than $3, to go into institute fund; teachers' certificate fee shall be $2. County superintendent shall transmit all certificate and institute fees to county treasurer; normal institute fund shall be disbursed only on order of county superintendent. To receive pay for work in institutes conductors and instructors shall hold institute certificates; no county superintendent shall employ or pay moneys from institute fund to any conductor or instructor who draws a salary from the State or Federal Government; county superintendents shall not be conductors or instructors in institutes in which their counties are interested unless they possess requirements hereinbefore stated, and in no case shall they receive pay for such service in their own counties. Two or more counties may unite in holding a normal institute each year. Separate normals shall be held for negro teachers; faculties shall be equal for both races, and all institute funds properly prorated. County superintendents shall make complete annual reports to State superintendent relative to institutes. Conductors of institutes shall report work of institutes to county superintendents and to State superintendent. Any conductor who fails to make report as required shall be subject to the revocation of his normalinstitute certificate. Any county superintendent who shall violate any provision of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for a second offense may be removed from office. See also A (c2), County officers. Oregon: The county superintendent shall hold annually a teachers' county institute for at least three days; teachers shall be required to attend and shall be entitled to wages as teachers during such attendance; State superintendent shall cooperate with county superintendent. County superintendent shall hold annually at least three local institutes or educational meetings in various parts of the county. Claims for defraying expenses of institutes shall be paid from general county fund; $2 for each schoolroom, but not less than $150 nor more than $400 in any one year. Two or more counties may unite and hold a joint institute. The teachers of any county may by a majority vote of their number decide to substitute for the annual institute a training school of at least three weeks' duration to be held in June, July, or August; county superintendent shall secure necessary instructors and shall be assisted by State superintendent; expenses of maintaining such schools shall be borne from a fee of $1 from each teacher enrolled and from the county-institute fund, and if such funds are insufficient, county court shall make up deficit, but expense of such school shall not exceed double the amount allowed for institute. All teachers having less than 27 months' experience, eight in the State, shall be required to attend such school, unless they are graduates of an accredited normal school or have completed the training course in an accredited high school or other accredited institution; personal illness or illness in family shall be a valid excuse for nonattendance; teachers required to attend shall attend for three seasons, but work shall advance each season. See also A (b2), State officers; A (c2), County officers. Pennsylvania: Each county superintendent shall annually call teachers of public schools together in a teachers' institute; said superintendent shall invite teachers of other educational institutions to participate in such institute; purpose of such institute shall be to improve teachers in the science, art, and history of education; institute shall be in session five days including time necessary in going to and from the place of meeting; roll of teachers shall be called at least twice a day; at close of institute county treasurer shall pay county superintendent $1 for every three days spent by each teacher at the institute, the same to be expended for institute purposes, but the amount so drawn shall not be more than $100; institute shall elect two auditors, who together with the auditor elected by the county directors' association shall audit institute accounts. It shall be lawful for the board of directors of any district, having a superintendent and employing at least 40 teachers, to authorize an annual district institute, conducted in like manner and to same extent as county institutes. All boards of directors shall pay to teachers attending any institute $3 per day for time actually present. Time in attendance at institutes shall not be considered as days taught or lessen the number of days in the minimum school term. Every teacher absenting himself from the institute shall forfeit to the district employing him a sum equal that which he would have received for attendance, the same to be deducted from his salary, unless reasonable excuse for absence shall be given. County and district superintendents shall make full reports of institutes to the State superintendent. Any institute funds remaining in hands of superinendent at close of any institute shall be used for succeeding institute. Rhode Island: There shall be annually appropriated out of State treasury the sum of $500 for expenses of teachers and lecturers for teachers' institutes, and $800 for publishing and distributing educational publications, such sums to be expended under direction of commissioner of public schools; said commissioner shall render annual account to State auditor of such expendi tures. South Carolina: See A (c2), County officers. South Dakota: See A (b2), State officers; A (c2), County officers; F (a), Teachers' contracts, duties, etc. Tennessee: See A (b2), State officers; B (a), General State finance and support; F (a), Teachers' contracts, duties, etc. Texas: See A (c2), County officers; E (b), Teachers' certificates, general; G (b), State