289.1 Authorization.

The board of directors in any school district situated in whole or in part in any city having a population of twelve thousand or over, in which there shall reside or be employed, or both, fifteen or more children over fourteen years of age and under sixteen years of age, who are not in regular attendance in a full-time day school and who have not graduated from a four-year approved high school, shall establish and maintain part-time schools, departments, or classes for such children. In districts situated in whole or in part in cities having less than twelve thousand population, the board may establish and maintain such schools. When such part-time schools have been established, all persons having custody of such children shall cause them to attend the same.

289.2 Support.

The board of directors may raise and expend money for the support of such part-time schools, departments, or classes in the same manner in which it is authorized to raise and expend funds for other school purposes.

289.3 Standards--time of instruction.

Such part-time schools, departments, or classes, for the attendance of children over fourteen and under sixteen years of age, shall be organized in accordance with standards established by the state board for vocational education, and shall provide for not less than eight hours of instruction per week during the length of term for which public schools are established in the district. Such part-time schools, departments, or classes shall be held between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. and six o'clock p.m.

289.4 District reimbursed.

Whenever any such part-time school or class shall have been approved by the state board for vocational education, the board of directors shall be entitled to reimbursement on account of expenditure made for the salaries of teachers in such part-time schools, departments, or classes from any federal and state funds appropriated in aid of vocational education, as provided in the statutes governing such appropriations.

289.5 Powers of state board for vocational education.

The state board for vocational education is hereby authorized to fix standards for the establishment of part-time schools, departments, or classes; to fix the requirements of teachers, and to approve courses of study for such part-time schools, departments, or classes.

289.6 Violations.

When such part-time school shall have been established, any parent or person in charge of such minor as defined in this chapter who shall violate the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor, or any person unlawfully employing any such minor shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

289.7 Enforcement.

The enforcement of this chapter shall rest with the school board in the district in which such part-time school, department, or class shall have been established, and the department of education through its inspectors and the state board for vocational education through its supervisors of vocational education, in conjunction with the area education agency administrator, are empowered to require enforcement of the same on the part of school boards.