The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-20
WILL G|VE UFE D|P[O.
MAS I0 TEACHERS
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF
STATE ISSUES LIFE DIPLO-
MAS ON CREDENTIALS.
Teachers Desiring Certificates of This
Kind Should Write for Circular
or Information.

Pierre, S. d., Sept. 14.-On ac-
count Of the new regulation under
the last educational law, the state
EDUCATIONAL department has issued a
statement for the instruction Of those
engaged in school work that they
Mas nave q better understanding OF
the attitude Of the department.
Under the provisions of the law
the department will validate certif-
Gates OF the rank Of life diplomas.
state, and first anG second grade
certificates, issued by other state de-
parlments, where the grades are
awarded by a state BOARD of exam
lners, but the subjects and standings
Tor such certificates must conform
TO the requirements of this DEPART
Gent. For such standings as do
not conform the holders of such GER
tlficates must write in such addi-
tlonal subjects for which grades are
already represented but too low in
order to raise such grades or 10
bring 1t up to the requirements as
10 the average necessary. The de-
partment will not validate life di-
plomas until the holder thereof has
identified himself with the education
al interests of the state for at least
a year.
Life diplomas and state certif-
Gates are issued to graduates of ed
ucatlonal institutions of this and
ana other states provided that such
graduates must file complete credits
or their work in the schools of which
they are graduates together with
such credits of all work above the
eighth grade. Parties desiring to
become applicants for this class Of
certlhcates in tins manner should
write for the c ircular of informa
lion ana application blank.
An applicant :ru1,-- 4s-.e.t--.e.aao,,a -.
third grade certificate who may have
failed at previous examination may
and desires to be candidate at a
subsequent examination may submit
such standings from previous ex-
aminations CATER July /, 1900 as
are above the required average for
the certificate for which he may be
candidate at a later examination
providing that the standing that is
submitted w ith the manuscript in
the other subjects, and that the later
examination is taken within six
months.
Boards of education and school
boards as rule are careless some
times in the employment of teachers
who do not hold proper certificates
The law requires that every teacher
In our schools should hold some form
of certificate. Those below and in
cluding the first grades may holt
primary certificates or any Of til,
other forms, while those employed
, as instructors above the eighth grad,
must hold q state certificate or
: life diploma. Principals Of grade,
l schools who do no teaching mus
hold first grade certificate or bet
!, ter, but should he instruct, a stat
: certificate is required. School board
0 should make it a point to see tha
/, all their teachers are properly dual
V llied, for all money paid out to sue,
g persons can be recovered for th
n district from the members of tn
board personally by any patron Q
! the district. The law provides, an
) courts have SO he'd, that any cor
r tract made with improperly quail
g he'd teachers is null and void. No,
/. that the certification of the teachin
@ force of the state is centralized i
G the state department, the state supe,
v intendent intends to see that tn
n law is obeyed.
Superintendent II. A. Ustrand
y planning on visiting every school i
n the country during the winter month
e and meeting ith the school Officer
,e and teachers. He and his assistant
e. are gathering data and photograph
V. from all parts of the state for an j
lustrated lecture, showing the schot
conditions as they are and will ais
II offer suggestions which if carrie
n out to any extent will give the boy
~ and girls of the schools of the stat
much better school surroundings an
ps conditions. The city schools in tn
state are improving rapidly frol
year to year, the rural schools {
not do for the boys and girls that a
tend them all they should. The sp
cial object of the department. is f,
|l- their improvement.