County Superintendents are Secretaries of their respective County Boards of Education.

CITY SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.

Recommendations for Certificates on examination may be made as

(a) Grammar School Certificates-to those who obtain on examination an average of 85 per cent in the following subjects:

(2) To holders of San Francisco City and County Primary Grade Certifi cates, who obtain on examination an average of 85 per cent in the following subjects:

English and American Literature.

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Scope-English, one of requirements for entrance to Uni-
versity of California.

(b) Special Certificates-(1) To those who obtain 85 per cent on examination in the subject for which a special certificate is desired and shall satisfy the Board of Examination of their proficiency in English Grammar, Orthography and Defining, and Methods of Teaching; provided, that the test of proficiency in the subjects of English Grammar, Orthography and Defining and Methods of Teaching shall be one in which the applicant will be required to write as he would present the matter to a class the directions which he believes should be followed by pupils in accomplishing tasks pertaining to the subject in which he desires to be certificated; and provided further, that all tests of proficiency as herein referred to be heard or read and voted upon by the full Board of Examination; and that the sufficiency of the results secured by the applicant be satisfactory to the majority of the Board of Examination in order to pass such applicant; (2) to those who are holders of regular city and county certificates and who obtain 85 per cent on examination in the subject for which a special certificate is desired.

(b) 2. "The speed test in stenography for a special teachers' certificate in stenography and typewriting shall consist of the writing of new matter dictated by the examiner at the rate of 110 words per minute for five consecutive minutes, and of the transcription of the same accurately upon the typewriter.''

For passing, there shall be required a rating of 85% in the correctness of the transcripts under the following rules of marking:

STENOGRAPHY.

From 100

Deduct

For each word omitted, added, substituted, or misspelled, or for the use of the singular instead of the plural, or of the plural instead of the singular when the grammatical correctness is affected..

For each transposition....

For each gross error in capitalization or punctuation; for each error in division of words; for each word repeated; for each failure to use the hyphen when required; for each abbreviation; or for the use of the plural for the singular, or of the singular for the plural, when the grammatical correctness is not affected..

For interlineations, erasures and lack of neatness...

3

2

1 1-5

TYPEWRITING.

The speed test in typewriting shall consist of the copying of 400 to 500 words from plain copy at an average speed of not less than 40 words per minute. The transcript shall be corrected in accordance with the following rules, and 85% shall be required for passing in this test:

For writing one line over another........

From 100 Deduct 10

For each error in orthography; for each word or figure omitted, provided, that a deduction of 10 shall be made for the omission of two or more consecutive words if the words omitted do not constitute more than one printed line of the copy, and that a deduction of 20 shall be made for the omission of two printed lines, or more than one line, etc.; for each word added, substituted, or repeated; for each transposition; for each abbreviation not in copy; for each failure to capitalize or to punctuate as in copy; for each deviation from copy in paragraphing (maximum for the exercise 10); for failure to indent as in copy (only one charge to be made in the exercise); for each error in compounding words, or vice versa...

For each case of inconsistent spacing between lines.

For each space between the letters of a word; for crowding letters in a
word; for lack of space between words; for striking a letter instead
of space bar; for unfinished word due to coming to end of line when
word is rewritten on next line; for striking letters in a line over band
holding paper, thus making no impression on sheet, or for piling let-
ters on sheet, or for piling letters over each other at the end of a line
when all the letters are decipherable, or for running off paper on right
or left margin (maximum for the exercise 10).
For each case of irregulariay in left-hand margin, or of gross irregularity
in right-hand margin (maximum for the exercise in each case, 5); for
each strike-over; for the misdivision of a word at end of line; for
each omission of a hyphen, when needed, at end of line; for extra
space between words (maximum for exercise, 5); for each case of
inconsistent spacing after punctuation marks; for each word inter-
lined (maximum for a single interlineation of five or more words, 5);
for each erasure (maximum for the exercise, 5)..

For lack of neatness.

For each error not specified above...

5

3

2

1

1-5

1-5

(c) Special certificates may be issued in the following subjects:

Bookkeeping.*

Cookery.

Domestic Science (Cookery and Sewing combined).

