Limitations on power to issue life diplomas. Same, as to educational diplomas. Applica- Examina tion of ap diplomas and certificates. 4. State certificates of the second grade, valid for two years; 5. State certificates of the third grade, valid for one year; 6. To review on appeal an order revoking a county or city certificate. SEC. 1745. Life diplomas are issued to such persons only as have been engaged for one year in teaching after receiving educational diplomas, or who after receiving such diplomas have held for one year the office of State, City, or School Superintendent. SEC. 1746. State educational diplomas must be issued to such persons only as have been employed in teaching for three years. SEC. 1747. Applicants for life diplomas must file with the State Board of Examination certificates of their success in teaching; and the Board after examination must present the application to the State Board of Education, with its recommendation. The State Board of Education may recognize the life diplomas of other States of the United States, and issue to the holders thereof life diplomas of this State. SEC. 1748. Every applicant for an educational diploma, plicants for or for a State certificate of the first or second grade, must be examined by written or printed and oral questions, in algebra, arithmetic, English grammar, English composition, geography, history of the United States, school law of California, physiology, natural philosophy, orthography, defining, penmanship, Constitution and Government of the the United States, reading and elocution, and theory and practice of teaching. Extra credits may be given for ability to teach drawing, vocal or instrumental music, and school calisthenics, and for success and experience in teaching. Standing to be SEC. 1749. The standing in the class and in each study indorsed on must be indorsed upon the diploma or certificate. certificates. may be without ex when. SEC. 1750. Normal School diplomas from any State Certificates Normal School in the United States, and life diplomas issued granted by the State Board of Examination in any of the amination, United States, must be recognized by the State Board of Examination of this State as primary evidence of fitness for teaching; and the Board may, on application of the holders thereof, issue without examination State certificates and fix the grade thereof. SEC. 1751. The Board may without examination grant Same. State certificates to those who in examinations before County Boards have attained the standard of proficiency prescribed by the State Board of Education. SEC. 1752. The Board may for immoral or unprofessional conduct or unfitness for teaching revoke any diploma or certificate. Revocation of certifi cates and diplomas. SEC. 1753. The Board may, at the expiration of the Renewal of. time for which they are granted, renew certificates or diplomas for a like period for which they were originally granted. SEC. 1754. The holders of diplomas are eligible to teach in any public school, except in High Schools in which languages other than English are required to be taught by such teachers. Eligibility holders of to teach of diplomas. SEC. 1755. Holders of State certificates are eligible to Same of teach as follows: 1. Those of the first grade, in Grammar Schools; 2. Those of the second, in second grade schools, and as assistants in Grammar Schools; 3. Those of the third, in Primary Schools. holders of certificates. Fees from applicants for diplo SEC. 1756. Every applicant for a diploma or certificate must pay a fee of two dollars, and the amount collected must be applied to the support of the State Educational certificates. Journal. SEC. 1757. Every person receiving a State diploma mas or Fees from persons must pay to the Board five dollars, to defray the expense receiving of issuing such diploma. life diplomas. Compensa tion of the Board. SEC. 1758. Each of the appointed members of the members of Board shall receive an annual salary of two hundred dollars, payable out of the General Fund on the warrant of the State Controller, indorsed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Board, how composed. Chairman. Meetings. Power to grant certificates. ARTICLE XVI. COUNTY BOARDS OF EXAMINATION. SECTION 1768. Board, how composed. 1769. Chairman. 1770. Meetings. 1771. Power to grant certificates. 1772. Certificates, to whom to be issued. 1774. Standing to be indorsed on certificate. 1775. Renewal and revocation of certificates. 1776. Certificates to graduates of Normal School. SEC. 1768. Each County Board of Examination is composed of the School Superintendent of such county and not less than three teachers (holding not less than a first grade county certificate, if there are so many in the county) appointed by him. SEC. 1769. The School Superintendent is Chairman of the Board. SEC. 1770. The County Board must meet and hold examinations as follows: commencing on the first Wednesday in the months of December, March, June, and September, and at such other times as the Chairman may direct; the place of meeting must be designated by the Chairman. SEC. 1771. The County Board of Examination has power to grant certificates of three grades: 1. County certificates, first grade, valid for three years, and authorizing the holder to teach a Grammar School or a school of the first grade in the county; 2. County certificates, second grade, valid for two years, and authorizing the holder to teach a second grade school in the county; 3. County certificates of the third grade, valid for one year, and authorizing the holder to teach a third grade school in the county; 4. Third grade certificates are granted only to females. SEC. 1772. Certificates of the first grade must (except as is in this Article otherwise provided) be granted to those only who have passed a satisfactory examination in orthography, defining, reading, penmanship, physiology, natural history, English composition, arithmetic, algebra, geography, gramınar, history of the United States, the school law of California, and the theory and practice of teaching. Certificates of second grade must be issued to those only who have passed a satisfactory examination in all of the above subjects except natural philosophy and algebra. Extra credits may be given all grades for ability to teach drawing, vocal or instrumental music, calisthenics, and other branches, as may be determined by the State Board of Education. tion for writing. SEC. 1773. All examinations in arithmetic, algebra, Examinaorthography, defining, grammar, history of the United to be in States, and Constitution and Government of the United States, must be conducted in writing, and at least ten questions submitted in each separate study. to be SEC. 1774. The standing of each applicant in each Standing study and in the class must be indorsed on the back of each certificate. indorsed on certificate. and of cer SEC. 1775. The Board may without examination re- Renewal new cert.ficates, and may revoke any county certificate revocation for immoral or unprofessional conduct, or for unfitness tificates. for the profession of teaching. SEC. 1776. The Board may without examination grant to any person, graduate of any Normal School, a first or second grade county certificate. Certificates graduates to of Normal School. tion of Board. SEC. 1777. Members must each receive for their ser- Compensavices a sum not exceeding three dollars per day, in addition to actual traveling expenses, for each quarterly session of the Board, payable out of the unapportioned County School Fund on the warrant of the School Superintendent. When a Board holds sessions at other times no compensation is allowed from the county; but the Board may charge an examination fee not exceeding two dollars for each applicant. Must be a Board in each city. How constituted. Chairman. Meetings. General powers. ARTICLE XVII. CITY BOARDS OF EXAMINATION. SECTION 1787. Must be a Board in each city. 1788. How constituted. 1789. Chairman. 1790. Meetings. 1791. General powers. 1792. When certificates may be granted without examina tion. 1793. Certificates valid only in the city where they were issued. 1794. Eligibility to teach, of holders of city certificates. 1795. Compensation allowed. SEC. 1787. In every city having a Board of Education there must be a City Board of Examination. SEC. 1788. Each City Board of Examination consists of the City and County Superintendents of Schools, President of the Board of Education, and of three teachers. resident of such city and holders of State diplomas or City Grammar School certificates, elected by the Board of Education and holding office for one year. SEC. 1789. The School Superintendent of the city is Chairman of the City Board of Examination. SEC. 1790. The Board must meet at such times and places as the Chairman may direct. SEC. 1791. The Board has power to grant: 1. Certificates of the same grade and for the same time as the State Board of Examination has power to grant; 2. Grammar School certificates, valid for three years; 3. High School certificates, valid for three years. |