director, and an amount not to exceed one-half of the annual salary of each nurse or physician appointed in accordance with section 1 of the act may be paid by the State board of health to the local school trustees employing such nurse or physician. 3. That after the 1st day of September, 1920, pupils in all the public elementary and high schools of the State shall receive as part of the educational program such examinations, health instruction, and physical training as shall be prescribed by the State board of education and approved.by.the State board of health, in conformity with the provisions of this act. 4. In order that the teachers of the Commonwealth shall be prepared for health examinations and physical education of school children every normal school of the State is hereby required to give a course, to be approved by the superintendent of public instruction and the State health commissioner, in health examinations and physical education, including preventive medicine, physical inspection, health instruction, and physical training, upon which course every person graduating from a normal school must have passed a satisfactory examination, and every normal-school certificate shall, therefore, indicate as a prerequisite a knowledge of preventive medicine, physical inspection, health instruction, and physical training. 5. The State board of education, with the approval of the State board of health, shall establish regulations whereby on or after September, 1925, no applicant may receive a certificate to teach in the schools of this State who does not present, first, satisfactory evidence of having covered creditably an approved course in general physical education in a training school or course for teachers recognized by the State board of education as a school or course in good standing. But the State board of education may modify or waive entirely the requirements of this section whenever in its opinion such modification or waiver is necessary to prevent the impairment of the teaching force of the public-school system. 6. The State board of education, with the approval of the State board of health, shall appoint a supervisor of physical education qualified and authorized to supervise and direct a program of hygiene instruction and physical education for the elementary, secondary, and normal schools of the State, and shall appoint such other employees and authorize such expense for personal service, printing, and so on, as may be necessary to the proper and effective administration of the program authorized by this act. 7. An act entitled "An act to provide for public health, nursing, and medical inspection and health inspection of school children," approved March 15, 1918, is hereby repealed.-(Mar. 15, 1918.) The following appropriations were made: To the State board of education, for physical education in the public elementary schools and in the public high schools of the Commonwealth, an amount not exceeding $25,000. To the State board of health, for child welfare and schood medical inspection, $25,000. Washington.-SECTION 1. After the 1st day of September, 1919, during periods averaging at least 20 minutes in each school day, every pupil attending the first eight grades of the public schools of the State of Washington shall receive as part of the required instruction therein such courses in physical education as shall be prescribed by the State board of education: Provided, That individual pupils or students may be excused on account of physical disability or religious belief. SEC. 2. All high schools of the State and all State normal schools, the University of Washington, the State College of Washington, shall each of them emphasize the work in physical education, and shall carry into effect all such courses provided by the State board of education; said courses to provide for a minimum of 90 minutes in each school week: Provided, That individual students may be excused on account of physical disability or religious belief, or because of participation in directed athletics or military science and tactics. SEC. 3. The State board of education shall, on or before August 1, 1919, prepare said courses of instruction in physical education, and shall direct and enforce the instruction in such courses throughout the State, with the assistance of the school officials, principals, county superintendents, boards of directors of the public schools, boards of trustees of the State normal schools, and boards of regents of the University of Washington and of the State College of Washington.' SEC. 4. Pitor to September 1, 1919, the State superintendent of public instruction shall cause to be printed and distributed to school officials, principals, county superintendents, boards of directors of public schools, boards of trustees of the State normal schools, and boards of regents of the University of Washington, of the State College of Washington, a sufficient number of copies of said courses, to supply all teachers in the State concerned in the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and shall cause any revision or revisions of said courses to be printed and distributed in like manner. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of school officials, principals, county superintendents, boards of directors of public schools, boards of trustees of the State normal schools, and boards of regents of the University of Washington and of the State College of Washington, to direct and enforce said courses in physical education, or any revision or revisions thereof, as may be prescribed by the State board of education. West Virginia.—Authorizes the appropriation each year of $10,000 for thrift, Americanization, physical education, and architecture. O |