Laws Relating to Public Schools, 1911Kennebec Journal Print., 1911 - 80 pages |
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academy adjoining towns aforesaid age and schooling amended amount appoint appropriated approved assessed authorized census Chap Chapter forty charge child city or town common schools course of study district duties employed exceed expended feeble minded five hundred dollars free high school furnish governor and council hereby instruction issued Lincoln day mittee municipal officers nineteen hundred normal schools overseer or agent paid parent or guardian payment person precinct or union prescribed public schools pupils qualified raised receive state aid required by law reside returns revised statutes scholars school buildings school fund school moneys school officers schoolhouse schooling certificate standard grade steam plant sum equal super superin superintendent of public superintendent of schools superintending school committee support of common teach teachers therein thereof tion town of Machias town shall receive training schools treasurer truant officers tuition union of towns vided vote
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Page 71 - ... open to pupils who have completed the elementary school course or who have attained the age of fourteen years...
Page 59 - ... 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.
Page 31 - ... to impress on the minds of children and youth, committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 18 - If any person so ordered to assist and not excused from said service by said forest fire wardens on account of sickness, disability, or some important business or engagement, shall neglect to comply with any such order he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in action of debt in the name and to the use of the town, by the treasurer thereof.
Page 58 - The school committee of every city and town in the Commonwealth shall appoint one or more school physicians, shall assign one to each public school within its city or town, and shall provide them with all proper facilities for the performance of their duties as prescribed in this act...
Page 7 - ... cents for each inhabitant, according to the census by which representatives to the legislature were last apportioned, under penalty of forfeiting not less than twice nor more than four times the amount of the deficiency.
Page 65 - No such child shall be employed in any indoor work, performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the city or town in which he resides are in session, or...
Page 42 - The treasurer of state shall keep a separate account of all moneys received from sales of lands appropriated for the support of schools or from notes taken therefor, and of any other moneys appropriated for the same purpose; and such sum shall constitute a permanent school fund, which may be put at interest as the legislature directs. A sum equal to six per cent of the amount of such fund, and...
Page 19 - ... said towns agree upon and prescribe, and the school committee of the town in which such children reside shall pay the sum agreed upon, out of the appropriations of money raised in said town for school purposes.
Page 20 - ... and ascertain the reasons, if any, therefor ; and such truant officers or any of them, shall, when so directed by the school committee, prosecute in the name of the city or town any person liable to the penalty provided for in said section.