Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-29
SUMMARY OF EDUCATIONAL LEGIS-
LATION.

SUMMARY OF EDUCATIONAL LEGIs-
LATION.
Emma F. Bates, superintendent Of
public instruction, favors the TRIBUNE
with the following brief summarize of
educational legislation enacted by the
fourth legislative assembly:
Section 121 of the school laws, revision
of 1898 IS. %, q. Sc, 1891, has been SO
amended as to include civil government
among the subjects upon which appli-
cants for teachers certificates of the
third grade are required to be examined,
as we'll as applicants for certificates OF
the first and second grades, as hereto
fore.
Section 100 of the school laws IS. 100,
G. 60, 1890) has also been amended, and
the study of civil government is now in
cluded among the branches which ''every
teacher in the common schools shall
teach pupils, as they are sufficiently ad-
vanced, to pursue the same,' etc.
Section l22 of the school law revision
of 1898 IS. "a, q. Sc, 1891, has been
amended by adding at the end Of the
section the following proviso: "Pro-
vided, further, that no certificate or per-
NIT to teach in the schools of the state
shall be granted to any person not a citi-
zen 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 education,
constitutes the governor, superintendent
of publication and the president of the
State university a board OF commission
ers 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 pre-
scribed courses, inspect instruction and
discipline. report there and classify as
estate high 8 hools" all schools whose
work merits the approval of the board.
The board Is to have full discretionary
power to pass upon applications for
classification, prescribe conditions, rules,
and regulations relating to examinations,
reports, courses of study, etc, make an
annual report to the state s~uperintend;
emit, and shall receive no compensation.
All state high schools shall admit pupils
Of other sex from any part of the state,
provided that non-residents must first
pass examination in photography, read
ing in English, penmanship, arithmetic,
grammar, modern geography and history
of the United States.
The free text books law authorizes 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 votes SO de-
eide, and provides that the question
shall, upon the above condition. be sub
mitted at the next annual school cleo
tions.
Amendments in the political code pro-
vide that county superintendent shall
be elected in November, at the sam
time as other county officers, instead of
June, as heretofore; that two-thirds lin
stead OF three-ffths) of t Q voters of a
school district 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 re-
CURED to purchase one or more flags of
the United States and display same on
school buildings, upon stats in school
grounds during school hours of each
day. A proposed bill tending to lower
the standard Of requirements on exami-
nations for state certificates and infring-
ing upon the prerogative of the shperin-
tendent of public instruction and county
superintendent of schools, was defeated.
House Bill No. 1852, reducing the num-
Der of inhabitants in villages necessary
to organize as special school districts
from 300 to 200. is yet in the hands of the
governor.
The law "relating to health and de-
cency," requires the erection of separate
outhouses adjacent to school houses,
prescribes rigid regulations for inspection
and preserving cleanliness, makes ne
elect of the provisions of the act on the
part of the school officers grounds for
removal from Office, and with an emery
ency clause, is in full force and effect
from and after it's approval by the gov
ernor.
A LAW exists in Germany which pro-
hlbits the christening or registration of