The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-08-14
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

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cipal provisions OF the law are as fol-
lows:
There is created a board OF educa-
ton for each county in the state OF
| Wisconsin, to be known as the county
board of education consisting of five
members to be chosen as hereinafter
provided.
| The county board of education dis
trct shall include the entire county,
excepting only such portion thereof as
is included within any city having a
board of education, a superintendent OF
schools, or other board or officer vested
with power to examine and license
teachers and supervise and manage the
schools therein and in counties now
having more than one superintendent
district each such district shall consti-
tute county board of education dis
trict The electors Of such city shall
have no vote in electing the county
| board of education, and the county su-
pervisors from such city shall have no
| voice IN any matter relating to said
| board or the members thereof, nor
shall any tax be levied in such city to
pay any part of the expense, compensa-
| tion or allowances of such board, the
members thereof or the county superin-
| tendent Oh assistant county superin-
tendent or the clerk for the superin-
tendent or examiners for common
school diplomas.
Any person resident within the coun-
ty board of education district, qualified
to vote at elections pertaining to school
matters, shall be eligible to member
ship on said board.
At the regular spring election to be
held on the first Tuesday of April, 1914,
| there shall be elected in each county
| board of education uisuricv no mem
bers of such county board of education.
| At the first meeting after the said
election the members of such board
shall cast lots to determine who shall
serve for term of one year. who for a
term of two years, who for a term of
three years, who for a term of four
| years, and who for term Of five years,
respectively. Except as to those men,
bers whose first term shall be fixed by
lot as aforesaid, at one, two, three, four
and five years, the terms of Office OF
each member of such board shall be five
years and until his successor is elected
and qualified, and one member shall be
elected each year following the year
| 1914.
The candidates to be voted for as
members of the county board of educa-
tion shall be nominated as provided in
section 30 of the statutes, and such
| ele~t shall be noticed and held and
returns thereof made in the manner
now provided by law for the election of
county judicial officers.
Vacancies occurring in the county
board of education shall be filled by
the board.
The regular meetings of the board
shall be held on the first Tuesday in
May and on the last Friday in October
of each year.
The powers and duties of the said
board of education shall be as follows:
The county board of education may
appoint at least one assistant superin-
| tendent from list of three persons
submitted by the county superintend-
ent in all cases where there are more
than one hundred schools in the county
board of education district. The quail
tications of such assistant superintend-
ents shall be the same as is now re-
quired by law of county superintend-
ents; the term of office shall be two
years, and the compensation of said as
sisJant superintendents shall be fixed
10y the county board of education.
The board upon the nomination of
the county superintendent, may ap-
point clerk, subject TO removal by
the board, for the county superintend-
ent of schools, fix his salary, and de-
fine his powers and duties.
The board shall have full power and
authority to form, organize, alter or
consolidate school districts, and shall
be vested exclusively with all the pow
er and authority now exercised by
town boards, village boards of trustees
and city councils, in the formation and
organization of districts, and in the
consolidation and alteration of them,
with the right of appeal by any person
aggrieved thereby to the state super.
intendent from its decision as now pro-
vided by law.
The county board of education may
appoint, upon the nomination of the
county superintendent, board of ex-
aminers, not to exceed five persons,
for the common school diplomas, pre-
scribe its duties, fix the compensation
of its members as hereinafter provided,
and may limit the number of days in
any year for which any member of said
board of examiners may receive com
pensaton.
Each member of the county board oi
education shall devote not less than
two days in each year TO visiting and
inspecting rural schools, but no mem
ber shall receive per diem for more
than five days of such visitation and in
| enanfinn Zach mamhan shall attanc