RURAL SCHOOL SUPERVISORS IN VAN ZANDT AND OTHER COUNTIES

Section 1. COUNTIES TO WHICH APPLICABLE. The County Boards of School Trustees may employ rural supervisors of Van Zandt, Panola, Nacogdoches, Jasper, Cass, Live Oak, Anderson, Scurry, Wood, Denton, Shelby, Morris, Parker, Nolan, Titus, Wise and Lamar Counties, to plan, outline, and supervise the work of the primary and intermediate grades of the rural schools of the counties. Sec. 2. VISITING SCHOOLS. It shall be the duty of such supervisors to visit the schools of the counties and help the teachers with their class work by teaching demonstration lessons for them: suggesting methods of presenting the work and aiding them in any other ways possible. Sec. 3. TEACHERS' MEETINGS. The supervisors may call meetings of the teachers when deemed necessary, either by the supervisors or the County Boards, for the purpose of discussing their work with them, and it shall be the duties of the teachers to attend all such meetings whenever possible. Sec. 4. SALARY. The salary of the rural school supervisor shall be determined by the County Board of School Trustees, providing that the total salaries paid such school supervisor for any one year shall not exceed Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars; said salary shall be included in the annual budget for County Administration Expense, and an assessment shall be levied upon the scholastic population of Van Zandt County for the purpose of paying the salary of the supervisor, provided the County Board of School Trustees of the various counties named in House Bill No. 72, Chapter 39, of the General and Special Laws of the Forty-second Legislature, First Called Session, 1931, shall have the power to discontinue the office of rural school supervisors at any time when it is clearly shown that such rural school supervisors are not a public necessity, and their services are not commensurate with the salaries received. Sec. 5. EXEMPTIONS; PARTIAL INVALIDITY. The employment of rural school supervisors, under the terms of this Act shall exempt the County Superintendent from holding a Teachers' Institute for rural teachers, including teachers of independent districts of fewer than five hundred (500) scholastics, and exempt the rural teachers of the County from attendance upon a Teachers' Institute as provided for in Article 2691, Revised Statutes of 1925, and as amended by the 40th Legislature. It is hereby declared that if any clause, phrase, provision or section of this bill should be invalid or unconstitutional, that the Legislature would have nevertheless passed the remaining portions of said bill without including the phrase, clause, provision or section so declared invalid or unconstitutional.