568. Removal of superintendents, teachers and employees for treasonable or seditious acts or utterances. A person employed as superintendent of schools, teacher or employee in the public schools, in any city or school district of the state, shall be removed from such position for the utterance of any treasonable or seditious word or words or the doing of any treasonable or seditious act or acts while holding such position. (Added by L. 1917, ch. 416, in effect May 8, 1917.)
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[917] Revolutionary Radicalism Its History, Purpose, and Tactics with an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It, Vol. III, pp. 2430-2434.
B. REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF FIVE ON AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS NOW IN USE IN CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOLS[918]
Stanford University, California,
June, 1922.
Mr. A. C. Olney,
Commissioner of Secondary Schools,
State Board of Education,
Sacramento, California.
Dear Sir: In April, 1922, you were directed by the State Board of Education to appoint a Committee of five educators with instructions “to examine the textbooks on American History in use in the Junior High Schools, High Schools, and Junior Colleges of California and to report on those, if any, which treat any part of American history in a disloyal or unpatriotic manner or which minimize the best patriotism of American tradition.”
The committee appointed consisted of E. D. Adams (Chairman), Professor of American History, Stanford University; E. I. McCormac, Professor of American History, University of California; J. A. Nowell, Head of History Department, Fresno Teachers’ College; W. W. Mather, Head of History Department, Ontario; and A. H. Abbott, Professor of History, College of the Pacific, San José. The textbooks examined were:
West, History of the American People, 1918, Rev. 1920. Allyn & Bacon.
Hart, New American History, 1921. American Book Company.