Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-03-22
LETTER EXPLAINS SCHOOL LAWS
Ethel L. Redfield, State Superintend-
ent, Informs Teachers of Changes.

chis ihofms AtafutTs oi tnanges.
In letter to the county and city
superintendents and principals of
schools of the state of Idaho, Miss
Ethel K. Redfield, state superintendent
OF public instruction, explains the vari-
GUS measures passed by the Sixteenth
session of the legislature that have be-
come part of the school law OF the
state by being signed by the governor
The letter is as follows:
"The new pamphlet of school laws
will not be available before summer
The attorney general will hasten the
work on it as much as possible. The
following named bills affecting schools
became laws, the last being signed by
the governor Tuesday:
Senate bill No. 120-This eliminates
conflicts in and reconciles the provis-
ions of the old code OF school laws
adopts a uniform procedure for organ
izing schools districts; prescribes
uniform procedure for school cleo
tions;; uniform qualifications for vot-
ers at all kinds of school elections;
provides for uniform regulations in
the administration of school affairs;
raises compulsory school attendance
age to 1S; names the days which
should be observed as school holidays;
provides for concluding all affairs of
lapsed districts; provides for increased
tax levying power in the independent
and independent class A districts;
provides for the dissolution as we'll as
organization of rural high school dis
tricts and gives them greater bonding
privilege; contains revised law gov
erning the certification of teachers
This bill had no emergency clause
hence the la ewodstUKv.; etaoin n
hence the law does not become ef-
fective for so days.
/ "H. b. No. 73-This provides that the
rate of tuition charged by any high
school of the state shall be the actual
average cost per capita of instruction
and operation of said high school dur
ing the next preceding year, rules for
determining said average per capita
cost to be laid down by the state board
of education. This bill had no emer-
gency clause.
III. b. No. 121-By this measure
boards of trustees of independent class
A districts are authorized to levy spec
ial emergency taxes during the year
1921. following a special election held
for the purpose at which two-thirds OF
the qualified voters give assent to such
levy. This bill had an emergency
clause and is now effective.
I III. B. No. 242-Under the provisions
of this law independent districts and
independent class A districts have the
power TO issue during 1921 funding
bonds to take up their outstanding in
debtedness. This bill had an emer-
gency clause and is now effective
IS. b. No. 272-This provides that
the fiscal year for the reports of coun-
ty superintendents to the state super
intendent shall end on the second
Monday in July instead of June 80.
IS. B. No. 174-This creates teach
ers' retirement fund by establishing a
levy of one-half of one per cent of the
annual salaries of all the active teach
ers of the state; names qualifications
for eligibility to annuity of $500 per
year: provides a board for the control
and investment of retirement fund;
provides that act shall become effect
i've September /, 1921.
III. b. No. 60-This authorizes
school boards of independent, joint in
dependent, Independent class A and
joint independent class A districts to
provide instruction for the education
and Americanization education OF
adults of foreign birth or extraction
who are residents of the state of Idaho
and to expend for such purpose an
amount not to exceed two per cent of
the income of the school district for
that year for the general apportion-
, ment and the special tax of the said
district"