The Dickinson press., 1895-03-23
School LEGISLATION.

Miss Emma F. Bates. state super
intendent of public instruction,
favors the PRESS with the following
brief summary of educational legis.
lation enacted by the fourth legis.
lative assembly:
Sec. 12l of the school laws, revision
of 1898, has been so amended as to
include civil government among the
subjects upon which applicants for
teachers certificates Of the third
grade are required to be examined as
well Us applicants for certificates of
first and second grades as heretofore.
Sec. $50 of the school laws has
been amended and the study of civil
government is now included among
the branches which every teacher in
the common schools shall teach pu-
pills, as they are sufficiently advanced
to pursue the same.
Sec. 122 of the school law, revision
Of 1893, has been amended by adding
at the end of the section the following
proviso: "Provided further that no
certificate Or permit to teach IN the
schools Of the state shall be granted
to any person not a citizen of the
United States unless such person has
resided in the United States for one
year last prior to the time of such
application for certificate or permit.
Any contract made in violation of
this section shall be void"
The so called high school law for
the encouragement of secondary ed
ucation constitutes the Governor,
Superintendent of Public instruction
and the President of the State Uni
versity a board of commissioners of
| preparatory schools, which high
school board shall classify the high
schools of the state, prescribe studies
for the first two years Of the course,
visit and examine classes pursuing
the prescribed c o r s e s, inspect
instruction and discipline re.
port thereon and classify as estate
High Schools" all schools whose
work merits the approval of the
board. The board is to have full
discretionary power to pass upon ap.
| plications for classification, to pre-
scribe rules and regulations, relating
to examinations, ETC., make an an.
nual report to the State Superinten.
tendent, and shall receive no com.
pensation. All the high schools
shall admit pupils of either sex from
any part of the state, provided that
non.residents must first pass exam
ination in Orthography, Reading in
English, Penmanship, Arithmetic,
Grammar, Modern Geography and
History of the United States.
The Free Text Book law author.
ICES the school board of any city,
town or district to provide free text
books pursuant to an election held
for that purpose called upon petition
of a majority of the electors, if a
majority of the voters so decide, and
provides that the question shall, up.
on the above conditions, be submit.
ted at the next annual school cleo.
ton.
Amendments in the political code
provide that County Superintendents
shall be elected in November at the
same time as other county officers
instead of in June as heretofore;
that two.thirds (instead of three.
fifths) of the voters of q school dis.
trict present and voting. may order
the removal of a school house, and a
school house so removed, may not be
again removed for three years.
School boards are authorized and
required to purchase one or more
flags of the United States and display
same on school buildings or from
stats in school grounds during schoo
hours of each day. A proposed bill
tending to lower the standard of re
quirements on examinations TO
state certificates and infringing up
on the prerogative Of the superin
tendent of public instruction ant
county superintendents Of school
was defeated.
House Bill No. 152 reducing tn
number of inhabitants in villages
necessary to organize as specia
school districts, from three hundred
to two hundred is yet in the hand
of the Governor.
The law "relating to health an,
decency" requires the erection o
separate outhouses adjacent to schoo
houses, prescribes rigid regulation
? for inspection and preservation o
cleanliness, makes neglect Of the pre-
: visions of the act on the part o
5 school officers grounds for remova
!. from Office. and with an emergenc
t clause. is in full force and effec
r from and after its approval by tn
Governor.
: For Sale,
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