a county primary school certificate, in applying for a county grammar school certificate, need take only the additional branches named in section two of this Act. SEC. 5. No certificate authorized by this Act shall be issued No certificate to persons under sixteen years of age; nor shall any high school certificate be issued to any person who shall not have to persons under 16 years of age. successfully taught at least twelve months. Examinations SEC. 6. Examinations for certificates named in this Act shall be conducted by the County Boards of Examination, conducted by under such rules and restrictions as the State Board of EduCounty cation may prescribe. Boards. Certificates renewed. equivalent grade. SEC. 7. The County Board of Examination may renew the certificate of any person successfully engaged in teaching in the county; provided, that after the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven a primary school certificate shall not be subject to renewal. SEC. 8. As the county certificates of the first and second Certificate of grade, in force at the passage of this Act, expire, the County Board of Examination may issue, without examination, to the persons holding the same, certificates of equivalent grade as named in this Act; provided, that high school certificates shall be thus issued only to those teaching in high schools. diploma. ARTICLE X. EDUCATIONAL AND LIFE DIPLOMAS. SECTION 1. The State Board of Education shall grant a To grant life life diploma to any resident of the State of Nevada who shall present evidence of having taught successfully and continuously in the public schools of the State of Nevada for a period of ten years. Relating to grade. whom issued. SEC. 2. A life diploma granted under the first section of this Act shall be of the same grade as the certificate held by the applicant at the time of application for the diploma, and shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any school in the State of Nevada of a grade corresponding to the grade of the certificate upon which the life diploma was granted. Secs. 1 and 2, Stats. 1897, p. 29. SEC. 3. State educational diplomas may be issued to such Diplomas, to persons only as have held a State certificate of high school grade, or a county certificate of high school grade for at least one year, and shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching at least forty-five months in the public schools, twenty months of which must have been in Nevada. Every application for an educational diploma must be accompanied by a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of School Trustees of the district Educational in which the applicant has taught at least one year. An educational diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any public school in the State of Nevada without further examination. diplomas. SEC. 4. Life diplomas may be issued on all and the same Life conditions as educational diplomas, except that the applicant diplomas. must furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching seventy-two months in public schools, twenty-four of which must have been in Nevada. A life diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any school in the State of Nevada without any further examination. granting life SEC. 5. To the graduates of the Nevada State Normal Conditions of School, who hold State high school certificates, the State diplomas. Board of Education shall grant a life diploma of high school grade when said graduates shall have completed at least forty-five months of successful instruction in public schools. To all graduates of the Nevada State Normal School who hold a State grammar school certificate, the State Board of Education shall grant a life diploma of the grammar grade when said graduates shall have completed at least forty-five months of successful instruction in public schools. SEC. 6. Graduates of the Nevada State Normal School Diplomas of undesignated who have taught successfully for the time specified in this grade. Act, on or before January 1, 1900, shall be entitled to life diplomas of undesignated grade. Secs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, Stats. 1895, p. 82. Education to SEC. 7. The State Board of Education shall grant a life Board of diploma to any resident of this State of good moral character, grant life and who shall present satisfactory evidence of having taken diplomas. a course in pedagogics and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from any university or college situated within the United States, and of reputable standing; provided, such person shall have been an actual resident of the State of Nevada for at least five years next preceding his or her having entered the university or college in which the course in pedagogics was taken, and from which the degree of Bachelor of Arts was received. [Stats. 1897, p. 61.] ARTICLE XI. TEACHERS. qualification SECTION 1. No teacher shall be entitled to receive any por- Legal tion of the public school moneys as compensation for serv- of teacher. ices rendered, unless such teacher shall have been legally employed by the Board of Trustees, nor unless such teacher shall have had a certificate from the State Board of Education or from the County Board of Examination, in full force and effect, nor unless such teacher shall have made a full and correct report, in the form and manner prescribed by law, to the County Superintendent, and to the Board of School Trustees. SEC. 2. Each and every teacher employed in this State, whose compensation is payable out of the public funds, shall Teacher's oath. To keep a register. take and subscribe to the oath as prescribed by the fifteenth article of the State Constitution before entering upon the discharge of the duties of such teacher. Such oath, when so taken and subscribed to, shall, if that of teacher in the State University, be filed in the office of the Board of Regents; if of any other class of teachers, the same shall be filed in the office of the County Superintendent of Schools. [As amended Stats. 