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 RILES AND BY-LAWS 
 
 Of THE 
 
 BOARD or EDUCATION 
 
 Of THE 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLIMBIA 
 
BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 RULES 
 
 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 .1'; 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
 THE CARPENTER PRESS CO. 
 
 1907. 
 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES 
 OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 October 9, 1907. ^hf.^ ^ 01 
 
 The Board of Education, / , 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen: In framing these rules 
 and by-laws of the Board of Education for the 
 government of the public schools of the District 
 of Columbia, your committee has used the old 
 rules as a basis, changing them materially, how- 
 ever, to meet conditions and make them conform 
 to new laws and decisions. 
 
 It is thought that the proposed rules are prac- 
 tical and workable and that they will be the means 
 of placing the schools on a better educational and 
 business basis. As far as practicable the commit- 
 tee has segregated the educational and business 
 features. Whenever the committee was convinced 
 that the rules in other systems were better, it has 
 not hesitated to obtain advantages tesed on ex- 
 perience elsewhere. 
 
 Among the more important changes have been 
 the defining of the duties of the superintendent, 
 the assistant superintendents, directors, super- 
 visors, heads of departments, principals, teachers, 
 janitors and attendance officers. The number of 
 committees has been increased. Definite time has 
 been provided for leaves of absence. 
 
 The fixing of the pay of substitutes is an impor- 
 tant feature. It is thought that the proposed ar- 
 rangement is logical and will prove satisfactory. 
 
 The committee has had the active cooperation 
 of the officers in this work and we desire to assure 
 them of our appreciation. 
 
 The committee had hoped to present these rules 
 more concisely, but after deliberation and observa- 
 tion submits them in their present form for your 
 action. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 (Signed) W. V. Cox, Chairman. 
 Ellen Spencer Mussey. 
 John F. Cook. 
 
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BOARD QF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT 
 OF COLUMBIA 
 
 ' FRANKLIN SCHOOL BUILDING 
 
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 MEMBERS. 
 
 Mr. James F. Oyster 900 Pa. Ave. N.W. 
 
 Mr. WiIvUam V. Cox Second National Bank. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Church TerrEi,i. 326 T St. N.W. 
 
 Mr. John F. Cook 11 18 Sixteenth St N.W. 
 
 Mrs. Eli.En Spencer Mussey Nat'l Met. Bank. 
 
 Mr. W. D. Hoover.. 15th St. and N. Y. Ave. N.W. 
 Dr. Barton W. EvErmann. .1425 Clifton St. N.W. 
 
 Mrs. Justika R. Hill 1738 Q St N.W. 
 
 M^. ?acHARi> R. Horner 604 F St N.W. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
 
 President: 
 
 Mr. James F. Oyster, 900 Pa. Ave. N.W. 
 
 Vice-President: 
 
 D:u Barton W. Evkrmann, 1425 Clifton St N.W. 
 
 Secretary: 
 
 Mr. Hakry O. Hine, 3204 Highland Ave, 
 
 Cleveland Park. 
 
 STANDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 Ways and Means — Mr. Cox, Mr. Hoover, Mr. 
 
 Cook. 
 Elementary Schools and Night Schools — Mr. 
 
 Hoover, Mr. Oyster, Dr. Evermann, Mr. 
 
 Cook, Mrs. Terrell. 
 Normal, High and Manual Training — Dr. Ever- 
 mann, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Homer, Mrs. Hill, 
 
 Mrs. Terrell. 
 Text-Books and Supplies — Dr. Evermann, Mr. 
 
 Hoover, Mrs. Hill. 
 Inspection and Disposal of Unserviceable Material 
 
 — Mr. Cook, Mr. Oyster, Mrs. Mussey. 
 Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors and Sanitation 
 
 — Mr. Hoover, Mr. Cox, Mr. Oyster. 
 Water Supply and Drainage — Mr. Horner, Mr. 
 
 Cook, Mrs. Mussey. 
 Rules and By-Laws — Mr. Cox, Mr. Cook, Mrs. 
 
 Mussey. 
 
Military Affairs and Athletics — Mr. Oyster, Mr. 
 
 Cox, Mr. Homer. /!/.{ r^ 
 
 Playgrounds and Special Schools — Mrs. Mussey/ ' 
 
 Mrs. Terrell, Dr. Evermann. 
 School Gardens^Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Terrell, Mr. 
 
 Horner. 
 Libraries and Lectures — ^Mrs. Terrell, Mrs. Hill, 
 
 Dr. Evermann. 
 
 SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 
 Amendment of Public Act No. 254 — Mrs. Mussey, 
 
 Mr. Cox, Mr. Cook, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Oyster. 
 Teachers' Retirement — Mr. Cox, Dr. Evermann, 
 
 Mrs. Hill. 
 Awards and Prizes (Gait Legacy prise and 
 
 Daughters of the American Revolution) — 
 
 Mrs. Mussey, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Terrell. 
 
 OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. 
 WiLUAM E. Chancellor^ 
 
 Superintendent of Public Schools. 
 Percy M. Hughes, 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools. 
 RoscoE C. Bruce, 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools. 
 
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BY-LAWS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 GUIDANCE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
Article IV.— Duties of OMcers. 
 
 Section L The president shall preside at the 
 meetings of the board and shall appoint commit- 
 tees not otherwise ordered. His approval shall 
 be necessary on all pay-rolls and requisitions for 
 supplies. 
 
 Sec. 11. The vice-president shall act as, and 
 perform the duties of the president in the absence 
 or at the request of the latter. 
 
 Sec. III. The secretary- of the board shall have 
 charge of the office force and shall be the custo- 
 dian of all the records of the Board of Education. 
 
 He shall keep a journal of its proceedings and 
 shall conduct all correspondence pertaining to his 
 office; shall administer the oath of office to all 
 officers and employees; shall certify to all pay- 
 rolls and make and certify to all requisitions for 
 supplies; shall submit a monthly statement of 
 balances on hand to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means, and shall perform such other duties per- 
 taining to his office as are from time to time re- 
 quired of him by the board or its president. 
 
 Article V. — Committees. 
 1 Section I. The standing committees shall bei]^*'* 
 . ' I. On Ways and Means. 
 ; II. On Elementary Schools and Night Schools. 
 
 III. On Normal, High, Manual Training and 
 
 Trade Schools. 
 
 IV. On Text-Books and Supplies. 
 
 V. On Inspection and Disposal of Unservice- 
 able Materials. 
 VI. On Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors and 
 Sanitation. 
 VII. On Water Supply and Drainage. 
 VIII. On Rules and By-laws. 
 ,. IX. On Military Affairs and Athletics. 
 . X. On Playgrounds and Special Schools. 
 XI. On School Gardens. 
 XII, On Libraries and Lectures. 
 
 Article VI. — Duties of Committees. 
 Section I. The Committee on Ways and Means 
 shall_ keep itself advised of the amount of money 
 provided for different school purposes, the method 
 of expenditure of the same and the state of the 
 account, reporting monthly to the Board of Edu- 
 cation the balances on hand. 
 
 It shall, after consultation with the superinten- 
 dent, prepare and submit to the board, not later 
 than September 25th of each year, the annual 
 estimates for the maintenance of the schools, and 
 shall reoresent the board in all matters of legis- 
 lation for the support of the public schools^ 
 
 ; 1 / 
 
All recommendations of the superintendent af- 
 fecting expenditures shall, unless otherwise or- 
 dered, be referred to said conunittee to be trans- 
 mitted with its recommendations to the Board of 
 Education for action thereon. 
 
 Sec. II. The Committee on Elementary and 
 Night Schools shall have general charge of all 
 matters relating to principals, teachers and courses 
 of study in elementary sdiools and the organiza- 
 tion of such schools. 
 
 Nominations made by the superintendent for 
 the appointment, promotion, transfer or dismissal 
 of principals or teachers in elementary or night 
 schools, or of directors or special teachers therein 
 and recommendations made by the superintendent 
 of schools with reference to the organization of 
 courses of study in said schools, shall, unless 
 otherwise ordered, be referred to said committee 
 and shall be transmitted to the Board of Educa- 
 tion at its next meeting with recommendations as 
 to approval or disapproval. 
 
 Sec. III. The Committee on Normal, High, 
 Manual Training and Trade Schools shall have 
 general charge over all matters relating to the 
 principals, teachers and courses of study in such 
 schools. 
 
 Nominations made by the superintendent of 
 schools for the appointment, promotion, transfer 
 or dismissal of principals or teachers in such 
 schools shall, unless otherwise ordered by the 
 board, be referred to said committee and shall 
 be transmitted to the Board of Education at its 
 next meeting with recommendations. 
 
 Sec. IV. The Committee on Text-Books shall 
 keep itself advised of the kind, cost and character 
 of text-books, maps, charts and school apparatus 
 in use or proposed for use in the schools. 
 
 All recommendations of the superintendent of 
 schools in regard to the introduction or change 
 of text-books, shall, unless otherwise ordered by 
 the board, be referred to said committee and be 
 transmitted to the board with its recommenda- 
 tions. 
 
 Sec. V. The Committee on Inspection and Dis- 
 posal of Unserviceable Materials shall keep itself 
 advised of the condition of all school furniture, 
 equipment and materials. It shall from time to 
 time report to the board specific recommendations 
 looking to the improvement of said furniture and 
 eq[uipment and devise methods for the prompt 
 disposal of all womout materials of whatever 
 kind. 
 
., Se.c. VI. The Committee on Sites, Buildings, 
 Repairs, Janitors and' Sanitation shall, from time 
 to time, rep6rt to the board the condition of 
 school buildings and rooms, and shall make such 
 recorhmendations with reference thereto as in its 
 judgment may seem fit; it shall closely supervise 
 the work of the department of repairs ; it shall 
 give special attention to all sanitary matters in 
 the city schools and shall suggest from time to 
 time locations for future school buildings. 
 
 All nominations of janitors and caretakers shall, 
 unless otherwise ordered, be referred to said 
 committee to be reported to the board with rec- 
 ommendations. 
 
 . Sec. VII. The Committee on Water Supply 
 and Drainage shall keep itself advised of the pro- 
 vision made for a proper water supply and drain- 
 age of school buildings and grounds and of all 
 premises rented for school purposes, and make 
 recommendations to the board from time to time 
 looking to a betterment of general sanitary condi- 
 tions in all such school premises. 
 
 Sec. VIIL The Committee on Rules and By- 
 Laws shall submit to the board such changes in 
 and amendments to the rules and by-laws as it 
 may from time to time deem necessary, and shall 
 also consider and report upon such amendments 
 as may be referred to it by the board. 
 
 Sec. IX, _ The Committee on Military Affairs 
 and Athletics shall have general charge of all 
 matters pertaining to military organization and 
 military instruction and athletics in the public 
 schools. ' '\ . 
 
 . Sec. X. The Committee on Playgrounds and 
 Special Schools shall have general charge of all 
 matters relating to playgrounds, ungraded schools 
 and schools for defective pupils and their courses 
 of study' and the work of the truant officers. 
 
 Nominations of principals, teachers and care- 
 takers and recommendations of the superinten- 
 dent as to the management of such playgrounds 
 and schools, shall, unless otherwise ordered, be 
 referred t6- said committee and shall be transmit- 
 ted, with its recommendations to the board for 
 ■.actio'ii thereon.' '. % • ,. , 
 
 Section XI. " The ebtrimittee on School Gardens 
 shall have general charge of all matters relating 
 'to school gardens. 
 
 All nominations of teachers made by the super- 
 .inteiident 'arid all plans for the maintenance and 
 ; extenSA on ; of" such school gardehs shall, unless 
 b'tff^'M^i'se 'otdef^d",' be referred to said committee 
 
and by it reported to the board with recommen- 
 dations. 
 
 Sec. XII. The Committee on Libraries and 
 Lectures shall have general charge of all matters 
 relating to school libraries and to free lectures 
 maintained by the Board of Education, and all 
 nominations and recommendations of the super- 
 intendent relating thereto shall, unless otherwise 
 ordered, be referred to the said committee to be 
 transmitted to the board with its approval or 
 otherwise. 
 
 Sec. XIII. Special Committees may be ap- 
 pointed from time to time, and, unless otherwise 
 ordered, they shall cease to exist upon the per- 
 formance of the special duty to which they are 
 assigned. 
 
 Article XIV.— Reports and Resolutions. 
 
 Section I. All reports of committees shall be 
 in writing and shall be signed by all the members 
 who concur therein. 
 
 Sec. II. No resolut-ion-shall be acted upon un- 
 less presented in writing over the signature of the 
 member presenting it, and when the question is 
 put every member present shall vote, unless ex- 
 cused by a vote of the majority of those present. 
 Article XV. — Rules of Order. 
 
 Robert's Rules of Order shall be the standard 
 of parliamentary practice in all meetings of the 
 board and of its committees. 
 
 Article XVI. — Amendments. 
 
 The by-laws and rules may be altered, amend- 
 ed, repealed, or suspended at any stated meeting 
 of the board by a majority of vote of the whole 
 board ; Provided, That notice of any proposed 
 change shall have been mailed to each member at 
 least three days before the stated meeting at which 
 action is to be taken. 
 
 OATHS OF OFFICE. f^ 
 
 Under an order of the Commissioners of the 
 District of Columbia, dated June 24, 1903, it is 
 provided — • 
 
 "That each officer and employee of the Dfe- 
 trict of Columbia above the grade of day 
 laborer, who has not taken, subscribed and 
 filed an oath of office as required by the order 
 ■rij of December 2, 1897, under his most recent 
 '-;■- appointment, shall immediately do so; and 
 hereafter heads of offices in said District will 
 be held responsible that no such officer or 
 employee, in their respective offices, shall be 
 
permitted to enter upon duty until he, or she, 
 has taken, subscribed and filed such oath.... 
 no compensation will be paid to any officer or 
 employee not having complied with this or- 
 der." 
 In compliance with the foregoing order it will 
 be impossible to certify the pay of any employee 
 until he has subscribed to the proper oath of office. 
 All persons newly appointed must call at the 
 office of the secretary of the Board of Education, 
 either before, or on the day of the commencement 
 of their duties, and comply with the foregoing 
 order. 
 
 RESIDENCES. 
 Every employee must, on the opening day of 
 school, report his residence to the secretary of the 
 Loard of Education on forms to be provided. 
 Every change of residence during the year must 
 be promptly reported on cards to be provided. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM DECISIONS OF THE 
 COMPTROLLER. 
 
 The annual increase of salary is in the nature 
 of longevity pay, that is, increase of pay for length 
 of service. 
 
 If promotions are made from grade to grade 
 only, there will be no increase of salary by reason 
 of promotions from the first to the second grade, 
 or from the third to the fourth, the fifth to the 
 sixth, or the sixth to the seventh. 
 
 On promotion from the second to the third 
 grade, or from the fourth to the fifth grade, or 
 the seventh to the eighth, the teacher would by 
 operation of law be advanced to the next higher 
 class. 
 
 When a teacher is promoted from one class to 
 another he will receive the salary in the class to 
 -vz-hich promoted which is next above his salary 
 in the class to which he was assigned prior to his 
 promotion. 
 
 When a teacher is reduced to a lower class, un- 
 less otherwise provided by law, he can be allowed 
 only the minimum salary in that class, all other 
 salaries therein representing increase of pay for 
 length of service. 
 
 Each emplo3ree who has been employed in the 
 prior year, if his work is satisfactory, shall receive 
 his increased pay on the following dates, whether 
 he has been employed the whole or only part of 
 such year : 
 
All employees on the twelve instalment roll 
 on July I. 
 
 All employees on the ten instalment roll 
 on September i. 
 
 A teacher on probation should not be classified 
 as a qualified teacher and should not become en- 
 titled to the annual increase of salary until he has 
 served as a qualified teacher during a second 
 year. Therefore the salary of a newly appointed 
 teacher in the normal, high or manual training 
 schools for the second year would be the same as 
 for the first year, that is, $i,ooo. 
 
 Salaries of employees paid in ten monthly in- 
 stalments begin on September i of each year. 
 
 Salaries of employees paid in twelve monthly 
 instalments begin on July i of each year. 
 
 Employees specified in Section 4 (except clerks 
 in the administrative offices), the principal of the 
 normal, high and manual training schools pro- 
 vided for in Section 7, and the directors and as- 
 sistant directors provided for in Section 8 are 
 classed as teachers. 
 
 Employees specified in Section 9 and the clerks 
 in the administrative offices are classed as officers. 
 
 Teachers of the normal, high and manual train- 
 ing schools can be promoted from Group A to 
 Group B of class six, for superior work, after 
 fulfilling the requirements of Section 6. 
 
 Employees on the ten instalment roll who are 
 newly appointed by the Board of Education sub- 
 sequent to September ist and who enter their 
 duties on the opening day of school in September 
 are entitled to pay from the date of actual appoint- 
 ment by the Board of Education only. 
 
.1 Vjr 
 
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RULES 
 
 FOR THE GOVERNMENT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
Report 
 enrollemnt. 
 
 Make annual 
 reports -'-''i-'-! 
 
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 Shall' ekftctttfi' 
 orders of supt. 
 and boafdi 
 
 Act as 
 
 first assistant. 
 
 White 
 
 assistant shall 
 act in absence 
 of supt. 
 
 Control 
 
 admission 
 
 to 
 
 hiffh schools. 
 
 lo miaT 
 
 Make courses 
 of study for 
 hig-h and 
 manual 
 trainiuer 
 schools. 
 
 2. At the close of each school year, the superin- 
 tendent shall prepare a table showing the estimated 
 enrollment by grades, of pupils in each school 
 building in the District, for the ensuing year and 
 present an annual report. 
 
 21:, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 ."'3. The assistant superintendents for white and 
 for colored schools shall execute all orders as di- 
 rected by the superintendent of public schools, in 
 accordance with the rules of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, and shall perform such other services to the 
 board and to its committees as may be required. 
 They shall maintain stated and regular office 
 hours, visit schools, conduct all correspondence at- 
 taching to their offices ; assist the superintendent 
 in examinations of pupils, organize such meetings 
 of officers and teachers as may seem expedient, 
 and shall be first assistants to the superintendent 
 for their respective jurisdictions. 
 . The assistant superintendent of white schools 
 shall, in the absence of the superintendent, upon 
 leave granted, be his deputy in respect to all rpat- 
 ters not especially delegated by Act of Congress, 
 to the superintendent of public schools, or to the 
 assistant superintendent for colored schools, oc- 
 cupying at such times a seat at the meetings of 
 the Board of Education and performing all such 
 duties for which he may have the written au- 
 thorization of the superintendent of public schools. 
 
 The respective assistant superintendents shall 
 have the direction and control of the admission 
 of pupils to the several high and manual training 
 schools. This shall include all pupils transferred 
 from the eighth grades and those entering from 
 other schools. 
 
 No pupils shall be demoted from the high 
 schools to the grades without the written approval 
 of the respective assistant superintendents. 
 
