The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-14
High School System

A bill appropriating $4,000 for the ei
and maintenance OF a sys
tenn OF efficient district high schools, wa
offered In the Senate yesterday by Judg
Mann, of Nottoway. This masure has tn
OF the State Board OF Edu
cation and will probably attract consid
cradle attention. 1t reads in substanc
as follows:
Be 1t enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia. That 1t shall be
lawful for any district school board
to establish and maintain a public
high school at such place in the dis
trict as may be both most convenient
for the pupils who attend and most
conductive to the purposes of such
school: provided. that the high school
may be conducted either in suitable
building erected for that purpose, or
in the same building with one OF the
graded schools of the district; but no
public funds shall be appropriated for
high school purposes in any district
until provision has been made to
maintain the primary and grammar
schools Of that district for a term of
at least five months In each year.
Two or more adjacent districts may
unite in establishing and maintaining
joint high school under the provis-
ions of this act. and under such rules
and regulations as may be prescribed
by the State Board of Education; and
the said board may also prescribe the
requirements for admission to such
high school and the conditions on
which properly prepared pupils resid-
ing in other districts may attend said
high school.
The superintendent OF any division
In which such high school shall be es-
tablished shall give due notice OF the
Same to the State Board OF Educa-
ton, and before any State funds shall
be appropriated for the support of
such school, the said board shall cause
the same to be inspected by compe-
tent person, to see that suitable ar
engagements have been made to enable
the school to conform to the standard
prescribed by the State Board OF Ed
cation for regularly organized public
high schools In this Commonwealth:
and when the district school board or
district school boards shall appropri-
ate as much as five hundred dollars
per annum for the support of such
nigh school from the local school
funds, Under the restrictions named
in the first section OF this act or from
funds l''ivately subscribed for this
purpose, and that fact shall have been
duly certified to the State Board Of
Education, then the State Board OF
Education shall issue a warrant on the
second auditor for five hundred dollars
IN favor Of the treasurer OF the coun-
~ In which such high school is To-
Gated, which money shall be placed to
the credit of the high school fund of
the district. and paid on the warrant
OF the district school board exclusively
Tor tho support of said high school.
ne treasurer of each county in which
such high school is located shall keen
such fund separate and distinct from
other public school funds and shall
make a detailed report OF rece ipts and
disbursements OF said high school
fund TO the division superintendent of
schools at the same time that he
makes the annual report OF his set
Element with the county school board:
provided, that not more than one high
school in any school district shall have
the benefit of the appropriation OF
State funds provided for in this act
unless, In the Judgment OF the State
Board of Education, the area and
school population of district may
Justify the establishment OF more than
one high school therein.
Legislative Notes.
The long-nws,ited desks for the tw
houses OF the General Assembly wi
reach Richmond to-day or to-mnrrow an
VIII BIO In place and ready for use vile
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