1887, p. 141.] The oath is as follows: 1111) I, Sworn and subscribed to before me, a county of of the day of SEC. 3. All teachers of public schools shall keep a register of all the scholars attending such schools, their age, daily attendance and time of continuance at school, and such further statistics as may be required by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and shall deliver such register, at the close of their term of employment, to the Board of Trustees of their district. Teacher's Institute provided. ARTICLE XII. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, by and with the consent of the State Board of Education, shall have power to convene two State Teachers' Institutes annually, in different sections of the State, and shall preside over and regulate the exercises of the same in pursuance of the provisions of this Act. Teachers who attend one such Insti tute shall not be required to attend another in the same year. Sessions shall not be less than three days nor more than ten days. SEC. 2. The purpose of such Institutes shall be to train Purposes of. and instruct the teachers of the State, so far as may be found necessary, in practical and scientific methods of work, to simplify and unify, so far as may be practicable, the courses of study in the public schools, and in general to raise the standard of educational work and qualification on the part of the teachers. Class work in common school branches shall be a prominent feature of all Institute programmes. The State Superintendent shall have power to engage such lecturers and instructors as he may deem advisable to aid him in conducting the exercises. attend. SEC. 3. All teachers shall be required to attend and par- Teachers ticipate in the proceedings of the Institute held in the section required to of the State wherein they may be engaged in teaching, and without loss of salary for the time thus employed. Secs. 1, 2 and 3, Stats. 1893, p. 108. Institute, SEC. 4. The County Superintendent shall have the power Expenses of to call one or more Teachers' Institutes annually, and the how paid. expenses of such Institutes shall be paid out of the County General Fund, upon the warrant of the County Superintendent; provided, that the Board of Commissioners authorize such Institutes, upon the application of the County Superintendent; and provided, that the expenses of such Institute shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars in any one year. ARTICLE XIII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. SECTION 1. The public school year shall commence on the School year first day of September, and shall end on the last day of defined. August. SEC. 2. Any printing required under this Act shall be Printing executed in the form and manner and at the prices of other ordered. State printing, and shall be paid for in like manner out of the General Fund. SEC. 3. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction Oaths. and the County Superintendent of Public Schools are hereby authorized to administer the oath (or affirmation) to teachers, and all other oaths (or affirmations) relating to public schools. month SEC. 4. Except when special agreement is made, a school School month shall consist of four weeks of five days each, and defined. teachers shall be paid only for the time in which they are actually engaged in teaching; provided, that when an intermission of less than six days is ordered by the Trustees no deduction of salary shall be made therefor. SEC. 5. No books, tracts or papers of a sectarian or denomi Sectarianism national character shall be used or introduced in any school prohibited. established under the provisions of this Act; nor shall any taxation. sectarian or denominational doctrines be taught therein; nor shall any school whatever receive any of the public school funds which has not been taught in accordance with the provisions of this Act. SEC. 6. All lots, buildings or other school property, owned Exempt from by any district, town or city, and devoted to public school purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby exempted from taxation, and from sale on any execution, or other writ or order in the nature of an execution. ARTICLE XIV. PROTECTION OF PUPILS AND PEACE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SECTION 1. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or Misdemeanor persons to detain, beat, whip or otherwise interfere with any pupil or pupils attending any public school in the State of Nevada on his, her or their way to or from such school against the will of such pupil or pupils. to interfere with pupil. to disturb school. SEC. 2. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or perMisdemeanor sons to disturb the peace of any public school in the State of Nevada by using vile or indecent language, or by threatening or assaulting any pupil or teacher within the building or grounds of such school, and for the purpose of this Act the ground of every public school in the State of Nevada shall extend to a distance of fifty yards in all directions from the school building. Penalty SEC. 3. Any person or persons convicted of a misdemeanor under either of the foregoing sections of this Act shall be subject to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. Injure or deface buildings. ARTICLE XV. TO PREVENT INJURY TO SCHOOL PROPERTY. SECTION 1. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons to willfully and maliciously, injure, mark or deface any church edifice, school house or other building, public or private, its fixtures, books or appurtenances, or to commit any nuisance therein, or to purposely and maliciously commit any trespass upon the grounds attached thereto, or any fixtures placed thereon, or any enclosure or sidewalk about the same, or in any manner to maliciously and purposely interfere with or disturb those peaceably assembled within such building or buildings. |