 With a view to the unification of the educational 
 work of the white high schools and of all aca- 
 demic and scientific subjects in the McKinley 
 Manual Training School and the Business High 
 School, the white assistant superintendent shall, 
 with the approval of the superintendent of schools 
 and the Board of Education, prescribe the courses 
 of study in the several high and manual' training 
 schools! He shall reconunend to the superin- 
 tendent" of schools all textbooks to be used Jn 
 ?uch courses. He ishall /rom time to time, with 
 the assistance of the "he.^ds of departments, give 
 §uch exarriinati6ns! as ghall test the work done in 
 the several schools. 
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With a view to the unification of the educational 
 work of the colored high schools and of all aca- 
 demic and scientific subjects in the Armstrong 
 Manual Training School, the colored assistant su- 
 perintendent shall, with the approval of the su- 
 perintendent of schools and the Board of Educa- 
 tion, prescribe the courses of study in the several J^"q|^®^,j°* 
 high and manual training schools. He shall assistant supt. 
 recommend to the superintendent of schools all 
 textbooks to be used in such courses. He shall, 
 from time to time, with the assistance of the 
 heads of departments, give such examinations as 
 shall test the work done in the several schools. 
 
 An assistant superintendent may be dismissed 
 for cause. 
 
 DIRECTOR OF INTERMEDIATE 
 INSTRUCTION. 
 
 4. The director of intermediate instruction for 
 the white schools, shall, under the direction of the 
 superintendent of schools, have charge of the Shall 
 standardizing of educational work of grades five standardize-: 
 to eight inclusive, and shall perform such other grades five 
 duties as the superintendent of schools or the toeig-ht. 
 Board of Education may direct. He shall work 
 
 to give larger unity and general effectiveness to 
 the school work in all its phases, such results to 
 be secured by grade meetings of teachers and 
 through visits and study of conditions and needs, 
 and by consultation with the supervising princi- 
 pals individually, and as a body in their meetings. |J^ade^*^^^ 
 
 meetings, 
 
 SUPERVISOR OF MANUAL TRAINING. 
 
 5. The supervisor of manual training shall, 
 under the direction of the superintendent of 
 
 schools, have charge of the unification and gen- Have charge 
 
 eral supervision of the manual training instruc- tra^^ng^ 
 
 tion in the white schools and shall perform such instruction 
 
 duties as the superintendent of schools or the in white 
 
 Board of Education may direct. schools. 
 
 SUPERVISING PRINCIPALS. 
 
 6. Each supervising principal shall be reHeved sbaii 
 
 as far as practicable of purely clerical duties and supervise 
 
 shall, under the direction of the superintendent, ^nstruction 
 
 have supervision of instruction, organization and organization. 
 management of all school work in all the grades, 
 
 and for these he shall be responsible, as well as Responsible 
 
 for the observance and enforcement of all school enforcement 
 
 rules and regulations in his division. of rules. 
 
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Office hours. 
 
 Shall consult 
 with 
 
 superinlend- 
 ent. 
 
 Shall keep 
 correct 
 accotints, etc. 
 
 Shall furnish 
 inventories 
 of property. 
 
 Shall see that 
 all teachers 
 are advised as 
 to rules. 
 
 Shall classify 
 pupils and 
 visit schools. 
 
 Shall 
 
 endeavor to 
 improve 
 methods of 
 instruction. 
 
 Shall notify 
 attendance 
 officer of 
 absentees. 
 
 He shall be in his office thirty minutes before 
 the time of opening each morning session of the 
 schools, and when not engaged in examining- 
 schools (under the direction of the superinten- 
 dent), from 3:30 to 4 o'clock each afternoon that 
 tLe schools are in session. He shall attend at the 
 office of the superintendent for the purpose of 
 consultation at such times as the superintendent 
 may designate. 
 
 He shall be held responsible for all books is- 
 sued to him and for the economical use of all sup- 
 plies. 
 
 Each supervising principal shall keep, accord- 
 ing to forms approved by the Board of Educa- 
 tion, correct accounts and records of all matters 
 committed to his keeping by the superintendent; 
 such accounts and records to be at all times open- 
 to the inspection of the members of the Board 
 of Education, the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
 cation and the superintendent. 
 
 He shall see that all property belonging to the 
 schools of the District of Columbia assigned to 
 his division is properly listed by the various 
 building principals who shall be responsible for 
 its proper care, use and safekeeping. Inventories 
 of property and unexpended supplies shall be 
 .furnished to the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
 cation through the supervising principals at , the 
 close of each school year, ;,; 
 
 The supervising principal shall see that all 
 teachers within his jurisdiction are promptly noti- 
 fied and duly advised as to all rules and orders 
 pertaining to the schools, and will be held re- 
 sponsible for the impartial enforcement of such 
 regulations; he shall see that all the prescribed 
 records are neatly, regularly and correctly kept by 
 the teachers, and that all reports and returns, re- 
 quired by the Board of Education, the secretary 
 of the board or the superintendent are promptly 
 made. He shall, under the direction of the su- 
 perintendent, classify the pupils in the various 
 grades, visit each school as often as practicable, 
 endeavor to improve the methods of instruction,, 
 make such reports as may be required of him, and 
 shall in every way possible, cooperate with the 
 superintendent. 
 
 7. The supervising principals of the several di- 
 visions shall notify the attendance officer every 
 Saturday, in writing, regarding all unexcused ab- 
 sentees. 
 
 DIRECTOR OF PRIMARY INSTRUCTION. 
 
 8. The director of primary instruction shall' 
 
have the same relation to the work and the teach- 
 ers of the first four grades as that which the di- 
 rector of intermediate instruction sustains to the 
 last four grades. He shall work to give larger 
 unity and general effectiveness to the school work 
 in all its phases, such results to be secured by 
 grade meetings of teachers, through visits and 
 study of conditions and needs and by consulta- 
 tion with the supervising principals individually 
 and in a body in their meetings. 
 
 DIRECTORS OF SPECIAL STUDIES. 
 
 9. Directors and assistant directors of special 
 studies shall, under the direction of the superin- 
 tendent of schools, have charge of the standard- 
 izing and general supervision of the instruction in 
 their respective departments. 
 
 HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. 
 
 10. (i) Heads of departments shall be re- 
 sponsible to the superintendent of schools and to 
 the respective assistant superintendents and shall 
 perform all such duties as may be imposed upon 
 them by the superintendent. 
 
 (2) Under the direction of the superintendent 
 of schools, and in the case of the colored schools 
 under the sole charge of the colored assistant su- 
 perintendent, the head of departments shall have 
 duties as follows: 
 
 I. There shall be at least two conferences 
 each half year, of all heads of departments 
 with the principals of high and manual train- 
 ing schools. 
 
 II. Following such conference, heads of de- 
 partments shall hold at least two conferences 
 with the teachers of their departments each 
 half year, and such individual conferences 
 with the teachers of their departments as the 
 case may require. 
 
 III. Heads of departments shall visit the 
 classes of each teacher in their respective de- 
 partments at least once each half year, and re- 
 port upon the instruction thereof in writing, 
 
 ;..... to the superintendent, filing a duplicate copy 
 of each report with the principal of the re- 
 spective high school. 
 
 IV. Each head of department shall prepare 
 as often as practicable, a suitable test for 
 classes in his department, submitting a draft 
 of such test to the superintendent. The heads 
 of departments shall also file with the Su- 
 perintendent the results of the test. 
 
 Shall unify 
 work of first 
 four errades. 
 
 Shall have 
 meetings of 
 teachers. 
 
 Shall have 
 supervision of 
 work in their 
 departments. 
 
 Responsible to 
 superintend- 
 ent. 
 
 Shall confer 
 with princi- 
 pals. 
 
 Shall meet 
 teachers. 
 
 Shall visit 
 classes and 
 report upon 
 instruction. 
 
 Prepare tests. 
 
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Make suffgres- 
 tions in 
 writing-. 
 
 Supervise 
 work of 
 janitors. 
 
 Keep 
 
 efficiency 
 
 record. 
 
 Inspect 
 heating and 
 ventilating 
 apparatus. 
 
 Report needed 
 repairs. 
 
 Duties 
 required by 
 compulsorj' 
 law. 
 
 Report to 
 superintend- 
 ent, 
 
 Care for 
 
 property, 
 
 maintain 
 
 cleanliness 
 
 and supervise 
 
 janitors. 
 
 Supervise 
 school during; 
 recesses. 
 
 Jointly 
 responsible 
 with janitor 
 for safety and 
 care of 
 building-. 
 
 Care for class 
 of absent 
 teacher. 
 
 » v.. All important suggestions shall be re- 
 auced'to writing; and issued in duplicate to 
 each principal, one for his use and one for 
 the use of the teacher. 
 
 VI. Heads of departments shall perform 
 such other services in connection with the 
 work of their departments, as the superin- 
 tendent of schools or the respective assistant 
 superintendents may require. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF JANITORS. 
 
 11. The superintendent of janitors, under the 
 direction of the superintendent, shall supervise 
 the work of all janitors, instruct them in their 
 duties, and keep a written efficiency record on 
 file in the office of the secretary of the Board of 
 Education, reporting every year on forms pre- 
 scribed by the board. He shall inspect the heat- 
 ing and ventilating apparatus in each building; 
 and after conference with the principals, report 
 any needed repairs to the buildings or school 
 equipment to the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
 cation. 
 
 ATTENDANCE OFFICERS. 
 
 12. The attendance officer shall, under the direc- 
 tion of the superintendent of schools and with 
 the approval of the Committee on Playgrounds, 
 perform such duties as are required by the com- 
 pulsory attendance law, and by the rules of the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 The attendance officers shall report directly to 
 the superintendent of schools. 
 
 PRINCIPALS. 
 
 13. Each principal and teacher shall see to the 
 safe keeping of all school property under his care. 
 He shall see that cleanliness is maintained in the 
 school building and to this end shall make fre- 
 quent inspections. Careful supervision of janitors 
 by principals is expected. 
 
 14. The building principal shall supervise the 
 school during recesses, appointing such teachers 
 to assist as he deems expedient. The principal 
 and janitor of each building are jointly and sever- 
 ally responsible for the care and safety of the 
 building. 
 
 15. It shall be the duty of the principal of each 
 building promptly to place the class of an absent 
 teacher under a monitor, and in case of a graded 
 school to notify the supervising principal by tele- 
 phone or otherwise and to see that all rules rela- 
 
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Enforce rules. 
 
 Principal has 
 authority 
 within his 
 building-. 
 
 Report 
 damag-e. 
 
 Janitor may 
 report in 
 emerg-encies. 
 
 Bi-weekly fire 
 drills. 
 
 No drills on 
 
 inclement 
 
 days. 
 
 Who shall 
 have keys. 
 
 tive to pupils, teachers and to janitors are en- 
 forced. 
 
 The principal of a building has authority oyer 
 all teachers, pupils and janitors and their assist- 
 ants in that building. 
 
 i6. Each principal of a graded school shall 
 promptly report in writing to his supervising 
 principal whenever he becomes aware of any dam- 
 age to school property, or of any repairs needed 
 or any other matter which should be brought to 
 the attention of the higher school authorities. 
 The principals of normal, high and manual train- 
 ing schools shall make such report to the secre- 
 tary of the Board of Education. 
 
 ,In emergencies when the school is not in ses- 
 sion, such reports may be made by the janitor, di- 
 rect to the secretary of the Board of Education. 
 
 17. Bi-weekly fire drills shall take place in all 
 school buildings from September to November 
 inclusive, of each year, and monthly thereafter. 
 
 Such drills should not be given on inclement 
 days. 
 
 18. No one shall be permitted to have a key to 
 a school building except the principal of the build- 
 ing, the supervising principal, the superintendent 
 of janitors and the janitor, including the janitor's 
 assistant, by special permission of the supervising 
 principal. 
 
 The issue of keys to the Franklin Building shall 
 be determined by the secretary of the Board of 
 Education. Keys of all schoolrooms shall be kept 
 in a key board under the control of the principal 
 and the janitor. 
 
 APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS AND 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 19. No person shall be appointed as teacher, 
 head of department, principal or supervising prin- 
 cipal in the graded schools, high schools, manual 
 training schools or normal schools, and no direc- 
 tor, assistant director or teacher of special studies 
 shall be appointed until the following requirements 
 are complied with: 
 
 (a) No person shall be appointed teacher 
 of any elementary class who is not a graduate 
 of a Washington normal school or other ap- 
 proved normal school, or who shall not have candidates 
 received from the board of examiners the examined. 
 certificate required for the grade of the school 
 to which appointed, and no such certificate Exceptions. 
 shall be issued to any candidate who shall not 
 have reached the "passing mark" of at least 
 
 Care of keys. 
 
Passing- mark. 
 
 Colleere degree 
 required. 
 
 Assififnmeut 
 of normal 
 graduates. 
 
 Appointments 
 to conform 
 to law. 
 
 Appointment 
 for one year. 
 
 Continued 
 during- g-ood 
 behavior. 
 
 Employees 
 may be 
 assigned, 
 transferred 
 or dismissed. 
 
 Shall hold 
 examinations. 
 
 Issue all 
 circulars and 
 teachers' 
 licenses. 
 
 70 per cent, in his competitive examination: 
 Provided, however, that in case a vacancy ex- 
 ists for which a qualified teach^ cannot be 
 obtained under this rule, such vacancy may be 
 otherwise filled for a period not to exceed one 
 month, until a properly qualified teacher is 
 available, and no longer. 
 
 (b) No person without a degree from an 
 accredited college, or a graduation certificate 
 from an accredited normal school, such nor- 
 mal school graduate to have had at least five 
 years' of experience as a teacher in a high 
 school, shall hereafter be appointed to teach 
 any academic or scientific subjects in the nor- 
 mal, high or manual training schools: Pro- 
 vided, that no such teacher in the normal, 
 high and manual training schools, or teacher 
 of special studies shall be appointed until he 
 shall have passed an examination prescribed 
 by the boards of examiners hereinafter pro- 
 vided for. 
 Graduates of the Washington normal schools 
 shall be assigned to duty as teachers in the or- 
 der of their standing and excellence as shown by 
 the certificates of the principals of the respective 
 schools. 
 
 Said appointments herein referred to must be 
 made in conformity with the provisions of the Act 
 of Congress, approved June 20, 1906. 
 
 20. All appointments of officers, teachers and 
 employees hereafter made shall in the first in- 
 stance be for a period not to exceed one year, at 
 the expiration of which time, if satisfactory, they 
 may be continued during good behavior unless 
 otherwise ordered by the Board of Education. 
 Any officer, teacher or employee may at any time' 
 be assigned or transferred by the Board of Edu- 
 cation to any school, group or grade, or may be 
 dismissed at any time by the board upon the writ- 
 ten recommend? tion of the superintendent in man- 
 ner as provided in Act approved June 20, 1906. 
 
 EXAMINATIONS FOR TEACHERS' PO- 
 SITIONS. 
 
 21. The respective boards of examiners _ shall 
 prescribe and hold such examinations of applicants 
 for positions as teachers, principals and officers as 
 may be necessary to carry out the requirements of 
 the law and the rules of the Board of Education. 
 They shall originate and issue all such circulars 
 of information and other printed or written mat- 
 ter concerning examinations as may be deemed 
 
necessary and shall issue teachers' licenses in 
 manner and form to be prescribed by the Board of 
 Education. Copies of all circulars and other print- 
 ed matter issued by them shall be duly filed for 
 record. 
 
 They shall keep a permanent record of the 
 standing of each candidate in each subject, includ- 
 ing the oral examination. This record shall be 
 open to inspection by the members of the Board 
 of Education. 
 
 They shall report to the Board of Education 
 through the superintendent of schools, at the 
 meeting next following the completion of any ex- 
 amination, the names of the successful candidates 
 arranged in order of rank, with a statement show- 
 ing the total mark of each candidate. 
 
 The names of such persons shall constitute an 
 eligible list from which appointments shall be 
 made in the order of their rank as vacancies oc- 
 cur in the position for which the candidates have 
 respectively qualified. Any name placed upon the 
 eligible list shall remain thereon without further 
 examination for the period of two years. The 
 board of examiners shall transcribe the names 
 of persons on the eligible list into a book which 
 shall be open to inspection by the members of 
 the Board of Education. 
 
 They shall also furnish to any candidate who 
 may make application in writing, his marks in 
 each of the subjects in which he was examined, 
 including the oral examination. 
 
 The board of examiners shall have control 
 over and jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to 
 all of the examinations herein provided. 
 
 22. Each teacher is required to be in the school 
 building at least fifteen minutes before the time 
 for the opening of school, and at the time to 
 record in the principal's office the hour of arrival. 
 The principal of the building shall report monthly 
 in writing to the supervising principal, and in 
 the case of the normal, high and manual train- 
 ing schools, to the assistant superintendent, a 
 record of all his teachers, including special teach- 
 ers, for absence and tardiness. Buildings shall be 
 open for the admission of pupils fifteen minutes 
 before the time for the opening of school. 
 
 23. A teacher must not be absent from school at 
 any time during the school year, except in case 
 of sickness, the presence of contagious disease in 
 the home, or other pressing emergency, notice of 
 which shall be forthwith communicated to the 
 next higher authority. The superintendent may 
 give a written permission to a teacher to be ab- 
 
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 Shall keep 
 permanent 
 record. 
 
 Shall report 
 results. 
 
 Eligible list. 
 
 Furnish 
 marks to 
 candidate on 
 application- 
 
 Teacher must 
 be in building- 
 15 minutes 
 before open Ingr 
 school. 
 
 Principal 
 reports 
 absence and 
 tardiness of 
 teachers. 
 
 Buildings 
 open 15 
 minutes before 
 school. 
 
 Absence of 
 teacher. 
 
Two school 
 daj's allowed 
 to visit 
 schools. 
 
 Teacher must 
 report 
 
 observations 
 in writing-. 
 
 Shall attend 
 meetingrs. 
 
 Absence to 
 be reported 
 in writing-. 
 
 Shall keep 
 record. 
 
 Temperatures 
 of school 
 room recorded. 
 
 sent for the purpose of visiting other schools, not 
 exceeding two school days in any one year, with- 
 out deduction of compensation. This time may 
 be extended at the discretion of the superinten- 
 dent, provided the visiting teacher pays a substi- 
 tute for the time he is absent, over two days. 
 Teachers shall report such visits in writing to the 
 supervising principal, to the principal of the 
 normal school, high or manual training school, 
 or director as the case may be, who will forward 
 the same to the Superintendent. 
 
 24. Each teacher shall attend all meetings to 
 which he is called by his superior officers. In 
 case of failure to do so, the absenting teacher 
 shall furnish to the official who called the meet- 
 ing, a statement, in writing, of the reason for such 
 absence. When possible, the notice of the pro- 
 posed absence shall be prior to the meeting. 
 
 25. Each teacher shall keep a record book of at- 
 tendance, complete the entries in it each day be- 
 fore leaving the schoolroom, and make such re- 
 ports as may be required.^ Each teacher shall 
 keep a record of the proficiency of the pupils in 
 studies, making such entries as may be necessary. 
 Immediately after the annual closing of the 
 schools he shall deposit his record book in the 
 office of his supervising principal, taking care to 
 make and to retain a list of the names of all pu- 
 pils on the rolls at the close of the school year. 
 
