The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-07
SCHOOL LEGISLATION
Summary Of the Laws Passed by the
Sixth Legislature Will Be Pub
lished July /.

Oklahoma City. May 1T will be
impossible to furnish the new school
laws, or even copies of the bills en-
acted by the last legislature until the
new laws are published, which will
be about the first of July Therefore,
the department of education has gone
over the new provisions with view
to calling attention to the most i'm,
portant changes which have been
made, as follows:
Instead of making semiannual ap-
pOrtiOnments of the state school
funds, hereafter these funds will be
sent to the counties Officers will
apportion the funds to the districts
monthly.
Boards of education of Independent
districts will be compelled to make a
financial and statistical report to the
state superintendent on or before the
first day Of July each year The law
provides that no distribution of the
state school funds for July shall be
made until this report has been re-
ceiyed and approved
Boards of education in cities of the
first class are authorized to prepare
their budgets and vote an excess levy
if necessary on or before the second
Tuesday in May each year.
The law setting aside section 33 in
other counties than Greer county for
the benefit OF consolidated and union
graded schools was repealed which
leaves section 33 in Greer county on.
ly in the state aid fund An appropri.
alton Of $4,000 was made out Of this
fund for benefit Of such districts.
The procedure for forming union
graded school districts was simpified
The new law provides for the disor.
ganization of the old districts but
torbids the removal Of the different
school houses and requires the princi.
pal Of the union graded school to su.
peryise all other schools in the dis.
trict
Section l9j Of the 1915 school laws
was repealed which virtually aboishes
the county normal Institutes as this
section provided for the payment of
salaries and expenses for these insti.
tutes.
The management Of the separate
schools in cities of the first class was
conferred upon the board of educa.
tion. The board of education instead
OF the county superintendent will EN-.
ploy the teachers but the salaries and
expenses shall be paid by the counties
as before.
The new transfer law provides that
where no high school is maintained in
district children shall be transfer
red to a district maintaining high
school and that the district in which
the child resides shall pay to the dis.
tlct in which the transfer is made an
amount equal to the per capita cost
OF maintaining the high school in that
district The same provision as to
tuition applies to all grade students
transferred. The procedure for max.
ing the transfers is practically the
same as before except that requests
for transfers must be made not later
than June / and all hearings shall be
held on the tenth day of June.
vocational education was provided
Tor by board consisting of the state
superintendent the chairman of the
board of agriculture, the president of
the University, the president of the
\. 4 NJ. college and secretary to be
appointed by the governor. An appro.
prIation of $4,000 each year for the
ensuing two years was made to sup
plement the federal aid fund.
Military training in the public
schools was authorized and a board
provided to supervise this work.
Poultry shows in school districts.
counties and in the state required
and authorities must make levies for
the payment OF premiums.