§ 16-1-8. Visits of commissioner to schools.
The commissioner of elementary and secondary education shall visit, as often as practicable, every city and town in the state, for the purpose of inspecting the schools, and diffusing as widely as possible, by public addresses and personal communications with school officers, teachers, and parents, a knowledge of the defects, and of any desirable improvements, in the administration of the system and the government and instruction of the schools.
History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 52, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 64, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 66, § 4; G.L. 1938,
ch. 177, § 4; P.L. 1951, ch. 2752, § 20; G.L. 1956, § 16-1-8.