 26. Each teacher shall be especially careful as 
 to the ventilation and temperature of his school- 
 room, shall see that the windows are opened for 
 the free admission of air at recesses, and shall 
 be careful that the temperature of the room when 
 occupied by pupils shall not fall below 64 nor 
 rise above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The teacher 
 shall keep a record of the temperature of the 
 schoolroom and place the same on the blackboard 
 at 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock A. M., and at 2 o'clock 
 P. M., of each school day, and the principal of 
 the building may dismiss a class whenever the 
 temperature has remained below 64 degrees until 
 ten o'clock in the morning. The report of such 
 dismissal shall be sent immediately, in writing, to 
 the supervising principal, or in the case of a 
 normal, high or manual training school, to the 
 assistant superintendent, who shall promptly in- 
 vestigate the cause of such failure of the heating 
 system. After the dismissal of a class for this 
 cause, the teacher may be assigned to other du- 
 ties as the supervising principal or the assistant 
 superintendent may see fit. 
 
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27. A teacher shall not give private or extra Shall not give 
 instruction to any pupil or pupils of the public f^stmctioa. 
 schools for money or anything of value other 
 
 than his regular official compensation without the 
 written request of the superintendent first had 
 and obtained, vv^hich consent shall not be given 
 except upon the written request of the parent or 
 guardian. Such instruction shall not be given 
 during school hours. Permission shall not be 
 given to teachers to give private instruction for 
 money or gain to pupils in their own classes. 
 The foregoing prohibition shall not apply during 
 vacation. 
 
 28. When a pupil has been absent from school 
 
 four consecutive half days in any month, the Parent must 
 teacher must at once notify the parent or guardian p^pj^fg^®^ °^ 
 of the pupil's absence. _ absence, 
 
 29. The opening exercises shall include reading 
 
 by the teacher, without note or comment, of a Bible reading- 
 portion of the Bible, repeating the Lord's Prayer, and Lord's 
 and appropriate singing by the pupils. Prayer. 
 
 30. The avoidance of corporal punishment, as 
 far as may be with a due regard to obedience on 
 
 the part of pupils, is enjoined on all teachers, corporal 
 Each case of corporal punishment with the reason punishment 
 therefor, shall be reported promptly by the teacher to be avoided, 
 in charge of the school and forwarded, through 
 the principal and supervising principal, to the 
 superintendent. 
 
 31. Each teacher having in her room a set of 
 adjustable seats and desks, shall at the beginning 
 
 of each half year, measure the pupils with the Furnitnre to 
 measuring rod provided with each set of furniture be adjusted 
 and see to it that the seat and desk are adjusted pupils, 
 to fit the child at all times. 
 
 32. No pupils shall be sent on errands outside . 
 
 of school buildings, except by the supervising or se'nt^oV^* * 
 building principals and then only on urgent school errands, 
 business. 
 
 33. No teacher or other person shall be allowed 
 to present in the public schools, any prize, prem- 
 
 ium or gift to any pupil, except such as are per- or teachers^* ^ 
 
 mitted by order of the Board of Education, nor forbidden. 
 
 shall any educational employee receive any gift 
 
 from any pupil or pupils or their parents, or one 
 
 purchased by the contribution of the pupils as 
 
 such. 
 
 34. Subscriptions for papers, books, publications 
 
 and other articles and canvass for the sale of soiicitia 
 any article within a school building shall not be subscripfions.' 
 permitted at any time, except that agents for 
 regular school textbooks and periodicals may visit 
 the offices of normal, high and manual training 
 
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Concerts, 
 entertain- 
 ments, etc., 
 only by 
 permission 
 of the board. 
 
 Home work. 
 
 Deficient 
 pupils may 
 make up work. 
 
 Employees 
 shall not 
 engragre in 
 other business. 
 
 schools and supervising principals. Pupils when 
 authorized by their principals, may solicit sub- 
 scriptions for their own school periodicals and 
 for their athletic association. 
 
 No other subscriptions or contributions by pu- 
 pils shall be permitted except by consent of the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 35. The pupils of the schools shall not as or- 
 ganized bodies be permitted to engage in anj^ con- 
 cert or public entertainment without permission 
 of the Board of Education. 
 
 No pupil may be solicited in any manner for 
 subscriptions or contributions for any purpose ex- 
 cept for regularly organized or authorized public 
 literary and athletic clubs, without the permission 
 of the Board of Education. 
 
 Application to pupils of the public schools or 
 to their parents through them, through the is- 
 suance of circulars, tickets, and subscription lists, 
 or in any other manner, for contributions or 
 other aid toward any purpose whatever, is pro- 
 hibited. The giving of concerts, fairs, lunches, 
 or other entertainments for money in any school 
 building is prohibited, except by permission of 
 the Board of Education. No mail shall be de- 
 livered to pupils at school buildings, except in 
 connection with authorized publications and ath- 
 letics. 
 
 36. Assignment of lessons for home study may 
 be made as follows: 
 
 3rd grade, 15 minutes daily. 
 
 4th grade, 30 minutes daily. 
 
 5th grade, 45 minutes daily. 
 
 6th grade, 60 minutes daily. 
 
 7th grade, 75 minutes daily. 
 
 8th grade, 90 minutes daily. 
 Teachers must not assign home work which 
 will require more time of an average pupil than 
 is above stated. All assignments of home work 
 must be definite and of such character that the 
 pupil can do the work without assistance. Neither 
 arithmetic, penmanship nor map drawing shall be 
 assigned for study at home. 
 
 37. In grades seven arid higher, pupils who are 
 deficient in half a year's work may, at the option 
 of their class teachers and supervising principal, 
 for good cause, be allowed to take an examina- 
 tion to make up back work, half yearly. 
 
 38. No employee of the Board of Education 
 shall perform services for pecuniary or other con- 
 siderations, except during vacations, in any busi- 
 ness, trade or occupation, without having first ob- 
 tained the written consent of the superintendent. 
 
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39- Teachers shall be rated annually by their 
 respective supervising principals, normal, high 
 or manual training school principals, or directors 
 in case of special teachers, subject to the approval 
 of the superintendent of schools, who shall have 
 power to revise ratings, as a result of personal 
 investigation, 
 
 SALARIES. 
 
 40. The salaries of officers, clerks, ^ engineers 
 and janitors, except as hereinafter provided, shall 
 be paid in twelve monthly installments. 
 
 The salaries of all teachers and clerks and li- 
 brarians m the high and manual training schools, 
 duly elected, whose services commence with 
 the opening day of school and who shall per- 
 form their duties, shall begin on the first day of 
 September and shall be paid in ten monthly in- 
 stallments, the first payment to be made on the 
 first day of October, or as near that date as prac- 
 ticable, and the payment for the month of June 
 to be made upon the completion of the school 
 term in June. The salaries of other teachers 
 shall begin when they enter upon their duties. 
 
 Each and every month shall be held to consist 
 of thirty days, without regard to the actual num- 
 ber of days in any calendar month, thus exclud- 
 ing the thirty-first of any calendar month from 
 the computation and treating February as if it 
 actually had thirty days. Any person entering the 
 service of the schools during a thirty-one day 
 jnonth and serving until the end thereof shall be 
 entitled to pay for that month from the date of 
 entry to the thirtieth day of said month, both 
 days inclusive; and any person entering said 
 service during the month of February and serv- 
 ing until the end thereof shall be entitled to one 
 month's pay, less as many thirtieths thereof as 
 there were days elapsed prior to date of entry : 
 Provided, that for one day's unauthorized absence 
 on the thirty-first day of any calendar month, one 
 day's pay shall be forfeited. 
 
 SUBSTITUTES. 
 
 41. In case of the temporary absence of any 
 teacher, the supervising principal, or the principal 
 of a normal, high or manual training school; 
 should the absence occur in either of these 
 schools, or, the director of special studies in the 
 case of the absence of teachers under his immedi- 
 ate supervision, shall promptly provide a substi- 
 tute, who shall be selected from an eligible list 
 to be recommended by the" superintendent of pub- 
 
 Annual 
 ratiner of 
 teachers. 
 
 Teachers paid 
 in ten 
 installments. 
 
 Salaries begin 
 Septl. 
 
 Thirty days 
 in each month. 
 
 Substitutes 
 to be selected 
 from eligible 
 list. 
 
lie schools and approved by the Board of Edu- 
 cation. In the absence of such list, the most avail- 
 able person shall be selected. 
 
 The employment of every substitute teacher 
 shall be subject to the conditions prescribed in 
 Rule 42 respecting temporary absence. 
 
 42. (a) An employee on the ten installment 
 roll, shall pay the substitute either in the pres- 
 ence of his supervising officer, or by check through 
 the supervising officer, at the following rates : 
 
 Where the absence is not more than thirty con- 
 secutive school days in any one year, the rate for 
 each day of actual substitute service shall be one- 
 fiftieth of a month's salary, as follows : 
 
 _ , $2,500 - $5.00 
 
 Rate of pay 2,400 4,80 
 
 for 2,300 4.60 
 
 substitutes. 2,200 4.40 
 
 2,100.. 4.20 
 
 2,050 ... 4.10 
 
 2,000 . 4.(.X) 
 
 1,950 . 3.90 
 
 1,9(»0 . . 3.80 
 
 1,850 3.70 
 
 1.800 . -. . 3.60 
 
 1,750 . 3.50 
 
 1.700 3.40 
 
 1,650. . 3.30 
 
 1,600 .. 3.20 
 
 1,550 : 3.10 
 
 1.500 3.00 
 
 1,450 2.90 
 
 1,400 2.80 
 
 1,350 2.70 
 
 1,310 2.62 
 
 1,300 2.60 
 
 1.270... 2.54 
 
 1,230 2.46 
 
 1.200 2.40 
 
 1,190 2.38 
 
 1,150 2.30 
 
 1,110 .. 2.22 
 
 1,100 2.20 
 
 $1,070 J2.14 
 
 1,040 2.08 
 
 1,030 2.06 
 
 1.010 2.02 
 
 1,000 2.00 
 
 990 1.98 
 
 •^80.: 1.% 
 
 950 1.90 
 
 920 L84 
 
 900 1.8a 
 
 890 i.lS 
 
 875 1.75 
 
 860 1.72 
 
 850... 1.70 
 
 830 1.66 
 
 825 1.65 
 
 800 1.60 
 
 775 1.55 
 
 750 1.50 
 
 725 1.45 
 
 700 1.40 
 
 675 1.35 
 
 650 1.30 
 
 625 1.25 
 
 000 1.20 
 
 575 1-15 
 
 550 . . l.lO 
 
 525.. .- 1.05 
 
 500 1.00 
 
 Teacher 
 dropped from 
 rolls after 60 
 days absence. 
 
 Where the temporary absence of any teacher 
 exceeds thirty consecutive school days in any 
 year the entire salary of the teacher so tempo- 
 rarily absent for every school day for which sub- 
 stitute service is rendered shall be paid by him, 
 either in the presence of his supervising officer, 
 or by check through the supervising officer, to 
 the substitute; Provided, That should the absence 
 extend over a period of sixty consecutive school 
 days the name of the teacher so temporarily ab- 
 sent shall be automatically dropped from the rolls 
 and the superintendent of schools shall appoint 
 a teacher to the position, subject to the approval, 
 ratification and confirmation of the Board of 
 Education, temporarily and until the regular 
 teacher is in u condition to resume his work, at 
 
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which time the appointment of the temporary 
 teacher shall automatically end, and the name of restored to 
 the regular teacher be restored to the rolls, with- rolls on 
 out loss of longevity pay in accordance with the recovery, 
 provisions of the Act approved June 20, 1906, un- 
 less otherwise ordered by the Board of Educa- 
 tion: Provided, further, that any person so ap- 
 pointed as temporary teacher shall be duly quali- 
 fied as approved in the Act entitled "An Act to 
 Fix and Regulate the Salaries of Teachers, School 
 Officers and Other Employees of the Board of 
 Education of the District of Columbia," approved 
 June 20th, 1906. 
 
 In case of the absence of the principal of any p^ ^ 
 graded school, the supervising principal shall sifbstittttes for 
 designate one of the teachers in the building as principals, 
 acting principal and the principal shall pay to 
 the said acting principal one-half of the allow- 
 ance for session rooms as provided in the Act 
 entitled "An Act to Fix and Regulate the Salaries 
 of Teachers, School Officers and Other Employees 
 of the Board of Education of the District of 
 Columbia," appioved June 20, 1906, during the 
 period of the principal's absence. 
 
 The supervising olhcers shall, on the last day 
 of each school month, on forms to be furnished, 
 report all absences to the secretary of the Boaiid 
 of Education. 
 
 (b) in case of the death of a teacher during ab- i^ case of 
 sence and while a substitute is employed in ac- death of 
 cordance with the provisions of the rule, the teacher, 
 amount due the said substitute shall be paid to 
 said substitute by the estate of the deceased 
 teacher, and before the pay roll for the amount 
 due the estate for the services of the teacher is 
 certified to the Auditor for the District of Colum- 
 bia, the estate shall present a receipt from the 
 said substitute for the sum paid her for her 
 services as such substitute. 
 
 LEAVES OF ABSENCE. 
 
 43. (o) The annual leaves of employees who 
 are paid in twelve instalments shall be arranged 
 as follows : ^avet a?r^ 
 
 Of the superintendent of public schools and g^^nted.^ 
 the secretary of the board, by the Board of 
 Education. 
 
 Of the assistant superintendents, director of 
 intermediate instruction, supervisor of manual 
 training, supervising principals, attendance offi- 
 cers, superintendent of janitors, custodian and 
 assistant custodian of free textbooks and sup- 
 plies, and all librarians and clerks other than 
 
special leaves 
 firranted by 
 Sttpt. or 
 board,. 
 
 Onreturti 
 from leave 
 teacher takes 
 first vacancy. 
 
 Work must be 
 completed 
 before leave 
 is crranted. 
 
 Employees 
 shall report 
 for duty when 
 required. 
 
 those in the office of the secretary of the board, 
 by the supermtendent of schools. 
 
 Of clerks in the office of the secretary of the 
 Board of Education, by the secretary of the board. 
 
 Of the janitors, by the superintendent of jani- 
 tors. 
 
 All are subject to the approval of the president 
 of the Board of Education, unless otherwise sped" 
 iied. 
 
 Applications for leave shall be made in writ- 
 ing to the proper officer, and after approval, shall 
 be filed in the office of the secretary of the board. 
 
 (b) Except as hereinotherwise provided, leaves 
 of absence may be granted to officers and teach- 
 ers by the Board of Education or the superinten- 
 dent of schools, in writing, on account of illness 
 or for educational advantages. When granted by 
 the superintendent of schools, such leaves of ab- 
 sence shall be reported by him at the next meet- 
 ing of the Board of Education: Provided, That 
 unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Edu- 
 cation, a teacher at the expiration of his leave of 
 absence shall be appointed to the first vacancy in 
 any grade for which he may be qualified; but no 
 leave of absence shall be granted to a teacher who 
 seeks such leave to engage in another occupation 
 for pay or for other than purely educational 
 profit: Provided, further, That sliould the leave 
 of absence extend to the end of the school year 
 during which it was granted, the teacher, when 
 reinstated, if to the same class held before taking 
 leave of absence, shall be entitled to the longevity 
 pay provided for in the Act approved June 20, 
 1906, as if he had been in the service of the 
 schools during the preceding year, unless other- 
 wise ordered by the Board of Education. 
 
 No leave of absence shall be allowed to any em- 
 ployee of the Board of Education until he has 
 furnished all reports, requisitions and other in- 
 formation that may be required by these rules, 
 by a superior officer or by the Board of Educa- 
 tion and has satisfactorily performed such duties 
 as in the judgment of the board or the superin- 
 tendent, as the case may be, are necessary to the 
 proper conduct of the schools. 
 
 All officers, teachers and other employees shall 
 report for duty at such time prior to the open- 
 ing day of the schools in September, as may be 
 required by the president of the board or the 
 superintendent of schools. 
 
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JANITORS. 
 
 44. All appointments of janitors and caretakers 
 
 shall be made by the Board of Education upon 4?omm?ndS 
 
 the written recommendation of the Committee on tionofcom- 
 
 Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors and Sanitation, mittee. 
 
 All janitors and caretakers shall be appointed on probation 
 
 on probation for a period not exceeding six for six 
 
 months. months. 
 
 Substitutes may be employed by the janitors 
 and caretakers with consent of the superinten- substitute 
 dent of janitors for not exceeding ten consecutive janitors, 
 days. 
 
 45. Each janitor shall be subject to the orders p^^clpais 
 of the principal of his building. He shall be re- 
 sponsible for all damage done through his neglect Duties, 
 or carelessness. He shall make and regulate the 
 
 fires; notify the principal in season when fuel is 
 needed, take proper care of the heating appa- 
 ratus; sweep, dust and wash the rooms, halls and 
 windows; keep the water closets and outhouses 
 clean and in good order at all times; keep the 
 playgrounds and grass plots in a cleanly con- 
 dition; guard the building, furniture, fences and 
 grounds ; see that the window blinds, doors and 
 gates are securely fastened when the school is 
 not in session; receipt for all materials delivered 
 and keep a faithful record of same. He shall 
 promptly make such reoairs as he is able to Repairs to be 
 make and report to the principal all other repairs made, 
 needed, and do such other work as properly be- 
 longs to the janitor, such as washing ink wells, 
 cleaning blackboards and erasers, providing water 
 for the use of the teachers and pupils, as- 
 sist in maintaining order and going on official 
 errands for the principal when the heating appa- 
 ratus is not in use. The janitor of a steam or shaiinotbe 
 furnace heated building shall not be absent under absent when 
 any circumstances during school hours when the beating 
 heating apparatus is in use. fn Ste.^*"*^ '^ 
 
 In the case of the temporary absence of any 
 janitor or caretaker for any cause, except in the 
 perfbrmance of his official duties, the entire daily 
 salary of each janitor or caretaker so temporarily Eutiresaiarr 
 absenting himself shall be paid by him in the Juistkate r- 
 presence of his supervising officer to the substi- 
 tute, selected to perform the duties of the said 
 absent janitor or caretaker for such time as he 
 may be required to perform such service: Pro- 
 vided, That should the absence extend over a 
 period of thirty consecutive days 1- any year the 
 name of the janitor or caretaker so temporarily 
 absent shall be automatically dropped from the 
 
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Dropped from 
 rolls after 30 
 days absence. 
 
 Restored to 
 rolls on 
 recovery from 
 illness. 
 
 Two years' 
 course. 
 
 Required to 
 sigrn pledge of 
 service as 
 teacher for 
 two years. 
 
 Educational 
 qualifications. 
 
 Diploma 
 equivalent to 
 lowest 
 teacher's 
 certificate. 
 
 Appointed in 
 order of rank. 
 
 rolls and the superintendent of public schools 
 shall appoint a janitor or caretaker to the po- 
 sition, subject to the approval, ratification and 
 confirmation of the Board of Education, tempo- 
 rarily and until the regular janitor or caretaker 
 is in a condition to resume his work, at which 
 time the appointment of the temporary janitor or 
 caretaker will automatically end and the name 
 of the regular janitor or caretaker be restored to 
 the rolls, unless otherwise ordered by the Board 
 of Education: Provided, further, That all ab- 
 sences of any janitor or caretaker shall be re- 
 ported on the last day of each school month, on 
 forms to be furnished to the secretary of the 
 Board of Education by the supervising officers. 
 
 NORMAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 46. The course of study in the Washington 
 normal schools shall be mainly professional and 
 shall extend over a period of not less than two 
 years. 
 
 47. Each candidate before being admitted to the 
 school shall be required to sign the following 
 pledge : 
 
 "I, the subscriber, desire to enter the nor- 
 mal school for the purpose of preparing my- 
 self for teaching, and I declare it to be my 
 intention to continue in said school until I 
 have completed the prescribed course of study 
 and then to devote myself to the work of 
 teaching in the public schools for the term 
 of two years." 
 
 48. No person shall be eligible for examination 
 for admission to either of the normal schools who 
 has not completed the full four years' course of 
 study in the Washington high schools, in a high 
 school of equal grade therewith, or the full equiva- 
 lent thereof, to be determined by examination by 
 the superintendent. 
 
 49. Each graduate of a Washington normal 
 school shall be awarded, by the Board of Edu- 
 cation, upon the written recommendation of the 
 principal of the school, approved by the superin- 
 tendent, a diploma which shall be equivalent to 
 the lowest teacher's certificate in the District of 
 Columbia. Appointments as teachers shall be 
 made in order of rank, from an eligible list, made 
 by the faculties of the respective normal schools 
 with the approval of the superintendent. Credits 
 may be give i for successful experience after 
 graduation. Successful experience as substitute 
 mav be counted. 
 
PUPILS. 
 
 50. Separate schools for white children and for 
 colored children shall be provided. Separate 
 
 51. So far as practicable, not more than forty schools, 
 pupils shall be assigned to one teacher. 
 
 ADMISSIONS. 
 
 52. All children above the age of six years, who are 
 whose parents are residents of the District of entitled to 
 Columbia, or are engaged in business or public admission, 
 duties in said District, or who own property in 
 
 and pay taxes levied by the Government of the 
 District of Columbia, are entitled to admission 
 into the schools, within the division in which they 
 reside, for which, on examination, they may be 
 found qualified ; and all non-resident pupils whose 
 parents are not engaged in business or public du- 
 ties in said District, or who do not own prop- 
 erty in and pay taxes levied by the Government 
 of the District of Columbia, may be admitted to 
 such school buildings as may be determined by 
 the school authorities, and taught in said public 
 schools on payment of such amount as will cover Tuition 
 the expense of their tuition and cost of textbooks chargres. 
 and supplies necessaiy for their use, said amount 
 to be fixed by the Board of Education, with the ap- 
 proval of the Commissioners of said District, and 
 all payments thereunder shall be made to the Col- 
 lector of Taxes for the District of Columbia, not 
 later than the tenth day of each school month, and 
 a failure to make full payment of the tuition fee, 
 in advance, within said ten days, excepting Sun- 
 days and legal holidays, shall constitute sufficient 
 cause for the immediate dismissal of the pupil; 
 unless, within said ten days, the parent or law- 
 ful guardian shall file in the office of the Board 
 of Education, a statement with an attached affi- 
 davit proving his claim to the exemption from 
 tuition charges ; and provided further that the en- 
 tire amount due for one school year may be paid 
 in at one time, if the parent or guardian so de- 
 sires. 
 
 Every parent, guardian or other person resid- Children 
 ing in the District of Columbia, having charge ]>etween 8 and 
 and control of a child between the ages of eight att?nX 
 and fourteen years shall cause such child to be 
 regularly instructed in the elementary branches 
 of knowledge, including reading, writing, English 
 grammar, geography, and arithmetic, and pur- 
 suant to this end every such parent, guardian 
 or other person aforesaid shall cause any child 
 under the charge and control of such person, to 
 
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attend some public, private or parochial school 
 during the period of each year the public schools 
 in the District of Columbia are in session, on the 
 customary days and during the customary hours 
 of the school term: Provided, That no child 
 shall be credited with attendance upon a private 
 or parochial school unless the attendance officer 
 receives a certificate of attendance signed by the 
 person in charge of such school: Provided, fur- 
 ther, That a child between the ages aforesaid 
 may be excused from school attendance or in- 
 struction upon presentation of satisfactory evi- 
 dence to the superintendent of schools that such 
 child is being or has been within said year in- 
 structed a like period of time in the branches 
 taught in the public schools, or that such child has 
 acquired these branches of learning, or that the 
 physical or mental condition of such child is such 
 as to render such attendance or instruction in- 
 expedient or impracticable. 
 Vaccination No pupil shall be admitted to any school or 
 
 class who has not been duly vaccinated or other- 
 wise protected against smallpox, nor shall any 
 child be admitted while suffering from, or who 
 ,, is liable to spread any contagious disease. A cer- 
 tificate from the Health Officer of the District 
 of Columbia, issued to the principal of the school 
 building, may in any case be required of the 
 parents or guardians of the pupil, certifying that 
 such pupil has been successfully vaccinated or is 
 otherwise protected from smallpox or any other 
 contagious disease; provided, that after vaccin- 
 ation in the regular method approved by the 
 Health Officer the pupil may attend school for 
 ten days, and upon the expiration of said ten days 
 such pupil shall furnish a certificate from a 
 physician or the Health Officer that said vac- 
 cination has been successful or that the pupil has 
 been revaccinated. In case of such revaccination 
 the pupil may again attend for a period of ten 
 days thereafter, when the further certificate pro- 
 vided for shall be presented; provided, further, 
 that when the Health Officer shall be satisfied 
 from successful vaccination or otherwise that a 
 pupil is immune from smallpox or other con- 
 tagious disease and shall so certify, the pupil may 
 be admitted. 
 Application 53. Application for admission shall be made to 
 
 for: admission, ^^vz principals of the respective buildings, and in 
 high schools, to the assistant superintendents. 
 
 54. At the commencement of each school half 
 year, the order of admission of pupils shall be 
 as follows: 
 
 Order of 
 admission 
 
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(a) The pupils who were such at the close 
 of the preceding half year: Provided, That 
 they return on the first school day of each 
 term. 
 
 (b) Pupils transferred in due form from 
 other school buildings who must first have 
 been entered on the rolls of the other 
 schools. 
 
 (c) Applicants in the order of presenting 
 themselves. 
 
 PROMOTIONS. 
 
 55. Promotions of pupils to higher grades shall 
 be of two classes — regular and special. Promotions. 
 
 Regular promitions shall be made at the close 
 of each school half year; all other promotions 
 shall be special. 
 
 (a) In kindergarten and in primary grades 
 all pupils on the school roll after April 30th 
 and October 30th may be regularly promoted 
 by the teacher, subject to the approval of the 
 supervising principal in charge. 
 
 Special promotions may be made by the 
 teacher with the consent of his supervisor. 
 
 (b) In the intermediate grades regular 
 promotions shall include those pupils only 
 who are on the school rolls at the close of 
 the half year, and shall be made by the 
 teacher, subject to the approval of the su- 
 pervising principal in charge. In the 5th, 6th 
 and 7th grades a pupil may be specially pro- 
 moted by the supervising principal in charge, 
 with the consent of the teacher, if satisfac- 
 tory reasons are given for such action. No 
 pupil in grades below the 8th shall be pro-' ^. 
 moted, without the consent of the teacher, un- 
 less he shall pass satisfactorily an examina- 
 tion given him by his supervising principal. 
 Pupils not regularly promoted from the 8th 
 grade to the high school, shall be specially 
 promoted thereto provided they meet satis- 
 factory requirements governing the entrance 
 of pupils from schools other than the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia grade schools. 
 
 (c) Promotions in a high, normal or man- 
 ual training school shall be under the direc- 
 tion and control of the principal thereof. 
 
 (d) In case a pupil shows extraordinary ' 
 ability, his promotion may be authorized by 
 the superintendent of schools without regard 
 to the above requirements. 
 
 In all other cases promotions shall be made un- 
 der the rules. 
 
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Withdrawals. 
 
 Suspensions 
 
 Dismissals. 
 
 Transfers. 
 
 Transfers 
 from one 
 division to 
 another. 
 
 Non-payment 
 of tuition 
 chargres. 
 
 Ungraded 
 schools. 
 
 The reports of the attendance, conduct and 
 scholarship of the pupils of the public schools 
 shall be prepared by the teachers upon forms 
 furnished by the superintendent of schools. 
 These reports shall be issued six times in the 
 year, and shall be returned to the schools with 
 the signature of a parent or guardian. 
 
 HOW MEMBERSHIP OF PUPILS MAY 
 TERMINATE. 
 
 56. .(a) A pupil may be withdrawn from school 
 on notice from a parent or guardian, the notice 
 being given to the principal of the building. 
 
 (t) A pupil may be suspended, subject to the 
 provisions of the Compulsory Education Act, by 
 the principal of a normal school, high school 
 or manual training school, or in case of a graded 
 school, by the order of a supervising principal on 
 the recommendation of a building principal and 
 teacher. Such suspension shall be immediately re- 
 ported in writing to the superintendent of schools. 
 
 (c) A pupil may be dismissed by the superin- 
 tendent of schools or by a vote of the Board of 
 Education, Such dismissed pupil shall have the 
 right of appeal to the Board of Education when 
 dismissed by the superintendent.^ Each case of 
 suspension or dismissal shall be immediately re- 
 ported to the parent or guardian. 
 
 (d) A pupil may be transferred by the super- 
 vising principal within a division, and between 
 divisions by agreement of the two supervising 
 principals, whose divisions are involved, but in 
 thr case of a change of residence, transfer shall 
 be made without the consent of either officers or 
 principals. Transfers of pupils between high 
 schools shall be made under the direction of the 
 assistant superintendents. 
 
 No pupil shall be transferred from one graded 
 school to another without a transfer ticket is- 
 sued by the supervising principal on a recom- 
 mendation of the building principal and teacher. 
 
 (^) A non-resident pupil subject to tuition 
 charges, may on ten days' notice, be suspended 
 from school upon the failure of his parent or 
 guardian to pay tuition charges, when so certified 
 by the secretary of the board to the superinten- 
 dent of schools. 
 
 (f) A pupil who is an habitual truant, who is 
 willfully and habitually absent from school, or 
 who cannot be controlled by the regular school 
 discipline while in attendance upon school, shall 
 be committed to a special or ungraded school for 
 
instruction, and such pupil shall be restricted to 
 such school for instruction until satisfactory evi- 
 dence of improvement is furnished by the teacher 
 in charge, whereupon such pupil may be restored 
 to a graded school in the district in which he 
 resides. 
 
 The following offenses, severally, furnish suffi- causes for 
 cient cause for the transfer of pupils to ungraded suspension or 
 classes or for suspension or dismissal in cases to dismissal. 
 which the Compulsory Education Law does not 
 apply : 
 
 Immoral conduct, indecent language, violent 
 or pointed opposition to authority, persistent 
 disobedience or disorder, habitual tardiness, 
 unauthorized absence, and uncleanly condition 
 of person or clothing. 
 
 ABSENCE. 
 
 57. Unauthorized absence is that for which the 
 excuse of personal sickness, or contagious disease 
 in the home cannot be given, or when there is Unauthorized 
 no written authority for absence emanating from absence, 
 the superintendent of schools: Provided, That 
 such notification from the superintendent must 
 reach the teacher before the expiration of the 
 third session day or the sixth half session day: 
 Provided, further. That in any case of unau- 
 thorized absence for three day sessions or six 
 half-day sessions, within any period of five 
 months, a written notice shall immediately be 
 sent to the attendance officer by the teacher in 
 charge of the school or class, and that such at- 
 tendance officer shall send a written notice to the 
 parent, guardian or other person having charge 
 of said child informing him that the attendance 
 of the child is required at school within a period 
 of three days : Provided, further, That if the 
 said child is not excused as provided for in Sec- 
 tion I of the Compulsory Law, approved June 
 8th, 1906, prosecution shall be begun against the 
 parent, guardian or other person in control of the 
 child as provided for in Section 2 of said Act. 
 
 No pupil who has been absent or who appears Excuses for 
 after the opening of school shall be admitted absence, 
 without a satisfactory excuse from the parent or 
 guardian for the absence,^ or tardiness, or with- 
 out satisfactory explanation of the remissness. 
 Sickness and imperative business are alone to be 
 regarded as satisfactory causes of absence. No 
 pupil shall be allowed to be absent from school 
 during the regular session to take music, drawing, 
 
 dancing, or other lessons, without the written per- 
 
Excused on 
 holy days. 
 
 Good order 
 
 and 
 
 cleanliness. 
 
 Prohibited 
 from injuring; 
 school 
 property. 
 
 Shall not use 
 tobacco or 
 profane 
 langruagre. 
 
 Damaere must 
 be repaired. 
 
 No secret 
 orgranizations. 
 
 mission of the superintendent, and no pupil shall 
 be allowed to depart before the appointed hour of 
 leaving school, except in case of sickness or some 
 other pressing emergency, and the teacher in 
 every case shall be the judge of the sufificiency of 
 the cause. The teacher may require excuses to 
 be made in writing, and all notes of excuse shall 
 be preserved until the close of the school year. 
 
 58. At the request of a parent or guardian, 
 teachers shall excuse a pupil from attendance at 
 school on school days observed as holy days by 
 th^ denomination to which the parent or guardian 
 belongs. All absence from school on school days 
 must be duly recorded in the record books and 
 reported. 
 
 CONDUCT OF PUPILS. 
 
 59. Good order and propriety of deportment, and 
 cleanliness in person and attire are expected from 
 each pupil. The pupil is required to keep all 
 books clean and sound to the standard of or- 
 dinary wear, to arrange neatly tlie contents of 
 his desk, to enter and leave the schoolroom in a 
 respectful manner and without unnecessary noise, 
 and to depart quickly from the neighborhood of 
 the school immediately on being dismissed, ex- 
 cept on permission of building principal. The 
 jurisdiction of the teacher shall extend to the 
 pupil in coming to and going from school. 
 
 60. No pupil shall mark, cut, scratch, chalk, or 
 otherwise disfigure or injure any portion of a 
 school building or anything connected therewith. 
 He shall not use tobacco in any form at or go- 
 insr to or from school, use any profane language 
 or indecent language, throw stones or other mis- 
 siles, annoy or maltreat others, nor do anything 
 that may disturb the school or its neighborhood. 
 Any pupil materially injuring or destroying any 
 school supply shall replace or pay for the same. 
 Any damage done to a school building or any of 
 its equipments must be repaired at the expense 
 of the offender. The money received in fines for 
 injuries to property shall be payable by the par- 
 ent of the child to the Collector of Taxes of the 
 District of Columbia. 
 
 61. There shall be no organization of any so- 
 ciety or association among pupils as such, except 
 that musical, literary and athletic societies or 
 clubs of open membership whose boards of gov- 
 ernors shall be composed of equal members of 
 teachers and pupils, and senior class organiza- 
 tions in high schools, may be permitted on the 
 written order of the superintendent of schools, 
 
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 the same to be reported to the Board of Edu- 
 cation. 
 
 SCHOOIv YEAR AND SESSIONS. 
 
 62. The school year shall commence on the first 
 day of July of each year, and shall end on the 
 last day of the following June. The schools shall 
 be in session on all week days of the school year, 
 except the following: 
 
 Every Saturday. 
 
 From the Thursday faUing between the 
 i8th and 24th of June inclusive, until the Fri- 
 day before the Monday falHng between the 
 17th and 23rd of the following September, in- 
 clusive. 
 Thanksgiving Day and the day following. 
 From the day before Christmas Day until 
 New Year's Day, both inclusive, and when 
 the second day of January is observed as New 
 Year's Day, it shall be included; and when 
 New Year's Day falls on Thursday, the fol- 
 lowing Friday shall be included. 
 
 Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, 
 and when either or both fall on Thursday, 
 the Friday following shall be included. 
 
 From Good Friday until the Friday follow- 
 ing, both inclusive. 
 No other holidays shall be granted except by 
 direction of the Board of Education. 
 
 In emergencies, the schools may be closed by 
 order of the president of the Board of Education. 
 The grade schools shall be opened at 9 o'clock 
 A. M., and shall be closed at 3 o'clock P. M. 
 A recess of fifteen minutes shall be given at 10 :30 
 o'clock A. M., one of seven minutes at 2 P. M., 
 and one of sixty minutes at twelve M. On stormy 
 days the noon recess may be dispensed with and 
 the schools closed at i o'clock by permission of 
 the supervising principal. 
 
 In all half day grade schools the daily session 
 shall be: For the first and second grades, not 
 exceeding three and one half hours ; and a recess 
 of fifteen minutes shall be given in the middle 
 of each session. 
 
 MILITARY AFFAIRS. 
 
 63. The military affairs of the high and man- 
 ual training schools shall be under the direction 
 of the Committee on Military Affairs and Ath- 
 letics of the Board of Education and shall be 
 administered by the respective assistant superin- 
 tendents. All regimental and staff appointments 
 shall be made from a list of pupils who stand 
 
 Length of 
 school year. 
 
 Not school 
 days. 
 
 President of 
 board may 
 close schools. 
 
 School hoursi 
 
 Hours for 
 half -day 
 schools. 
 
 Ofl&cers how 
 selected. 
 
Commissions. 
 
 highest in scholarship and deportment, and whose 
 military service in the cadet corps has covered 
 at least three years. The number of candidates 
 for regimental and staff appointments shall be 
 limited to two for every company which the high 
 and manual training schools, except the Business 
 High School, shall have had at the close of the 
 previous school term. These officers shall be se- 
 lected for military fitness by a committee com- 
 posed of the military instructor of high schools, 
 and such experts in the army or militia of the 
 District of Columbia as may be designated by the 
 Military Committee of the Board of Education. 
 Regimental and staff officers shall be chosen ir- 
 respective of the company or battalion to which 
 the candidates had been attached, except in case 
 of appointment to majorities, which shall be made 
 from the battalion which the major is to com- 
 mand. All nominations for company commis- 
 sions shall be severally made by the principals of 
 the respective schools in which the companies are 
 located and under regulations governing regi- 
 mental and staff appointments, except as to length 
 of service. In all cases the nominations shall be 
 approved by the Committee on Military Affairs 
 and reported to the Board of Education. 
 
 The Committee on Military Affairs shall issue 
 commissions to officers, which shall be signed by 
 the president of the Board of Education, the 
 chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, 
 the superintendent, assistant superintendent, the 
 principal of the school and the military instruc- 
 tor. 
 
 ATHLETICS. 
 
 64. The president of the board shall appoint, 
 to serve during its pleasure, a Committee of Ap- 
 peal from the Board of Faculty Advisers in re- 
 spect to all matters of athletics connected with 
 the public schools, to be composed of persons not 
 connected with the public schools and who are 
 not graduates of the Washington high schools. 
 The findings of the Board of Appeals shall be 
 final. The Board of Faculty Advisers of School 
 Athletics shall consist of one member of the 
 prerorefni^s^^ faculty from each school, to be designated by 
 the principal of the school. The Board of Fac- 
 ulty Advisers shall prepare all rules for the con- 
 trol of athletics in the schools, and report them 
 from time to time, in writing, to the Military 
 Committee of the Board of Education whose 
 ratification of the rules shall be final, and shall 
 be entered upon the records of the Board of Edu- 
 cation. 
 
