cipal of the school a declaration that he enters the school to fit himself for teaching, and that it is his intention to engage in teaching in the public schools of this state, or in the state or territory where the applicant resides. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 77; took effect immediately.] Sections 1498, 1499, and 1500 were repealed by act approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 79; took effect immediately. 1501. Principal to make annual report. SEC. 1501. The principal of the school must make a detailed annual report to the board of trustees, with a catalogue of the pupils, and such other particulars as the board may require or he may think useful. 1502. To attend county institutes. SEC. 1502. He must also attend county institutes, and lecture before them on subjects relating to public schools and the profession of teaching. 1503. Diplomas and certificates, when to issue. SEC. 1503. Upon the recommendation of the faculty of the school, the board of trustees may issue to those who worthily complete the full course of study and training prescribed a diploma of graduation. To the persons receiving this diploma, the state board of examination shall grant a first-grade state certificate. In like manner they shall issue to those who worthily complete the post-graduate course a professional diploma. To the persons receiving this diploma, the state board of examination shall grant an educational diploma. And they may, at their discretion, issue an elementary diploma to those who worthily complete such part of the course of study and training as may be prescribed. To the persons receiving this diploma, the state board of education shall grant a second-grade state certificate. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 77; took effect immediately.] State board of examination abolished: Sec. 1757, post. 1504. Secretary of board of trustees. SEC. 1504. The board of trustees shall have power to appoint a secretary, who shall receive no compensation. A full record of all the proceedings of the board of trustees shall be kept at the school, and shall be open to public inspection. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 78; took effect immediately.] 1505. Supervision by superintendent of public instruction. SEC. 1505. The superintendent of public instruction must visit the school from time to time, inquire into its condition and management, enforce the rules and regulations made by the board, require such reports as he deems proper from the teachers of the school, and exercise a general supervision over the same. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 78; took effect immediately.] 1506. Biennial appropriation to be made. SEC. 1506. The sum of twenty-four thousand dollars must be appropriated biennially, out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, one half of which appropriation must be set apart at the commencement of each fiscal year to support the state normal school. Whenever, at the close of any fiscal year, a balance remains to the credit of the state normal school fund, such balance must be carried forward and added to the appropriation for the succeeding year. 1507. Orders on controller, how drawn. SEC. 1507. All orders upon the controller of state by the board of trustees must be signed by the president of the board, and countersigned by the secretary. Upon presentation of the order aforesaid, signed and countersigned as aforesaid, the controller of state must draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the board of trustees for the moneys, or any part thereof, appropriated and set apart for the support of the normal school, and the treasurer must pay such warrant on presentation. [Amendments, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 78; took effect immediately.] The following acts in relation to the state normal school may here be referred to: An Act to provide for finishing the state normal school building and paying the indebtedness incurred in the construction thereof. [Approved March 29, 1872; 1871–2, 669.] This act, as its title imports, provided for the completion of the state normal school building at San José. An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of apparatus for the state normal school. [Approved March 23, 1874; 1873-4, 518.] This act appropriated three thousand dollars for the purpose indicated in the title. An Act to appropriate money to complete the state normal school building, and for the improving of the grounds. [Approved March 25, 1874; 1873-4, 603.] This act appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose indicated. An Act to appropriate the sum of thirteen thousand dollars to make certain repairs on the state normal school and to provide furniture therefor, and also to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh fiscal years, for said school. [Approved March 25, 1876; 1875-6, 482.] This act appropriated thirteen thousand dollars for the purposes indicated in its title. An Act to provide for the erection of a building for the use of the normal school. By this act one hundred thousand dollars was appropriated for the rebuilding of the normal school at San José, which had been An Act to provide for the improvement of normal school square in the city of San José. This act appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose indicated. An Act establishing an branch normal school at Los Angeles. See note to sec. 1488, ante. An Act appropriating money for the completion of the branch normal school building at Los Angeles, and for the improvement of the grounds about the same. [Approved March 13, 1883; 1883, 281.] Eleven thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose indicated. 270 VII. BOARDS Of Trustees of SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CITY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. 1613 XX. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO SCHOOL FUNDS AND TAXES. 1830 1857 1867 ARTICLE I. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 1517. State board of education, how constituted. governor, the super SEC. 1517. The state board of education consists of the intendent of public instruction, and the principal of the state normal school. [Amendment, approved April 7, 1880; Amendments 1880, 28 (Ban. ed. 131); took effect immediately.] See Const. Cal., art. 9. 1518. Organization of. SEO. 1518. The governor is the president, and the superintendent of public instruction the secretary, of the board. 1519. Concurrence of a majority of all members necessary. SEO. 1519. A concurrence of a majority of all the members is necessary to the validity of any act of the board. 1520. Meetings of. SEC. 1520. The board meets at the call of the secretary, and not less than twice in each year. 1521. General powers and duties. SEO. 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 the course of study in the public schools. 