The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-28
THE NEW SCHOOL LAW
PRINCIPAL POINTS EXPLAINED BY The
SUPERINTENDENT.
Apportionment of Money Hereafter to be Made
According to the Grade of the
School.

For the guidance and direction of
school committeeman in performing the
duties of their office, Supt. Mebane has
prepared and sent out a circular of gene
raj information in regard to the school
law.
He reminds committeeman that their
services and labor must he for love, and
patriotism, there being no compensation
provided for them; and that upon them
largely depends the succ, IS or failure of
the public schools for the next two
years.
The law requires the County Board of
Education on the first Monday in July to
divide the county into as many scnool
districts as there are townships in each
county. 1t does not require the township
lines and the school district lines to be
the same. but it does require that there
shall be the same number of districts rs
there are townships.
4 school may be taught at or near a
township line by the consent of the com
mitteeS of the adjacent townships, sub
ject to the approval of the County Board
of Education. When children are trans
ferred from one township to another, the
pro rata share of the school money of the
district from which they are transferred
should be transferred also to the district
into which they are received.
While the old committee had no power
ITO enter into a contract with a teacher
to extend beyond their term of office, yet
several of the old committees have done
so. and in such case the new committee
should carry out all such contracts, pro-
vided they are reasonable and for the
best interests of the schools.
APPORTIONMENT, HOW MADE.
The next apportionment of school
money will be made by the County Board
of Education on the first Monday in
January next, and each districts share
will be on a per capita basis, as shown
by the census report. The county super.
visor, on the first Monday in January,
will mail each committeeman a stateE
ment of the amount of his apportion@
ment. The committee is then required to
meet on the second Monday in January
and apportion this money to the various
schools. white and colored, in the district
BY grading the laws does not have ref
erence to the classes in the schools, bat
the Schools the qualifications and sala-
ries of the teachers required. The grade
of each school will depend largely upon
three conditions, namely: First the grade
of advancement among the pupils attend
ing that school; second, the interest man
ifested by the patrons of the school in
public education; and, third, the average
attendance during the school term. If
school has a large average attendance
and there is educational interest in the
community, and the children are adj
vanced, the school should be so graded
and its apportionment should be suffi-
GENTLY large to warrant the employment
of suitable teacher at good salary.
The apportionment to the other schools,
white and colored, in the township, will
be made according to the conditions and
requirements of those schools, but must
be made with the purpose to give all tne
schools the same length of term, and con-
|sequently in apportioning the money the
committee necessarily fixes the saIary of
the teacher for each school. 1t will be OBJ
served from the above that the moaey is
no longer apportioned to the schools,
white and colored, per capita, but to each
according to the grade of the school and
the qualifications of the teacher required.
TAKING THE CENSUS.
The county supervisor is required to
mail to each committee, on the firss Mon
day in May, a blank report, on switch