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the approval of the State Superintendent of Schools. Regulations regarding
the size and arrangement of the building, and its fitness for high school
work, the amount and character of equipment and supplies, and the neces-
sary library and laboratories, shall be made by the State Board of Educa-
tion ; and State aid shall not be allowed on account of the employment of
any teacher unless the department to which such teacher is assigned is
adequately equipped and the quality of instruction is satisfactory.

No person shall be employed in any approved high school as principal
or assistant teacher who does not hold the appropriate certificate as provided
for in Chapter 8, Section 83, of this Article.

Nothing in this section shall prevent the organization of junior high
schools comprising the higher elementary grades and one or two of the
high school grades; and such schools when organized according to regula-
tions of the State Board of Education, and satisfactorily administered, may
receive State aid on the basis of the amount high school instruction given.
See notes to secs. 90 and 192.

An. Code, sec. 126A. 1914, ch. 82. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 126A.

194. To encourage the idea that no person should enter upon the
duties of teaching without special training for the work, the county board
of education of any county, with the approval of the state superintendent
of schools, may inaugurate in one approved high school of the first group,
a two years' teachers' training course for students having completed suc-
cessfully the tenth year grade, and who wish to prepare themselves for
teaching. The state board of education shall prescribe the course and all
necessary regulations to make the work of the course effective.

1920, ch. 118, sec. 126B. 1922, ch. 382, sec. 126B.

195. No white high school teacher regularly employed in the public
high schools of the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less than
eleven hundred and fifty dollars ($1,150) per school year, provided that
if such teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of the first class,
and has taught in an approved high school of the State of Maryland for a
period of one year, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per school year; provided, further, if
such teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of the first class, and
has taught in an approved high school of the State of Maryland for a
period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250) per school year; pro-
vided, further, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of
the first class, and has taught in an approved high school of the State of
Maryland for a period of five years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than one thousand three hundred dollars ($1,300) per school
year; and provided, further, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's
certificate of the first class and has taught in an approved high school of
the State of Maryland for a period of seven years, such teacher shall re-
ceive a salary of not less than one thousand three hundred and fifty dol-
lars ($1,350) per school year.