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 Committee of 
 Appeal. 
 
 Faculty 
 
SUSPENSIONS AND DISMISSALS OF 
 EMPLOYEES. 
 
 65. The president of the Board of Education 
 shall be authorized to suspend temporarily any 
 employee of the schools, for cause, subject to re- 
 port in writing to the Board of Education at its 
 next regular or special meeting. Any person 
 under suspension by order of the president of the 
 Board of Education may appeal to the board at 
 its regular or special meeting. The grounds of 
 appeal shall be stated in writing prior to the 
 meeting and filed with the secretary of the board. 
 
 66. Any employee who shall be absent from 
 duty without leave, may be suspended by the 
 president of the board and dismissed by the 
 board. The suspension from duty of any em- 
 ployee shall also involve deduction of compensa- 
 tion from the date of suspension, unless other- 
 wise ordered by the board. 
 
 ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD. 
 
 67. The attorney for the board may be con- 
 sulted, and shall render legal advice, or action, 
 upon all matters relating to the administration of 
 school affairs. 
 
 The opinions of the attorney shall be kept on 
 file in the office of the secretary of the board, in 
 a book provided for the purpose, indexed with 
 appropriate reference to the particular subject- 
 matter considered. 
 
 When charges have been originated or preferred 
 against a teacher or other person in the employ 
 of the schools, and a trial or investigation is to be 
 had thereon, the papers and data in the case shall 
 be referred to the attorney, and he be requested 
 to prepare the complaint in due form for trial 
 under Section 10 of the Act approved June 20, 
 1906. 
 
 TRIALS. 
 
 68. These rules are adopted in explanation and 
 furtherance of Section 10 of the Act of June 20, 
 1906. 
 
 **Being investigated," as mentioned in Section 
 10, shall refer to an investigation made by the 
 board, or a proper committee thereof, or by 
 some officer or other person acting under the "au- 
 thority of the board or such committee." 
 
 The right of attendance of counsel and friend 
 shall be construed to exist at the first stage of 
 the investigation or trial at which the party in- 
 volved is formally accused. • 
 
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 Presideut of 
 board may 
 suspend 
 employees. 
 
 Appeal may 
 be taken. 
 
 Employee 
 absent without 
 leave may be 
 suspended, 
 
 Shall advise 
 the board. 
 
 Shall prepare 
 complaint 
 when charg-es 
 are made. 
 
 "Beingr 
 
 investigated" 
 
 defined. 
 
 Right of 
 attendance 
 of counsel and 
 friend, 
 
Procedure of 
 trial. 
 
 Notice to 
 
 accused 
 
 person. 
 
 Time of trial. 
 Witnesses. 
 
 Reerular order 
 of communi- 
 cations. 
 
 Procedure of trial shall be as follows : 
 
 The charges preferred shall be put in writing, 
 signed by the person making the complaint, and 
 countersigned by the superintendent. Each charge 
 shall be specifically set forth with due regard to 
 the time, place and character thereof. 
 
 To the complaint shall be appended an order 
 signed by the president of the board directing 
 the party accused to appear before the board for 
 trial or investigation, at a meeting to take place 
 not less than five days, exclusive of Sundays, af- 
 ter the day of the service of copy of complaint on 
 the person accused. 
 
 Said complaint shall be filed with the secretary 
 in a separate jacket properly titled. A copy of 
 the said complaint shall be served personally on 
 the person accused. 
 
 The trial or investigation shall not take place 
 earlier than five days, exclusive of Sundays, after 
 the date of the service of the complaint, and no- 
 tice to appear on the person accused. A person 
 accused shall have the right to summon any per- 
 son in the employ of the schools to attend the 
 trial as a witness in his behalf by giving notice 
 in writing to the secretary of the particular per- 
 sons desired as such witnesses. 
 
 The proceedings of the trial shall conform as 
 nearly as possible to the legal practice and usage. 
 
 ORDER OF TRANSMITTAL OF OFFICIAL 
 COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 69. All official communications of whatever na- 
 ture from teachers or other employees of the 
 Board of Education, except such as are elsewhere 
 in these rules otherwise provided for, shall be 
 sent first to the person next higher in authority 
 for his action; and all communications to the 
 Board of Education from any of its employees, 
 shall be transmitted in regular order to the su- 
 perintendent of schools, who shall present the 
 same to the board, with or without his approval. 
 
 The order of transmittal shall be: 
 
 In the graded schools, from the teacher or jani- 
 tor to the principal, the supervising principal, 
 the assistant superintendent, the superintendent, 
 the Board of Education. 
 
 In the normal, high and manual training 
 schools, from the teacher or janitor, to the princi- 
 pal, the assistant superintendent, the superin- 
 tendent, the Board of Education. 
 
 In the special departments, from the special 
 teacher to the director, the assistant superinten- 
 
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dent, the superintendent, the Board of Education. 
 
 In the office of the secretary of the board, from 
 the clerk to the secretary and to the Board of 
 Education. 
 
 Clerks to principals and school officers, through 
 their immediate superiors to the assistant superin- 
 tendent, the superintendent, the Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Communications on business matters shall be 
 sent through the regular channels to the secre- 
 tary of the board. 
 
 APPEALS. 
 
 70. Appeals may be taken from the decision of 
 any principal, supervising principal or director 
 to the assistant superintendent, the superinten- 
 dent and finally to the Board of Education in the 
 order named. 
 
 Appeals from the superintendent of janitors 
 and attendance officers shall be to the superin- 
 tendent of public schools and to the Board of 
 Education. Appeals from all other employees 
 shall follow the regular order of transmittal. 
 
 Pending an appeal the decision stands. 
 
 CONDUCT OF EMPLOYEES. 
 
 71. The Board of Education will take no cog- 
 nizance of complaint against an employee for non- 
 payment of debts, so far as the creditor is con- 
 cerned, beyond acknowledging the receipt of his 
 communication. An employee whose services are 
 otherwise satisfactory, and who contracts a debt 
 on the strength of his official position, and then, 
 without sufficient reason neglects or avoids pay- 
 ment thereon, may be liable to dismissal. Com- 
 plaints of this character will be considered in the 
 teacher's official rating. 
 
 72. The use of tobacco by any employee in or 
 about a school building is prohibited. 
 
 JZ-^ All officers, teachers and employees of thlT 
 public schools in the District of Columbia are 
 forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually 
 or through associations, of their own initiative 
 to solicit an increase of pay, or to influence 
 or attempt to influence, in their own interest, 
 or for a personal end, any other educational 
 legislation whatever, either before Congress or 
 its committees, or in any way save through the 
 Board of Education. This rule in no wise affects 
 the right of any person in the service of the 
 public schools of making any suggestions for the 
 improvement of the public • school system or its 
 
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 Business 
 
 commtinica- 
 
 tions. 
 
 Order of 
 appeals. 
 
 Decision 
 stands 
 pendidgr 
 appeal. 
 
 Non-payment 
 of debts. 
 
 Use of tobacco 
 prohibited. 
 
 Soliciting 
 leg-islation for 
 personal ends 
 prohibited. 
 
Ten days 
 notice of 
 resignation 
 is required. 
 
 Female 
 teacher 
 vacates 
 position by 
 marriage. 
 
 Hours flag's 
 shall fly. 
 
 Naming of 
 
 school 
 
 buildings. 
 
 Blank books 
 and forms a 
 part of the 
 rules. 
 
 Bonds 
 required 
 
 administration, but all such suggestions must be 
 forwarded to the Board of Education for con- 
 sideration. 
 
 RESIGNATIONS. 
 
 74. Every resignation of any teacher or em- 
 ployee of the public schools of the District of 
 Columbia must be submitted to the superinten- 
 dent at least ten days before the same is intended 
 to take effect. 
 
 75. Should a female teacher marry, her place 
 shall thereupon become vacant, provided, how- 
 ever, that when the resignation does not take 
 effect until after the last regular day in June, 
 she shall be paid her full salary for the month of 
 June. 
 
 FLAGS. 
 
 "jd. On all school days and legal holidays of the 
 nation, and of the District of Columbia, and 
 other days made holidays by proclamation of the 
 President, flags shall fly at full staff from all 
 school buildings from 8:30 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. 
 On Memorial Day the flag shall be placed at half 
 staff. 
 
 BUILDINGS. 
 
 'j'j. No school building shall hereafter be named 
 in honor of any living person, and all propo- 
 sitions to name buildings shall be referred to the 
 Committee on Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors 
 and Sanitation for consideration and report. At 
 least six (6) votes shall be required to name a 
 school building : ^ Provided, ^ That the name of 
 each school building which is or shall hereafter 
 be designated by the name of any person shall 
 embrace the given name or names as well as the 
 surname of such person, and shall be so noted on 
 the school records. 
 
 78. School houses shall be used only for edu- 
 cational purposes. 
 
 79. All officers and employees of the board and 
 all teachers shall use such record and other blank 
 books and such forms as shall be prescribed by 
 the board and in the manner and for the pur- 
 poses designated, and the instructions accom- 
 panying such books and forms are hereby made a 
 part of the rules. In each schoolroom, a copy of 
 the rules shall be kept by the teacher. 
 
 SUPPLIES AND REQUISITIONS. 
 
 80. The secretary of the Board of Education 
 and the custodian of supplies shall be required to 
 
furnish bond in the sum of $2,500 and $2,000 re- 
 spectively. 
 
 The secretary of the Board of Education shall 
 submit a report at the first monthly meeting, stat- 
 ing the work of his office, with such recommenda- 
 tions as are necessary. 
 
 Supplies necessary for the use of the public Requisitions, 
 schools may be procured by the supervising 
 principals, principals of the normal, high and 
 manual training schools and directors of special 
 work, submitting itemized requisitions to the 
 secretary of the board, who shall submit the same 
 to the superintendent for approval. 
 
 If the articles are not in stock, the secretary 
 shall forward a list of the supplies required to the 
 proper committee of the board to be examined 
 and transmitted to the Committee on Ways and 
 Means to be presented to the full board for ac- 
 tion. When approved by the board, a requisition 
 shall be certified by its president and secretary, 
 and forwarded to the Commissioners of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia. The supplies thus ordered will 
 be delivered to the storekeeper or the official 
 designated by him. 
 
 Proper receipts shall be given for all goods de- 
 livered and proper entries shall be made in the 
 books of the storekeeper. 
 
 If the requisition is an urgent one, the articles 
 may be ordered on the approval of the requisition 
 by the superintendent or acting superintendent, 
 the president and the secretary of the Board of urgent 
 Education. In such cases, the action taken must requisitions, 
 be reported at the next meeting of the Board of 
 Education. 
 
 Samples of standard supplies shall be kept by Samples must 
 the storekeeper. be kept. 
 
 If the supplies are in stock, the secretary shall 
 approve the requisition and forward it to the 
 custodian of supplies who will furnish the sup- 
 plies, taking receipt for same. 
 
 All supplies delivered must be immediately 
 checked up and the receipt, accompanied by the ^Jdiecke^r^* 
 correction sheet, if necessary, returned to the and receipted 
 secretary of the Board of Education within forty- for. 
 eight hours of the receipt of goods, and all claims 
 for shortages must be made within that time. 
 «;^ 81. Requisitions shall be made quarterly except 
 '^m emergencies. 
 
 ♦'' An^ annual inventory of all supplies and prop- Annual 
 ^erty in the public schools shall be required from inventories 
 each teacher or person in possession of property, P^^^^.^ 
 the correctness of which shall be certified by the '^^^'^«'^^- 
 immediate building principal, supervising princi- 
 
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Semi-anaual 
 inventory by 
 custodian. 
 
 Supplies for 
 
 liigrh 
 
 manual 
 
 training* 
 
 and normal 
 
 school. 
 
 Secretary 
 shall 
 apportion 
 funds. 
 
 Board shall 
 apportion free 
 text book 
 fund 
 
 Purchases of 
 books 
 
 recommended 
 by superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 Superintend- 
 ent shall 
 recommend 
 text books 
 annually. 
 
 Principal 
 shall make 
 inventories 
 of property 
 annually. 
 
 pal, normal, high or manual training school 
 principal, or other officers at the close of school. 
 
 The custodian shall submit semi-annually an 
 inventory of all property in his possession. 
 
 Requisitions for supplies pertaining to the re- 
 spective departments in the high, manual train- 
 ing and normal schools shall originate with the 
 teacher desiring the supplies or with the head 
 of the department and take the following course : 
 From teacher to principal, from him to head of 
 department, and thence to the secretary of the 
 board, who sh..ll put it in proper form for sub- 
 mission to the board through the superintendent 
 and the proper committee. 
 
 The board, through the secretary, shall notify 
 each head of department as early as possible of 
 the amount set aside for his department for the 
 following year, and he will notify e?-ch principal, 
 who will confer with his teachers regarding the 
 needs of their respective departments. 
 
 TEXTBOOKS AND SUPPLIES. 
 
 82. The Board of Education shall determine 
 from time to time the portion of the free text- 
 book fund to be expended for books and for 
 suppHes. 
 
 Principals of buildings shall make requisitions 
 on the supervising principals, who shall forward 
 them to the superintendent of schools. All pur- 
 chases for books and educational supplies shall be 
 recommended by the superintendent of schools 
 to the Committee on Textbooks and Supplies. 
 
 All purchases and allowances of supplies shall 
 be on the regular forms prescribed by the Board 
 of Education. 
 
 The superintendent of schools shall submit an- 
 nually at the first regular meeting of the board 
 in February, a list of textbooks recommended for 
 the following year, provided that changes of text- 
 books shall not be made more frequently than 
 once in three years, except by a three-fourths vote 
 of the board; but additions to the list may be 
 made annually. 
 
 83. The supervising principals are required to 
 have all property belonging to the schools of the 
 District of Columbia assigned to their division, 
 properly listed by the various building principals, 
 who shall be held responsible for^ its proper care, 
 use and safe-keeping. Inventories of property 
 and unexpended supplies shall be furnished to the 
 secretary of the Board of Education through the 
 supervising principals at the close of the school 
 year. 
 
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When the property is worn out and of no 
 further use, it shall be listed and the list for- 
 warded to the secretary of the Board of Educa- 
 tion for such action as the board may determine. 
 
 Worn out textbooks shall be collected at the 
 end of each school year in the office buildings of 
 the respective supervising principals, who shall 
 transmit to the secretary of the board a certified 
 list of the same. 
 
 Principals of high, normal and manual train- 
 ing schools will be held responsible for all school 
 property in their respective schools and will make 
 lists of same as provided in the case of supervis- 
 ing principals. 
 
 84. All bills shall be properly audited by the 
 secretary of the board and if found correct, shall, 
 when duly certified, be forwarded to the Com- 
 missioners of the District of Columbia for pay- 
 ment. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 85. All persons connected with the public 
 schools are hereby forbidden to furnish to any 
 person or persons not connected with said schools 
 or to those connected, except for school purposes, 
 any list or lists of the pupils, teachers or other 
 employees therein, unless by special permission of 
 the board. 
 
 86. Teachers and principals are expected to co- 
 operate in every way with the medical inspectors 
 and the Health Officer in making effective the 
 provisions of the rules regulating the medical in- 
 spection of pupils. 
 
 87. All communications for teachers and 
 schools, in the way of announcements, orders and 
 instructions from the Board of Education or the 
 secretary shall be sent as bulletins from the sec- 
 retary of the board to the building principals, 
 througji the supervising principals. 
 
 ^ 88. The secretary shall keep on file a complete 
 list of teachers showing their assignment to di- 
 visions, grades, buildings and special departments. 
 
 89. When emergencies require the temporary 
 detail of any of the clerical force of one depart- 
 ment to assist in the work of another, such de- 
 tails shall be made only by the president of the 
 Board of Education, upon application of the head 
 of the department which may be in need of such 
 special clerical assistance, after conference with 
 the officer from whose department the transfer 
 is asked. 
 
 90. Wherever the masculine pronoun occurs it 
 is construed to apply to either male or female. 
 
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 Worn ottt 
 property 
 reported. 
 
 Hifirh school 
 principal shall 
 report list of 
 property. 
 
 Secretary 
 shall audit 
 bills. 
 
 Furnishingr 
 lists of pupils, 
 teachers, etc., 
 prohibited. 
 
 Teachers 
 must 
 
 co-operate 
 with medical 
 inspector. 
 
 Orders of the 
 board sent out 
 by secretary. 
 
 Secretary 
 shall keep list 
 of teachers. 
 
 Details of 
 clerks made 
 by president 
 of board. 
 
