Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-05-18
Changes in the School Law.

Inc state legislature made some sweep
ing changes in the school law last win,
ter and there will have to be consider.
able studying up on the part of the
members of the city and township
boards to keep posted on what has been
done, says the Rapid City Journal. The
first thing of importance was the cutting
down of the school boards in all cities
and towns to three members The fol-
lowing are some of the features of the
school laws which will be of interest
Under the new law the state superin-
tendent of public instruction may des.
ignate other states from which certif-
Gates will be considered valid in South
Dakota. In all counties having more
than seventy-five schools the county
superintendent, under the provisions of
the new law siraii have the power to APP
point one deputy to be paid by the
county.
Minnehaha and several other counties
have more than seventy-five schools,
and hence would come within the pro-
visions of the clause of the new law. In
addition to the regular institute fond
the county treasurer under the new law
shall transfer ten cents per capita from
the general fund to the institute fund
upon the receipt from the conductor of
such institute of certified copy of his
commission, together with the opening
and closing dates of the institute.
The superintendent is empowered to
require the attendance of the district
officers at the general meetings on De-
cember lst and May lst Of each year,
such district officers to receive as com
pensation $l.50 each per diem and five
cents per mile each way for every mile
necessarily travelled, such amount to be
paid out of the fund in the district treas
ury.
District clerks and treasurers shall re-
ceive a salary of IS per year for every
school or department thereof in the dis
trict Any teacher who attends the full
session of the district institute in his
district and performs the dutiesassigned
him, shall, upon the presentation of his
certificate to that effect from the super
intendent receive the same wages as for
one days teaching, said amount to be
paid by the district where he is employ
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institute held in the district where he
belongs shall forfeit one days wages,
unless his absence shall be caused by
sickn or other reason acceptable to
the county superintendent. Any pupil
who has grade work, as established in
eighth grade work, as established in the
state course of study, and shall hold
common school diploma granted by the
county superintendent is privileged to
continue his school work up to the
twelfth grade in any graded school in
the state furnishing a higher course of
study and tuition therefor, not to ex-
ceed s. per month, shall be paid by the
home district from the general fund
thereof.
Under the terms of the new state
school law no school house shall be
erected by any board of education or dis
trict until the plans and specifications,
showing in detail the proper heating,
lighting and ventilation of such build
ing, shall have been approved by the
state perintendent of public instruc-
ton. Each school house must have in
each class room at least fifteen square
feet of floor space and not less than 200
cubic feet of air space per pupil, and
must provide for an approved system
of heating and ventilation by means of
which each class room shall be supplied
with fresh air at the rate of not less than
thirty cubic feet per minute for each pu-
pill, and to maintain an average temper
ature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit during
the codest weather.