Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17


to graduate of a college approved by
said superintendent, upon presentation
of a diploma or certificate of graduation;
and, at the expiration of the certificate
SO issued, if said graduate has taught
forty weeks said superintendent may
issue second first grade certificate.
Sec. IL. Section 966 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
Section 966. A certificate of the first
grade, or certificate of the second grade
issued on examination held by a teacher
employed continuously in the same town,
shall remain in force during such employ
ment.
Sec 10. Section 967 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 967 A certificate of the third
grade may be issued by the superintendent
of education, in his discretion, for speci-
fed time, not exceeding one year. Such
certificate shall be a license to teach in
the public schools of the state and may be
limited to the teaching of a particular
school. 1t shall be issued only to one who
has passed satisfactory examination in
the branches required to be taught in pub
lie schools and is of good moral character
and ability to govern. A person who has
twice taken a certificate of the third grade
and has taught at least twenty-eight
weeks shall not again be eligible to re-
celVe such a certificate.
SEC IA. Section 500 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section $50. A special certificate may
be issued by the superintendent of edu-
cation, without examination, to teacher
of successful experience in teaching and
previous certifcatiOn in the first or second
grade, or of special training for teaching.
Such special certificate shall be a license
to teach special high school subjects,
music, drawing, physical culture or the
industrial arts and sciences, in the public
schools Such certificate shall be valid
for five years, or for two years, according
to the grade of the certificate previously
held by the applicant; and, in case of
special training, the grade of such certifi-
cate shall be determined by said superin-
tendent.
Sec Is Section go of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
Section 60 A special third grade GER
tifcate may be issued by the superintend-
to a person who has held first or second
grade certificate, or its equivalent in an
other state, and presents evidence of re-
cent and successful teaching. Such GER
tificate shall be valid only in the town
specified therein and shall be license
to teach in the public schools until the
next PUBLIC examination or for one year
from its date. A second special third
grade certificate shall not be issued until
the applicant has received another first
or second grade certificate issued on ex-
animation.
SEC 16 Section GIL of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 971. A certificate which shall be
valid until revoked by the superintendent
OF education may be issued by said super
intendent to person who has taught in the
public schools five hundred weeks, or to
person who is graduate of an approved
college and who has devoted at least eight
years to teaching in or experimenting
public schools in this state or to person
who has taught in the public schools of
this state for two hundred weeks and has
held certificates of the first grade for ten
years or certificates of the first and second
grade for twelve years or certificates of
the second and third grade, or their
equivalents, for fourteen years, provided
that in no case shall special certificates
be included.
Sec II Section 972 of the Public
Statutes is hereby amended SO as to read
as follows:
Section 972. A graduate of normal
school, holding ten years certificate or
two five years certificates, who has taught
successfully two hundred weeks under
the same, may, after the expiration
thereof, be granted by the superintendent
of education, without examination, a
certificate which shall be a license to teach
in the public schools until the same is
revoked.
SEC. 10. Section 973 of the Public
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