Mechanical Drawing.

Architectural Drawing.

Free-hand Drawing.

Free-hand Drawing and Clay Modeling (correlative and combined).
Free-hand Drawing and Wood Carving (correlative and combined).

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6.

Naval Architectural Drawing.

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8.

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10.

11.

Iron Work.

Sloyd.

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19.

Physical Culture.

Penmanship.

Stenography and Typewriting (combined).

Manual Training-including as many of subjects 4 to 12 (both inclusive) as may be indorsed on the certificate of the applicant upon legal proof of competency to teach the same.

Navigation.

Such other subjects as may be authorized by the City and County
Board of Education.

*An applicant for a special certificate in bookkeeping shall, in addition to the other conditions imposed, also pass an examination in Commercial Arithmetic and Commercial Law. (Scope-Bookkeeping, Williams & Rogers complete course; Elements of Business Law, Huffcut; Practical Business Arithmetic, Moore & Miner.

Sec. 10. An applicant for a grammar school certificate who fails to obtain at least 60 per cent in Arithmetic (if required), or in Grammar, or in Orthography and Defining, will be barred from further examination.

Sec. 11. The texts to be used as standard in the examinations shall be as follows:

Composition-Brooks & Hubbard.

Methods of Teaching-Sweet or White, McMurry.

Algebra-Wells Secondary.

Physics Coleman, Millikan & Gale.

Geometry-Beman & Smith; New, Plane, and Solid.

History and Civics-Meyers-Medieval and Modern.

West-Ancient World.

Ashley-American Government.

Literature-English, one of entrance requirements to University of Cali

fornia.

Other Subjects-California State Series (if issued).

Sec. 12. The papers containing the written answers of candidates must be preserved by the Secretary of the City and County Board of Examination, or his successors, for at least one year after the close of the examination.

Sec. 13. Papers of candidates for certificates shall be examined by no person or persons other than the members of the City and County Board of Examination; provided, that in special subjects a member of the Board of Examination shall have authority to procure the assistance of competent persons, whose work shall be subject to the supervision of a member or members of the Board of Examination.

RENEWAL OF CERTIFICATES.

Sec. 14. (a) Evidence of good moral character shall be required from applicants for renewal of certificates, unless such applicants are teaching in the public schools of San Francisco, or are personally known to members of this board.

(b) Members of the San Francisco School Department must present, upon application for renewal of certificates, a recommendation from their principals or from the Superintendent or one of his deputies.

PERMANENT CERTIFICATES.

Sec. 15. Applicants for permanent certificates of any kind or grade must make affidavit before the Secretary of this board setting forth in detail (1) the amount and grade of their experience in the public schools of the City and County of San Francisco, and (2) the kind and grade of the certificate or State diploma held by the applicant.

Sec. 16. In computing the five years' experience required for a permanent certificate, evidence of the receipt of sixty full months of compensation for services as teacher in the school department of this city and county shall be sufficient.

REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATES.

Sec. 17. No recommendation to the City and County Board of Education for the revocation of any certificate shall be made except on the following conditions:

(a) Complaints under subdivision four of section seventeen hundred and ninety-one of the Political Code of California must be in writing, signed by the complainant, and filed with the Secretary of this board.

(b) Such complaints shall specifically state, in detail, the facts upon which the certificate should be revoked.

(c) Such complaints must be accompanied by a list of the witnesses personally cognizant of the separate facts stated in the complaint, together with their addresses and also by a reference to all such documentary evidence pertinent to said charges as may be within the knowledge of the complainant.

LIFE DIPLOMAS AND STATE EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS.

Sec. 18. Applicants for State Life Diplomas or Educational Documents must make affidavit before the Secretary of this board setting forth such facts as may be required by the State Board of Education.

FEES.

Sec. 19. (a) Applicants for certificates (except temporary or permanent certificates to be granted on State Life or Educational Diplomas) or for State Diplomas must deposit with the Secretary, at the time of application, a fee of two dollars.

(b) Applicants for State University or State Normal Documents must deposit with the Secretary, at the time of application, a fee of one dollar and twenty-five cents.