normal schools. Utah: State superintendent, principal of State normal school, and county superintendent of each respective county shall constitute a governing board for holding annually in each county a teachers' institute of between 2 and 10 days' duration. They shall prescribe studies and employ instructors. State superintendent shall keep a record of institutes held and subjects taught. County superintendent shall notify teachers of time and place of institute meeting, and shall report attendance and program carried out to State superintendent. Expenses not to exceed $100 shall be paid out of county school fund. Two or more counties may hold joint institute. Institute meetings held once or twice a month shall be equivalent to annual institute. Governing board may call upon the State normal school to furnish instructors. See also A (b2), State officers; B (e), State aid for elementary education. Vermont: See A (b1), State boards; A (b2), State officers. Virginia: See A (b1), State boards; G (b), State normal schools. Washington: In each county containing 25 or more districts, county superintendent shall devote at least five days to institute work, three days of which shall be consecutive; remaining days may be spent in district meetings or in visiting days; county superintendents of contiguous counties may hold joint institutes, expenses to be shared in proportion to schoolrooms maintained in the counties. Every teacher holding a valid certificate and employed in the public schools shall attend said institute for full time. In districts employing 100 or more teachers the city superintendent may hold a teachers' institute of two, three, four, or five days in such district, such institute to be governed by provisions same as for county institutes. The superintendent shall determine time for holding institutes. Pay of teachers shall not be diminished by attending institutes; in addition to actual attendance earned by district, an additional attendance shall be credited to district, determined by multiplying average daily attendance for the term by number of days the teacher attended the institute. All examination fees shall be paid into institute fund. Each superintendent shall, prior to holding institute, submit estimate of expenses to county commissioners, who shall place at disposal of proper superintendent out of county current expense fund an amount, not to exceed $200, for such purposes; such superintendent shall report expenses of institute to county auditor. See also A (c2), County officers; B (a), General State finance and support; E (a), Teachers' qualifications, general. West Virginia: One or more teachers' institutes shall be held in each county annually, place to be determined by teachers of county, and time to be fixed by State superintendent with advice of county superintendent; said institutes shall continue in session five days. Teachers employed in free schools shall attend said institutes for at least five days each year, unless excused for good cause by county superintendent, and shall receive $1.50 per day for such attendance, not to exceed five days, payable out of building fund of dis trict; teachers failing to attend said institute shall not each during year of such failure, unless lawfully excused from attendance. The institute shall be conducted by experienced and skillful instructors appointed by State superintendent, but county superintendent shall make arrangements for institutes and assist in conducting them; institute instructors shall be paid out of general school fund, but amount so paid shall not exceed $100 for any one institute. Every teacher enrolled in a county institute shall pay fee of $1, 75 cents of which shall be paid into general school fund and remainder shall be used for institute expenses. County superintendent shall make report relative to institutes to State superintendent. County superintendent shall arrange for and conduct one or more district institutes in each district each year; teachers attending same shall have period of attendance counted as time taught. State superintendent shall arrange a reading circle for teachers to cover period of two years; shall provide for examination and certification of teachers belonging to said reading circle. See also A (d), District boards and officers. Wisconsin: Teachers' institutes shall be held each year in such counties as may be designated by State superintendent, with advice of board of normalschool regents, preference to be given to counties receiving least direct benefits of normal schools; said superintendent, with advice of said board, may prescribe rules and courses of study for institutes, and appoint agents, who, assisted by the county superintendent, shall conduct the same. For institute purposes an amount not exceeding $7,000 annually shall be appropriated from normal fund income, and an additional amount not exceeding $7,000 annually from general fund. See also A (b2), State officers; A (c2), County officers; P (c), State universities and colleges. Wyoming: County superintendent shall annually hold a teachers' institute at time and place designated by him; length of term, four to eight days; teachers must attend on penalty of having certificate revoked, but superintendent may excuse for good reason; local school board shall pay teacher regular salary for attendance. County commissioners shall appropriate for employment of instructors, etc. Two or more counties may, at discretion of their superintendents, hold joint institute. H. SCHOOL POPULATION AND ATTENDANCE. (a) General. Alabama: All minors over 7 years old entitled to instruction; parents or guardians paying taxes on $500 of real estate in a district shall be entitled to school privileges therein; white and colored children shall