CHAPTER 122. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof," approved October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: amended. I. Amend section one hundred and eighty-two of the Section 182 act to which this is an amendment so that it shall read as follows: District boards to re superintendent. 182. The board of education of each school district shall, on or before the fifteenth day of March in each year, certify to the county superintendent of schools for the county in which such school district shall be situate, and on the blanks furnished for that purpose by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the number of teachers who shall have been employed in the schools of such district for the full time the schools therein shall have been kept open during the then current school year, and the number of teachers who shall have been employed in said schools for a portion of said year, but for a period of not less than four months, specifying the grade in which each of such teachers shall have been employed. There shall also be certified as aforesaid School the number of pupils who shall have attended a public school in a district other than that in which they reside, and for whom tuition fees shall have been paid by the board of education, specifying the grade in which each of such pupils shall have been enrolled during said year, and also the number of such pupils for whom transportation has been provided, and the cost thereof. attendance. ment of The said county superintendent of schools shall, on Apportionor before the first day of April in each year, apportion school moneys. Amount per supervisor or city superintendent. Per assistant supervisor or superinten. dent. Per teacher. Per teacher in ungraded school, or less years' course. than three Per temporary teacher. Per night school teacher. Proviso. to the several school districts of said county the State school moneys, and the interest of the surplus revenue in the following manner: I. (a) The sum of six hundred dollars to each district in which there shall have been employed a supervising principal or city superintendent of schools, who shall have devoted his entire time to the supervision of the schools in such district, but if two or more districts shall have united in employing a supervising principal as aforesaid, the six hundred dollars apportioned for such principal shall be apportioned among said districts in the proportion that the number of teachers employed in each of said districts shall bear to the total number of teachers employed in all of the districts uniting in employing said supervising principal. (b). The sum of four hundred dollars for each assistant superintendent and supervisor, other than the supervising principal, employed in the district, and permanent teacher employed in a high school or high school department having a full four years' course of study, which shall have been approved by the State Board of Education. (c) The sum of three hundred dollars for each permanent teacher employed in a high school or high school department having a full three years' course of study, which shall have been approved by the State Board of Education. (d) The sum of two hundred dollars for each permanent teacher employed in an ungraded school, or in a kindergarten, primary or grammar department or in a high school department having a course of study of less than three full years, which course of study shall have been approved by the State Board of Education. (e) The sum of eighty dollars for each temporary teacher who shall have been employed for a period of not less than four months. (f) The sum of eighty dollars for each teacher employed in an evening school for the full time such school shall have been maintained; provided, the board of education shall certify that said evening school has been maintained at least four months during the school year preceding that for which the apportionment shall be (g) The sum of twenty-five dollars for each pupil who shall have attended a high school or a high school department in a district other than that in which he resides, and for whom a tuition fee shall be paid by the board of education. Per high school pupil in other district. other district. (h) The sum of five dollars for each pupil who shall per pupil in have attended an ungraded school or a kindergarten, primary or grammar school department, in a district. other than that in which he resides, and for whom a tuition fee shall have been paid by the board of education. ported pupil. (i) The sum of two hundred dollars to each district Per transin which the board of education shall have provided proper means for the transportation of pupils in accordance with the provisions of this act, so long as proper transportation shall be provided; provided, that no ap- Proviso. propriation shall be made for transportation unless the services of a teacher shall have been dispensed with by reason of substituting transportation for the services of such teacher. of transporta Proviso. (k) Seventy-five per centum of the cost of transpor- 75 per cent. tation of pupils to a public school or schools in a district tion. other than that in which such pupils reside; provided, that such apportionment shall not be made to any district in which a school-house shall be closed by reason of providing such transportation. In making such apportionment teachers employed in a manual training school or department in a district receiving an appropriation from the State for such manual training school or department, and who shall have devoted at least one-half of the time the schools in said district shall have been kept open to school work other than manual training, shall be regarded as temporary teachers only, but no apportionment shall be made for teachers who shall have devoted their entire As to manual teachers. training Apportionment of bal moneys. In case of evening and time to teaching in such manual training school or department. II. He shall apportion to the several school districts. ance of school of the county the remainder of said moneys on the basis of the total days' attendance of all pupils enrolled in the public schools thereof as ascertained from the last published report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. For the purpose of such apportionment an attendance upon an evening school shall be counted as closed schools. One-half day's attendance. If a school in any district shall, on account of contagious disease, destruction of the school-house by fire or otherwise, or for other good reason, be closed, for the purpose of this apportionment, such school shall be deemed to have been in session, and the total days' attendance upon such school for the time it shall have been closed as aforesaid shall be determined by dividing the actual total days' attendance of the pupils enrolled in such school by the number of days such school shall have been actually in session, and multiplying the quotient thus obtained by the number of school days such school shall have been closed. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Title of article X amended. CHAPTER 123. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof," approved October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Amend the title of article ten of the act to which this is an amendment so that it shall read as follows: SCHOOLHOUSES, FACILITIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS. 2. Amend section one hundred and twenty-six of the act to which this is an amendment so that it shall read as follows: 126. Each school district shall provide suitable school facilities and accommodations for all children residing in the district and desiring to attend the public schools therein. Such facilities and accommodations shall include proper school buildings, together with furniture and equipment, convenience of access thereto, and courses of study suited to the ages and attainments of all pupils between the ages of five and twenty years. Such facilities and accommodations may be provided either in schools within the district convenient of access to the pupils or as provided in sections one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen and one hundred and nineteen of the act to which this act is an amendment. Whenever any school district shall fail to provide such facilities or accommodations, the county superintendent of schools shall transmit to the custodian of the school moneys of the school district an order directing him to withhold from such district all moneys in his hands, or which shall thereafter come into his hands, to the credit of such school district received. from the State appropriation or from the State school tax until such suitable facilities or accommodations shall be provided, and shall notify the board of education of such district of his action with the reasons therefor. Such order shall not take effect until approved in writing by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and said approval shall state when said order shall take effect. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved May 7, 1907. |
