CHAPTER 15 (House Bill No. 24-Mr. Knight.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact section eighty of chapter two of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, regular session, relating to normal training in high schools. [Passed April 13, 1921. In effect ninety days from passage. Became a law without the approval of the Governor.] SEC. 80. Normal training in high schools; teachers therefor; state board of education to prescribe course of study for; number and qualification of teachers; state aid for. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That section eighty of chapter two of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, regular session, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Normal Training in High Schools-State Aid. Section 80. Whenever in the judgment of any county high school 2 board or of any county, district or independent district board of 3 education in whose district a high school is maintained, it is ad4 visable to provide for the better training of the teachers in the 5 elementary schools of its county or district, such county high school 6 board, district board of education or independent district board 7 of education shall have the authority to establish and maintain a 8 normal training department in connection with any high school 9 under its control, to provide necessary rooms, furniture, equipment 10 and supplies and to employ teachers therefor. 11 It shall be the duty of the state board of education to pre12 scribe a course of study for such normal training departments, to 13 determine the number and qualifications of teachers to be em14 ployed therein, and to establish such other regulations and require15 ments for their conduct as they may deem best; and when a normal 16 training department has been established in any high school in 17 accordance with the regulations and requirements of the state board 18 of education and has been approved by said board, such high 19 school shall be designated and known as a normal training high 20 school. The state board of education shall on or before the first 21 day of October annually, report the number and location of high 22 schools approved by it as normal training high schools, to the 23 state superintendent of schools. Normal training high schools so 24 approved shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the state aid 25 now provided by law for classified high schools, the sum of one 26 thousand dollars annually, the same to be paid out of the appro27 priation for classified high schools at the time and in the manner 28 prescribed by law for the payment of state aid to classified high 29 schools, and to be used for the maintenance of normal training 30 departments of such high schools and for no other purpose; 31 provided, however, that not more than twenty high schools in the 32 state shall receive aid as normal training schools at one time; and 33 provided, further, that such state aid shall not be given in support 34 of any such normal training department of any high school located 35 in any county in which a state normal school or other state school 36 maintaining such normal training course is located. CHAPTER 16 (Senate Bill No. 31-Mr. Harmer.) AN ACT to amend chapter forty-five of the code, as amended by chapter two of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, regular session, by adding thereto section one hundred and eighty-four-a, by which to enable boards of education to lay levies for school purposes. [Passed April 8, 1921. In effect ninety days from passage. Approved by the Governor April 19, 1921.] SEC. 184-a. School levy; authorized by vote of political division affected; again submit question of school levy upon petition of voters. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : That chapter forty-five of the code as amended by chapter two of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, regular session, be and is hereby amended by adding thereto section one hundred and eighty-four-a. to read as follows: Section 184-a. For the purpose of providing for a levy for 2 the support of free schools in every county, district or independ3 ent school district of this state, the question of authorizing a levy 4 for school purposes shall be submitted to the voters thereof at 5 the general election held on Tuesday after the first Monday in 6 November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two; and 7 the board of ballot commissioners of each county are hereby 8 required to prepare separate ballots from that of the official bal 9 lot to be voted at said election and shall have printed thereon 10 the following: 11 12 13 Ballot on school Levy [ ] For School Levy [ ] Against School Levy 14 The several officers conducting the said general election at 15 each place of voting shall conduct the election on the question 16 of school levy and canvass and certify the result thereof to the 17 commissioners of the county court in the same manner, as far 18 as applicable, as they are required to conduct and certify the 19 result of the said general election; and the county court shall 20 promptly certify the result of the election on the question of 21 school levy to the board of education of each district or inde22 pendent school district in the county; and the said certificate 23 shall be entered by the secretary, as a part of the minutes or rec24 ords of the board of education. 