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Sec. 2630-c. Validation authorized. The state educational board of examiners is hereby empowered to validate certificates issued by state departments of education in other states, where such certificates were issued upon evidence of scholarship and experience equivalent to that required for like certificates under the laws of this state. Such validated certificate shall authorize the holder to teach in any public school in the state for five years after date of such validation. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 1; 32 G. A., ch. 149.]

Note: Certificates on college graduation. Sections 2634-f to 2634-h.

Sec. 2631. How long valid-revocation-fees. A state certificate shall authorize the holder to teach in any public school in the state for five years thereafter, and a diploma shall confer such authority for life; but any certificate or diploma may be revoked by the board for sufficient cause, or such cause as would, if known at the time, have prevented issuance thereof, provided the holder of such certificate or diploma shall have due notice, and shall be allowed to be present and make his defense. For each certificate issued the applicant shall pay two dollars, and for each diploma five dollars, which may be required before the examination is commenced. All monies obtained from this source shall be paid into the state treasury. [32 G. A., ch. 6, § 3; 19 G. A., ch. 167, §§ 5, 6.]

Notes: 1. Subjects for which valid. Holders of any valid license, not a special certificate, may teach any subject prescribed in the curriculum, whether the holder was examined in such subject. Attorney-general, report 1906, page 42. (For validity of special state certificates, see section 2630-b.) 2. No exemption. The fact that a teacher holds a state certificate, or a state diploma, does not in any way exempt him from the same obligations imposed by the law upon other teachers. It is the duty of all teachers to attend the county normal institute and to support the county superintendent in all measures calculated to improve the schools, and to advance the interests of education in the county.

3. Registration of certificates. All certificates and diplomas must be registered in each county in which the holder desires to teach. Section 2734-q.

Sec. 2632. Repeal. There is hereby repealed sections twenty-six hundred thirty-two (2632) twenty-seven hundred thirty-four (2734), twenty-seven hundred thirty-five (2735), twenty-seven hundred thirtysix (2736), twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven (2737) of the code, and sections twenty-seven hundred thirty-four (2734), twenty-seven hundred thirty-six (2736), twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven (2737) of the supplement to the code, and following enacted in lieu thereof:

Sec. 2633. Account of moneys. The board shall keep an accurate and detailed account of all money received and expended, which, with a list of those receiving certificates or diplomas, shall be published by the superintendent of public instruction in his annual report. [19 G. A., ch. 167, § 9.]

Sec. 2634-a. Repeal-compensation-secretary-employes-salaries. That section twenty-six hundred thirty-four-a (2634-a) of the supplement to the code be, and the same is hereby, repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

"Each member of the board shall receive for the time actually employed in such service, his actual necessary expenses, and those not salaried officers or employes of the state or any institution thereof shall be paid in addition three ($3.00) dollars per day. The board shall have power to employ a secretary and prescribe his duties. He shall receive a salary not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars per month and actual necessary expenses while engaged in the performance of his duties at places other than the capitol. The board shall have power to employ such persons as are necessary to assist in examinations and in reading answer papers and for clerical work and other necessary assistance. Persons so employed shall receive, not to exceed fifty cents per hour for the time actually employed and actual traveling expenses to and from the place where their services are required. All expenditures authorized to be made under the provisions of chapter two (2) of title thirteen (XIII) of the code and of the supplement to the code and amendments thereto and under the provisions of chapter one hundred and twenty-two (122), acts of the thirty-first general assembly and under the provisions of this act shall be certified by the chairman of the educational board of examiners to the executive council for payment. If found correct the executive council shall cause same to be paid from any funds paid into the state treasury under the provisions of section twenty-six hundred thirty-one (2631) of the code and chapter one hundred twenty-two (122), acts of the thirty-first general assembly and amendments thereto." [32 G. A., ch. 6, § 4; 27 G. A., ch. 11; 25 G. A., ch. 36; 19 G. A., ch. 167, § 8.1

Note: For the convenience of school people the department of public instruction has given numbers to sections 2634-b-2634-b6.

