EDUCATIONAL LAW

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 279, 9 November 1931, Page 7

EDUCATIONAL LAW

MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS. POWER TO CLOSE SCHOOLS. Far-reaching amendments to the education law are provided in the Finance Bill (No. 4), which was introduced in the House on Saturday, and read a first time. The capitation fee to education boards is reduced from 3/6 a child to 2/6, in addition to the usual grant. The Minister of Education is given power to close any school if he finds the children are able conveniently to attend any other school, or become enrolled as pupils at a correspondence school, and ho may enrol these children compulsorily as pupils in the correspondence school under the same obligations of attendance that prevail in the case of ordinary day schools at the present time. Parents are similarly obliged to ensure these facilities for their children.

Education boards are empowered to terminate on three months' notice the engagement of any married woman teacher, but no action shall be taken in this direction until a report has been received from the senior inspector, recommending this course. Women so dismissed may appeal to the Teachers’ ("curt of Appeal, which may examine the circumstancis of the teacher and her husband to relieve hardship. Properties other than endowments u:ed for educational purposes by education authorities are exempted from rating under the Rating Act, 1925.