and 1685. Continued willful disobedience or open Suspension defiance of the authority of the teacher constitutes expulsion good cause for expulsion from school; and habitual profanity and vulgarity good cause for suspension from school. school 1686. Any pupil who cuts, defaces, or otherwise Defacing injures any school house, fences, or outbuildings there- property, of, is liable to suspension or expulsion. liabilities for. rienced teachers for beginners. 1687. In cities having graded schools beginners Expeshall be taught, for the first two years, by teachers who have had at least four years experience; and such teachers shall rank, in point of salary, with those of first grade. ARTICLE XII. TEACHERS. SECTION 1696. General duties of teachers. 1697. School month in relation to salary of teachers defined. 1699. Appeals in other cases. 1700. No warrant to be drawn in favor of a teacher unless he performs his duties. 1701. Nor unless he hold certificate and was employed. 1696. Every teacher in the public schools must: 1. Enforce the course of study, the use of books, General and the rules and regulations prescribed for schools; 2. Hold pupils to strict account for disorderly conduct on the way to or from school, on the playgrounds, or during recess; suspend for good cause any pupil in the school, and report such suspension to the Board of Trustees or Education for review; 3. Keep a State school register; 4. Make an annual report to the School Superintendent at the time and in the manner and on the blanks prescribed by the Superintendent of Instruction; 42-VOL. I. duties of teachers. School month in relation to salary of teachers defined. Appeal allowed removing teacher for incompetency. 5. Make such other reports as may be required by the Superintendent of Schools or Board of Trustees or Education. 1697. A school month is construed and taken to be twenty school days, or four weeks of five school days each. 1698. In case of the dismissal of any teacher from order before the expiration of any written contract entered into between such teacher and Board of Trustees, for alleged unfitness or incompetence or violation of rules, the teacher may appeal to the School Superintendent, and if the Superintendent decides that the removal was made without good cause, the teacher so removed must be reinstated. Appeals in other cases. No warrant to be drawn 1699. Any teacher whose salary is withheld may appeal to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1700. No warrant must be drawn in favor of any in favor of teacher, unless the officer whose duty it is to draw a teacher unless he performs his duties. Nor unless he hold certificate and was such warrant is satisfied that the teacher has faithfully performed his duties. 1701. No warrant must be drawn in favor of any teacher, unless such teacher is the holder of a proper employed. certificate in force, nor unless he was employed by the Board of Trustees or Education. ARTICLE XIII. Library Fund, how expended. DISTRICT LIBRARIES. SECTION 1712. Library Fund, how expended. 1712. 1713. Of what Fund consists. 1714. Same. 1715. Control and location of library. 1716. Who may use. The Boards of Trustees and of Education must expend the Library Fund, together with such moneys as may be added thereto by donation, in the purchase of books for a school library. NOTE.-See Report Sup. Pub. Inst. for 1871–2, pp. 85-6-7. Fund 1713. Except in cities not divided into school of what districts, the Library Fund consists of ten per cent of consists. the State School Fund annually apportioned to the district, unless ten per cent exceed fifty dollars, in which event it consists of fifty dollars annually taken from the Fund so apportioned. 1714. In cities not divided into school districts the Same. Library Fund consists of the sum of fifty dollars for every five hundred children between the ages of five and fifteen years, annually taken from the State School Fund apportioned to the city. Control and location of 1715. Libraries are under the control of the Board of Trustees or Education, and must be kept when library. practicable in the school houses. use. 1716. The library is free to all pupils of a suita- Who may ble age belonging to the school, and any resident of the district may become entitled to its privileges by payment of such a sum of money for life membership or such annual or monthly fee as may be prescribed by the Trustees. the ARTICLE XIV. EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. SECTION 1726. Journal to be designated by Board of Education. 1729. Subscription to and distribution of. 1730. Subscription price. 1731. Subscription, how paid. 1726. Some journal published in this State, and devoted exclusively to educational purposes, must be Journal to be designated by Board of Education. Superintendent of designated by the State Board of Education as the "State Educational Journal.” NOTE.-See Report Sup. Pub. Inst. for 1871–2, p. 80. 1727. The Superintendent of Public Instruction Instruction must be one of the editors of the journal. to be one of the editors. What journal must contain. Subscription to and distribution of. Subscription price. Subscription, how paid. 1728. It must contain a department devoted to the publication of the monthly reports of the State Normal School; the decisions and apportionments made; and the instructions and circulars issued by the State Board of Education or the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1729. The Superintendent of Public Instruction must annually subscribe for a sufficient number of copies of such journal to supply each School Superintendent, City Superintendent, Clerk of the district, and District School Library with one copy thereof. 1730. The price paid for each annual subscription of twelve monthly copies must not exceed one dollar and fifty cents; and the State Board of Education has power to reduce the rate whenever the journal can be creditably sustained at a lower rate. 1731. At the beginning of each school year the Superintendent of Public Instruction must draw his order in favor of such journal on the State Controller for an amount sufficient to pay for such subscriptions, which order must be certified by the State Board of Education and allowed by the State Board of Examiners, whereupon the State Controller must draw a warrant therefor on the State Treasurer, payable out of any unapportioned school moneys in the Treasury. ARTICLE XV. STATE BOARD OF EXAMINATION. SECTION 1741. How composed. 1742. Chairman. 1743. Meetings. 1744. General powers. 1745. Limitations on power to issue life diplomas. 1746. Same, as to educational diplomas. 1747. Applications for life diplomas. 1748. Examination of applicants for diplomas and certificates. 1749. Standing to be indorsed on certificates. 1750. Certificates may be issued without examination, when. 1752. Revocation of certificates and diplomas. 1753. Renewal of. 1754. Eligibility to teach of holders of diplomas. 1755. Same of holders of certificates. 1756. Fees from applicants for diplomas or certificates. 1757. Fees from persons receiving life diplomas. 1758. Compensation of members of the Board. 1741. The State Board of Examination consists of How the Superintendent of Public Instruction and four composed. teachers holding State educational diplomas appointed by him. 1742. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is Chairman. Chairman of the Board. 1743. The Board must meet at such times and Meetings. places as the Chairman directs, and must hold at least two sessions in each year. 1744. The Board has power to grant: 1. Life diplomas; 2. State educational diplomas, valid for six years; 3. State certificates of the first grade, valid for four years; 4. State certificates of the second grade, valid for three years; 5. State certificates of the third grade, valid for two years; General powers. |