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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

A. C. NELSON, Superintendent

SCHOOL LAW

OF UTAH.

Published by Authority
For the Use of the Public School Officers.

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A. M. C

SCHOOL LAW

OF THE

STATE OF UTAH.

CHAPTER 1.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

1763. Membership. Vested with general control public schools. The State Board of Education shall consist of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the president of the University of Utah, the president of the Agricultural College, and two other persons of large experience and eminent professional standing, to be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, to serve for a period of four years. The general control and supervision of the public school system is vested in the State Board of Education.

Power to promote the establishment of libraries and gymnasiums. The State Board of Education shall also promote the establishment of libraries and gymnasiums throughout the State, and shall have power to appoint a secretary who shall work under the direction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The salary of the Secretary shall be fixed by the State Board of Education and approved by the State Board of Examiners. The Board shall have the power to call to its assistance expert help to promote libraries and gymnasiums whenever needed. The actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by such help and the salary of the Secretary shall be paid from the contingent fund of the State Board

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of Education, upon the presentation of properly certified and approved vouchers.

1764. Power to grant diplomas and certificates. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and empowered to issue diplomas of two grades, namely, state high school and state grammar, and certificates of one grade, namely, state grammar. It shall also have power to issue temporary certificates of high school grade, good for one year.

1765. Id. Granted to whom. State diplomas or state certificates shall be issued only to professional teachers who have reached the age of twenty years, have had two years' successful experience in this State, and exhibit satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and freedom from serious infectious or hereditary disease, and upon critical examination are found to possess the requisite scholarship and culture.

1766. Valid where and for what time. These state diplomas and certificates shall be valid in any county, city, town or school district in the State; the high school diplomas in any department of the public schools; the grammar grade diplomas, in grammar and primary departments; and certificates, in grammar and primary departments; state diplomas shall be good during the lifetime of the holders, and state certificates for a period of five years.

1767. Id. Examinations required. Normal certificates. Life diplomas of other states. Ceasing to teach. Candidates for state professional diplomas of high school grade shall be required by examination or other evidence to exhibit a high degree of scholarship in all the following branches, namely: arithmetic, United States history, reading and elocution, or'thography, English grammar, political and physical geography, physiology, algebra, physics, rhetoric, drawing, plane and solid geometry, botany, English literature, general history, civil government, history and science of education, and psychology; and also in any three of the following branches

namely: chemistry, geology, French, German, Latin, Greek, trigonometry, zoology, biology, and mineralogy. Candidates for state professional diplomas of grammar grade shall be required, by examination or other evidence, to exhibit satisfactory knowledge of all the following subjects, namely: arithmetic, United States history, reading and elocution, orthography, English grammar, political and physical geography, physiology, nature studies, algebra, physics, rhetoric, drawing, plane geometry, botany, English literature, general history, civil government, the history and science of education, and psychology; provided, that:

Normal certificates and diplomas.

1st. Normal certificates and normal diplomas issued by the University of Utah subsequent to March 10, 1892, and all normal certificates and normal diplomas issued hereafter by the University of Utah shall have the force of state certificates; and the holder of any normal diploma as herein before specified, after having had two years' successful experience in teaching in this State, shall be entitled to a high school diploma.

2nd. Holders of normal certificates issued by the Universsity of Utah subsequent to March 10, 1892, and all normal certificates and normal diplomas issued hereafter by the University of Utah; and holders of high school certificates now in force and issued as provided by law by boards of education in cities of the first and second classes, and territorial first grade certificates and state diplomas and certificates now in force, may, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, be exempt from examination in any and all subjects which were required in the examination for such certificates.

Life Diplomas.

3rd. Life diplomas issued by state boards in other states and shown to be of equal rank with those issued by the State Board of this State may receive equal recognition after the holders acquire two years' successful experience in schools of

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