Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

CHAPTER e36, LAWS OF 1918.
AN ACT-To create section 560g-1
and subsection l Of section 1875 OF
| the statutes, relating to state aid TIC
rural schools, and making an appro-
priation therefor
| The people of the state Of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
| Section 1. There is added to the
| statutes new section and new sub
section to read: Section 560g-1. l.
| Every school district not composed
wholly or in part of an incorporated
village or city, nor containing a state
graded school, which shall maintain
| a school or schools for nine months OF
more, and have provided the equipment
required by section 560g of the stat
utes, and which shall have an average
daily attendance for said nine months,
or not less than twenty nor more than
forty pupils, shall be deemed to have
maintained a school Of the first grade
and every school district which shall
have maintained the first class school
provided by section 560g of the stat
utes, for nine months, and shall have
an average minimum daily attendance
of not less than fifteen nor more than
twenty, and a maximum daily at
tendance Of not less than forty nor
! more than fifty pupils, shall be deem
ed to have maintained school of the
second grade. Any school district
which desires rural school state aid as
, provided by this section shall make
application in writing, as provided by
section $500 of the statutes, to the
county or district superintendent, spe-
cifying in addition the average daily
attendance and furnishing the name
of the teacher and a copy of the certi-
f1cate or authority to teach, and the
place, date and amount of her previous
| teaching experience.
2. If the county or district super
, intendent and the state rural school
inspector, as the result of actual in
spection of the school, and the work
| Of the teacher during the year for
which aid is demanded shall approve
of the application they shall endorse
the same and remit it to the state sup
| erintendent of public instruction, who
shall act upon the applications in or
state superintendent shall AK the
amount to be paid each such rural
school complying with the provisions
of this section, whose application shall
have been approved by the state sup
erintendend, and certify the same to
the secretary of state. The secretary
of state shall then draw his warrant
upon the state treasurer for the several
claims of said rural schools made pay
able to the treasurer of the district
or corporation maintaining such ap-
proved school, and such sums shall be
apportioned by said district treasurer
in provided and employed in such rural
school, as additional compensation as
follows:
a. To each first grade school as
designated herein and which has been
taught by a graduate of the teachers
course at the university of Wisconsin,
a Wisconsin state normal school, or
other equivalent school, as determined
by the state board of examiners, or the
holder Of a life certificate, and who has
had at least one year Of successful
teaching experience, and has taught an
efficient school during the year for
which aid is demanded, ten dollars per
month for each such teacher.
b. To each second grade school as
desi gnated herein and which has been
taught by teacher holding a first
grade certificate and who has had at
least one years successful teaching ex-
perience, and has taught an efficient
school during the year for which aid
is demanded, five dollars per month for
each such teacher.
8. The state superintendent is
hereby empowered to refuse the adj
ditiona1 state aid provided for herein,
to any school district which in his
Judgment has failed to comply with the
provisions of this section.
Section 1876 1. The whole
amount annually paid under the pro-
visions of section 560g-1 shall not
exceed twenty thousand dollars, and if
more be demanded by said rural
schools, it shall be paid proportionate-
ly. Any unexpended balance shall
revert to the general fund.
Section 2. This act shall take eff
feet upon passage and publication.
Approved July 81, 1913. Copy Law.