Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-08-07
State Superintendent Of Schools
Issues Regulations For Same.
Highway Commissioner Sargent
Grants State Road Petitions,
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Friday, Aug. %, at 10 A. M.

of public schools of the issuance of
regulations under which the coming
examinations of teachers for State GER
tificates will be conducted. The eXami-
nation of teachers will be strictly in ac-
cordance with the following program:
A. NJ, 8 to SO, preliminary directions;
$40 to $50, reading; $50 to $40, arith-
metic; $40 to 1925. grammar; 1925 to
10, history; lilo to II, physiology
p NJ, l to 145, nature studies; las to
go, civil government; 2.30 to 3.15, theo-
ry and practice; 3.15 to 4, geography; 4
to 445. school law. The regulations
further state as follows:
No teacher shall be examined in any
subject at any other time than that set
for it in the above program. Teachers
desiring certificates must, therefore, be
present at the beginning and through
the entire time devoted to the cXamina-
ton.
No teacher will be granted ccrtifi-
cate. who shall fail to fill out the pre-
limnary examination blank and trans
nit the same to the office of the State
Superintendent at Augusta.
All examination papers shall he writ
ten on paper of large letter size, SX1O
inches, shall be written upon one side
only. and shall be passed to the con-
ductor promptly at the end of each pc
rod as fixed in the program. No paper
shall be folded or rolled. When more
than one sheet is required for the cx.
animation in any subject the sheets
must be pinned together at the upper
left hand corner before being passed
ia q fn fat tnr ,nr,fS
of fact not called for by questions;
write every statement called for.
At the top of every paper on upper
right hand corner, must be written the
name and p. o. address of the teacher
The list of questions the answers to
which are written on the paper. must
be pinned thereto at upper left hand
corner, OF the paper will not be consid-
cred.
No teacher shall communicate in any
way with another during the eXamina-
ton periods, or ask the conductor for
anv information relating to the subject
matter of the examination. Teachers
so communicating or asking informa-
ton will forfeit thereby all claims to
certificates.
Rank in penmanship will he based
upon the first half page of the paper
i'm reading; in orthography upon the
paper in theory and practice
Included also are the following regu-
lations to be followed by the conduc-
tors who have charge of the cxamina-
tiOns:
Examination questions in each sub
jcct will be sent to conductors in Il
closed package properly labeled, which
they will not open till the time set In
the program for examination in that
subject. ard will open i'm plain view OF
teachers under examination.
Conductors will cali assembled teach
ers to order promptly at and 1 o'clock
They will require teachers to sit, sc
far as is practicable. so that no tive
shall be nearer to each other than Sin
feet.
During the first ten minutes of tho
morning session. they will ascertain
what teachers present have not filled
out the preliminary examination blanks
and sent them in to the state supcrin-
tendent, and will furnish such will,
necessary blanks, and give notice thar
such papers must be filled and sent to
the State superintendent within five
days. They will, also. read to the
teachers the general regulations In
this circular governing their work.
Promptly at SO and at the time SET
in the program for the beginning of the
examination in each subject. thcy will
clearly announce the subject of cXami-
nation and the time to be devoted to
it. and thcreupon will open the proper
package of questions and distribute one
set to every teacher.
At five minutes before the time set in
the program for the end of examination
in each subject. they will give n siSnai
preparatory to the end. and IN four
minutes thereafter another Sigfal. at
which every teacher shall cease writing
and shall Immediately pass paper and
questions to the conductor.
Conductors will collect every paper
written. and will accept no folded pa
per.
During the time allotted to the exam
nation in any subject. conductors Will
see that no teacher communicates with
another. or in any manner seeks or OBJ
tains aid from another. They will re-
port any detected in so doing to the
state superintendent.
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conductors will pack all papers. ar
ranged so that those relating to the
same subject shall be together. AND
all unused questions. into a fiat parcel;
and as soon as practicable thereafter
they will transmit the same by express
to the State superintendent at Augusta.
Highway Commissioner Sargent
has been holding hearings this week
IN several places of the State on
petitions from the municipal officers
of those places asking that the loca-
ton of the State road as designated
py the county commissioners be
changed. the hearings being held
under the provisions of Section , of
chapter 112 of the Public Laws of
1907. which states that upon petition
OF majority of the legal voters in
any town or a majority Of the NUM-
cipal officers of any city presented to
the State commissioner of highways
stating that in the judgment of the
petitioners the road as designated by
the county commissioners is not the
main travelled thoroughfare in that
hot