stances of the separate schools in any county it may be deemed expedient, to appoint one competent person possessing the qualifications prescribed by the Education Department, to be a member of the county board of examiners of such county in addition to the number now authorized, and who shall possess and discharge the like powers and duties as the other members of the said board; teachers. 5. To set apart, subject to such regulations as may be made Training of in that behalf, not more than five high schools or collegiate institutes for the purpose of providing such instruction in the theory and practice of teaching as may be deemed necessary for promoting the efficiency of assistant masters of high schools and collegiate institutes, and of teachers holding a first-class non-professional public school certificate; High Schools 6. To prescribe the subjects, times, places and extent of the Admission to examination of pupils for admission into high schools and col- and Collegiate legiate institutes, and to determine the standard to be obtained Institutes. by each pupil at such examination ; of learned 7. To arrange with learned societies in Canada or the British Acceptance of Dominions, or with the Law Society, the College of Physicians examinations and Surgeons or any chartered University in the British societies. Dominions for reciprocally accepting in such subjects as may be agreed upon the examinations of the aforesaid institutions, as the equivalent of the departmental examinations; 8. To make regulations for granting the pensions provided by Pensions. law for superannuated inspectors and teachers; text and 9. To examine, and at its discretion, recommend and To authorize authorize text-books, or books of reference for the use of pupils library books. and teachers, or books for school libraries; 10. To prescribe such forms for school registers and depart- To prescribe mental reports as may be deemed expedient; forms for school regis To regulate grants under 11. To make, from time to time, regulations for the distri- ters, etc. bution within the restrictions imposed by The High Schools Act, of the high school fund, among the several high schools Rev. Stat. and collegiate institutes entitled to receive it; c. 226. ment. 12. To deduct (should the municipal corporation of any Short minicounty, city, town or village raise in any one year a less sum than cipal assessthat apportioned to it out of the Legislative school grant) a sum equal to the deficiency, from the apportionment to such county, city, town or village, in the following year; certificates. 13. To make such regulations respecting the imposition of Fees for fees on candidates for teachers' certificates, as would meet all teachers? the expenses of departmental and county model school examinations; third class ' certificates. 14. To extend on the petition of a board of school trustees, Extension of and such evidence as to efficiency as may be deemed necessary, any third class certificate issued under the authority of The Public Schools Act: Rev. Stat. c. 225. Regulations for organiza 15. To make regulations for the organization and managetion and man- ment of art schools, to prescribe a curriculum of studies for agement of art such schools, and on examination award certificates valid in any municipality of the Province, to such candidates as may present themselves; schools. Meteorologi cal stations, Instruction as of alcoholic (a) Certificates awarded under this sub-section may be of two grades, and shall entitle the holders. thereof to teach drawing in high schools, public schools, county model schools and mechanics' institutes; (b) Certificates from any art school in the British Dominions may be accepted as equivalent to any issued as herein provided; 16. To designate, from time to time, the number and locality of such meteorological stations as the Department may think desirable to establish in connection with the high schools of the Province; and to authorize such forms of reports and meteorological journal to be used by the observers at such stations as it may judge necessary; 48 V. c. 48, s. 4. 17. To make regulations for the study of agriculture and to agriculture for scientific instruction as to the nature of alcoholic stimulants and the nature and narcotics, with special reference to their effect upon the stimulants and human system, and to authorize for the use of teachers and narcotics. pupils, suitable text-books in said subjects, respectively, for use in all schools under the direction of the Department; Establishment ten schools. 18. To make regulations for the organization of schools for of kindergar- children between three and five years of age, to be known as kindergarten schools; to provide for the training and licensing of teachers for such schools, and to pay for their maintenance out of any appropriation made by the Legislative Assembly for public schools, such sums of money as such kindergarten schools may be entitled to receive on the basis of average attendance. 50 V. c. 38, s. 1. Annual report Minister of 5. The Minister of Education shall report annually to the be made by Lieutenant-Governor upon the normal, model, high, public and separate schools and collegiate institutes, with such statements and suggestions for promoting education generally he may deem useful and expedient. 48 V. c. 48, s. 5. Power to and com 6. The Minister of Education shall have power to decide settle disputes upon all disputes and complaints laid before him, the settlement of which is not otherwise provided for by law, and upon all appeals made to him from the decision of any inspector or other school officer. 48 V. c. 48, s. 6. plaints. Regulations 7.