Classification and Accreditation of Public School Districts (Rescinded August 30, 2000)

AUTHORITY: sections 160.041, 161.092 and 167.131, RSMo 1986, 163.021, RSMo Supp. 1991 and 171.031, RSMo Supp. 1992. Original rule filed Aug. 27, 1973, effective Sept. 7, 1973. Amended: Filed May 13, 1976, effective Sept. 1, 1976. Amended: Filed Feb. 1, 1978, effective May 15, 1978. Amended: Filed May 25, 1978, effective Sept. 18, 1978. Amended: Filed Oct. 12, 1978, effective Jan. 15, 1979. Amended: Filed July 15, 1980, effective Oct. 13, 1980. Amended: Filed July 13, 1982, effective Oct. 12, 1982. Amended: Filed Aug. 12, 1983, effective Dec. 12, 1983. Amended: Filed Dec. 5, 1983, effective May 14, 1984. Amended: Filed Dec. 7, 1983, effective April 12, 1984. Amended: Filed Feb. 8, 1985, effective July 1, 1985. Emergency amendment filed Sept. 2, 1988, effective Sept. 13, 1988, expired Nov. 24, 1988. Amended: Filed Aug. 1, 1988, effective Oct. 27, 1988. Amended: Filed Oct. 3, 1989, effective Jan. 26, 1990. Amended: Filed Feb. 27, 1992, effective Sept. 6, 1992. Amended: Filed July 23, 1993, effective July 1, 1994. Rescinded: Filed Jan. 19, 2000, effective Aug. 30, 2000. Op. Atty. Gen. No. 416, Groves (9-25-69). There is no Missouri statute or rule of the State Board of Education requiring students to take “mass showers” or requiring teachers to include sex education in the curriculum of kindergarten through sixth grade. Op. Atty. Gen. No. 415, King Jr. (12-29-64). As regards the University of Missouri and its branches, Lincoln University and the five state colleges, that— 1. Under the constitution and statutes of Missouri a graduate of an accredited high school does not have an absolute right to be admitted. 2. The governing boards of these institutions have the authority to set through rules admissions requirements which are reasonable and not arbitrary. 3. The provisions of neither Article IX, section 1(a), Missouri Constitution of 1945, nor section 160.090(2), RSMo (1959) prevent the governing boards of these institutions from adopting reasonable and nonarbitrary admission requirements. Op. Atty. Gen. No. 6, Bell (7-28-61). Teachers’ certificates are valid when issued and (except for county third grade certificates) the local county superintendent of schools does not have authority to require these certificates to be registered or recorded with him/her and the county superintendent of schools does not have the power to pass on the moral character and requirements, other than scholastic, of the teacher (except teachers holding county third grade certificates).