Powers of board of education Supervision. Bonds for school-houses. Vote on question of bonds. three hundred dollars for the supervising principal and one hundred dollars for each teacher employed therein during the year preceding that for which said apportionment shall be made, and in addition thereto shall apportion an additional sum on the basis of the aggregate days attendance of all pupils, residents of such county who shall have attended such union-graded school during the year preceding that for which said apportionment shall be made. 141. The board of education of a union-graded school shall have all the powers and duties and be subject to all the penalties of a board of education in a district situate in a municipality not divided into wards, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this article. 142. Each union-graded school shall be under the supervision and control of the County Superintendent of Schools of the county in which the school-house shall be situate. 143. In case a board of education of a union-graded school shall decide that it is necessary to raise money to purchase land for school purposes and for the erection and furnishing of a school-house or for the purchase thereof by the issue of bonds, it shall notify the board of education of each of the districts which shall have united in establishing such union-graded school of the amount needed, the number of bonds to be issued, the denomination of such bonds, the maximum rate of interest thereon, and the time or times of payment. Each of such boards, upon receiving such notification, shall forthwith call a meeting of the legal voters of its district, and shall submit to said meeting the question of issuing such bonds as proposed by the board of education of such union-graded school, and the district clerk of the board of education of each of said districts shall transmit to the board of education of such uniongraded school certified copies of the record of the proceedings of the board of education and of the legal voters of said district thereon. If from said certified copies it shall appear that a majority of the legal voters present at such meeting in each of said districts shall have voted in favor of the issue of such bonds, the secretary of the board of education of such union-graded school shall transmit such certified copies together with certified copies of the record of the proceedings of the board of education of such union-graded Description of school concerning the issue of such bonds, to the Attorney- Approval by Attorney-GenGeneral for his approval of the legality of all said proceed- eral. ings, and shall file duplicate certified copies of the record of all such proceedings with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and, upon the approval thereof by the AttorneyGeneral, said bonds may be issued and sold by said board. 144. Bonds authorized as provided in this article shall bonds. be issued in the corporate name of the board of education of the union-graded school; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually; shall be signed by the president of said board and attested by the secretary; shall bear the seal of said board, and shall have coupons attached for current payment of interest, which coupons shall be signed by the secretary, and shall be numbered to correspond to the bonds to which they shall be severally attached. Bonds so issued shall be numbered and a proper registry thereof kept by the secretary, and may be sold at public or private sale for the best. obtainable price, but not less than par. Such bonds when issued shall be a lien upon the real and personal estates of the inhabitants of each of the districts which shall have united in establishing such union-graded school, as well as the property of each of said districts, and said estates and property shall be liable for the payment of the same. 145. Whenever bonds shall have been issued by the board of education of a union-graded school, the secretary of such board shall, each and every year, certify to the assessors of the several taxing districts in which the several school districts which shall have united in establishing such union-graded school shall be situate, the amount which shall become due during such year for principal and interest of such bonds. The amount so certified shall be apportioned and assessed by said assessors in the same manner and in the same proportion as taxes for the current expenses of such union-graded school shall be apportioned and assessed, and the moneys so assessed shall be levied and collected by the collectors of the several taxing districts, and said collectors shall, on or before the fifth day of January next thereafter, pay the full amount so ordered to be assessed, levied and collected to the custodian of the school moneys of said union-graded school, who shall, upon Providing for redemption of interest and bonds. Ages of pupils in kindergarten. Proviso. Teachers to hold special certificates. Expenses of kindergartens. Ages of pupils in evening schools. Term. receipt of the orders of said board of education (which orders shall state at what bank said principal and interest are payable), deposit in such bank the sum of money necessary to pay said principal and interest as they shall become due and payable. ARTICLE XII. KINDERGARTENS. 