25 If a majority of the ballots cast at said general election in 26 any district or independent school district be in favor of school 27 levy, the board of education of such district shall annually there28 after levy for the support of schools in their district in the man29 ner provided by law for school levies until such time as an elec30 tion may be again held on the question of school levy as herein31 after provided. 32 The board of education of any district or independent school 33 district, shall upon petition of forty per cent of the registered 34 voters, as shown by the last registration of the district or inde35 pendent school district, again submit the question of school levy 36 to the voters of such district, the election to be held as provided 37 in section one hundred and eighty-four of this chapter and this 38 act, as far as practicable. CHAPTER 17 (Senate Bill No. 292-Mr. Hager.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact section fifty-six of chapter two of the acts of the legislature of the regular session of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, relating to the appointment and qualifications of district supervisors of free schools. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That section fifty-six of chapter two of the acts of the legislature of the regular session of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: May Appoint District Supervisors. Section 56. The board of education of every district in the 2 state shall have authority to appoint for its district a district. 3 supervisor of schools and to fix his salary. The salary of a dis4 trict supervisor shall be paid monthly out of the teacher's fund 5 of the district. Said board may, subject to the written approval 6 of the county superintendent of schools, appoint one or more as7 sistant district supervisors in districts in which fifty or more 8 principals and teachers are employed. 9 Provided, further, that the board of education of any district 10 may employ a district supervisor for as many months longer than 11 the regular school term as may be necessary for him to supervise 12 the construction of new buildings, the repairing of old buildings, 13 the improvement of school grounds, and to do such other work as 14 may be approved by the board. Said board may also co-operate 15 with the extension division of the college of agriculture of West 16 Virginia university in employing the district supervisor or an17 other person as agricultural club agent for the organization and 18 direction of boys' and girls' agricultural clubs in the district; 19 but any district supervisor so appointed shall be under the au20 thority and direction of the board of education of the district. 21 and he shall in no case neglect the work of supervising the schools 22 and of performing his other duties as district supervisor. It is 23 provided, further, that two or more districts in the same county. 24 or in adjoining counties may appoint a district supervisor jointly, 25 the apportionment of the salary and of the time of such super26 visor to be arranged according to the number of schools in each 27 district. 28 Commencing with the year one thousand nine hundred and 29 twenty and one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, no per30 son shall be eligible for appointment as district supervisor who 31 does not hold a valid supervisor's certificate or its equivalent as 32 defined by the state board of education and who is not also a 33 graduate of a standard normal school or who has not had other 34 academic and professional training approved by the state board. 35 of education as equivalent in all respects to graduation from a 36 standard normal school; provided, that any person holding a first 37 grade teacher's certificate, who has had successful experience in 38 supervising schools, and who shall attend a state normal school, 38-a or some other school approved by the state board of education, 39 for a period of six weeks in each year, may upon the recom40 mendation of the state board of education, be granted by the state 41 superintendent a provisional license to act as district supervisor, 42 andprovided, further, that the holder of a life certificate shall be 43 eligible for appointment as district supervisor. 44 The district supervisor shall be the executive officer of the board 45 of education of his district. He shall attend all the meetings of 46 the board, except when his appointment, tenure or salary is the or47 der of business, and he shall have the privilege of the floor, but he 48 shall have no vote. From a list of applicants in the hands of the 49 board of education the district supervisor shall have authority to 50 recommend for appointment by the board a sufficient number of 51 principals and teachers for the schools of the district, except in in52 corporated towns and cities where superintendents are appointed 53 by the board, and he shall have authority to assign to their respect54 ive posts of duty all principals and teachers so appointed. Said su55 pervisor shall visit the schools of his district as often as possible 56 and shall see that the school laws are enforced, that minimum 57 standards of the courses of study prepared by the state board of ed58 ucation are maintained, and that all the laws and rules of the state 59 board of education relating to the health of school children are ob60 served. He shall supervise the methods of instruction in the schools 61 and offer such suggestions to teachers as he may deem expedient, 62 and he shall have authority to call meetings of the teachers as often 63 as practicable. He shall make such reports as the state superin64 tendent of schools may require. |