Public Education in the City of New York: Its History, Condition, and Statistics |
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Page 196 - The board of education shall have power to remove from office any school officer who shall have been directly or indirectly interested in the furnishing of any supplies or materials, or in the doing of any work or labor, or in the sale or leasing of any real estate, or in any proposal, agreement or contract for any of these purposes, in any case in which the price or consideration is to be paid, in whole or in part...
Page 116 - York, for the education of such" poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by any religious Society...
Page 197 - York," passed July third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, so as to be and remain, pursuant to the provisions of this act, an integral portion thereof, and then and thereby the said Society shall be dissolved, and then and from thenceforth the common schools in the city of New York shall be numbered consecutively by the Board of Education.
Page 149 - Vice-Principals by the Board of Education, upon the written nomination of a majority of the Trustees of the Ward, stating that the nomination was agreed to at a meeting of the Board of Trustees at which a majority of the whole number in office were present.
Page 192 - York," passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, shall approve of and report to the Board of Supervisors all appropriations submitted to the said Commissioners by the Board of Education, within twenty days after such submission is made, by the delivery of a statement of the appropriations required by the Board of Education, to the...
Page 193 - Senate, the members of which shall hold office for the term of three years from and after the first day of February...
Page 177 - TRUSTEE!. § 10. It shall be the duty of the trustees for each ward, and they shall have the power: 1. To have the safe keeping of all the premises and other property used for or belonging to the ward schools and the ward primaries in their respective wards; 2. Under such general rules and regulations as the board of education may adopt...
Page 18 - ... golden apples to divert from the direct course in this race. Schoolboy Hippomenes, espied and pursued by charmer Atalanta ; he encumbered with his satchel, still striving to outrun, and, to add to his speed, bending forward, thereby giving the requisite roundness to the space between the shoulders ; she too swift afoot for him, and overtaking him, and three or four strokes briskly and smartly laid on ; he, to avoid a further repetition, stopping and turning ; she looking him steadfast in the...
Page 200 - Society shall cease, and their schools be merged in the system of public instruction provided by the act entitled " An Act to Amend, Consolidate, and Reduce to One Act the Various Acts Relative to the Common Schools of the City of New York...
Page 172 - ... each borough. The said board of education may by its by-laws confer upon said committee power to perform any of the administrative powers of the board. It shall be the duty of said executive committee to perform such duties as the board of education may by by-law prescribe. The board of education may, at any regular meeting thereof, by a majority of all the members of the board, remove any or all the members of the said committee, and appoint other members of the board to the vacancies thus created....