The record-union., 1892-03-22
ARTICLE VII.
Educational Department.

Educational Department.
SEC. ITO. The government of the Common
schools OF the city shall be vested in Board
OF Education, to consist of nine members, to
be called School Directors, and who Shall re-
celve no compensation. One School Director
snail be elected from each ward. Their terms
OF Office shall be four years. OF the members
OF the Board OF Education first elected under
Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Wards shall hold
theif ONCE for four years, and the members
from the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh and
Nlntn Wards shall hold their Office for only
Two years At each election thereafter, mem
| beis OF the Board OF Education shall be elected
TO succeed those whose terms are about to
expire No person shall be eligible To the
once OF school Director, unless he is at the
time OF his election qualified elector of the
ward from which he is elected.
SEC. III. The Board of Education shall
meet on the 1irst Monday after the first day of
January next after the election of Its men,
bers shall have been officially declared and
organize oy electing one of their number
PRESIDENT, whose term OF Office, as President
shall be two years. The board Shall hold rev
ulaf meetings at least once in each month and
AT such times as shall be determined by its
rules special meetings may be called at any
tline by The President, any three of the mem
| DerS, or by the Superintendent. SIX mem bers
| Oh the board shall constitute q quorum for the
transaction of business, and the affirmative
vote OF hVe members shall be necessary to
| pass any measure, but u smaller number may
adjourn from time to time. The board may
| determine the rules of its proceedings. and the
! yeas ana nays shall be taken when demanded
| by any member and entered on the records of
! the board. Its records shall be open to public
| inspection. The Mayor shall fill all vacancies
occurring In the board, until the next regular
shall be public. All elections held by it shall
| be viva Voce
SEC. 112. The powers and duties of the
Board OF Education are as follows:
t1rst-To establish and maintain common
| schools, which shall include high, grammar,
primary and kindergarten departments; to
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| ana control the school property; to establish
! school districts, and to nix and alter the
! boundaries thereof.
Second-To employ, pay and dismiss teach
| ers, Janitors and such persons as may be neces-
| sary TO carry into effect the powers and duties
Oh the board, and to fix, alter, allow and order
withhold, for good and sufficient cause the
Wnoe or any part OF the salary or wages of
any any person or persons employed as aforesaid.
lhefe shall be an annual election for teachers
at sucn time as the board may determine;
| provided, however, that no election or APP
| polntment of any teacher, janitor or other
efnploye shall constitute q contract either as
| TO the duration OF the Office or as to the
amount OF salary or compensation to be paid
put the board shall always have the power to
dismlss any or all teachers, janitors or other
employees, and to alter the amount of salary
or compensation.
Third-To make, establish and enforce all
necessary and proper rules and regulations
for the government and progress of the com
mon schools and for the investigation of
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the department.. and for carrying into effect
! the laws relating to education; also TO estab-
lish and regulate the grade of schools and de-
| term1ne what textbooks lin addition to those
| published by the State, course of study and
mode of instruction shall be used IN said
| schools; but any textbook determined upon
| by the board shall not be changed within a
period OF four years after its adoption
| Fourth-To provide for the School Depart
ment all necessary supplies, and incur such
other Incidental expenses as may be necessary
Tor the welfare OF the department.
Fifth-To build, alter, repair, rent and pro-
vide schoolhouses, and TO furnish them with
proper school furniture, apparatus and appli-
ances.
SiXth-To purchase. sell or exchange school
lots, and to take charge of any and all real
estate and personal property that may have
been acquired, or may hereafter be acquired for
| the use and benefit OF the common schools of
the city; and to make, in the name of the city
conveyances of property belonging to the city
and sold by the Board or Education; lToUided,
| that no real estate shall be bought, sold or
exchanged without the consent of the Board
| of Trustees, evidenced by ordinance; and pro-
vided further, that the proceeds of any such
| sale or exchange of real estate shall be ex-
| clusively applied to the purchase of other lots
! or the erection OF Schoolhouses for the use OF
| this department.
| .Seventh-Io appoint School Census Mar
| shals on or before the first day of May of each
| year, whose duties shall be as prescribed by
| general law.
Eighth-To sue In the name of the city for
any and all property acquired or claimed for
| the use and benefit of the School Department
and to prosecute and defend all actions at law
| or In equity, necessary to recover and main
tain the full enjoyment and possession of said
property, and to require the services of the
| City Attorney in all such actions.
Nlnth-To examine every demand payable
| out OF the school fund, and for good cause to
reject any such demand, or to allow the same
| in whole or in part, and to compel the attend
ance OF witnesses before the board, or any
commlttee thereof In any matter under in
vestigation.
Tenth-To discharge all legal membranes
now existing, or which may hereafter exist,
upon any school property
Eleventh-To prohibit any child under six
| years of age from attending the common
| schools, provided in kindergarten classes
children OF four years of age may be admitted
and to suspend or expel pupils for miscon-
| duct.
Twelfth-To dispose of and sell at public
auction upon not less than five days notice
! by pub1catlon IN a daily newspaper pub
| lished in said city, such personal property as
snail no longer be required by the depart
ment. All moneys realized from such sales
snail be PAID into the treasury to the credit of
| the School Fund.
Thirteentn-To receive and manage prop
| erty or money acquired by devise, bequeSt, or
! donation in trust for the benefit of any
school, educational purpose, or school prop
! eIty.
Fourteenth-To exclude from the schools
and school libraries ali books, publications
| or papers of sectarian, partisan or denomina-
tiOnal character.
Fifteenth-To furnish books for the children
OF parents unable to furnish them. The books
so furnished shall belong to the city and
shall be returned TO the Superintendent at the
close of each term.
Sixteenth-To make an annual report on or
before the first day of July in each year to the
| manner and form and on the blanks pre-
scribed by the State Superintendent of Public
instruction.
Seventeenth-To make a report whenever
required directly to the State Superintendent
ofPublic Instruction Of the textbooks used in
the city schools.
shall visit every school in the city at least
once in each term and examine carefully into
its management, condition and wants.
Nfneteenth-It shall be the duty of the board
to prescribe a course or study that will fit and
prepare the students therein to enter any of
the departments of the University of the State
! OF California. Such course shall be known as
the High school course.
Twentieth-The board may provide depart
ments for the training OF pupils in the in
dustr1aI and mechanical arts, and domestic
and commercial avocations and shall have
power to furnish such departments with nee
essary tools, apparatus and appliances.
Twenty-hrst-And generally to do and per-
form such other acts may be required by
general law applicable TO the city, anu as may
and effect the powers conferred on said board,
and to increase the efficiency of the common
schools in the city.
SEC. l13. The City Auditor and City Treas
urer shall keep a City School Fund into
which shall be paid all moneys Appropriated
10 II under any law providing city school
on account OF the city's share OF any appor-
tionment of the State school moneys, and the
clty's portion of all county moneys collected
or set apart for school purposes. and neither
the Board OF Trustees nor City Auditor shall
allow any claim payable. out of the City
School Fund until after such claim shall have
been audited and allowed by the Board of
Education.
SEC. Ia. the Board of Education shall
annually, on or before the first Monday in
August. make and report to the Board OF
| Trustees statement in detail of the receipts