Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Wisconsin

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Department of Public Instruction, 1868 - Education

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Page 194 - State. 4. No person shall be entitled to a diploma who has not been a member of the school in which such diploma is granted at least one year, nor who is less than nineteen years of age...
Page 200 - To the support and maintenance of common schools in each school district, and the purchase of suitable libraries and apparatus therefor.
Page 193 - Assembly district in the state shall be entitled to six representatives in the normal schools, and in case vacancies exist in the representation to which any Assembly district is entitled, such vacancies may be filled by the President and Secretary of the Board of Regents. 2. Candidates for admission shall be nominated by the...
Page 164 - Cincinnati, read at the last meeting, made the following Report, which was adopted. "The Committee to whom was referred the Communication of...
Page 194 - The Scholastic year is divided into three terms : the first to commence on the first Tuesday of September, and to consist of sixteen weeks ; the second to commence on the Tuesday succeeding New Year's day, and to consist of fourteen weeks ; and the third to consist of ten weeks and to end on the last day of June. Students nominated by County or City Superintendents will be admitted at any time during the term.
Page 39 - The State superintendent of public instruction is hereby authorized to grant State certificates to such teachers as may be found worthy to receive them, which shall be ot perpetual validity in every county and school district in the State. But State certificates shall only be granted upon public examination, of which due notice shall be given, in such branches and upon such terms and by such examiners...
Page 167 - Heath, chairman of the committee on finance, presented the following report, which was accepted and adopted...
Page 35 - He should be appointed by the board, and he may be one of their number, or not, so that the best person to fill* the place is selected. " We should thus secure all the advantages of the town superintendent system, without losing any of the benefits resulting from the establishment of the county superintendency. "5. Economy of administration. All the expenses now incurred in organizing new districts, and in changing the boundaries of old ones, would be saved. Each child being permitted to attend that...
Page 194 - ... a certificate of attendance may be granted by the president of a normal school to any person who shall have been a member of such school for one term; provided, that in his judgment such certificate is deserved. As an addition to the work of the normal schools, the board of regents are authorized to expend a sum not exceeding $5,000 annually,* to sustain teachers' institutes, and may employ an agent for that purpose.
Page 167 - The committee to whom was referred that portion of the President's address relating to...

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