not attend the same school. Florida: Any pupil residing in one county may attend school in another by concurrence of the superintendents of the two counties. New Jersey: Public schools shall be free to pupils over 5 and under 20 years of age, and to residents over 20 years of age at option of school board; nonresidents may be admitted to schools of a district with consent of school board thereof upon such terms as said board may prescribe, but nonresidents transferred by order of county superintendent shall be exempt from tuition; school board of any district may contract for transportation of pupils to or from schools of the district or to schools of another district; any child living remote from public school in the district may, with consent of county superintendent, attend school in an adjoining district; any child who has completed course of study in district of residence may, with consent of board of such district and of board of district where he desires to attend, attend school of higher grade in said last-mentioned district, and district of residence shall pay tuition and transportation. Pupils in public schools shall comply with rules thereof; shall pursue prescribed course of study and shall submit to authority of teacher; shall be suspended or expelled for cause. Parents or guardians shall pay for injury done to school property by pupils. Any school board may exclude from school any teacher or pupil not properly vaccinated, unless such teacher or pupil is unfit for vaccination; no teacher or pupil exposed to any contagious or infectious disease shall attend any public school until danger of communicating such disease has passed; indigent pupils shall be vaccinated without any charge to them; schools shall be closed during an epidemic. Children attending school for first time may be admitted to public schools during 10 days immediately following fall opening of school, during first 5 days of January and April, respectively, and at no other time except by majority vote of all members of school board. No child between ages of 4 and 20 years shall be barred from public schools on account of religion, nationality, or color. Each school board shall ascertain what children, if any, are three or more years below normal in advancement; in each district containing 10 or more such children school board shall establish a special class or classes for their instruction, no class to contain more than 15 pupils; in each district containing 10 or more blind or deaf children not cared for in an institution a special class or classes shall be organized by school board for their education, no class to contain more than 15 pupils ; medical examiner shall examine pupils in special classes at least once in every three months. Any child who has completed course in district of his residence may, with consent of board of said district and of board of model school connected with any State normal school of the State, attend such model school, district of residence to pay charges. Oklahoma: County superintendent may, when requested, permit children to attend school in a district other than one in which the child resides; such transfer shall not be made until any protests that may be made are heard; all hearings shall be had at least two months before opening of schools. Renters and others who come into a district after school term has begun may select the school to which they shall send their children. Virginia: The public schools shall be free to all persons between 7 and 20 years old residing in the district; persons of such age may attend school in a district where they do not reside by agreement of the school boards interested, subject to appeal to the school trustee electoral board; State board of education shall make rules governing the transfer of pupils from one district to another or from one county to another. White and colored persons shall not attend the same school. Public schools shall be free to any child over 6 years old if in the opinion of teacher and division superintendent such child is sufficiently mature. Persons between 20 and 25 years old may be admitted under rules prescribed by the State board of education. H (b). School Census. See also B (e), State aid for elementary education. Alabama: District trustees shall have census of children of school age (7 to 21) taken biennially in even-numbered years; county commissioners fix compensation of enumerators in common-school districts; governing body of incorporated cities and towns fix such compensation there; misdemeanor for enumerator to make false report. See also A (d), District boards and officers; A (f), Administrative unitsdistricts, etc.; (B (e), State aid for elementary education. Arizona: Census marshal shall annually in February take the census of all persons in his district between 6 and 21 years old and shall report the same to county superintendent. Arkansas: See A (b2), State officers; A (f), Administrative units-districts, etc.; B (e), State aid for elementary education. Colorado: See A (b2), State officers; A (c2), County officers; A (d), District boards and officers; T (b), Schools for the deaf. Connecticut: See A (d), District boards and officers; B (a), General State finance and support. Delaware: See H (f), Compulsory attendance; M (b), Kindergartens. Georgia: Common schools shall be free to all children between the ages of 6 and 18; white and colored children shall not be taught in the same school; when school is more accessible pupils may attend school in adjoining county with approval of county board of education. See also B (e), State aid for elementary education; T (c), Schools for the blind. Idaho: See A (d), District boards and officers; B (a), General State finance and support; T (b), Schools for the deaf. |