Causes for 
 suspension or 
 
 91. The violation of any of the rules of the 
 
 _^_^ Board of Education; disobedience or neglect of 
 
 drsmlssair "* the orders of those in authority; any other of- 
 fences against morality or good order ; or inability 
 to perform satisfactorily the duties of his position 
 on the part of any employee of the board, shall 
 be, any or all of tiiem, considered cause for sus- 
 pension by the president of the Board of Edu- 
 cation, or dismissal by the board. The suspension 
 of any employee shall extend only to the next 
 meeting, regular or special, of the Board of Edu- 
 cation, unless otherwise ordered by the board. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Rule. Page. 
 Absence — 
 
 of pupils, parents must be notified of 28 20 
 
 of teachers 22 18 
 
 Absent teacher — 
 
 iluty of principal IS 15 
 
 teacher must not be. 23 18 
 
 Admission of pupils 52 28 
 
 application for 53 29 
 
 Afipeals, order of 7o 38 
 
 Appointment of officers and teachers, must conform to law ig 16 
 
 for one year in the first instance. . 20 i7 
 
 afterward during good behavior 20 i7 
 
 of substitutes 41 22 
 
 of janitors 44 26 
 
 Assignment of normal graduates in order of their standing 19 16 
 
 Athletics, board of faculty advisers 64 35 
 
 board of appeals 64 35 
 
 Attendance officers — 
 
 shall carry out provisions of compulsory law 12 15 
 
 shall report to superintendent of schools 12 15 
 
 Attorney for the board — 
 
 shall advise the board 67 36 
 
 opinions shall be recorded 67 36 
 
 shall prepare complaint 67 36 
 
 l^ible reading and Lord's prayer 29 20 
 
 liills. shall be audited by secretary 84 42 
 
 Blank book and forms part of rules 78 39 
 
 Boards of examiners 21 i7 
 
 Buildings shall not be named for living person 77 39 
 
 shall be used only for educational purposes 78 39 
 
 shall be open for pvipils 15 minutes before sessions.... 22 18 
 
 shall be under control of principal 15 15 
 
 B-dsincss — 
 
 teacher shall not engage in other 27 20 
 
 Causes for suspension or dismissal 66 36 
 
 suspensions only until next board meeting 66 36 
 
 Certificate, teacher's 19 16 
 
 Clerks, may be detailed by president of board 89 42 
 
 Closed, schools may be 62 34 
 
 in emergencies by president of board 62 34 
 
 by principal when rooms are cold... 26 19 
 
 College diploma — 
 
 required of teachers of academic and scientific subjects 19 16 
 
 Commencement of school 62 34 
 
 Compulsory attendance, rule for 52 28 
 
 Concerts, entertainments, etc 35 21 
 
 not allowed without permission 35 21 
 
 Corporal punishment — 
 
 to be avoided 30 20 
 
 to be reported 30 20 
 
 Debts, non-payment of 7l 38 
 
 Detail of clerks, made by president of board 89 42 
 
 Diplomas of normal school — 
 
 equivalent to lowest certificate 49 27 
 
 Director of intermediate instruction — 
 
 in charge of grades five to eight 4 12 
 
 shall hold grade meetings 4 12 
 
 shall standardize instruction 4 12 
 
 Director of primary instruction — 
 
 in charge of first four grades 8 13 
 
 shall hold grade meetings 8 13 
 
 Directors of special studies, duties 9 I4 
 
 Dismissals 56 31 
 
 of offir-^rs 66 36 
 
 of pupils 56 31 
 
 of teachers and other employees 66 36 
 
 Employees, conduct of .• 7l 38 
 
 non-payment of debts 7i 38 
 
 may be suspended 65 36 
 
14 
 
 Rule PasTf 
 
 causes tor suspension . . . ,/: , .-,(. * ./; , 66 36 
 
 shall not use tobacco * 66 36 
 
 . ■ ; shall not influence legislation T -t, 38 
 
 'Errands, teachers shall not send pupils on 32 20 
 
 l^xaminations, for teachers' positions 21 i7 
 
 passing "mark 21 1 7 
 
 Examiners, board of 21 \7 
 
 lure drills, when given , i7 16 
 
 Flags shall ffy on school and legal holidays 76 39 
 
 half staff on Memorial Day . . . . , 76 39 
 
 Furnishing lists of pupils, forbidden 85 42 
 
 Gathering on school premises — 
 
 teachers must prevent 59 33 
 
 Gifts to teachers prohibited -^t, 20 
 
 Good order, etc., of pupils 59 ■^:^ 
 
 Graduates of other normal schools- 
 may be appointed in graded schools 19 16 
 
 may be appointtd in high schools 19 16 
 
 Half day schools, hours for 62 34 
 
 Heads of departments — 
 
 shall confer with principals 10 14 
 
 shall confer with teachers 10 14 
 
 shall visit classes and report 10 14 
 
 shall prepare tests for pupils 10 14 
 
 shall make suggestions in writing 10 
 
 High schools, courses of study 3 
 
 admission 'to . 3 11 
 
 Holidays, provided by rules 62 34 
 
 by order of board 62 34 
 
 Holy days, pupils excused on 58 33 
 
 fTome studies 36 21 
 
 Hours, for whole day schools 62 34 
 
 for -half day schools 62 34 
 
 Injuring school property by pupil 60 ' 34 
 
 Inventories of property — 
 
 by custodian 81 41 
 
 by teachers , . . . . 81 41 
 
 Janitors, how appointed 44 26 
 
 on probation for six mouths 44 26 
 
 may have substitute for ten days 44 26 
 
 shj^ll be responsible for damage 45 26 
 
 duti.es 45 26 
 
 shall not be absent when heating apparatus is in use... 45 2(y 
 
 shall pay entire salary to substitute 45 26 
 
 Keys to school buildings, to whom issued 18 16 
 
 Leave of absence of employees 43 24 
 
 Length of school year. . . . -. 62 34 
 
 Legislation, soliciting of prohibited I}, 38 
 
 Masculine pronoun, applies to both sexes 90 42 
 
 Marriage, icmale teacher forfeits position by 7$ 39 
 
 Meetings, teachers shall attend all 24 19 
 
 jNIembcrship of pupils, how terminated. 56 31 
 
 Methods of instruction, supervising principals shall endeavor 
 
 to improve 6 12 
 
 Military affairs, under committee dz 34 
 
 administered by assistant superintendents 63 34 
 
 oflSycers, how selected 63 34 
 
 commissions 63 34 
 
 Naming of school buildings 11 39 
 
 Non-resident pupils — 
 
 must pay . tuition 52 2^ 
 
 Normal S'^nools, course of study , 46 2/ 
 
 pledge of candidates 4I 27 
 
 qualifications of candidates 48 27 
 
 shall receive diploma . , 49 2?^ 
 
 Official:, comrnuriicatipns • • . . 69 27 
 
 ord«r "of........ 6g 37 
 
 business, communications 69 3? 
 
 Opening exercises — ^ ,fl^) f,;,^. ,, 
 
 reading of Bible without comment >,-, .^,.,.fTr« • • • 29 20 
 
 repeating Lord's prayer 29 20 
 
 appropriate singing 29 20 
 
 Opening of school, teacher must be present before 22 18 
 
APPENDIX 
 
COMPULSORY EDUCATION ACT. 
 [Public — No. 203.] 
 
 An Act Providing for compulsory education in the 
 District of Columbia. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- 
 resentatives of the United States of America in 
 Congress assembled. That every parent, guardian, 
 or other person residing in the District of Colum- 
 bia having charge and control of a child between 
 the ages of eight and fourteen years shall cause 
 such child to be regularly instructed in the ele- 
 mentary branches of knowledge, including read- 
 ing, writing, English grammar, geography, and 
 arithmetic, and pursuant to this end every such 
 parent, guardian, or other person aforesaid shall 
 cause any child under the charge and control of 
 such person to attend some public, private, or 
 parochial school during the period of each year 
 the public schools in the District are in session, on 
 the customary days and during the customary 
 hours of the school term. No child shall be cred- 
 ited with attendance upon a private or parochial 
 school unless the attendance officer hereinafter 
 provided for receives a certificate of attendance 
 signed by the person in charge of such school. A 
 child between the ages aforesaid may be excused 
 from school attendance or instruction upon pres- 
 entation of satisfactory evidence to the superin- 
 tendent of schools that such child is being or has 
 been within said year instructed a like period of 
 time in the branches taught in the public schools, 
 or that such child has acquired these branches of 
 learning, or that the physical or mental condition 
 of such child is such as to render such attendance 
 or instruction inexpedient or impracticable. 
 
 Sec. 2. That if any person having under control 
 a child, as described in section one, shall neglect 
 for three day sessions or six half-day sessions, 
 within any period of five months to cause such 
 child to attend school, a written notice shall be 
 sent to such person by an attendance officer, here- 
 inafter provided for, informing him that the at- 
 tendance of the child under the control of such 
 person is required at school within a period of 
 three days. If such child is not excused as pro- 
 vided for in section one, and is not in school with- 
 in three days, prosecution shall be begun in the 
 police court by an officer empowered under this 
 Act against the parent or other person in control 
 of the child, and upon conviction the parent or 
 other person in control of the child shall be pun- 
 
ished for each and every offense by a fine of not 
 more than twenty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any child between the ages of eight 
 and fourteen who is an habitual truant, who is 
 willfully and habitually absent from school, or 
 who can not be controlled by the regular school 
 discipline while in attendance upon school, shall 
 be committed by the board of education to a spe- 
 cial or ungraded school for instruction. The 
 board of education may set apart school buildings 
 or special rooms in a school building for the estab- 
 lishment of ungraded schools to provide, under a 
 qualified teacher, for the instruction of habitual 
 truants or for pupils who can not be controlled by 
 the regular school discipline while in attendance 
 upon school, and such children may be restricted 
 to such schools for instruction until satisfactory 
 evidence of improvement is furnished the board 
 of education by the teacher in charge whereupon 
 such child may be restored to a graded school in 
 the district in which he resides. 
 
 Sec. 4. The board of education of the District 
 of Columbia is hereby authorized, empowered and 
 directed to appoint two truant officers at a salary 
 of six hundred dollars per annum each, who, to- 
 gether with the inspectors provided for in the bill 
 to regulate the employment of child labor and the 
 probation officers provided for in the bill estab- 
 lishing a juvenile court shall under the direction 
 of the board of education carry out the provisions 
 of this Act 
 
 Sec. 5. That any person who induces or at- 
 tempts to induce any child to be absent unlawfully 
 from school, or who knowingly employs or har- 
 bors while school is in session any child absent 
 unlawfully from school, shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not 
 more than twenty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the officers empowered under this 
 Act shall visit any place or establishment where 
 minor children are employed to ascertain whether 
 the provisions of this law are duly complied with, 
 and shall as often as twice a year demand from 
 all employers of such children a list of children 
 employed, with their names and ages. 
 
 Sec. 7. That any parent or other person who 
 makes a false statement concerning the age or 
 school attendance of a child between the ages of 
 eight and fourteen who is under his control, such 
 false statement being made with intent to deceive 
 under this Act, shall upon conviction thereof be 
 punished by a fine not to exceed twenty dollars. 
 
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Sec. 8. That this Act shall take effect on July 
 first, nineteen hundred and six. 
 
 Sec. 9. That all Acts and parts of Acts in con- 
 flict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved, June 8, 1906. 
 
 TUITION LAW. 
 [PUBUC— No. 98.] 
 
 An Act To amend the provision in an Act approved 
 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, imposing 
 a charge for tuition on nonresident pupils in the public 
 schools of the District of Columbia. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep' 
 resentatives of the United States of America in 
 Congress assembled, That the provision in the 
 Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to 
 provide for the expenses of the government of the 
 District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other 
 purposes," approved March third, eighteen hun- 
 dred and ninety-one, which reads: "That here- 
 after pupils shall not be admitted to or taught free 
 of charge in the public schools of the District of 
 Columbia who do not reside in said District, or 
 whose parents do not reside or are not engaged in 
 business or public duties therein," and so forth, 
 be, and the same hereby is, amended so as to read 
 as follows : 
 
 "That hereafter pupils shall not be admitted to 
 or taught free of charge in the public schools of 
 the District of Columbia who do not reside in 
 said District, or who during such tutelage do not 
 own property in and pay taxes levied by the gov- 
 ernment of the District of Columbia, or whose 
 parents do not reside or are not engaged in busi- 
 ness or public duties therein, or during such tutel- 
 age pay taxes levied by the government of the 
 District of Columbia: Provided, That such pupils 
 may be admitted to and taught in said public 
 schools on the payment of such amount, to be 
 fixed by the board of trustees, with the approval 
 of the Commissioners of said District, as will 
 cover the expense of their tuition and cost of 
 text-books and school supplies used by them; and 
 all payments hereunder shall be paid into the 
 Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United 
 States and one-half to the credit of the District 
 of Columbia." 
 
 Approved, April 14, 1906. 
 
 46 
 
REGULATIONS 
 
 GOVERNING 
 THE MEDICAL INSPECTION 
 
 OF 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 Promulgated in accordance with an Act making 
 appropriations to provide for the expenses of the 
 Government of tiie District of Columbia, ap- 
 proved March 3, 1903. 
 
 Formulated by the Health Officer, June 30, 1903. 
 
 Approved by the Board of Education, June 30, 
 1903. 
 
 Approved by the Commissioners of the District 
 of Columbia, July 14, 1903. 
 
 Amended by the Health Officer, July 7, 1907. 
 
 Approved by the Board of Education, October 
 9, 1907. 
 
 Approved by the Commissioners of the District 
 of Columbia, December 7, 1907. 
 
 47 
 
REGULATIONS 
 GOVERNING THE MEDICAL INSPEC- 
 TION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 IN THE 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
 
 Section i. No pupil will be permitted to attend 
 the public schools of the District of Columbia who 
 is suffering from any defect or disease which ren- 
 ders his presence materially detrimental to the 
 welfare or the safety of other pupils, nor will any 
 pUDil be permitted to attend school when such at- 
 tendance will materially jeopardize his own health 
 and the condition out of which such jeopardy 
 arises is of a temporary character. 
 
 Section 2. Every teacher, immediately after 
 the opening of school each day, will carefully ob- 
 serve the general expression and condition of 
 every pupil and determine whether any of them 
 present appearances suggestive of the advisability 
 of exclusion under the provisions of these regula- 
 tions. 
 
 Section 3. Every teacher, within one-quarter 
 hour after the opening of school each day, will 
 forward to the principal of the building in which 
 she teaches, a written request on the form pro- 
 vided for that purpose, for the examination by a 
 medical inspector, of each pupil under his care who 
 belongs or appears to belong to any of the fol- 
 lowing classes : 
 
 Class A. Pupils whose appearances, or 
 known or suspected histories, indicate that 
 they may be suffering from conditions render- 
 ing their exclusion from school necessary 
 under the provisions of these regulations. 
 
 Class B. Pupils who have returned after 
 having been excluded from school on the rec- 
 ommendation of the Health Oflficer or of a 
 medical inspector, except excluded pupils who 
 ' lesent certificates signed by the Health Offi- 
 cer ^ authorizing their return ; but excluded 
 pupils whose return is clearly forbidden by 
 these regulations are not to be referred to the 
 medical inspector for examination, but are to 
 be sent home at once. 
 
 Class C. Pupils who have been absent from 
 school without cause for five or more consec- 
 utive school days, unless the teacher has rea- 
 son to believe that the absentee has not suf- 
 fered from or been exposed to a communi- 
 cable disease. 
 
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Requests for the examination of pupils may, 
 however, be made out and forwarded to the 
 principal for appropriate action, in case of 
 emergency, at any time during the school day. 
 
 Section 4. Any teacher believing that a pupil in 
 his class is suffering from a communicable disease 
 must bring the case to the attention of the princi- 
 pal of the building, and the principal must isolate 
 the pupil, as well as the facilities at his command 
 will permit, pending the arrival of the medical 
 inspector and instruction from him as to the dis- 
 posal of the case ; or if the case be an urgent one, 
 such for instance as a suspected case of smallpox, 
 the principal must submit the facts to the Health 
 Officer at once, by telephone, or by messenger and 
 dispose of the case in such manner as the Health 
 Officer directs. 
 
 Section 5. A teacher may, in her discretion, 
 permit a pupil who is not suspected of having a 
 communicable disease to remain in the class room 
 pending the arrival of a medical inspector. 
 
 Section 6. Every principal of a school will 
 notify the medical inspector assigned to such 
 school whenever the services of a medical in- 
 spector are required. With respect to the examin- 
 ation of pupils attending all-day classes or morn- 
 ing classes, such notification must be given not 
 later than half past nine o'clock, and notification 
 with respect to pupils attending afternoon classes 
 must be given not later than half past one o'clock. 
 If, however, a principal fails to notify the inspec- 
 tor within the allowed time, he must notify him as 
 soon thereafter as possible, and in case of emer- 
 gency notification may be given at any time. 
 
 Section 7. Every medical inspector, upon re- 
 ceiving notice that his services are required at any 
 of the schools to which he has been assigned, will 
 respond to such notice on the day of its receipt 
 and as soon after its receipt as is practicable. 
 
 Section 8. Every medical inspector will devote 
 to actual inspection work each school day not less 
 than three hours. He will first visit each school 
 from which he has received notice to call and da 
 whatever may be necessary there. If thereafter 
 any part of the required three hour period re- 
 mains, the inspector will devote it to the making 
 of routine examinations at schools as hereinafter 
 described. 
 
 Section 9. When a medical inspector calls at a 
 school in response to a request for his services he 
 will immediately procure from the principal the 
 reports made by teachers in compliance with the 
 requirements of Section 4 of these regulations. 
 
 so 
 
Then, with the cooperation of the principal, and 
 in his presence or in the presence of a teacher 
 detailed by the principal for that purpose, he will 
 examine all such pupils as are brought to his at- 
 tention for that purpose. In so doing he will 
 afford the principal and teachers every opportunity 
 to observe the evidence and to learn the reason 
 upon which he bases his recommendations, so that 
 the principal and teachers may be better able 
 thereafter to select from among the pupils under 
 their care those who by reason of defect or dis- 
 ease are unfit to attend school. In the making of 
 such examinations the principal and teachers will 
 assist the inspector in every possible way. All 
 examinations are to be made with the utmost pos- 
 sible privacy and in no case is the examination of 
 an individual pupil, as distinguished from the ex- 
 amination of an entire class, to be made in the 
 class room in the presence of other pupils. 
 
 Section lo. The medical inspector will indorse 
 on the forms which have been made out by the 
 teacher (Form A) his tentative diagnoses and 
 his recommendations. Notes of the subjective 
 and objective symptoms upon which the inspector 
 bases his recommendations for the exclusion of a 
 pupil from school should be made, if the inspector 
 deems it necessary, on the duplicate form, but only 
 such notes should be made in this way as can be 
 made without disclosing information essentially 
 confidential in its nature. 
 
 The "Original" form the inspector will give to 
 the principal of the school for proper action. The 
 "Duplicate" he will preserve and forward to the 
 Health Officer at the close of the day after having 
 made such a memorandum therefrom as may be 
 necessary to enable the inspector to make out his 
 weekly report. The principal will forward the 
 "Original" to the supervising principal as soon as 
 practicable, except in cases of exclusion, in which 
 cases the "Original" should be retained by the 
 principal until after the pupil has been readmitted 
 or his name erased from the school roll. 
 
 Section II. The teacher of the school in coop- 
 eration with the principal will carry out the rec- 
 ommendations of the medical inspector as promptly 
 as possible. 
 
 Section 12. Should any principal desire to ap- 
 peal from the decision of the inspector, he will 
 first carry out the recommendations of such in- 
 spector, and after having done so address his 
 appeal, in writing, to the supervising principal of 
 the division to which he is assigned. The super- 
 vising principal may undertake to adjust the case 
 
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by conferring with the Health Officer, either di- 
 rectly or through the superintendent of public 
 schools. 
 
 Section 13. A medical inspector, in determining 
 which of the schools under his supervision shall 
 be visited on any particular day, independently of 
 requests for his services, will take into considera- 
 tion the length of time that has elapsed since each 
 of the various schools under his supervision has 
 been visited, whether on special calls or on routine 
 visits, and will endeavor to arrange his routine 
 visits so that each of the schools assigned to him 
 will receive an equal amount of attention. Routine 
 visits may be made during either the morning or 
 the afternoon sessions of school, as best suits the 
 convenience of the medical inspector, but visits to 
 anv one school in which classes are held both in 
 the forenoon and in the afternoon should not be 
 continuously limited either to the morning or 
 afternoon session. 
 
 Section 14. A medical inspector, upon visiting 
 a school for the purpose of making a routine in- 
 spection, will confer with the principal and advise 
 him with reference to all such matters of hygiene 
 or sanitation as may be brought to the inspector's 
 attention. At each such visit the inspector, with 
 the principal of the school, or without him, if the 
 principal prefers, will go to one or more of the 
 class rooms and to other parts of the building and 
 observe the physical condition of the pupils and 
 rooms and of the building generally. During such 
 inspections the inspector will take occasion to 
 invite the attention of the principal and teachers 
 to such apparently sick or defective pupils as he 
 may observe and to such conditions in the room 
 and in the building generally as require correc- 
 tion, so that appropriate action may be taken and 
 similar conditions avoided in the future. 
 
 Inspectors are cautioned that they are not to act 
 as advisers of principals and teachers, except on 
 matters peculiar to the medical profession, and 
 are not to assume the roll of critics merely. 
 Under no circumstances should advice be given or 
 remarks made in the presence of pupils, which 
 can be either construed or misconstrued as reflec- 
 tions on the school management. Any apparent 
 dereliction on the part of any janitor should be 
 brought privately to the attention of the principal 
 of the building in which such janitor is employed, 
 so that appropriate action may be had. 
 