1. Educational diplomas, valid for six years; and, 2. Life diplomas. Sixth-To revoke, for immoral conduct, or evident unfitness for teaching, life diplomas, educational diplomas, and state certificates heretofore issued. Seventh-To have done by the state printer, or other officer having the management of the state printing, any printing required by it. Eighth-To adopt and use, in the authentication of its acts, an official seal. Ninth-To keep a record of its proceedings. Tenth-State educational diplomas must be issued to such persons only as have held a first-grade state, city, or county, or city and county, certificate for at least one year, and 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 local or county board of education, recommending that the same be granted. Eleventh-Life diplomas must 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. Twelfth-To designate some educational monthly journal as the official organ of the department of public instruction. One copy of journal so designated shall be furnished by the county superintendent to the clerk of each board of district trustees, to be by him placed in the district library. The county superintendent of schools shall draw his warrant semiannually in favor of the publishers of such school journal, and charge the same to the library fund of the district; provided, that the sum so drawn shall in no case exceed one dollar and fifty cents per annum for each school district. [Amendment, approved April 7, 1880; Amendments 1880, 28 (Ban. ed. 132); took effect immediately.] Power to adopt text-books under Const. Cal., art. 9, sec. 7, considered and affirmed in People v. Board of Education, 55 Cal. 331. Compare with section 1874. Under the law of Nevada, the state board may rescind its action in prescribing a series of school-books, if the various school districts have not adopted such books: State v. State Board of Education, 1 West Coast Rep. 403. An Act to provide for compiling, illustrating, electrotyping, printing, binding, copyrighting, and distributing a state series of school text-books, and appropriating money therefor. SECTION 1. The state board of education shall compile, or cause to be compiled, for use in the common schools of the state, a series of school text-books of the following description, viz.: Three (3) readers, one (1) speller, one (1) arithmetic, one (1) grammar, one (1) history of the United States, and one (1) geography. The matter contained in the readers shall consist of lessons commencing with the simplest expressions of the language, and, by a regular gradation, advancing to and including the highest styles of composition, both in prose and poetry. Compilers of same. SEC. 2. The state board of education shall employ well-qualified persons to compile the books mentioned in section one of this act, and shall fix the remuneration for the services thus rendered; provided, that if competent authors shall compile any one or more works of the first order of excellence, and shall offer the same as a free gift to the people of the state, together with the copyright of the same, and the exclusive right to manufacture and sell such works within the state of California, it shall be the duty of the state board of education to accept such gift, and to expend no money for the purpose of compiling works relating to the subjects treated of in the books thus donated. The state board of education shall furnish to the superintendent of state printing designs for all cuts and engravings to be used in the said series of text-books. Printing and binding. SEC. 3. The printing of all the text-books provided for in section one of this act, and all the mechanical work connected therewith, shall be done by and under the supervision of the superintendent of state printing at the state printing-office; provided, that the purchase of paper for the school-books, and the card-boards, cloth, and leather for covers, shall be procured by advertising PUBLIC SCHOOLS. § 1522 for proposals to furnish the same, in the manner now provided for by section five hundred and thirty-two of the Political Code, relating to paper supplies for the state printing-office; and provided further, that when the state has its bindery in operation, all folding, stitching, binding, and ruling of the state shall be done in the state bindery; but the accounts of the school-book binding shall be kept separate from those of all other binding. Copyrights. SEC. 4. The state board of education shall secure copyrights to all the books that shall be compiled under the provisions of this act, and shall protect said copyrights from all infringe ment. Order for uniform use. SEC. 5. Whenever any one or more of the state series of school text-books shall have been compiled and adopted, the state board of education shall issue an order requiring the uniform use of said book or books in the common schools of the state; but said order for the uniform use of said book or books shall not take effect till the expiration of at least one year from the time of the completion of the electrotype plates of said book or books. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any county or school district from adopting any one or more of the state series of school text-books whenever said book or books shall have been published. Distributing text-books. SEC. 6. The process of distribution of the text-books shall follow this course: The county superintendents of schools shall make such requisitions for books as the schools under their jurisdiction may require, upon the state superintendent of public instruction; the state superintendent of public instruction shall then make requisition for the same on the superintendent of state printing, who shall ship the books to their destination. All requisitions from county school superintendents for books shall be accompanied by the cash price fixed for the same by the state board of education, and the state superintendent of public instruction shall make no requisition for books upon the superintendent of state printing unless he shall have received the lawful price for the same. And it shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction to report to the state controller on or before the fifth day of every month, the number of books sold by him during the preceding month, and to pay the moneys received for the same into the state treasury. It shall also be the duty of the superintendent of state printing to make a monthly report to the state controller of the number and value of the books shipped by him on the order of the state superintendent of public instruction, and the number and value of the finished books on hand. Fund for counties' purchase of books. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the counties, or cities and counties, in this state, to provide a revolving fund, for the purpose of enabling the county school superin.. tendents to purchase the state text-books; all moneys to be taken therefrom to be replaced by the moneys received from the teachers of the common schools in the several counties for the books furnished by them to the scholars. Appropriation for compilations. SEC. 8. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of compiling, or causing to be compiled, the series of text-books for the common schools, as set forth in section one of this act. The appropriation provided for in this section shall be subject to the order of the state board of education; provided, that all demands against said appropriation shall first be approved by said state board of education and presented to the state board of examiners in itemized form for their approval; and upon the approval of the state board of examiners, the controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the payment of said demands, and the state treasurer is authorized to pay the same. Appropriation for presses, types, etc. SEC. 9. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to purchase the necessary machinery, presses, types, bindery, electrotyping apparatus, and such other material as may be required in the manufacture of the text-books provided for in section one of this act, as well as to pay the salaries or wages of the compositors, binders, and other persons to be employed in such manufacture; provided, that the state board of education shall first approve the style of printing, engravings, and illustrations, kind of paper, size, and binding of volumes; said sum to be drawn by the superintendent of state printing in the same manner as provided in subdivision four of section five hundred and twenty-six of the Political Code. Books to be sold at cost. SEC. 10. The school books published under the provisions of this act shall be furnished to the common-school children of the state at cost, the same to be ascertained and fixed by the state board of education at the beginning of each school year. SEC. 11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 1522. Traveling expenses. SEO. 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. POL. CODE-18 |