New Regulations for School Teachers.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 304, 25 March 1903, Page 4

New Regulations for School Teachers.

Additional regulations under the Public School Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901, appear in the Gazette. These provide that if the average attendance at any school for any quarter is less than two-thirds of the average weekly roll number for such quartor, or is such as to place the school in a grade lower than that in which it would be placed by the mean of the average attendance for the other three quarters of the year, or if there be in any quarter less than thirty half-days on which the average attendance is at least half the number of the children on the roll then, in the calculation of the yearly average attendance, there may, at the option of the Board, be substituted for the average attendance for such first-named quarter either the average attendance for the correspond* ing quarter of the preceding year or the average attendance for the quarter ending 31st December of the preceding year, and the average attendance thus found shall be in tiro of the y«wly average attendance as defined in clause 1. The average attendance for the purpose of the Third Schedule to the Act (•' House Allowances ") shall be the yearly average attendance an defined by clause 1 of the said regulations of the 14th day of February, 1902 ; except that in the case of a new school, or of the reopening of a school which has been closed for more than six months immediately preceding, the aveiage attendance for the first quarter during the whole of which the school has been open shall be the attendance on which the house allowance foi i the year is paid. Amended regulations i in regard to attendance registers and returns are published in the Gazette this week.