146. The board of education of any school district may establish a kindergarten school or a kindergarten department in any school under its control, and shall admit to such kindergarten school or department any child over the age of four and under the age of seven years who shall be a resident of the district; provided, that no child under the age of five years shall be admitted to any public school unless such school shall be a regularly organized kindergarten school or shall have a kindergarten department. 147. Every teacher in a kindergarten school or department shall hold a special kindergarten certificate, issued either by the State Board of Examiners or the board of examiners of the county or school district in which he or she shall be teaching. 148. The expense of kindergarten schools or departments shall be paid out of any moneys available for the current expenses of the schools, and in the same manner and under the same restrictions as the expenses of the other schools or departments shall be paid. ARTICLE XIII. EVENING SCHOOLS. 149. The board of education of any school district may establish and maintain public evening schools for the instruction of persons over twelve years of age residents of the district, and unless such evening schools shall be maintained for a term of not less than four months in each year, each of said months to consist of at least sixteen evening sessions of at least two hours each, said district shall not be entitled to any apportionment on the basis of the number of teachers employed in such schools during the year preceding that for which the apportionment shall be made. paid. 150. The expenses of evening schools shall be paid out Expenses, how of any moneys available for the current expenses of the schools, and in the same manner and under the same restrictions as the expenses of day schools shall be paid. ARTICLE XIV. TEXT-BOOKS AND SUPPLIES. tions for text books. 151. Text-books and school supplies shall be furnished Appropriafree of cost for use by all pupils in the public schools. Every school district shall raise and appropriate annually in the same manner as other school moneys shall be raised and appropriated in such district an amount sufficient to pay for such text-books and supplies. 152. Every board of education shall make rules for the Rules regarding text-books. safe keeping and proper care of text-books, and shall keep an account of all moneys expended by it for such text-books and supplies, and shall report the same in its annual financial statement. School officers must not be interested in furnishing. 153. It shall be unlawful for any County Superintendent of Schools, member of a board of education, teacher or any person officially connected with the public schools to be agent for, or to be in any way pecuniarily or beneficially interested in the sale of any text-books, maps, charts, school apparatus or supplies of any kind or to receive compensation or reward of any kind for any such sale, or for unlawfully promoting or favoring the same. A violation of the Penalty. provisions of this section shall be punishable by removal from office or by revocation of certificate to teach. ARTICLE XV. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. 154. Every parent, guardian or other person having control of a child between the ages of seven and twelve years, shall send such child to public day school each day while Attendance of tween seven years of age. children be and twelve Children under fifteen not to be employed in certain cases. Penalty for failure to comply. Who are juvenile disorderly per Sons. such school shall be in session, unless such child shall be excused from such attendance by the board of education of the school district in which such parent or guardian shall reside upon its being shown to the satisfaction of said board that the bodily or mental condition of such child is such as to prevent his or her attendance at school, or that such child is being taught in a private school or at home in such branches as are usually taught in public schools to children of his or her age, or for other good cause. 155. No child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed by any person, company or corporation to labor in any business whatever, unless such child shall have attended within twelve months immediately preceding such employment some public or private school. Such attend ance shall be for five days or four evenings every week during a period of at least sixteen weeks which may be divided into two terms of eight consecutive weeks each, so far as the arrangement of school terms will permit. 156. In case any parent, guardian or other person having control of any child shall fail to comply with the provisions of this article, such parent, guardian or other person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, or to imprisonment for not less than five days nor more than three months, which said fine shall be paid to the custodian of the school moneys of the school district in which the offense shall have occurred for the use of the public schools therein. Such offense shall be prosecuted by the board of education of said school district before a judge of a city or municipal court, police justice, or a justice of the peace within whose jurisdiction said school district shall be situate. 157. Every child between the ages of seven and fifteen years who shall be an habitual truant from school, or who shall habitually wander about the streets and public places during school hours having no business or lawful occupation, and any child who, while in attendance at any public school, shall be incorrigible, vicious or immoral in conduct shall be deemed a juvenile disorderly person and subject to the provisions of this article. |