1. The regular meetings of the State Board of Education are held at the State Capitol on the first Monday of each month. 2. The State Board of Education will consider applications for State Certificates and State Diplomas at its monthly meetings. 3. All applicants for State Certificates and State Diplomas must file with their applications satisfactory evidence that they are legally entitled to such certificates or diplomas. 4. Teachers presenting authenticated diplomas or certificates from other States for the purpose of obtaining diplomas or certificates of like grade and kind from this board, must furnish proof therewith, satisfactory to the board, that such diplomas or certificates are still in force, and that the applicants are in good professional standing, and of good moral character. 5. Every application for a diploma or certificate shall be in writing and filed with the secretary of the board of education five days before the meeting at which it is to be presented. 6. The attention of applicants is respectfully called to the provisions of the school laws pertaining to certification as found in sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, School Laws of Oregon. II. PROVISIONS FOR STATE PAPERS. 1. The State Board of Education shall have power to grant State Certificates and State Diplomas to such persons as are found, upon examination by the State Board of Examiners, hereinafter defined, to possess a good moral character, thorough scholarship, and successful experience in teaching. The examination for State Certificates and State Diplomas shall be upon questions prepared by the State Board of Examiners; said questions shall be based on the text-books adopted by the State, and shall cover all the branches* required for a first-grade county certificate, and in addition thereto, algebra, bookkeeping, composition, physics, and psychology; those for State Diplomas, in addition to the foregoing, botany, *Subjects required for a first-grade county certificate are: Orthography, reading, writing, written arithmetic, English grammar, geography, United States history, theory of teaching, physiology and hygiene, civil government, Oregon school law, English literature, and physical geography. plane geometry, and general history. Examinations for State Certificates and State Diplomas shall be conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Education, consistent with the laws of the State. A State Certificate shall authorize the holder thereof to teach in any public school in the State for five years thereafter, and the State Diploma shall confer a like authority for life. State Certificates shall be granted to such applicants, only, who have had thirty months' teaching experience with approved success, at least nine of which shall be in the schools of Oregon, and who shall make an average of eighty-five per cent in all the branches herein prescribed, and shall not fall below seventy per cent in any one branch. State Diplomas shall be granted to such applicants, only, as have had at least sixty months' teaching experience with approved success, fifteen of which shall have been in the schools of Oregon, and shall have made an average of eightyfive per cent in all branches herein prescribed, and shall not fall below seventy per cent in any one branch. Any applicant for a State Certificate or a State Diploma who shall attain the required percentages in one or more of the designated branches, but shall fail in one or more of such branches, shall be credited with such required percentages, and shall be allowed to complete the examination in the remaining branches at the two following examinations, and shall then receive a State Certificate or State Diploma, in accordance with the result of all the examinations. Applicants for a State Certificate shall pay $4, and for a State Diploma, $6, which fee shall be paid by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, within forty days, to the State Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. All moneys so received by the State Treasurer shall be credited to the State Board of Examiners' Fund. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the State Board of Examiners for preparing questions and examining papers for State Certificates and State Diplomas, the State Board of Education shall draw an order on the State Treasurer for such sums as may be necessary to defray such expenses; provided, that such sum shall not exceed the amount of the State Board of Examiners' Fund in the State treasury. 2. The State Board of Education shall appoint not less than four nor more than nine professional teachers to assist in the examinations of State papers, who shall be known as the State Board of Examiners, and the said teachers shall receive $5 per day while engaged in their duties. 3. The State Board of Education may, at its discretion, grant without examination State Certificates and State Diplomas to persons presenting authenticated papers from other States of grade and kind like those granted by the State Board of Education in this State; provided, that the State Board of Education is satisfied that said papers were secured by passing an examination equivalent* to that given by the State Board of Education of this State for State papers; provided, that the State Board of Education may, at its discretion, grant a permit for one year to persons who hold papers of the grade and kind equivalent to a State Certificate, but have not had the requisite amount of teaching experience in Oregon to secure a State Certificate. A permit granted by the board shall authorize the holder to teach in any public school in the State. Applicants for State Certificates and State Diplomas must present certificates of good moral character, and that they have taught successfully in their several counties, from the county superin The State Board of Education has ruled that an equivalent examination is one given by a State Board of Examiners, and not one conducted by a faculty, In order to be honored, a certificate or diploma must also have been secured through examination on equivalent subjects. The applicant must in all cases forward his certificate or diploma to the State Board in order that the same may be examined and recorded. |