Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-04-07
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Lie Legislature at it's recent ses-
sion passed u law providing for the
issuing OF teachers certificates by
County Boards OF Examination. It
raises the standard Of qualifications
and repeats the law now in force. It
is as follows:
SECTION /. Tho county primary
school certificate, good for two years,
shall be issued upon satisfactory ex-
animation in the following subjects,
and shall entitle the holder to teach
in any school in which only primary
branches are taught: photography,
reading, grammar, written arithmetic
mental arithmetic, penmanship, ply
siology, history Of the United States
civilgoyernment, orthograph current
news, drawing, theory and practice OF
teoching, and, at the discretion of the
State Board OF Education, music, and
the elements Of chemistry and
physics.
SECTION .. Tho county grammar
school certificate, good for three years
shall be issued upon satisfactory ex-
animation in the following subjects,
and shall entitle the holder to teach
IN primary, grammar, or unclassiied
schools. All the subjects designated
for county primary school certificates
and in addition thereto, algebra, the
first and second books OF plain ge-
ometry, English history, bookkeeping
physical geography, physics, chemist,
ry ard methods of teaching.
SECTION 3. The county high school
certificate, good for four years, shall
entitle the holder to teach in any
school, and shall be issued upon salts.
factory examination in all the sub
jccts mentioned in sections one and
two of this Act, and, in addition
thereto, botany, Latin, general history
English literature, plain geometry,
astronomy, rhetoric, civilgoyernment
and the history and methods of teach
ing.
SECTION A. Applicants who have
taught successfully under any grade
OF certificate issued under this Act
shall, when applying for tho next
higher grade, be required to take
Gully the studies OF that grade proud.
ed, that any person holding a county
primary school certificate in applying
for n county grammer school certiti.
cate need take only the additional
branches named in section two of this
Act.
SECTION 8. The county primary
school certificates shall not be issued
to persons un.ler sixteen years Of age;
the county grammar school certificate
shall not be issued to persons under
sixteen years OF age; the county high
school certificates shall not be issued
to any II not having taught success.
fully at least twelve months.
SECTION G. Examinations for GER.
tifcates named in this Act shall be-
conducted by the County Board OF
Examination under such rules and re-
strictions as the State Board OF Edu.
cation may prescribe.
SECTION 7. The County Board OF
Examination may renew the certi6-
cate OF any person successfully en-.
gagged in teaching in the county; pro.
rided, that after the year eighteen
hundred and ninety. seven a primary
school certificate shall not be subject
to renewal.
SECTION 8. AS the county certiR.
Gates OF the first and second grade in
force at tho passage OF this Act expire
the County Board of Examination
may issue, without examination, to
the persons holding the same, certiR-
Gates OF equivalent grade ms named in
this Act; provided, that high school
certificates shall be thus issued only
to those teaching in high schools.
SECTION o. All Acts and parts of
Acts in conflict with this Act are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. This Act shall 20 into
effect on the thirticth day OF June,
eighteen hundred and ninety.hyo