-(1) Every regulation or order in council made under and Orders in this Act or under the public and high schools Acts, shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly forthwith if the Legislature is in session at the date of such regulation or order in Council to be laid before Legislative Assembly. council, and if the Legislature is not in session such regulation or order in council shall be laid before the said House within the first seven days of the session next after such regulation or order in council is made. (2) In case the Legislative Assembly at the said session, or if the session does not continue for three weeks after the said regulation or order in council is laid before the House, then at the ensuing session of the Legislature, disapproves by resolution of such regulation or order in council either wholly or of any part thereof, the regulation or order in council, so far as disapproved of, shall have no effect from the time of such resolution being passed. 48 V. c. 48, s. 7. CHAPTER 225. An Act Respecting Public Schools. SHORT TITLE, s. 1. INTERPRETATION, s. 2. EXISTING ARRANGEMENTS TINUED, SS. 3-5. CON PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO BE FREE, s. 6. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, Ss. 7, 8. School sections, ss. 9-11. Auditors, ss. 37-39. Duties of trustees, s. 40. SECTIONS IN UNORGANIZED TOWN SHIPS, SS. 41-53. TOWNSHIP BOARDS, ss. 54-63. FORMATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARDS IN CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES: Election of trustees, ss. 94-106. SCHOOL CENSUS, ss. 114-116. DEBENTURES FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES, ss. 129-135. LEGISLATIVE GRANT, ss. 136-144. LIABILITY FOR SCHOOL MONEYS, SS. 145-150. TEACHERS : Agreements with, s. 151. Salary, ss. 154, 157, 158. Disputes between teachers and trustees, ss. 155, 156. CERTIFICATES OF QUALIFICATION, SS. 159-163. Suspension of certificate, ss. 164 167. COUNTY BOARDS, ss. 168-172. INSPECTORS, ss. 175-189. AUTHORIZED BOOKS, ss. 205-207. COMPULSORY EDUCATION, SS. 209- UNIONS OF HIGH AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SS. 219-225. PENALTIES AND PROHIBITIONS, SS. Recovery of Penalties, s. 267. CONFIRMING AND SAVING CLAUSES, ss. 268-271. HE ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited as The Public Schools Act.” 48 V. c. 49, s. 1. 2. Where the words following occur in this Act, they shall be construed in the manner hereinafter mentioned, unless a contrary intention appears: 1. "Teacher" shall include female as well as male teachers. 2. "County" shall include a union of counties. 3. "Township" shall include unions of townships made for municipal purposes. 4. "School site" shall mean such area of land as may be necessary for the school building, teacher's residence, offices and play-grounds connected therewith. 5. "Owner" shall include a mortgagee, lessee or tenant, or other person entitled to a limited interest, and whose claimsmay be dealt with by arbitration as herein provided. 6. "Resident" shall include such persons who, though not actually resident in a school section or division, pay a school rate at least equal to the average school rate paid by the actual residents of such section or division. 7. "Ratepayer" shall mean an assessed householder, owner or tenant, or any person entered on the assessment roll as a farmer's son, or any person assessed for income. 48 V. c. 49, s. 2. 3. Nothing in this Act authorizing the levying or collecting of rates on taxable property for public school purposes shall apply to the supporters of Roman Catholic separate schools. 48 V. c. 49, s. 3. 4. All public school sections or other public school divisions, together with all elections and appointments to office, all agreements, contracts, assessments, and rate-bills, heretofore duly made in relation to public schools, and existing when this Act comes into force, shall be subject to the provisions of this Act. 48 V. c. 49, s. 4. 5. The term for which each school trustee holds office Trustees term of office. at the time this Act takes effect, shall continue as if such term had been created by virtue of an election under this Act. 48 V. c. 49, s. 5. PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO BE FREE. every 6. All public schools shall be free schools, and person between the age of five and twenty-one years shall have the right to attend some school. 48 V. c. 49, s. 6. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. Public schools to be free. School age. 7. No person shall require any pupil in any public school Pupils not to to read or study in or from any religious book, or to join any join in relibe required to exercise of devotion or religion, objected to by his or her parents gious exercises or guardians. 48 V. c. 49, s. 7. objected to by their parents. religious 8. Pupils shall be allowed to receive such religious instruc- To receive tions as their parents or guardians desire, according to any instruction as general regulations provided for the organization, government their parents and discipline of public schools. 48 V. c. 49, s. 8. RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS. desire. 9. The municipal council of each township shall form por- School sections of the township, where no schools have been estab- tions. lished, into school sections, each section to be distinguished by a number; provided that no section so formed shall include any territory more than three miles in a direct line from the site of the schoolhouse. This section shall not apply to townships in which there is a township board. 48 V. c. 49, s. 9. sections 10. No section shall be formed which contains less than fifty New school actual resident children, between the ages of five and twenty- their size. one years, unless the area of the section contains more than four square miles. 48 V. c. 49, s. 10. pare maps of 11. It shall be the duty of every township clerk to prepare in Township duplicate, a school map of the township, shewing the divisions Clerk to preof the township into school sections and parts of union school school secsections, to furnish one copy of such map to the county clerk, tions. for the use of the county council, and retain the other in the township clerk's office, for the use of the township corporation. 48 V. c. 49, s. 11. |