The herald., 1896-08-10

satisfactory professional kindergarten
training in an approved institution.
The primary and grammar schools of
this state shall be classed as elementary
schools.
The board may also, without examl-
nation, grant county school certificates
as follows: Limited elementary certifi-
Gates to the holders of the following Gre
dentials: Life diplomas or certificates
OF states when they represent expert
ence equal to that required for the life
diploma in California; normal school
diplomas of other states, provided that
the state board of education of this state
shall have recommended the normal
school issuing said diploma as beingpf
equal rank with the state normal schools
of California; San Francisco normal
school diplomas when recommended by
the superintendent of public schools
and principals of said city; California
state educational diplomas; California
State University diplomas when the
holders have completed the full course
in pedagogy, and have been recon-
mended by the faculty of the university;
elementary school certificates of any
county, city, or city and county of Cali :
fornia. Section 1903 to be amended to
agree as to graduates of state normal
schools.
Limited high school certificate to the
holders of California State university
diplomas who have completed
the the full pedagogy course s..o,9t of
mended by the faculty thereof: to the
graduates of any other institutions OF
learning of the United States which the
state board of education shall have rec
commended as being of equal rank with
the State university of California, when
the diploma of graduation from such
institution shall be accompanied by a
recommendation of the faculty thereof,
showing that the holder has had profess
sional training equivalent to that re-
qulred by the State university of Califor-
mia, or who, since graduation. has had
four years successful experience, six
teen months of which must have been in
high school, In q normal school, or as
n superintendent of city or county
schools, or who holds, in addition to the
university diploma, a diploma Of gradu-
alton from state normal school; also
to the holders of high school certificates
| of any county, city, or city and county
of California.
Limited kindergarten certificates to
the holder of credentials deemed by the
board to be the full equivalent in point Of
scholarship, professional training and
experience of the requirements laid
down in section 6 of the code.
Limited certificates obtained upon
credentials may be exchanged for.per-
manent certificates on the same terms
as prescribed for holders of certificates
obtained on examination, as indicated
in third section.
County boards of education may renew
certificates issued by them prior to the
adoption of this law and now in force
and may grant rmanent ones to the
holders of certificates who shall pass
satisfactory examinations in such
branches as do not appear on their cer-
tlhcates or in the record of the examina
ton under which the original certificate
was granted. All certificates and diplo-
mas now valid in California shall con-
tfnue in full force and effect for the full
term for which they were granted.
A fee of 81 shall be charged all appli-
cants for examination for teachers cer-
tiiicates an6 all persons to whom certifl-
Gates dncluding limited or renewals) are
issued.
Allfunds so credited shall be drawn out
only upon the requisition of the county
superintendent OF schools upon the coun-
ty auditor, who shall draw his warrant
in payment of the services of instructors
in the county teachers institute; pro-
vided they be not teachers in the public
schools of the county in which such in
stitute is held: and for the purchase Of
books for library for the use of the
teachers of the county. At least 25 per
cent of the teachers institute and Ii
brary fund shall be expended for books.
me county superintendent snail take
charge of the teachers library, prepare
catalogue of its contents, and keep a
correct record of books taken therefrom
and returned thereto
Another important amendment agreed
upon by the conference through the
agency of Superintendent Foshay, re-
lates to the transfer of school funds and
| property in districts which may in part
become annexed to another district as
was the case here recently in the annex
alton of Vernon to the city. 1t will be
remembered that there was consider
able friction in that Instance between
the city and the county educational au-
thorities. The Foshay amendment is
intended to obviate any such friction in
the future. Ali of these proposed amend
ments are to be submitted to the state
code commission which meets at Sacra-
mento In September, when they will be
duly engrafted into law for presenta-
ton to the legislature in January.
The institute of teachers of Indians of
the United States was being held at San
Francisco simultaneously with the ses-
sion of the state superintendent at Oak
land and Prof. Foshay visited the for
mer sessions as often as he had an op-
portunity.