The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-06-08
STRIKING FEATURES Of
NEW SCHOOL LAW
Rigid Requirements Necessary For
Superintendent to Be Qualified.


the last ISSUE VI lnlS paper, Ill WHICH
were set forth in brief, many of the
radical changes in the State school law
of Maryland, there are here set fourth
few of the additional features thereof.
The county superintendent shall
nominate, for appointment by the
county board of education, all principals
and all assistant teachers. shall assign
them to their positions in the schools,
transfer them as the needs of the
schools require. recommend them for
promotion, suspend them for cause and
recommend them for dismissal"
In each county employing not less
than 100 teachers, there shall be ap-
pointed at least one primary grade sup
ervisor, no person shall be eligible for
appointment as supervisor who does
not hold from the state superintendent
certificate in supervision; one half of
the salary of the supervisor is to be
paid by the State.
The county board of education in
each county shall with the written ap-
proval of the state SUPERINTENDENT of
schools, also appoint at least on atten-
dance officer, whose duty it shall be to
compel the regular attendance of child
rem at school; one-half the salary of the
attendance officer is to be paid by the
State.
There shall be employed in each
county at least one statistical and
stenographic clerk.
The district boards of school trustees
lose authority to contract with teachers
for their employment, that authority in
the new school law, abiding in the
county board of education as set forth
in the first citation of the law in the
first part of this article; the trustees
are to see that the school properties are
IN good condition, and to remove or re-
port any Irregularities in the conduct of
the schools and to approve or reject as
correct or incorrect the various reports
of the teachers to the board of educa-
ton
mo new school house district shall
be formed containing less than fifty
children between the ages of and IA
years; nor shall any new school district
be formed if any one of the old districts
affec ted has, after the formation of the
new school house district, less than fifty
children between the ages of 6 and Ii
years, except in such unusual instances
as may be approved by the state super
intendent of schools
Elementary schools shall be kept
open for not less than one hundred and
eighty $50 actual school days and for
ten months in each year, if possible,
and shall be free to all white youths,
between six and twenty years of age"
Whenever the average daily atten-
dance in any school for any two con-
secutiye terms is less than u pupils the
said school may be closed by the
county board of education, and trans
portation provided, in the discretion of
the board for the pupils"
There shall be held in each school,
once year, a public exhibition of
school WORK, of which due notice shall
be given, that parents and other in
tere8ted in education may attend"
After September 80, 1916, the ex-
animation of applicants for teachers
certificates becomes state function
with the result that the county super
loses all previous authority
therein. After that date, teachers
certificates will be issued by the State
and not by the county superintendent.
THE district board of school trustees
shall have power to suspend and expel
pupils for cause; provided, that an ap.
peal shall lie to the county superintend-
ent, whose decision snail be final. "
The board of public school commits
sioners of Baltimore City and each
county board of education shall adopt
and purchase, subject to the provisions
of this article, text books, supplement
tary readers, materials of instruction,
stationery and school supplies for use in
the public schools of said city and of
the several counties of the State"
Instate high schools of thefirst group,
agriculture may be substituted for
manual or industrial training.
After all deductions are made from
the General State School Fund, the
State Comptroller shall apporton on or
before the last day of September, the
remainder of the General State School
Fund of each year to the several coun-
ties and the city of Baltimore, as fol-
lows; Two-t thirds shall be apportioned
on the basis of the population between
the ages of six and fourteen years as
given by the latest available biennial
school census; provided, that the latest
Federal Census shall be employed until
the biennial school census becomes
available; and one third shall be APP
portloned upon the basis of the aggre-
gate days of school attendance during
the preceding school year as certified to