The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-04-19
BILL INTRODUCED FOR IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL
 SYSTEM IN TERRITORY

 Roman providing for normal training courses in the high schools of AlaSlia is regarded as the first step toward introducing vocational training n Alaskan schools, and also the first step toward the development of tho high schools into institutions for ad- vanced work. The text of the bill, which has the endorsement of Com missioner of Education l.. D. Tender son, is as follows:
 Be it enacted by the legislature of
 the territory of Alaska:
 "Section l. That school boards in incorporated towns, cities or districts maintaining a four-year accredited high school are hereby authorized to establish and maintain a normal school or teachers training course 'r connection herewith under conditions as outlined in this act Such teachers training course shall be two years in length and shall begin in the twelfth grade or fourth year of the high school and shall continue through the same and through q fifth or addition al year of high school work. High schools in which such teachers train. ing courses are being maintained shall for the purpose of this and other acts, be known as normal high schools.
 Section ? All graduates of the fifth year of normal high school, who are at least Is years of age, shall be entitled to an elementary teachers certificate which shall entitle the hold CT to teach in the elementary schools of the Territory for a period of three years. Said certificate shall be re- movable thereafter for a period O three years: Provided, that the holder thereof has been successfully engaged in teaching during one-half of the per iod in which the certificate was valid or in force and has, during the three years elapSing since the issuance of the certificate, attended an institutio T of learning of a higher rank than a normal high school for a period of at least twelve weeks.
 "Section 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of education to au- thorize the establishment of teachers training courses in accredited high schools making application for the same and no school board shall be en. titled to territorial funds for the main tenance of such teachers training courses unless the same shall have been established by authority of the commissioner of education and con ducted in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may pramulgate with the approval of the territorial board of education.
 "Section 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of education to out line the minimum course of study for each of the two years of the teachers s training course in normal high schools to chose the text books which shall be used in the same, to specify the min irnum qualifications of instructors, to choose the text books which shall be used in the same, to specify the min. imum qualifications of instructors, to prepare or cause to be prepared queS- tions for use in the examination of students taking the teachers training course, and to prescribe rules and re. gulations for the conduct of such ex- aminations and for the general con duct of said teachers training course in normal high schools"
 
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