The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-10-07
EDUCATIONAL.
(By c. W. Meisnest)
LAWS PASSED BY THE LEGISLA-
TURE or 1918.


school hours of each days session of
school upon the flag staff Of said school
house or school grounds.
Chapter 36. This relates to the vail
dation of proceedings taken in organ
iaing high school districts and limiting
the time for commencing action.
Chapter 1914 Persons residing in
school districts not maintaining high
school or state graded school Offering
instruction In the ninth and tenth grad
es, may have the tuition become a
charge upon the town or county in
which the parents reside provided that
such pupils have con- peted the course
of study offered in the home district,
with certificate to that effect signed
by the county superintendent Of
schools.
Chapter 220. In an examination for
the issuance or for the renewal of a
county or cily teachers certificate, the
county or city superintendent may, at
his discretion, accept as "A substitute
for examination in any required sub
ject, in which the applicant shall have
previously passed a satisfactory exam
ination in writing for a teachers certi
fcate, evidence of the satisfactory
reading by the applicant during the lie
of the certificate then in force, or
which expired not more than two
months previously, of one book includ.
ed in the list of books of the Wiscon-
sin Teachers Reading Circle, which
list shall have been approved 10y the
state uperinJendent, and which have
been prescribed for the group of teach
ers TO which the applicant belongs.
Such reading shall have been addition.
al to that required for registration OF
the applicants certificate and in the
case of each book shall have been done
within the period when it was on tn
said reading circle list.
Chapter 222. Provides for the distri-
button of railroad maps, and also for
the publishing OF same every four years
instead of every two years.
Chapter 292. Provides for special
aid of two hundred fifty dollars to train
ing schools employing qualified teach
er in domestic science.
Chapter 329. Empowers the school
district electors to borrow money for
the purpose of purchasing school site
or school playground, and authorizes
the board to make such loan for not
longer than two years at a rate of in
terest no. to exceed seven per cent.
Chapter 81. Creates section 49j-
10, and repeals or amends some other
sections relating to the consolidation
of school districts. 1t provides that if
two or more districts are consolidated
by vote Of the electors and a one-roOm
school building provided, the state may
be called upon to aid in the expense of
erecting and equlpping such building
to an amount not greater than 5000,
1t also provides that in cases where ru-
raj school districts have been consoIi-
dated the electors must provide trans
portation to and from the consolidated
school for all children residing more
than two miles from the sch0ohOuse,
the distance to be measured 10y the
highway.
Chapter 426. Repeats the section
500 10 the effect that the state can no
longer purchase and sell the dictionar-
les to school districts at cost.
Chapter 44S. Permits county train
ing schools TO have but nine month
term if they SO desire. This law also
changes the state aid and gives add.
| tional aid if school Is maintained longer
than nine months.
Chapter AGO. This is a lengthy law
and provides for the regulation, sale
and price OF text books as furnished by
the book companies. Book companies
must submit their books with prices &c
| to the state superintendent before such
books may be sold,
| Chapter $50. Fixes the time for
holding the school district meetings in
the state as the first Monday in July in
stead OF the first Mondoy in June as il
was the past two years. The hour Of
the meeting is hereby also changed
from 7 to o'clock. This chapter pro-
vides also that special meetings shall
bo held at 8 O'Clock p IN.
Chapter 53l. The county board oi
education law has been repealed, and
in its place has been substituted com
mittee on common schools consisting ol
three memb bers to be appointed by the
county board OF supervisors, THIS bill
in large measure puts back In the
hands OF the county board Of supergis
ors the matter OF managing the office
Of county superintendent. The com
mittee on common schools must or
nomination OF the county superintend
ent appoint one supervising teacher IL
each county Two such supervisors
may be appointed n the larger coun
ties. The salary and travelling eXpen
ses OF such supervisor are to be paid by
the state
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