The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
Teachers Institutes.

Helms, 164 acres III aqueta1Que, Wltn
improvements, for $140O credit.
Teachers Institutes.
The attention Of school teachers and
all friends OF education is invited to
the following law enacted at the last
session of the legislature.
AN ACT
To provide for holding State Teachers
Institutes in the several parishes.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State OF Louisi-
ana, That as a means of improving and
making more efficient teachers of the
public schools Of Louisiana, and
awaken IA deeper public interest in
said schools, the State Superintendent
of Public Education and the President
of the State Normal School shall u
to be held each year at least twenty (2O)
weeks of the State Teachers Institute
at such times and places as they, with
the advice of the respective parish
superintendents of public education,
NAV determine. They shall give notice
of the time aud place selected for each
institute at least thirty days before the
beginning of the said institute.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the State Superintendent of Pub
lie Education and the President of the
State Normal School shall select an
experienced Institute Conductor, who
shall have Immediate charge of the
institute provided for in this act and
whose salary for that service shall lot
exceed one thousand $4,000 per annum,
payable ont of any funds donated by
A., Ilno.l IF 'Fr,ctnnS ,E tho h "
Educational Fund or appropriated by
the General Assembly Of the State of
Louisiana, for institute purposes.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc,
That said Institute Conductor shall be
appointed for one year, and shall be
ex-otficio q member of the faculty OF
the State Normal School, performing
therein such services and receiving
such compensation therefor as the
Board Of Administrators of said insti-
tuition may determine.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc,
That said Institute Conductor shall be
assisted in the work by members of the
faculty of the Normal School and by
such other assistants as the State Super
intendent OF Public Education and the
President of the State Normal School
may select provided, that members of
the State Normal School shall receive
no compensation other than their actual
travelling expenses for institute work
done during the session OF said instltu-
ton !; but for institute work done dur
ing the vacation of said Normal School,
they, in common with the other assist
ants, shall receive such remuneration
as the State Superintendent of the Pub
lie Education and the President of the
CAota Norr,4 S1horj mo- lrn,~ nj ~
cient, payable out'of any funds derived
ed by State, parish OF locality for insti.
| tute purposes.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc.
That the State Superintendent of Pub
lie Education, the President of the
State Normal School and the State
Institute Conductor shall be known as
the State Institute Managers, and shall
| prescribe the order and character oil
the institute exercises and such other
details as they may deem necessary.
SEC. g.. Be it further enacted, etc.
That the Parish Superintendent, will
the advice of the State Superintendent
and the President of the State Normal
School shall make all necessary arrange.
ment for the State Teachers Institutes
held in his parish, and shall do every,
thing in his power to insure their sue
cess. He shall give to every public
school teacher of his parish at least
fifteen days notice of the time and
place of meeting of the institute; and
shall order all the public schools of the
parish to be closed during the session
Of the institute.
Sec. r. Be it further enacted, etc.
That any public school teacher failing
to attend the institute held in his par
ish, without an excuse satisfactory to
the Board Of School Directors thereof,
shall Immediately upon demand of the
tificate and lose his position and that
ance upon the institute shall receive the
same compensation for the time of
attendance as for actual teaching,
whether the school be in session or not
provided he shall have been present
during the whole session of the insti-
tute.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That the school superintendent OF
every parish in which no State institute
is to be held during the year, shall en-
courage and urge the public school
teachers of his parish to attend the
nearest State Teachers Institute, grant
ing them leave Of absence from their
school duties and giving them the same
compensation for attending the insti-
tute as is provided in Section (7) seven
of this act for the teachers of schools
located in the parish wherein the
institute is held.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the State Institute Conductor and
bis assistant conductors shall issue GER
t~ificates of attendance to every teacher
in attendance during the whole session
of a State Teachers Institute, and that
Parish of School Directors shall give
preference, eeteyis paribus, to the hold
ers of said certificates in the selection
of teachers for the public schools.
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the State Institute Conductor shall
annually make an exhaustive report of
the State Teachers Institutes t the
President Of the State Normal School,
who shall. transmit said report to the
State Superintendent of Public Educa-
ton, and also embody it is his biennial
report to the General Assembly.
SEC. IL. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That all laws or parts or laws in con-
f1ict with the provisions Of this act be