 Section 15. Should occasion require the making 
 of a special inspection of all the pupils in any 
 class or classes, as, for instance, for the purpose of 
 
determining whether any of them are or are not 
 suffering from scarlet fever or pediculosis, the in- 
 soector will invite the principal to accompany him, 
 and then, either with or without the principal, will 
 proceed to the class or classes to be examined. 
 There the inspector will look over the pupils in a 
 general way, but will make no physical examina- 
 tion of individual pupils in the class room. If, in 
 the course of such examination, it becomes ap- 
 parent that a closer examination of any pupil is 
 desirable, the teacher will, on the request of the 
 inspector, send such pupil to some proper place in 
 the building where such examination can be made 
 as the inspector deems necessary. For each pupil 
 set aside for special examination the teacher will 
 make out the usual request for examination as 
 provided by Section 3 of these regulations. 
 
 In connection with the examination of the pupils 
 of any class for the purpose of detecting the pres- 
 ence of pupils suffering from scarlet fever, the 
 pupils may be required to raise their hands so as 
 to permit the easier and more rapid examination; 
 but in such cases the inspector must be careful to 
 avoid touching in any way the pupils under ex- 
 amination, at least until after their removal to the 
 examination room, and then if it becomes neces- 
 sary to touch or handle any pupil, and that pupil 
 is found to have scarlet fever, the inspector will 
 carefully disinfect his hands before proceeding to 
 the examination of other pupils. 
 
 Section 16. The teacher will give to each pupil 
 whom she excludes from school a proper notice, 
 showing the reason for exclusion and the condi- 
 tions unon which he will be allowed to return. 
 And if a pupil, although not formally excluded in 
 the first instance, is known to be absent because of 
 conditions which, if he were in attendance, would 
 justify his exclusion, the teacher will send a like 
 notice to the parent or guardian of such pupil and 
 will give a duplicate thereof to the inspector at 
 tlie time of his next visit. When an excluded 
 pupil has complied with the conditions necessary 
 to^ entitle him to readmission to school the teacher 
 win forward the exclusion blank returned by the 
 pupil and containing evidence of such compliance 
 through the principal to the supervising principal. 
 
 Section 17. In event of differences of opinion 
 between a medical inspector and the parent, guard- 
 ian or family physician of any pupil relative to 
 the necessity for exclusion of the pupil from 
 school, the teacher will refer the parent or guard- 
 ian to the Health Officer, and if the circumstances 
 in his judgment so require, will report the facts of 
 
the case to the supervising principal. Under no 
 circumstances will teachers, principals of schools, 
 medical inspectors or supervising principals, allow 
 themselves to become parties to a controversy in 
 matters of this kind, but all such matters must be 
 settled by conference between the parent or guard- 
 ian and the Health Officer. 
 
 Section i8. A pupil who has been excluded 
 from school because of conditions not affecting or 
 liable to affect the health of other pupils, or be- 
 cause of grippe, German measles, communicable 
 disease of the eye, or parasitic disease of the hair 
 or skin, may be permitted to return to school at 
 any time after the expiration of the period speci- 
 fied in the notice of exclusion. He may be per- 
 mitted to return sooner if he presents a certificate 
 from a lawfully practicing physician showing that 
 in the judgment of such physician he can return 
 with safety to himself, and if the pupil has suf- 
 fered from the grippe, German measles, communi- 
 cable disease of the eye, or parasitic disease of the 
 skin or hair, that the communicability of the dis- 
 ease has passed. But every such pupil must be re- 
 ported to the medical inspector for examination 
 on the day of the pupil's return to school. After 
 having reported the case the principal and the 
 teacher will be guided in their future action by 
 whatever recommendation the medical inspector 
 makes. 
 
 Section 19. The return of a pupil to school 
 after he has suffered from or^ been exposed to 
 smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whoop- 
 ing cough, chickenpox and epidemic cerebro-spinal 
 meningitis, is regulated primarily by an Act to 
 prevent the spread of contagious diseases in. the 
 District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 ; an 
 Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, 
 measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, epidemic 
 cerebro-spinal meningitis and typhoid fever in the 
 District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907; 
 and the regulations for the prevention of the dis- 
 eases just named, promulgated by the Commis- 
 sioners by authority of the latter act, pertinent 
 extract from which laws and regulations appear 
 on pages 60 to 62. In order, however, that' the 
 health of pupils attending public schools may be 
 further safeguarded no pupil who has suffered 
 from measles will be permitted to return to school 
 until after the expiration of three weeks from the 
 onset of the disease; no pupil suffering from 
 whooping cough until after the expiration of five 
 weeks; no pupil suffering from chickenpox until 
 after the expiration of two weeks, and no pupil 
 
suffering from mumps until after the expiratipi*- 
 of three weeks. ' ' 
 
 A pupil who has suffered from smallpox, scarlet 
 fever, or diphtheria may be permitted to return at 
 any time, but only on the presentation of a certifi- 
 cate issued by the Health Officer authorizing him 
 so to do. No such certificate will be required 
 from pupils who have suffered from measles, 
 whooping cough, chickenpox, mumps, grippe, Ger- 
 man measles, communicable diseases of the eye 
 and parasitic diseases of the skin and hair, but 
 every such pupil must, on the day of his return, 
 be reported to the medical inspector for examina- 
 tion. Pupils returning after smallpox, scarlet 
 fever and diphtheria, and provided with certifi- 
 cates from the Health Officer, need not be so 
 referred, and if not provided with such certificate 
 they should be sent home immediately. Pupils 
 who are not suffering from mumps but have mere- 
 ly been exposed to that disease need not be ex- 
 cluded from school. 
 
 Section 20. If any pupil be excluded from 
 school because of suspected communicable disease 
 only, the medical inspector will visit such pupil on 
 the day following his exclusion for the purpose of 
 confirming or disproving his tentative diagnosis. 
 If at the time of such visit he finds a physician in 
 attendance on the case, he will retire without ex- 
 amining the patient, unless he is requested by tlie 
 attending physician to do so. 
 
 Section 21. Whenever a pupil is excluded from 
 school on account of communicable disease, the 
 medical inspector will recommend such disinfec- 
 tion as in his judgment is necessary. Ordinarily 
 the seat and desk of the infected pupil must be 
 washed with a. proper disinfecting solution ; pen- 
 holders, pencils, etc., which have been in the pos- 
 session of the pupil must be treated in the same 
 manner if they cannot be destroyed. In some 
 cases It will be necessary to wash the handrails 
 of stairways, doorknobs, etc. Work of this kind 
 must be done by the janitor of the school building. 
 Disinfection of books, when necessary, will be 
 done by employees of the Health Department. 
 
 Section 22. Whenever, in the judgment of the 
 medical inspector, a school building or part thereof 
 requires disinfection over and beyond that which 
 can be done by the janitor of such building, the 
 medical inspector will so notify the Health Officer 
 at the earliest possible moment. Whether such 
 disinfection shall or shall not be done will be de- 
 termined by the Health Officer or by the inspector 
 in charge of the contagious disease service after 
 
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due consideration of all facts in the case. If such 
 disinfection be done, it will be undertaken pri- 
 marily by employees in the service of the Health 
 Department, but all persons connected with the 
 school building to be disinfected will render such 
 assistance as may be practicable. 
 
 Section 23. The Health Officer will furnish the 
 superintendent of public schools with a detailed 
 statement of all school property destroyed because 
 of infection and a certificate showing the neces- 
 sity for such action. 
 
 Section 24. If, in the judgment of a medical 
 inspector, any school building or part thereof 
 should be closed he will forthwith make a recom- 
 mendation to that effect to the Health Officer, who 
 will determine what action should be taken and 
 recommend accordingly. Recommendations of the 
 Health Officer looking toward the closing of any 
 school building or part thereof will be communi- 
 cated directly to the office of the superintendent 
 of public schools or to his residence, if it be 
 found impracticable to communicate with his of- 
 fice. The superintendent of public schools will 
 thereupon become responsible for all further 
 action looking toward the closing of any such 
 school building or part thereof. Teachers and 
 principals will be governed by such instructions 
 as they receive from the superintendent of public 
 schools. 
 
 Section 25. A medical inspector will, upon the 
 request of the principal of a school building, and 
 with the consent of the teacher or janitor affected, 
 examine any such principal, teacher or janitor, to 
 determine the advisability of such principal, teach- 
 er or janitor continuing his school duties. Reports 
 and recommendations in cases of teachers and 
 janitors will be addressed to the principal of the 
 school building, and in the case of principals will 
 be addressed to the proper supervising principal 
 All such reports, however, will be delivered by the 
 medical inspector to the principal of the school 
 building. 
 
 Section 26. This exclusion of teachers and 
 janitors from schools and the resumption by them 
 of their school duties will be determined in ac- 
 cordance with these regulations so far as they 
 may be applicable. 
 
 Section 27. In the event of the occurrence of 
 any emergency requiring medical aid, the princi- 
 pal of the building will call at once upon the med- 
 ical inspector assigned to such building. If unable 
 to secure his services with reasonable promptness, 
 he will communicate with the Health Department, 
 
which will arrange for the services of another 
 inspector, or in some other manner supply the 
 needed assistance. 
 
 Section 28. Medical inspectors will respond 
 promptly to all calls coming from any of the 
 school buildings under their care, or from the 
 Health Department, for aid in any case of emer- 
 gency requiring medical care. 
 
 Section 29. Examination of applicants for ad- 
 mission to the normal school, of pupils in that 
 school seeking graduation, and of applicants for 
 anoointment as teachers or janitors, to determine 
 their physical fitness for admission, graduation or 
 appointment, will be made when requested by the 
 Board of Education by a medical inspector or 
 medical inspectors of schools detailed for that 
 purpose by the Health Officer. 
 
 Section 30. Medical inspectors will note such 
 insanitary conditions in and about school buildings 
 as may be called to their attention or as may come 
 under their personal observation, and will report 
 them to the Health Officer. The Health Officer, 
 if such conditions arise from property under the 
 control of the Board of Education, will report 
 them to that board, and to the Engineer Depart- 
 ment. Inspectors will bear in mind that they are 
 not to act as mere agents for the transmission of 
 complaints of the cause of which they have no 
 personal knowledge. 
 
 Section 31. Each day, as soon as possible after 
 leaving the last school to be visited, inspectors 
 will mail to the Health Officer the duplicate slips 
 showing tentative diagnoses and recommendations 
 which they have made during the day (Form A, 
 Duplicate). Before doing so, however, they will 
 note for use in the preparation of their weekly 
 report (Form D) such data as may be necessary 
 for that purpose. 
 
 Section 32. Every officer and agent of the 
 Health Department and of the Board of Educa- 
 tion will be held strictly accountable for any un- 
 warrantable disclosure of information acquired in 
 his official capacity. A medical inspector of pub- 
 lic schools does not lose his character as a physi- 
 cian by reason of his office and therefore must not 
 disclose any information which is essentially con- 
 fidential in its character and which he has ac- 
 quired in his official capacity, except to those 
 properly entitled to receive it. No such informa- 
 tion should ever be embodied in routine reports, 
 but if a report is necessary it should be specially 
 and confidentially submitted. 
 
 Section S3- Medical inspectors will be required 
 
 57 
 
•taljperform such duties in connection with the 
 ■niedioal inspection of public schools, in addition to 
 those specifically described in these regulations, as 
 'may' be directed by the Health Officer. No physi- 
 cal examination of the pupils of any entire room 
 of building is to be undertaken except so far as 
 •may -be necessary for the detection of communi- 
 cable diseases and of defects of sight and hearing, 
 without the consent of the Boards of Education. 
 , Section 34. If by reason of illness or any other 
 'CJtuje the" medical inspector is unable to report at 
 >id).Gols under his supervision in his usual manner, 
 .be (f will communicate at once, with the Health 
 Officer, so that proper arrangements can be made 
 ;tor the performance of his work. A written ex- 
 ;pl^;nation of such absence must in each case be 
 forwarded to the Health Officer as soon as prac- 
 ticable: 
 
 Sfection 35. Medical inspectors will report at 
 the Health Office from time to time as m^y be 
 :directed by the Health Officer. Special meetings 
 of medical inspectors of schools may be called at 
 other places in. the discretion of the Health Officer. 
 
 ;^ec t ion . 36. . The jurisdiction, of the medical in- 
 spector of schools 15 limited and defined by these 
 regulations, Visits, to pupils at their homes or 
 ex^arriJnations' of pupils there may be made only as 
 thes^- regulations authorize, and then only with 
 the consent of their parents or guardians, and if 
 any such pupil be under the care of a physician, 
 the-consetj:t of such physician also must be ob- 
 tained. ■ ■:■'■. AT- ^ . ^ 
 
 Section 37. Under no circumstances will a 
 medical inspector undertake to treat a pupil, teach- 
 er or janitor who has been excluded from school 
 on his recommendation during the period of such 
 exclusion, unless such pupil, teacher or janitor,' or 
 the family of such pupil, teacher or janitor, has 
 been under the professional care of such inspector 
 prior to the occurrence, of the condition which led 
 to exclusion ; provided, however, that any circular 
 of, circulars relative to the treatment of pedicu- 
 losis, ringworm, or any similar condition which 
 the Health Officer may furnish may be given to 
 pupils excluded from school because suffering 
 from such disease, Any effort to m.ake the office 
 of medical inspectors of schools a means for in- 
 creasing private practice will lead to the prompt 
 dismissal of the offender. . 
 
 Section 38. Every principal of a school will 
 seie jthat there are at all times on hand in; the 
 building under his supervision a sufficient supply 
 of blanks of all kinds, tongue depressors, disin- 
 
fectants and proper receptacles for the disinfect- 
 ing solutions, and soap, towels and a nail brush 
 for the use of the inspector. These articles can 
 be obtained by applying to the secretary of the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 Medical inspectors will obtain such articles as 
 are needed solely for their use in the keeping of 
 their records and the making of their reports by 
 application to the Health Officer. Articles needed 
 for use in connection with the actual examination 
 of puoils and for the making out of recommenda- 
 tions, etc., at school buildings, will be supplied in 
 all cases b}^ the principals of such buildings. 
 
 Section 39. The word "he" and the derivatives 
 thereof wherever used in these regulations are to 
 be read to include the word ''she" and its corre- 
 sponding derivatives, respectively, and an}- power 
 and authoritv conferred upon a principal or teach- 
 er in and bv these regulations may be exercised 
 by any officer in the service of the Board of Edu- 
 cation, having a higher rank, and any power and 
 authority conferred upon a medical inspector may 
 be exercised by any officer in the service of the 
 Health Department with relatively higher stand- 
 ing. 
 
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EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION 
 
 OF 
 
 Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Measles, Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox, 
 Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Menirgitis, end Typhoid Fever 
 
 IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 QUARANTINE OF PATIENT. 
 Skc. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person having p)ower and 
 authority to prevent topermit a patient suffering from diphtheria, 
 scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic 
 cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid fever, to do, and for any 
 such patient to do, any of the following things: 
 
 b To appear in school, church, store, or place of amusement, 
 or any other place of public assemblage. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall knowingly expose himself or any 
 other person, or if he has power and authority to prevent permit 
 any other person to be exposed, to infection by scarlet fever, 
 diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic 
 cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid fever, unless such exposure 
 is necessary for the proper care and treatment of the patient. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person residing in any dwelling house or in any 
 
 apartments where there is in said dwelling house or apartments 
 
 a patient suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, or 
 
 epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, shall, while so residing and 
 
 during the continuance of such case attend public or private 
 
 school or Sunda)' school. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Sec. 6. No person who has resided in any dwelling house or 
 apartments while there was in such dwelling house or apartments 
 a patient suffering from scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, or 
 epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis shall after the removal, death, 
 or recovery of the patient, or after the removal of such person 
 
 60 
 
from such dwelling house or apartments, attend public or private 
 school, or Sunday school, without the written permission of the 
 health officer, for a period following the first proper isolation of 
 the patient, when no disinfection is to be made, and when dis- 
 infection is necessary immediately following the completion of 
 such disinfection, as may be directed by the health officer, and 
 continuing if the patient was suffering from scarlet fever, diph- 
 theria, or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis for seven days, or if 
 the patient was suffering from lAejigljes tor fourteen days. 
 * * * 
 
 Sec. i8. Any person who is suffering from symptoms that so 
 resemble those of diphtherial,, sScii'let/ fever, measles, whooping 
 cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid 
 fever, that they. can not be diatinguiahed therefrom- with reason- 
 able certainty shall be regarded for the purposes of these regula- 
 tions as suffering from the disease whose symptons he presents ; 
 Provided^ hozvevej\ That no warning signs shall be displayed 
 except in cases definitely diagnosed as diphtheria or scarlet fever. 
 
 Sec. 19. The word "building" as used in these regulations 
 shall be held to include not only buildings as the word is ordinar- 
 ily understood, but also boats, vessels, cars, vans-, ^nd ^all otRer 
 places where a sick person may be. The terrrt ■ ^ apartnrient 
 house" shall be held to mean abuiMing in which tw^b 'of irto^e 
 families are living independently of one another, with ^^p^ta'te 
 water closets and bath rooms, and with separate kitchens, 'il /ihy'. 
 for each family. These regulations' shall be in full fbrbe and 
 effect throughout the District of Columbia on and after the Hiinfh 
 day of April. 1907. i>rfi Jnavt^vj 
 
 }£rff idofflo 
 ib awoigfiJnc! J 
 
 61 
 
EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF 
 SMALLPOX 
 
 AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 Sec. 17, That the principal, teacher, or other person or persons 
 in charge of any school, seminary, college, or Sunday school in 
 said District shall not permit any person to attend such school, 
 seminary, college, or Sunday school who is or has been suffering 
 from or exposed to any contagious disease and whose exclusion 
 from such school, seminary, college, or Sunday school has been 
 certified to by said health officer as in his opinion necessary to 
 prevent the spread of such contagious disease; persons so excluded 
 may be permitted to return to such school, seminary, college, or 
 Sunday school upon presentation of a certificate f lom said health 
 officer that they may do so without danger of spreading such 
 contagious disease. 
 
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ORGANIC LAW. 
 [Public — No. 254.] 
 
 An Act To fix and regulate the salaries of 
 teachers, school officers, and other employees of the 
 board of education of the District of Columbia. 
 
 Be it enacted by the 'Senate and House of Rep- 
 resentatives of the United States of America in 
 Congress assembled, That on and after July first, 
 nineteen and six, all children of school age be- 
 ing instructed in the schools of the District be- 
 yond the second grade shall be given a whole 
 school day's session. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the control of the public schools 
 of the District of Columbia is hereby vested in 
 a board of education to consist of nine members 
 all of whom shall have been for five years im- 
 mediately preceding their appointment bona fide 
 residents of the District of Columbia and three of 
 whom shall be women. The members of the 
 board of education shall be appointed by the 
 supreme court judges of the District of Columbia 
 for terms of three years each, except that the 
 original appointments under this Act shall be as 
 follows : Three for one year, three for two 
 years, and three for three years, and members 
 shall be eligible for reappointment. The mem- 
 bers shall serve without compensation. Vacancies 
 lor unexpired terms, caused by death, resignation, 
 or otherwise, shall be filled by the judges of the 
 supreme court of the District of Columbia. The 
 board shall meet for organization within thirty 
 days after appointment. They shall appoint a 
 secretary, who shall not be a member of the board, 
 and they shall hold stated meetings at least once 
 a month during the school year and such addi- 
 tional meetings as they may from time to time 
 provide for. The organization meeting, and all 
 meetings whatsoever thereafter, shall be open to 
 the public, except committee meetings dealing with 
 the appointment of teachers. 
 
