held first grade
State certificate for at least one year:
and life diplomas, issued only to per-
sons who have been engaged for ten
years in teaching and have received
the State diploma. The percentage of
correct answers required to obtain
county certificates is: for third grade,
60 per cent. second grade, 10 per cent;
first grade, S5 per cent. For State GER
tificates: third grade, rs per cent.
second grade, 80 per cent; first grade,
S5 per cent, and diplomas to those
only who have held first grade certii-
Gates. OF so teachers in the county
(outside of the city, four hold life
diplomas, five State diplomas, nine
first grade State certificates, eleven first
grade county certificates, eighteen
second grade county certificates and
five third grade county certificates.
The average salary paid teachers in
the country schools is $50 per month,
the extremes being $50 and 500. The
schools are in session from six to ten
months, averaging eight months. The
number of school districts in the
county, outside of the city of Los An
geles, is Al; the number of teachers
employed is so, and the average daily
attendance of pupils about 1900. The
only districts with graded schools en-
ploying more than one teacher are:
Anaheim, three teachers; Alameda
district, in the Los Nietos College
settlement, two teachers; Gallatin,
two teachers; Los Nietos, two teachers
Compton, two teachers; Richland, two
teachers, and will probably employ
another within three months, and El
Monte, two teachers. Fifteensof the
schools are kept in small houses, but
the people in five of the fifteen districts
will build new houses within six
months at a cost of 1900 to $1,000
each. During the past year the num-
ber of new districts organized was five
and of new school houses built ten.
The expenditures for school pur-
poses in the county Los Angeles city
not included) the past school year,were