The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
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| tendent of public instruction. The pack
age containing the questions shah not De
| opened except in the presence of major
| ity of the examining board on the day and
hour for the examination. Immediately at
the close of the examination the manu-
| scripts shall be properly wrapped and
sealed and sent carriage prepaid, to the
state superintendent of public instruction,
and said manuscripts shall be graded un-
der the direction of the State Board of
Education; fee of seven dollars shall pc
instruction from the funds of each school
participating in the examination and all
! turned into the state treasury, and shall
become available to pay the expenses in
CURED by the State Board of Education in
the grading of said manuscripts All
moneys or so much thereof as necessary re-
years ending June 80, 1916 and June 80,
1917, are hereby appropriated TO pay for
said expenses of said State Board of Edu-
cation. Said expenses shall be paid on the
warrants of the state auditor upon duly
certified vouchers approved by the state
superintendent of public instruction.
| Sec. s. Threeyear elementary certifi-
Gates may be issued by the State Board of
Education to persons who hold first grade
certificates issued by boards of county eX
aminers and to persons holding certificates
issued by examining boards in cities of the
| persons have completed a four-year course
of study in high school approved by the
! State Board of Education and in addition
/ thereto have completed two-year course
of study in a normal school, college, or
! university accredited by the State Board of
Education; or who in lieu of taking such
two year course in a normal school, col
| lege university have had four years of
/ successful experience in teaching, satisfac
| tory evidence of which shall be submitted
| to the State Board of Education The
three-year elementary certificate thus is
sued shall be valid in any elementary
school of the state. The three-year ele-
mentary certificates herein provided for
may be renewed successfully for three year
periods, provided that the holders comply
with such regulations as the State Board
may make for such renewal f
Sec. 0. After September 1, 1916, per-
J son shall teach in any four year accredited
!, trict, city of the first or second class
I who does not hold a certificate as a high
school teacher issued by the State Board
of Education or by one of the Kansas
State Normal Schools; and after Septeln-
/ Der /, 1916 it shall be unlawful for any
township or county high school board, dis
! trict board, board of education of any
city of the first or second class to use any
part of the public funds to pay any high
/ school teacher in any four year accredited
high school who does not hold a certificate
as herein provided authorizing such person
/ to teach in the public high schools of the
state; provided, that no person holding a
valid teachers certificate at the time when
this act snail take erect VINO at that time
year accredited high school in this state,
shall be prohibited from teaching in any
high school; nor shall any board be pro-
hibited from employing such person a
high school teacher or from paying him
/ from public funds.
/ Sec. TO- The State Board of Education
may issue temporary teachers certificates
valid for one year only in such schools and
departments may be specified in said
certificate, provided that such temporary
certificates shall be issued only in an
with legally qualified teachers; and the
State Board shall have power to make all
rules and regulations relating to such tenn
porary certificates :, provided, that no per
+ son shall receive more than one such GER
/ tificate.
/ Sec. II. Boards of county examiners may
4 issue teachers certificates of three grades
4 as provided in this act; namely, third
grade second grade and first grade; and
said certificates shall be valid only in ele-
mentary schools and shall continue in
force in the county in which they are is
sued for terms of one year, two years, and
three years respectively; and upon pay
ment of fee, of one dollar which shall be
turned into the normal institute fund, GER
/ tificates of the second grade may tie en-
dorsed and certificates of the first grade
! tendent of public instruction of any county
in the state; and when SO endorsed such
certificates shall be valid in the county in
which they are endorsed for the remainder
of the term for which they were issued.
A certificate issued under this act may be
revoked by the board of examiners on the
which would have Justified the withhold
ing of the certificate when it was granted,
and the endorsement of a certificate may
be withdrawn by county superintendent
for like cause.
may be issued to persons of good moral
/ character and not less than eighteen years
4 OF age VINO snail Dy q, written examination
secure an average grade of seventy five per
cent with no grade below sixty per cent in
the following branches: spelling, reading.
writing, English grammar and compost
/ ton, geography, arithmetic, United States
/ history, Kansas history, civil government,
physiology and hygiene, the elements of
agriculture, elementary general science,
English classics. and the principles and
methods of teaching. A third grade GER
tificate shall not be issued to any person
who has previously held two certificates of
/ the third grade If such person has taught
I seven months.
may be issued to persons of good moral
Z character and not less than eighteen years
of age who have taught successfully not
less than seven school months and who by
written examination shall secure aver
age grade of eighty with grade below
! sixty in all branches required for third
| grade certificate, and in the elements of
/ music the examination in which shall be
/ confined to the questions prepared by the
| state board of education and shall not re-
quire singing by the applicant; and who in
! addition thereto have completed a one year
course of study in a high school approved
by the state board of education or the
equivalent thereof provided In section
| Is of this act; provided that certificates of
the second grade may be issued to persons
who have had previous experience in
/ teaching if such persons have completed a
four-year course of study in high school
/ approved by the State Board of Educa-
ton and are otherwise qualified as herein
provided.
may be issued to persons Of good moral
I character and not less than twenty years
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