THE SCHOOL LAW OF MICHIGAN. SEVENTH EDITION. (Twenty-seventh to Twenty-ninth Thousand.) BY JASON E. HAMMOND, FORMERLY SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. LANSING, MICH. THE HAMMOND PUBLISHING CO., LIMITED. 1915. "Our safety is not in constitutions and forms of govern- Copyright, 1915 The Hammond Publishing Company, Limited Lansing, Mich. PRINTED BY THE ROBERT SMITH PRINTING CO., LANSING, MICH. SUPERINTENDENTS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FOR MICHIGAN LUTHER L. WRIGHT, 1907-13 PATRICK H. KELLEY, 1905-6 DELOS FALL, 1901-4 JASON E. HAMMOND, 1897-1900 HENRY R. PATTENGILL, 1893-6 CORNELIUS A. GOWER, 1878-81 NIL OF LIBRARY PREFACE. Wonderful advancement has been made in matters pertaining to public education in Michigan since the winter of 1895, when Hammond's School Law of Michigan was first given as a summary of the laws, court decisions and opinions of the legal and educational departments of the state. It is unnecessary in this fore-word to enumerate the amendments and additions that have been made to the laws governing school affairs, as a satisfactory resume could only be made by making comparisons between the old and the new. It is sufficient to say that I have endeavored, and I think with a fair degree of success, to give in a condensed and logical form, under appropriate headings, the substance of the statutes and decisions of the state that govern the procedure of school officers and other persons who have in charge educational affairs. The new constitution, adopted by the voters in November, 1908, is now the fundamental law of the state, and the laws enacted by the Legislature of 1909 have made statutory changes to comply with the constitutional changes. The office of township school inspector was abolished and the duties of the township school inspectors have been given to the township board of which the supervisor is chairman. During the last decade special schools, such as schools for the deaf, rural high schools, county normal schools, etc., have been created, and these are made a subject of the additional chapter designated, "Organization of Special Schools," Chapter 4. The numbers in this book refer to sections of the compiled laws by Lewis M. Miller, and wherever recent amendments have been made, since Miller's statutes were compiled, the number and year of such enactments are given. It is obvious to those into whose hands this book will go that the growth of the state and the enactment of additional laws from year to year has made necessary the enlargement of this book. I have thought best to give it a more substan3 |