 No appointment, promotion, transfer, or dis- 
 missal of any director, supervising principal, 
 principal, head of department, teacher, or any 
 otl er subordinate to the superintendent of schools, 
 shall be made by the board of education, except 
 upon the written recommendation of the superin- 
 tendent of schools. 
 
 The board shall determine all questions of gen- 
 eral policy relating to the schools, shall appoint 
 the executive ofiicers hereinafter provided for, 
 define their duties, and direct expenditures. All 
 expenditures of public funds for such school pur- 
 
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poses shall be made and accounted for as now 
 provided by la\y under the direction and control 
 of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 
 The board shall appoint all teachers in the man- 
 ner hereinafter prescribed and all other employees 
 provided for in this Act. 
 
 The board of education shall annually on the 
 first day of October transmit to the Commis- 
 sioners of the District of Columbia an estimate 
 in detail of the amount of money required for the 
 public schools for the ensuing year, and said 
 Commissioners shall transmit the same in their 
 annual estimate of appropriations for the District 
 of Columbia, v^-ith such recommendations as they 
 may deem proper. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the board shall appoint one super- 
 intendent for all the public schools in the District 
 of Columbia, who shall hold said office for a 
 term of three years and who shall have the direc- 
 tion of and supervision in all matters pertaining 
 to the instruction in all the schools under the 
 board of education. He shall have a seat in the 
 board and the right to speak on all matters be- 
 fore the board, but not the right to vote. 
 
 The board shall have power to remove the 
 superintendent at any time for adequate cause 
 affecting his character and efficiency as superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 The board, upon the written recommendation 
 of the superintendent of schools, shall also ap- 
 point one white assistant superintendent for the 
 white schools and one colored assistant superin- 
 tendent for the colored schools. The white as- 
 sistant superintendent, under the direction of the 
 superintendent of schools, shall have general 
 supervision over the white schools, and is specifi- 
 cally charged, under the direction of the superin- 
 tendent, with the unification, as far as may be 
 practicable, of the educational work of the white 
 high schools and of all academic and scientific 
 subjects in the McKinley Manual Training School 
 and the Business High School. 
 
 The colored assistant superintendent, under the 
 direction of the superintendent of schools, shall 
 have sole charge of all teachers, classes, and 
 schools in which colored children are taught. And 
 he is specifically charged, under the direction of 
 the superintendent, with the unification, so far 
 as may be practicable, of the educational work of 
 the colored high schools, and of all the academic 
 and scientific subjects of the Armstrong Manual 
 Training School. And he also shall be charged 
 
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specifically, under the direction of the superin- 
 tendent, with the unification of the educational 
 work of the intermediate grades of the colored 
 schools. 
 
 The board, upon the written recommendation 
 of the superintendent of schools, shall appoint a 
 director of intermediate instruction for the white 
 schools who shall have charge under the direc- 
 tion of the superintendent of the unification of 
 educational work of grades five to eight, inclusive. 
 
 There shall be appointed b}^ the board a super- 
 visor of manual training who, under the direction 
 of the superintendent, shall have supervision of 
 manual training instruction. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the salaries of teachers, school 
 officers and other employees of the board of edu- 
 cation of the District of Columbia shall be as 
 follows : 
 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 Class I 
 
 Class 2 
 
 Class 3 
 
 Class 4. 
 
 Class 5. 
 
 Class 6. 
 
 $500 
 
 $600 
 
 $650 
 
 $800 
 
 $950 
 
 $1,000 ■ 
 
 
 525 
 
 625 
 
 675 
 
 830 
 
 990 
 
 1,000 
 
 
 SSO 
 
 650 
 
 700 
 
 860 
 
 1,030 
 
 1,100 
 
 
 575 
 
 675 
 
 725 
 
 890 
 
 1,070 
 
 1,200 
 
 
 600 
 
 700 
 
 750 
 
 920 
 
 1,110 
 
 1,300 
 
 ■ Group A. 
 
 
 
 775 
 
 950 
 
 1,150 
 
 1,400 
 
 
 
 
 800 
 
 980 
 
 1,190 
 
 1,500 
 
 
 
 
 825 
 
 1,010 
 
 1,230 
 
 1,600 
 
 
 
 
 850 
 
 1,040 
 
 1,270 
 
 1,700 
 
 
 
 
 875 
 
 1,070 
 
 1,310 
 
 1,800 J 
 
 
 
 
 900 
 
 1,100 
 
 1.350 
 
 1,900] 
 
 2,000 V Group B. 
 
 2,100 
 
 2,200 J 
 
 Kindergarten assistants, class one. 
 
 Model teachers of first and second grades, and 
 of kindergarten, class four. 
 
 Teachers of first and second grades, class two. 
 
 Teachers of third and fourth grades, and 
 kindergarten principals, class three. 
 
 Teachers of fifth, sixth, and seventh grades, 
 class four. 
 
 Teachers of eighth grades, class five. 
 
 Teachers of manual training, drawing, physical 
 culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, in 
 the graded schools, classes three to four, inclu- 
 sive. 
 
 Teachers of manual training, drawing, physical 
 culture, music, domestic science, and domestic art 
 in the normal, high and manual training schools, 
 classes four to five. 
 
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Assistants to directors of primary instruction, 
 classes four and five. 
 
 Head teachers and teachers of normal, high, 
 and manual training schools, Group A, class six : 
 Proznded, That teachers of the normal, high, and 
 manual training schools now receiving less '.han 
 eight hundred dollars, who have not taught five 
 years or more in graded or high schools, shall re- 
 ceive an annual increase not to exceed one hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars until the minimum salary 
 of class six is reached, when they shall thereafter 
 receive the increase provided in said class: And 
 provided further, That special beginning teaclier> 
 in the normal school may be appointed for a two 
 years' probationary period upon the recommenda- 
 tion of the principal of the normal school at a sal- 
 ary of eight hundred dollars for the first year and 
 nine hundred dollars for the second year, and 
 thereafter, if continued, they shall receive the in- 
 crease provided for in this class. 
 
 Heads of departments in high and manual train- 
 ing schools, Group B of class six. 
 
 Librarians and clerks, classes one, two, and 
 three. 
 
 Librarian of the teachers' library, class four. 
 
 Teachers not otherwise provided for, classes 
 one to four. 
 
 Teachers, librarians, and clerks eligible to more 
 than one class shall be placed in the lowest class 
 to which they are eligible. 
 
 — Sec. 5. That the board of education shall class- 
 ify all academic and scientific subjects in the Cen- 
 tral, Eastern, Western, and Business high schools, 
 and the McKinley Manual Training School into 
 eight departments so that each department shall 
 contain correlated subjects and the M Street High 
 School and the Armstrong Manual Training 
 School shall be similarly classified into four de- 
 partments so that each department shall contain 
 correlated subjects. 
 
 Whenever a department includes two or more 
 high schools then the teacher in charge of the de- 
 partment shall be designated "Head of the depart- 
 ment," otherwise the teacher in charge of the de- 
 partment shall be designated "Head teacher;" 
 Provided, That heads of departmentsas such have 
 only an advisory capacity in educational matters 
 and upon all questions shall be inferior in author- 
 ity to the principal of each particular school :_ Pro- 
 vided further, That no class shall be formed in the 
 high schools with less than ten pupils except in the 
 M^Street High School in the case of subjects not 
 
offered as well in the Armstrong Manual Training 
 School but this limitation shall not apply to pupils 
 who have already entered upon a continuous 
 course of two or more years. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the board of education shall ar- 
 range all teachers in the classes and groups in the 
 above schedule, except as hereinafter specified. 
 
 For the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and seven, each head of department and 
 teacher shall receive the salary in his class next 
 above his present salary, and no teacher or princi- 
 pal shall in any event receive less than his or her 
 present salary. If promoted to a higher class he 
 shall receive the salary in that class next above 
 his present salary, and after June thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and seven, if his work is satisfactory, he 
 shall receive an annual increase within his class or 
 group, as herein provided, without action of the 
 board of education; but no teacher shall in any 
 one year receive more than one promotion within 
 his class or group : Provided, That if the salar}' 
 in his class next above his present salary shall be 
 less than twenty-five dollars in excess of his pres- 
 ent salary he shall receive the next higher salary, 
 so that no teacher shall receive for the first year 
 an increase of less than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 A teacher shall not be promoted from one class 
 to another, except by the board of education, upon 
 the recommendation of the officer having direct 
 supervision of said teacher and in the case of col- 
 ored teachers upon the additional recommendation 
 of the colored assistant superintendent. Such rec- 
 ommendations shall in each case be made through 
 and with the approval of the superintendent of 
 schools. 
 
 Teachers shall be promoted for superior work 
 from Group A to Group B of class six only after 
 oral and written examinations by the boards of 
 examiners upon recommendation as follows : 
 
 All high and normal school teachers and teach- 
 ers of the manual training schools upon the rec- 
 ommendation of their respective principals. 
 
 Such recommendations shall in each case be 
 made through and with the approval of the super- 
 intendent of schools, and with the additional rec- 
 ommendation of the colored assistant superinten- 
 dent for the colored teachers. 
 
 No teacher, head of department, principal, or 
 supervising principal shall be appointed to any 
 position in the graded schools, high schools, man- 
 ual training schools, or normal schools, and no 
 director, assistant director, or teacher of special 
 
studies shall be appointed until he shall have 
 passed an examination prescribed by the boards of 
 examiners. No person without a degree from an 
 accredited college, or a graduation certificate from 
 an accredited normal school, such normal-school 
 graduate to have had at least five years of experi- 
 ence as a teacher in a high school, shall hereafter 
 be appointed to teach any academic or scientific 
 subjects in the normal, high, and manual training 
 schools. This provision for examination shall not 
 apply to teachers coming from the normal schools, 
 or teachers being advanced from the different 
 classes in the grade schools : Provided, That no 
 teacher or officer in the service of the public 
 schools of the District of Columbia at the time of 
 the passage of this Act shall, by the operation of 
 this Act, be required to take any examination, 
 either mental or physical, to be continued in the 
 service. The boards of examiners for carrying 
 out the above provisions with reference to exam- 
 inations shall consist of the superintendent and 
 two heads of departments of the white schools for 
 the white teachers and of the superintendent and 
 two heads of departments of the colored schools 
 for colored teachers. The designation of such 
 heads of departments for membership on these 
 boards to be made by the board of education annu- 
 ally. 
 
 Every new teacher at the time of his appoint- 
 ment shall be assigned to a class or group by the 
 board of education on the recommendation of the 
 superintendent of schools, and shall receive for the 
 first year the minimum pay of said class or group. 
 The first year in Group A, class six, shall be pro- 
 bationary. 
 
 For the purpose of this Act a model teacher 
 shall be held to be a teacher of the first or second 
 grade, or of the kindergarten whose special apti- 
 tude for primary teaching makes it desirable to 
 retain him in said grades with the pay of a higher 
 grade. 
 
 Teachers of classes one and two shall receive 
 an annual increase of salan.' of twenty-five dollars 
 for four years, or until the maximum is reached. 
 
 Teachers of class three shall receive an annual 
 increase of salary of twenty-five dollars for ten 
 vears, or until the maximum is reached. 
 
 Teachers of class four shall receive an annual 
 increase of salary of thirty dollars for ten years, 
 or until the maximum is reached. 
 
 Teachers of class five shall receive an annual 
 increase of salary of forty dollars for ten years, 
 or until the maximum is reached. 
 
Teachers in Group A of class six, after the 
 probationary year, shall receive an annual in- 
 crease of salary of one hundred dollars for eight 
 years ; in Group B, of one hundred dollars for 
 three years. 
 
 Sec. 7. That principals of grade-school build- 
 ings shall receive for services rendered as such, 
 in addition to their grade salary, the )'^early sum 
 of thirty dollars for each session room in the 
 building. 
 
 The term "session room" shall be held to des- 
 ignate a class room in which the regular work of 
 a class of not less than twenty-five people is car- 
 ried on. 
 
 Principals of normal, high, and manual training 
 schools shall receive a salary of two thousand 
 dollars per annum, together with an annual in- 
 crease of one hundred dollars for five years. All 
 such principals shall be appointed at the minimum 
 salary, and each shall have entire control of his 
 school, both executive and educational, subject 
 only in authority to the superintendent of schools 
 for the white schools and to the colored assistant 
 superintendent for the colored schools, to whom 
 in each case he shall be directly responsible. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 Sec. 8. That the salary of the directors shall be 
 as follows : Directors of drawing, physical cul- 
 ture, music, fifteen hundred dollars, with an annu- 
 al increase of one hundred dollars for five years ; 
 domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens 
 shall receive a salary of one thousand five hun- 
 dred dollars per annum with an annual increase of 
 fifty dollars per year for five years ; the assistant 
 directors of drawing, physical culture, music, do- 
 mestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, in 
 charge of colored schools shall receive a salary of 
 one thousand three hundred dollars per annum, 
 with an annual increase of fifty dollars per year 
 for five years ; the director of primary instruction 
 shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hun- 
 dred dollars per year, with an increase of fifty 
 dollars per year for five years; the assistant 
 director of primary instruction, in charge of col- 
 ored schools, shall receive a salary of one thous- 
 and four hundred dollars, with an increase of fifty 
 dollars per year for five years. Directors and 
 assistant directors shall be appointed at the min- 
 imum salary. 
 
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PAY OF OIPFICERS. 
 
 Sec. 9. That the pay of officers shall be as fol- 
 lows : The superintendent, five thousand dollars; 
 the assistant superintendents, three thousand dol- 
 lars each ; director of intermediate instruction, su- 
 pervisor of manual training, and supervising prin- 
 cipals, two thousand two hundred dollars per 
 annum, with an increase of one hundred dollars 
 per year for five years. 
 
 Director of intermediate instruction, supervisor 
 of manual training, and supervising principals who 
 may be hereafter appointed shall be appointed at 
 the minimum salary provided in this Act unless 
 the said salary is less than that received at the 
 time of his appointment. 
 
 Sec. 10. When a teacher is on trial or being in- 
 vestigated he or she shall have the right to be 
 attended by counsel and by at least one friend of 
 his or her selection. 
 
 Sec. II. That a commission, consisting of the 
 superintendent of schools, the Engineer Commis- 
 sioner, and the Supervising Architect of the 
 Treasury Department, is hereby created for the 
 purpose of submitting to Congress at its session 
 beginning December, nineteen hundred and six — 
 
 First. A general plan for the consolidation of 
 the public schools in the District of Columbia, and 
 the abandonment and sale of such school build- 
 ings and sites as may by them be deemed neces- 
 sary and desirable for the best good of the public 
 school service. 
 
 Second. A general plan for the character, size, 
 and location of school buildings in accordance 
 with which the educational and business interests 
 of the public school system may be subserved. 
 
 Sec. 12. That wherever the masculine pronoun 
 occurs in this Act it shall be construed to apply 
 to either male or female teachers or employees of 
 the board of education. 
 
 Sec 13. That this Act shall take effect on the 
 first day of July, nineteen hundred and six, and 
 all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved, June 20, 1906. 
 
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INDEX TO THE APPENDIX. 
 
 (a) Coinpulsorv Education Law. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Absence of children 44 
 
 Ag( s of children for compulsory attendance 44 
 
 Attendance of children 44 
 
 Certificate of attendance vipon instruction 44 
 
 Course of study for non-attendant children 44 
 
 Kmployers of children 45 
 
 Excuse for non-attendance of children 44 
 
 Juvenile court 45 
 
 Misdemeanor, person guilty of ' 45 
 
 Parent or guardian of children ..-?;'.''.-'.'.■.•'•.•.':".'. . 44 
 
 Parochial schools .■.'.■..•.■.•.•.■.■.■..•. 44 
 
 T'enalty — ' 
 
 for false statements 45 
 
 for not sending child to school , 45 
 
 for unlawfully employing children 45 
 
 Private schools 44 
 
 Prosecution of parent or guardian 44 
 
 Truant officers- — 
 
 api>ointment 45 
 
 shall visit i>laces and establishments; shall secin^e lists of 
 
 children em])loyed 43 
 
 Truants 45 
 
 l^ngraded schools — 
 
 commitments of children to; restoration to graded schools 45 
 
 (b) Tuition Law. 
 
 Tuition charged — 
 
 of whom re<|uired; when payable 46 
 
 (c) Medical Inspection. 
 
 Pules and regulations 40-59 
 
 (d) Prevention of Flagrant Diseases. 
 
 l^xtracts from the regulations 60 
 
 . (e) Prevention of the More Flagrant Diseases. 
 
 I'A'tracts from An Act to prevent the spread of smallpox and otlicr 
 
 contagious diseases in the District of Columbia 62 
 
 (f) Organic Law. 
 
 Api^ointnicnts of officers and teachers 63 
 
 Assistant directors of special subjects Gj 
 
 Assistant superintendents (m, 
 
Board of education- 
 powers and duties; membership; shall transmit estimates for 
 appropriations to the Commissioners of the District of 
 
 Columbia 63 
 
 shall appoint superintendent; shall have power to remove super- 
 intendent 64 
 
 shall classify academic and scientific studies in high and manual 
 
 training schools 66 
 
 shall arrange teachers in classes and groups; may promote 
 
 teachers from one class to another 67 
 
 Building commission 70 
 
 Classes of pupils in high schools 66 
 
 Director of intermediate instruction 65 
 
 Directors of special subjects 67 
 
 Dismissals 63 
 
 Examinations — 
 
 teachers who are not reiiuired lo take same 68 
 
 Rxaminers 68 
 
 Tiead of department 66 
 
 Head teacher 66 
 
 Masculine pronoun 70 
 
 Principals — 
 
 salary and increase for 1907 ; appointment 67 
 
 l>ay for session rooms; salary and increase for 5 years for 
 iiormal, high, and manual training ^ 6q 
 
 Promotions 63 
 
 Public scliools — 
 
 control vested in board of education 63 
 
 Repeal act 70 
 
 Salaries — 
 
 schedvile for teachers, school officers and other employees -65 
 
 Session rooms 69 
 
 Sessions 63 
 
 Superintendent — 
 
 shall be appointed for three years; direct and supervise matters 
 pertaining .to instruction; shall have a seat in board: shall 
 
 not have right to vote; may be removed by board 64 
 
 Sujiervising princii)als 67 
 
 Sui^erVisrtr of manual training 65 
 
 Teachers — 
 
 a)>pointment; degrees; certificates: exjierience 
 
 (Promotion upon recommendation; promotion upon recommenda- 
 tion and approval after examination; salary 67 
 
 Teachers, special v,., 65 
 
 Transfers ,.^3 
 
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