The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-19
SCHOOL MATTERS.

The following extracts from cir
cular just issued by the State Board
of Education, contains important
suggestions to school officers and in
formation for the people generally
AS there has been considerable cor
respondcnce with this department to
complain that foreign languages, TO
the almost total exclusion of the En-
glish language, have been adopted in
| the class exercises of the school room,
either German or Spanish being
used. notice is hereby given that the
English language must be the medi-
nm of instruction in our public Tree
schools. Pupils in our public school
NAV. be taught foreign languages, but
the common language of the school
room must be the English.
Boards of Examiners have no htl-
thority to recommend tho issuance
of n certificate of competency 70 any
af5plirant who does not give evidence
on examination of sufficient knowl-
edge of the English language to use
| il as a medium in imparting instrlic-
ton.
Seven hours a day, including the
usual rccesscs, say fifteen minutes be-
fore and after noon, and one hour
from IL IN. TO / p. m, constitute a
daily session. Twenty such sessions
constitute u scholastic month. These
periods may be increased by contract
between trustees and tearchers.
Affera community has been or
ganized, and has become a matter of
record in the offices OF County Judge
and Country Treasurer, no change
in said organization can be lawfully
demanded, unless ii can be shown
that fraud has been practiced or
some wrong porpetrated in organic
ing said community.
Official parties in the organization,
viz: County Judge, County Trcasur-
er and Trustees, may, ms u matter OF
favor allow changes TO be made.
After contract has been entered
into between trustees and teacher
there is then fourth party added IL
the community organization, viz: tn,
teacher; and no change, unless i
may be such change as n contempla
ted by law, or as unavoidable cir
cumstances work, can be made il
said organization, except by the con
sent of all parties to the contract.
Parents that have changed thci
place of residence from one count,
to another subsequent to the emu
meration of their children in the cen
sus returns of the county of thei
late residence, and prior TO the or
ganization of school communities II
the county TO which they have NOV
ed, are entitled to free school facili
ties in the county in which they re
side.
Thu Comptroller of Public Ac
counts estimates the sum of availa
ble school revenue that may be ap
Piled when authorized by law to tb'
support of public free schools for tn,
year ending August 81, 1879, ut 5000,
900. but in view of fact that the gen
eral appropriation act of the Fit
tcenth Legislature provided for tn
support of all departments of tn
State government only to Decembc
81, 1873, the Board of Education can
not go beyond that date; and henc
only S300,000 can now be apportion
ed to the several counties Of tn
State for the current scholastic yeaI
You are referred to general law
ofthe Fifteenth Legislature, page 25t
item appropriation for schools"
The next apportionment will b
made as soon rs the Legislator
makes the appropriation for this de
lpartment.
| II. b. HUBBARD, Governor,
STEPH. ii. DARDEN, Comp.
| |. G.. SEARCY, See. State,
Board of Education
Attest:
| o. N. HoLLINGswORTH,
See. Board Education.