Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1950 NO. 371 >

After the directors elected at the annual school election shall have entered upon the discharge of their duties, the board of directors of a school district may make a valid contract employing a teacher who is to receive compensation in twelve equal monthly installments beginning at the end of September in said year.

AGO 1950 NO. 378 >

1. A school district may refuse a pupil admission to first grade who is not six years old by September 30.2. Regulations requiring pupils be six years old by September 30 not applicable to bona fide transfer pupil from another district who properly was admitted to school though not six years old.3. Regulation requiring pupils be six years old by September 30 gives directors power to refuse pupils who leave district to evade regulation and then return upon reaching six years.

AGO 1952 NO. 389 >

There is no statutory or general provision of law under which court action may be taken to restrain the superintendents, principals and teachers of the public schools from engaging in political activities.  However, if such activities are engaged in by a teacher in the school before the students, it might be the basis for a dismissal by the school board.

AGO 1950 NO. 411 >

The provisions of section 6, chapter 161, Laws of 1949 (Rem. Rev. Stat. 5166-4) relative to filing declarations of candidacy, controls and supersedes the provisions of section 5032, relative to nominative petitions for the election of directors in school districts of the first class in class A counties and counties of the first class.