may gain entrance by permission of those having charge thereof, provided said school shall be of standard grade approved by the state superintendent of public schools. In such case the tuition of such youth not to exceed thirty dollars annually shall be paid by the state under such provisions and regulations as may be made by the state superintendent and approved by the governor and council. *AN ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF FREE HIGH SCHOOLS. (Chap. 71, P. L. 1909.) -tuition. schools. SEC. I. No school shall be regarded as a high school within Classification the meaning of any of the provisions of chapter fifteen of the of high revised statutes unless such school shall be included in the following classes: Class A. This class shall include such schools as maintain Class A. at least one approved course of study through four years of thirty-six weeks each and of standard grade, together with approved laboratory equipment, and shall employ at least two teachers, provided the town, precinct or union maintaining such school shall appropriate and expend for instruction therein at least eight hundred and fifty dollars annually exclusive of all tuition received. Class B. This class shall include such schools as maintain Class B. one approved course of study through at least two years of thirty-six weeks and of standard grade together with approved equipment, provided the town, precinct or union maintaining such school shall appropriate and expend for instruction therein at least five hundred dollars annually exclusive of all tuitions received. Class C. This class shall include such schools as maintain at Class C. least one approved course of study through four years of thirty weeks each; provided the town, precinct or union maintaining such school shall appropriate and expend for instruction therein at least four hundred and fifty dollars annually exclusive of all tuitions received. * See also Sections 55-62, Chap. 15, R. S.. SEC. 2. A town, precinct or union maintaining a high school, as defined in section one of this act, shall be reimbursed by the state for two-thirds of the amount paid for instruction in such school; but in no case shall more than five hundred dollars be paid by the state to a town, precinct or union in any one year. SEC. 3. A town, precinct or union maintaining a high school, as provided in class A of section one of this act, shall not be obliged to pay tuition under sections sixty-three and sixty-four of chapter fifteen. A town, precinct or union maintaining a high school, as provided in class B of section one shall not be obliged to pay tuition under sections sixty-three and sixty-four first two years of the course of the class B school, and for only two years of subsequent work. A town, precinct or union maintaining a high school, as provided in class C of section one, shall be obliged to pay tuition for such portion of a four years course as may be determined by the state superintendent of public schools. SEC. 4. All schools of secondary grade receiving state aid shall be inspected annually under the direction of the state superintendent of public schools, and for this purpose he shall be authorized to expend not to exceed two thousand dollars annually, which sum shall be paid from the state appropriation for the support of high schools; and he shall determine what schools are included in the classification of section one of this act, what schools maintain the courses of study, what schools are entitled to state aid and what schools maintain approved courses for the reception of tuition scholars. SEC. 5. After this act takes effect all other state aid for high schools as provided by law shall cease. AN ACT ADDITIONAL TO CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE A AND NINE, ENTITLED "AN ACT · FOR THE (Chap. 196, P. I. 1909.) when payable. SEC. 1. State aid to free high schools under the provisions State aid, of chapter seventy-one of the public laws of nineteen hundred and nine shall be payable annually in the month of December. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT OF (Chap. 73, P. L. 1909.) School physicians, SEC. I. The school committee of every city and town shall appoint one or more school physicians and shall assign one to appointthe medical inspection of not over one thousand pupils of the ment of. public schools within its city or town, and shall provide them with all proper facilities for the performance of their duties as prescribed in this act, provided, however, the said committee has been so authorized by vote of town at regular town meeting or at a special town meeting called for that purpose. physician. SEC. 2. Every school physician shall make a prompt exami- Duties of nation and diagnosis of all children referred to him as hereinafter provided, and such further examination of teachers, janitors and school buildings as in his opinion the protection of the health of the pupils may require. whom treated. SEC. 3. The pupils so examined by school physicians when Pupils, by treatment is necessary shall not be referred to the school physicians for such treatment except the school physician be the regular family physician of such pupil, but shall be referred to the regular family physician of such pupil through the parents or guardian. SEC. 4. The school committee shall cause to be referred to Examination of pupils a school physician for examination and diagnosis every child after absence returning to a school without a certificate from the board of of sickness. health or family physician after absence on account of illness or on account -exception. Notice of disease or defects. Examination of sight and hearing. -notice to parent or guardian. State super- from unknown cause; and every child in the schools under its jurisdiction who shows signs of being in ill health or of suffering from infectious or contagious dseases, unless he is at once excluded from school by the teacher; except that in case of schools in remote and isolated situations, the school committee may make such other arrangements as may best carry out the purposes of this act. SEC. 5. The school committee shall cause notice of disease or defects, if any, from which any child is found to be suffering to be sent home to his parents or guardian. Whenever a child shows symptoms of smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria or influenza, tonsilitis, whooping cough, mumps, scabies or trachomo, he shall be sent home immediately or as soon as safe and proper conveyance can be found, and the board of health and superintendent of schools shall at once be notified. SEC. 6. The school committee of every city or town shall cause every child in the public schools to be separately and carefully tested and examined at least once in every school year to ascertain whether he is suffering from defective sight or hearing or from any other disability or defect tending to prevent his receiving the full benefit of his school work, or requiring a modification of the school work in order to prevent injury to the child or to secure the best educational results. Tests of sight and hearing shall be made by the teachers or by the school physicians. The committee shall cause notice of any defect or disability requiring treatment to be sent to the parent or guardian of the child, and shall require a physical record of each child, to be kept in such form as the state superintendent of public schools shall prescribe after consultation with the state board of health. SEC. 7. The state superintendent of public schools shall prescribe after consultation with the state board of health the directions for tests of sight and hearing, and shall prescribe and furnish to the school committees suitable rules of instruction, test cards, blanks, record books and other useful appliances for amount to carrying out the purposes of this act. The state superintendent of public schools may expend during the year nineteen hundred be expended. may be incurred by city or town. and nine a sum not greater than five hundred dollars for the purpose of supplying the material required for this act. SEC. 8. Expenses which a city or town may incur by virtue Expense that of the authority herein vested in the school committee shall not exceed the amount appropriated for that purpose in cities by the city council and in towns by a town meeting. The appropriation shall precede any expenditure of any indebtedness which may be incurred under this act and the sum appropriated shall be deemed sufficient appropriation in the municipality where it is made. And such appropriation need not specify to what section of the act it shall apply and may be voted as a totai appropriation to be applied in carrying out the purposes of this act. cities and SEC. 9. The provisions of this act shall apply only to cities Applies to and towns having a population of less than forty thousand towns inhabitants. AN ACT RELATIVE TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS. (Chap. 88, P. L. 1909, as amended by Chap. 89, P. L. 1913.) having less than forty thousand inhabitants. specifica school to be fur state super SEC. I. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of Plans and public schools to procure architect's plans and specifications for tions for not to exceed four room school buildings, and full detail work-buildings ing plans therefor. Said plans and specifications shall be nished by loaned to any superintending school committee or school build-intendent. ing committee desiring to erect a new school building. For the use of the state superintendent of public schools in procuring-approprisuch plans and specifications the sum of two hundred dollars is 1913, c. 89. hereby annually appropriated. ation. tions to be SEC. 2. Where the plans and specifications prepared by the plans and state superintendent are not used, all superintending school specificacommittees of towns in which new schoolhouses are to be approved. erected, shall make suitable provision for the heating, lighting and ventilating and hygienic conditions of such buildings, and all plans and specifications for any such proposed school buildings shall be submitted to and approved by the state superintendent of public schools and the state board of health before the same shall be accepted by the superintending school committee or school building committee of the town in which it is proposed to erect such building. |