Excerpt from Laws of Wisconsin: Relating to Common Schools, Free High Schools, Normal Schools, County Training Schools, County Agricultural Schools, State Graded Schools, the State University and County and City Superintendents, Teachers Institutes, Etc The statutes prescribe the following, among the duties of the state superintendent: "He shall cause the laws relating to common schools, with the rules and regulations and forms aforesaid, and such instructions as he shall deem necessary, to be printed in pamphlet form, with a suitable index, and he shall cause such pamphlets to be distributed among the several district and other officers having the care of common schools throughout the state." "Whenever any amendments shall be made to the provisions of this chapter, he shall furnish a copy of such amendments to every school district in the state." This edition of the School Laws of Wisconsin is issued in compliance with the foregoing statutory provisions, and includes the various acts of the legislature of 1897, relating to school laws. It also includes the laws relating to free high schools, state normal schools and the University of Wisconsin Chapter 354, laws of 1897, which takes effect July 1, 1897, is a revision and codification of the school laws of the state, in which the laws upon school matters, contained in numerous acts of the legislature, scattered through many years, are brought together in their proper relations and connections. Attention is called to various amended sections, as follows: Section 412, amended to make more explicit the authority to consolidate districts, and to form new districts from parts of existing districts. Section 413, amended by inserting the words "whenever a new district shall be formed," at the beginning of the second sentence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.