A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 21. 1994 (Debrecen, 1994)

Tanulmányok - Mónus Imre: A hajdúböszörményi ref. iskolaszék története

and 19 th century. The Act 38 of 1868 declared the compulsory nature of establishing of school-boards in the elementary schools but that act didn't refer to the denominational schools. Nevertheless their work served as examples for the parishes of different denominations.

The Act 28 of 1876 ordained the compulsory establishment of school-boards also in parishes and invalidated the paragraphs regarding the offical work of school-boards in the public education act No. 38 of 1868. It created such a cronstruction that ensured more homogeneous and more coordinated control of the educational affairs and development of the civil educational system.

Further on the author enumarates those paragraphs of the act which are the most important for operation of school-boards of denominational schools.

There are no data regarding the year of establoshment of the Calvinist school-board of Hajdúböszörmény, but it can be seen from the official report of school-board of 1892 that its operation was already continuous in the former years under the leadership of Gerzson Szolnoky pastor-president. The member of the school-board were elected in every third year fromthe representatives of the church and from the representatives of the town and of the teaching stuff. Its scope of duties was many-sides namely the whole operation of the school. Arranged for registration the children of school-age, decided the rate of registration fee, strictly controlled the teaching, instituted proceedings against the parents of children who were absent from school, took care of supplying of school with educational appliances and were present at the examinations at the end of the semesters. It choose treasurers for schools based on the invoices to the school- board.

The school-board was helping and managing the work of schools util 1948 that was the year of taking the schools into public ownership.

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