The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-20
FEATURES Of NEN
SCHOOL CODE
VACCINATION is
MODIFIED SOMEWHAT-SOM
BETTER,

ion for school children will be SER
,usly modified through the operation
Of the new school law, which goes
into effect on June IL next The new
law provides that school districts of
the first class shall have the power
to require successful vaccination as
a condition of school membership,
but provides that pupil showing the
certificate of a reputable physician
that vaccination would be injurious to
health and possibly dangerous to life,
shall have access to the schools, or
one presenting a certificate showing
that vaccination has been once tried
and has failed to take effect.
The characterization campaign has
been waged along the lines that vac
cination is dangerous to the health of
the child, and some physicians are
committed to the belief that this is
true as a general proposition. This
may render these certificates easy to
obtain.
The law also provides for the ap-
pointment of a practicing physician to
be known as the school district medi-
cal inspector, whose duty it shall be
to decide all questions of sanitation,
and health affecting the safety and
welfare of the schools and to make
monthly inspections.
A further change in the school law
refers to the method of issuing school
warrants, and provides that the
county auditor shall audit all ac-
counts Of the different school dis
tricts just as other accounts of the
county are audited and countersign
and register all warrants upon the
written order of a majority of the
board of directors Heretofore dis
tricts of the third class have issued
warrants which were presented to
the county treasurer for payment,
without being audited or counter
signed by the auditor In the case of
warrants for maps, school charts and
apparatus, the auditor shall not
countersign the same until the order
has been approved by the county SUI
perintendent of schools.
Districts Classified.
The new law classifies districts as
follows: All cities of the first class
to be known as districts of the first
class; cities of the second and third
class to be known as districts Of the
second class; all other districts to be
known as districts of the third class.
In districts of the first class the
new law provides that all contracts
for furniture, supplies, building i'm
provements or repairs exceeding $500
shall be let to the lowest bidder af-
ter publication in the daily papers
published in the district and all bids
shall be public.
Districts of the first class are also
given full power to prohibit secret
societies, fraternities and sororities
among the students of the district
In all districts employing more than
100 teachers the city superintendent
nay hold an institute, to be govern
ID by the law in the same manner |
Is those held by the county superin-
endent. This allows two institutes |
n King county, one for the city and |
me for the remaining districts.
An important change in existing
aw is that taking away from the dis
riot the sole power of levying dis
riot school taxes and granting coun-
Y commissioners the power to levy,
sufficient to produce SO for
ZACH child of school age in the county,
he levy not to exceed 5 mills. The |
und derived from this is to be dis
ributed as follows: Two-thirds to
he different districts in proportion |
o the number of days attendance in |
Zach for the preceding school year,
md one-third to the different districts |
n proportion to the number of
eachers employed for the preceding
chool year. In addition, each school
district may levy a tax to be known
Is the school district fund" the pro-
leeds of this with the current state |
school fund and the county appor
comment to constitute the general
school fund" Of each district.