Sec. 2634-a1. Printing. This act shall be construed as giving legal authority to the educational board of examiners to obtain all the necessary printing for the performance of their duties, as required by law, in the same manner as the printing is provided for state officers. [Same, § 5.1

NORMAL TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS.

Sec. 2634-b. Repeal. Section twenty-six hundred and thirty-four-b (2634-b), twenty-six hundred and thirty-four-c (2634-c), and twentysix hundred and thirty-four-d (2634-d), of the supplement to the code of 1907, are hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-c. Normal courses in certain high schools. For the purpose of increasing the facilities for training teachers for the rural schools, by requiring a review of such common branches as may be deemed essential by the superintendent of public instruction and for instruction in elementary pedagogy and the art of teaching elementary agriculture and home economics, provision is hereby made for normal courses of study and training in the eleventh and twelfth grades in such accredited four year high schools as the superintendent of public

instruction may designate, provided that such high schools shall be selected and distributed with regard to their usefulness in supplying trained teachers for the rural schools of all portions of the state and with regard to the number of teachers required for the rural schools in each portion of the state. It is further provided that where a county high school or a township high school can meet the requirements of the superintendent of public instruction, it shall be given preference over a city high school. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Notes: 1. Private and denominational schools are eligible to qualify under this law but may not receive financial aid.

2. Private and denominational schools, in order to be eligible to the provisions of this act, must maintain a course that is equivalent to that maintained in a four-year high school.

3. A class of ten enrolled in the normal course may be composed in part from those enrolled in the eleventh grade, and in part from those enrolled in the twelfth grade.

Sec. 2634-d. Private and denominational schools. Private and denominational schools are eligible to the provisions of this act, except as to receiving state aid. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-d1. State aid-reports-limitations. Each high school approved under the provisions of this act shall receive state aid to the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per annum, payable in two equal installments at the close of each semester as hereinafter provided. The superintendent of each approved training school shall at the close of each semester file such report with the superintendent of public instruction as said officer may require. Upon receipt of a satisfactory report the superintendent of public instruction shall issue a requisition upon the auditor of state for the amount due the school corporation of said high school for said semester, whereupon the auditor of state shall draw a warrant on the state treasury payable to said school corporation for the amount of said requisition and forward the same to the secretary of said school corporation.

It is further provided that in case more than one high school in any county shall be approved under the provisions of this act that the total state aid distributed in such county shall not exceed eight hundred dollars ($800.00) to be divided equally among said high schools.

No high school shall be approved as entitled to state aid unless a class of ten (10) or more shall have been organized, maintained and instructed during the preceding semester in accordance with the provisions of this act and the regulations of the superintendent of public instruction. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-d2. Inspector-salary-traveling expenses. The appropriation provided by this act for instruction of pupils in high schools in the science and practice of rural school teaching and the teaching of elementary agriculture and home economics, may be expended in part for inspection and supervision of such instruction by the superintendent of public instruction and by such person as he may designate, and the expense of such inspection and supervision shall be paid out of said appropriation on vouchers certified by the superintendent of pub

lic instruction. In accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section, the superintendent of public instruction is authorized to appoint an inspector of normal training in high schools and private and denominational schools at a salary of not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year and necessary traveling expenses while in the discharge of his duties. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-d3. State superintendent to prescribe conditions of admission, etc. The superintendent of public instruction shall prescribe the conditions of admission to the normal training classes, the course of instruction, the rules and regulations under which such instruction shall be given and the requirements for graduation subject to the provisions of this act. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-d4. Examinations for graduation-fees. On the first Friday in February and the Wednesday and Thursday immediately preceding and on the second Friday in May and the Wednesday and Thursday immediately preceding, each year, in each high school approved under this act, an examination for graduation from the normal training course shall be conducted under such rules as the state board of examiners shall prescribe, but the county superintendent of the county in which an approved high school may be located shall be designated as the conductor of said examination.

