The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-27
Much Left to Discretion of
County Board.
SUPERINTENDENT A TEACHER
First Grade Certificates Are Made
Good For Two Years.
A THIRD GRADE CANNOT Be RE-IssUED
The County Board May Appoint Three Com
mitemen For Each School or Three Gem.
mitIeemen 10 Control All Schools
in the township.

mitIeemen 10 Control All Schools
in the Township.
The new Public School Law was yes
terday introduced in the Senate and or
dered printed. 1t was prepared by SUBJ
committee and adopted by the full joint.
Committee on Education.
1t provides, in many respects, more
flexible system of school management
than that fixed by former laws of this
kind, and in many other respects differs
from the school law now in force
AS has already been noted. the county
boards of education will be appointed by
the Legislature; and each board is made
a body corporate, with power to ap-
portion money to the various townships
and divide it out among the schools ac-
cording to their own Judgment. Also the
county board has power to appoint a COM
mittee of three men in each township
to manage its schools, or it may APP
point three committeeman for each school
The county superintendent must be
either a teacher or a man who has had
at least two years experience in teaching
and it is specially provided that in the
election of this officer due regard shall
be given to his experience. The county
superintendent may receive not less than
81 nor more than SO day. but the board
of education of any county may elect the
county superintendent at a salary not to
exceed per cent. Of the disbursements
of the schools under his supervision.
The school committee is given author
ity to employ and dismiss teachers,
though teachers can be elected at only
regularly called meeting of the commit
tee.
All changes of Importance made in the
old law by the bill now pending in the
Senate are set forth below.
A FOUR MONTHS SCHOOL
1t is provided by section that eff the
tax levied for the State for the support
of the public schools shall be insufficient
to maintain one or more schools in each
school district for the period of four
months, Their the board of commissioners
of each county shall levy annually a spe-
cial tax to supply the deficiency for the
support and maintenance OF said schools
for the said period Of four months or
more" This tax is to be collected by
the sheriff as other taxes arc and in its as
sessment the commissioners shall observe
the constitutional equation OF taxation;
land the fund thus raised shall be ex-
pended in the county in which it is col
lected, in such manner as the county
board of education may determine" 1t is
also further provided in this section that
the county board of education shall not
be required to expend upon a district con-
tanning less than sixty-fve pupils the
same sum it may give to larger districts,
Notwithstanding an inequality Of length
of school term NAV he the result. The
= county board OF education, on or before
the annual meeting of tho commissioners
and justices OF the peace for levying
county taxes. shall make an estimate of
the amount of money necessary to main
tain the schools for four months and sub
nit it to the county commissioners.
The section (12) providing for the APP
pointment Of the county boards is a fol- |
lows: "The General Assembly shall APP
point three men in each county. of good
business qualifications and known to be in
favor of public education, who shall con-
stitute county board Of education, which
board shall enter u1on the duties OF it's
office Immediately upon the qualification
of a majority of its members. In case OF
vacancy by death, resignation or other
wise, said vacancv shall be filled by the
other members of the county. board Of
education. Members Of the county board
of education herein provided shall hold
office until the first Monday in July 1908,
at which time the board Of county COM
missioners in each county shall elect the
board of education and every two years
thereafter"
DUTIES OF COUNTY BOARDS.
Section 49, The county board of cduca
ton shall be a body corporate by the
name and style of The County Board OF
Education of - County, and by
that name shall be capable of purchasing
and holding real and personal estate. of
building and repairing school houses, OF
selling and transferring the same for
school purposes and OF prosecuting and
defending suits for or against the cor
poration. They shall have power and
authority and it shall be their duty to
institute and prosecute any and all ac-
lions, suits, or proceedings against any |
and all officers, persons, or corporations |
or their sureties for the recovery, preser- |
walton, and application of all moneys or
property which may be due to or should |
be applied to the support and maintenance |
of the schools, except in case of breach /
OF bond on the part OF the treasurer OF
the county school fund. in which case ac-
ton shall be brought by the county com
missioners, as provided in section The
county board of education and all other
school officials in the several counties
shall obey the instructions of the State
Superintendent and accept his construc-
tions of the school law. The time of
opening and closing the public schools in
the several public school districts of the
State shall be fixed and determined by