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ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE RELATIVE TO SCHOOLS
STILL IN FORCE,

RULES AND REGULATIONS

OF THE

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION,

LAWS RELATING TO THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS; EXTRACTS FROM
THE PENAL AND POLITICAL CODES; ALSO, NAMES OF

CITY AND COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.

Published by the Department of Public Instruction for the Use of Schools.

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SCHOOL LAW OF CALIFORNIA.

EXTRACTS FROM POLITICAL CODE. PART III, TITLE III.

CHAPTER III.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

ARTICLE I. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

II. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
III. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS.

IV. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.

V. SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

VI. ELECTIONS FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

VII. BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND CITY BOARDS OF EDUCATION.
VIII. DISTRICT CENSUS MARSHALS.

IX. CLERKS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

X. SCHOOLS.

XI. PUPILS.

XII. TEACHERS.

XIII. DISTRICT LIBRARIES.

XV. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

XVI. COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. XVII. CITY BOARDS OF EXAMINATION.

XVIII. COUNTY SCHOOL TAX.

XIX. DISTRICT SCHOOL TAX.

XX. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO SCHOOL FUNDS AND TAXES.
XXI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

ARTICLE I.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

SECTION 1517. Board, how constituted.

1518. Organization of Board.

1519. Majority vote necessary to the validity of any Act.

1520. Meetings of the Board.

1521. Subs. First, Second, Third, and Fourth-General powers and duties of the Board.

Fifth-To grant educational and life diplomas.

Sixth-When diplonias and certificates revoked.

Seventh-To have done by State Printer, printing of Board.

Eighth-To adopt a seal.

Ninth-To keep a record.

Tenth-To whom State educational diplomas granted. Resolution must accompany application.

Eleventh-When life diplomas issued.

Twelfth-Must designate official organ; where copies to be sent; how paid for.

1522. Traveling expenses of, how paid.

1517. The State Board of Education consists of the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Principals of the State Normal Schools.

1518. The Governor is the President and the Superintendent of Public Instruction the Secretary of the Board.

1519. A concurrence of a majority of all the members is necessary to the validity of any act of the Board.

1520. The Board meets at the call of the Secretary, and not less than four times in each year.

1521. The powers and duties of the Board are as follows:

First-To adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, for its own government, and for the government of the public schools and district school libraries.

Second-To recommend rules for the examination of teachers. Third-To recommend a course of study for the public schools. Fourth-To recommend a list of books and apparatus for district school libraries.

Fifth-To grant educational diplomas, valid for six years, and life diplomas.

Sixth-To revoke for immoral or unprofessional conduct, or evident unfitness for teaching, life diplomas and educational diplomas heretofore issued, or which may be issued hereafter.

Seventh-To have done by the State Printer, or other officer having the management of the State printing, any printing required by it; provided, that all orders for printing shall first be approved by the Board of Examiners.

Eighth-To adopt and use, in authentication of its acts, an official seal. Ninth-To keep a record of its proceedings.

Tenth-State educational diplomas may be issued to such persons only as have held for one year, and still hold in full force and effect a first grade, a grammar grade, or high school city, or county, or city and county certificate, and who shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching for at least five years. Every application for an educational diploma must be accompanied by a certified copy of a resolution adopted by a City or a County Board of Education, recommending that the same be granted. Said recommendation shall set forth specifically the places where, and the dates between which, the applicant has taught; and the applicant shall make affidavit to such specific statements to the State Board of Education. The term "five years "shall be construed to mean five years of not less than seven months each; that is, the applicant must have taught a part of each year for five years-not necessarily consecutive years-and in all thirtyfive months, of which at least twenty-one months must have been in the public schools of California.

Eleventh-Life diplomas may be issued upon all and the same conditions as educational diplomas, except that the applicant must furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching for at least ten years. Ten years shall be construed to mean ten years of not less than seven months each; that is, the applicant must have taught some part of each year for ten years—not necessarily consecutive years-and in all seventy months, of which at least three years, or twenty-one months, must have been in the public schools of California. Twelfth-To designate some educational monthly journal as the official organ of the Department of Public Instruction. One copy of the journal so designated shall be furnished by the County Superintendent to the Clerk of each Board of District Trustees, to be placed by him in the district library. The County Superintendent of Schools shall draw his warrant semi-annually in favor of the publishers of such school journal,

for a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents ($1 50) per district, for each school year, and charge the same to the Library Fund of the district; provided, that the publishers of such journal shall be required to file an affidavit with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before the tenth day of each month, stating that they have mailed one copy of said journal to the Clerk of each school district in the State. It is hereby made the duty of the Clerk of each Board of District Trustees, and the Secretary of each Board of Education, to place each number of such journal in the school library of his district, on or before the end of the month in which such number was issued.

1522. The actual traveling expenses of the members, incurred in attending the meetings of the Board, must be audited by the Controller, and paid out of the General Fund in the State Treasury.

ARTICLE II.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

SECTION 1532. Duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Subs. First, Second-To superintend schools and report biennially to Governor condition of schools.

Third-What tabular statements to accompany the report.

Fourth-To apportion State School Fund.

Fifth-To draw his order on Controller in favor of County Treasurer.
Sixth-To furnish school officers with all necessary blanks.

Seventh-To have school laws printed.

Eighth-To whom they shall be furnished.

Ninth To visit orphan asylums assisted by State money.

Tenth-To visit and examine into condition of schools of different counties.

Eleventh-Must authenticate with official seal, what.

Traveling expenses allowed and how paid.

Twelfth Certain documents in his office to be bound.
Thirteenth-To deliver property of office to his successor.

Fourteenth-Has power to call Convention of County Superintendents

biennially to discuss school questions.

Traveling expenses of County Superintendents to be paid.

1533. Must report to Controller each year total number of children in State between five and seventeen years of age.

1532. It is the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: First-To superintend the schools of this State.

Second-To report to the Governor, on or before the fifteenth day of December preceding each regular session of the Legislature, a statement of the condition of the State Normal Schools and other educational institutions supported by the State, and of the public schools.

Third-To accompany his report with tabular statements, showing the number of school children in the State; the number attending public school, and the average attendance; the number attending private schools, and the number not attending schools; the amount of State School Fund apportioned, and the sources from which derived; the amount raised by county and district taxes, or from other sources of revenue, for school purposes; and the amount expended for salaries of teachers, for building school houses, and for district school libraries. Fourth-To apportion the State School Fund. An abstract of such apportionment to be furnished to the Controller, State Board of Examiners, and each County Treasurer and County Superintendent.

Fifth-To draw his order on the Controller in favor of each County Treasurer, for school moneys apportioned to the county.

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