Each applicant for a certificate of graduation shall pay a fee of one dollar ($1.00), one-half of which shall be paid into the state treasury on or before the first day of the succeeding month, and one-half of which shall be paid into the county institute of the county wherein the examination is held. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-d5. Certificate of graduation. A certificate of graduation from the normal training course provided for in this act shall be issued by the superintendent of public instruction and shall be a valid license. to teach in any public school in the state for a term of two years, subject to registration as provided for other teachers' certificates. After thirty-six weeks of successful teaching experience, which shall be certified by the county superintendent of the county under whose supervision the applicant may have taught, any person holding a normal training certificate issued under the provisions of this act shall receive a uniform county certificate of such grade as the requirements governing the issuance of uniform county certificates would entitle said person to receive. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-d6. Appropriation. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars ($25,000), available for the period ending July 1, 1912, and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) annually thereafter. [34 G. A., ch. 131.]

Sec. 2634-e. Sworn statement. At the close of each school year, the principal or superintendent of each accredited school shall file with the board of examiners a sworn statement, showing the name, age, postoffice address, studies and attendance of each of the students

in his school taking the prescribed teachers' course. [29 G. A., ch. 115, $ 4.]

Sec. 2634-f. Graduates from accredited colleges. That the state educational board of examiners may accept graduation from the regular and collegiate courses in the state university, state normal schools, and the state college of agriculture and mechanic arts, and from other institutions of higher learning in the state having regular and collegiate courses of equal rank, as evidence that a teacher possesses the scholarship and professional fitness for a state certificate. [32 G. A., ch. 148, § 1.]

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Sec. 2634-g. State certificates granted. That in all cases where such graduation shows the extent and quality of scholarship that is required by section twenty-six hundred and twenty-nine (2629) of the supplement to the code, and when the teacher possesses a good moral character and satisfies the board of being professionally qualified, there shall be granted by said board of examiners a state certificate valid for five years to teach in any public school in the state. [32 G. A., ch, 148, § 2.]

Note: Certificates. By examination, sections 2629, 2630-b. On Certificates from other states, 2630-c.

Sec. 2634-h. Renewal. All certificates referred to in section twentysix hundred twenty-nine (2629), twenty-six hundred thirty-b (2630-b), twenty-six hundred thirty-e (2630-c), twenty-six hundred thirty-four-f (2634-f), and twenty-six hundred thirty-four-g (2634-g), of the supplement to the code, 1907, shall be renewed for life by the state board of educational examiners upon the payment of a fee of five dollars ($5.00) and proof of at least five years' successful teaching, three of which shall have been during the time the said certificate (with renewals) has been in force. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 3; 32 G. A., ch. 148, §3.] Sec. 2734-a. Repeal. There is hereby repealed sections twenty-six hundred thirty-two (2632), twenty-seven hundred thirty-four (2734), twenty-seven hundred thirty-five (2735), twenty-seven hundred thirtysix (2736), twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven (2737) of the code, and sections twenty-seven hundred thirty-four (2734), twenty-seven hundred thirty-six (2736), twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven (2737) of the supplement to the code, and the following enacted in lieu thereof. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 1.]

Sec. 2734-b. County superintendent qualifications-deputy. The county superintendent, who may be of either sex, shall be the holder of a first grade certificate as provided for in this act, or a state certificate or a life diploma, and shall, during his term, be ineligible to the office of any school director or member of the board of supervisors If for any cause he is unable to attend to his official duties, he may appoint a deputy, who may act in his stead, except in visiting schools and trying appeals. He shall serve as the organ of communication between the superintendent of public instruction and school township, district or independent district authorities, and transmit to them or the teachers thereof all blanks, circulars or other communications designed for them. He shall visit the different schools in his county

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