Excerpt from A School Manual for the Use of Officers and Teachers in the Public Schools of California: Comprising the Constitution of the United States; The Constitution of California; The School Law of California; A Digest of Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court on Matters Relating to the Public Schools; Opinions of Attorney-Generals on School Question During my incumbency as Superintendent of Schools in San Francisco, and, more particularly, during the time occupied in my present position, have I felt the need of a reference book upon matters connected with the laws governing our public schools. The existence of this need on my own part induced me to undertake the compiling of this Manual. Notwithstanding my long experience as a teacher both in public and private schools, I found, on assuming the discharge of duties appertaining to the Superintendency, that I was comparatively unlettered in the law under which our public schools are organized, and that I knew but little regarding the many questions that are continually arising relative to the schools. Feeling my own need, and in order that I might enable myself to reply properly to the many and varied questions which were daily presented to me, I compiled for my own use and assistance the decisions of the Supreme Court upon school questions since the organization of the State; also the opinions of the several Attorney-Generals, and of my predecessors in this office. These I have diligently and carefully studied, and, having derived great benefit from the study, I venture to give opportunity for like benefit to others. That there is great need on the part of school officers and teachers for a more thorough understanding of our school law, and of the mode of applying and executing it, there can be no doubt. 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.