LAW July 30, 1980, n.60 (published in the albo of the Public Palace on August 7, 1980)
school system reform.

We the Captains Regent of the Most Serene Republic of San Marino
promulgate and publish the following law approved by the Great and General Council
its meeting of 30 July 1980. TITLE I

AIMS 'SCHOOL AND RIGHT TO STUDY

Art. 1
School Aims
The school promotes training and the freedom of the person through the dissemination of knowledge
, education for democratic life, preparation for work.
Along with other members of society it helps to ensure the development of the personality
according to the identity of each.
Through the study, its relationship with the work and the democratic experience school as the
citizens and prepare them to participate in the ec nomic development, moral and civil country.
In the school they are not allowed to race, sex, language, religion, political opinions
.
It therefore educates the commitment and responsibility towards themselves and others, to the critical method, the
search, comparison between different positions to build our individual freedoms, guarantees the acquisition of the tools
basic cultural, puts at the disposal of adult citizens the tools
for further cultural and professional growth, promotes areas of extra cultural interests
school actively participating in forms of aggregation cial s.
And 'guaranteed freedom of teaching teachers, in compliance with the basic norms of the State,
legislative systems of education and moral and civil conscience of pupils.
Art. 2 Right to Education

The State guarantees in the forms and within the limits of legg the right to education and the means to achieve it,
by adopting appropriate measures, giving priority to interventions in kindergarten and
in setting mandatory, in order to overcome the social conditioning and to fight
premature exclusion from the education process.
When realizing these objectives the State also prepares collective services, such as meals, transport,
educational materials and supplies also contribute, through the educational grant, the frequency
institutes and universities outside the territory.
The right to education is guaranteed to adults through lifelong learning to be realized
even with the establishment of popular culture courses, remedial courses, refresher courses
periodic, specific cultural orientation courses.
Art. 3
of students bearers of handicaps Inserting
The bearers of handicaps are entitled to attend schools of all levels, fulfilling
compulsory education and with the possibility of inserting the upper grade levels.
To this end the school, with minor service operating within the Institute Social Security, made
save the roles and specific skills, annually prepare a monitoring scheme of the students bearers of handicaps that
, taking into account the particulars of the degree and nature of disability
of each student, the school-age determination, the possibility of intervention
by the school, levels of cooperation by the specialized service, It sets the
grade school and plexus or school entrust each pupil.
The school guarantees the participation of the students bearers of handicaps in educational activities and educational
creating suitable conditions for the recovery.
The specialized team employed by the Social Security Institute provides advice for
regarding preparation of work plans, periodic checks, participation in
plexus team or institution for the discussion of the program teaching.
Individual rehabilitative interventions are implemented within the minor service.
If the intervention plan so requires, the school can be equipped with unique or specific
personnel, equipment and specific teaching tools.
Recruitment of staff for this purpose is annually approved, subject to the rules in force
and public rankings, by the State Congress.
The Department of Education provides its own initiative or on a proposal from the staff concerned to provide
preparation tools and updates.
Art. 4

Obligation school Compulsory education is set by 6 to 14 years of age.
It fulfilled their compulsory schooling the pupil who has obtained a license diploma middle school
.
The compulsory education fulfillment has fixed the age of 15 years of age.

E 'subject to the principle enshrined in Article. 23 of Law 33 of 5 December 1914.

TITLE II SCHOOL SYSTEM-JOINTS
Art. 5
school Sorting
The public school system is divided into the following grades:
a) kindergarten
b) elementary school
c) junior high school
d) middle school higher.
The school system realizes the purposes of art. 1 of this Act in constant contact with
vocational training, with the adult education, with public institutions and cultural communication processing
.
Art. 6

Recognition of qualifications The qualifications obtained at the schools of the Republic at the end of specific courses have
legal value.
The mutual recognition of qualifications between the Republic of San Marino and the other States
laws apply.
Art. 7
Plessi, Clubs, Institutes
The kindergarten and primary school are divided into school Plessi located in every
Castello della Repubblica.
The set of Plessi elementary and kindergarten school are the educational circles
.
The middle school is divided in Institutes of divisions I, II constituency, constituency
III.
The high school is divided into Institutes having a single seat for the whole territory.
Art. 8

school Locations The locations of school premises in the territory is determined by the local planning.
Art. 9

school Ordinances Appropriate Read governing the different types of schools indicating the purpose and learning objectives specific
, the organization of the activity of study and work, the fundamental and common disciplines, || | guidance and planning activities and areas of expertise, equipment and educational equipment
, the responsible management bodies, the procedures for carrying out the examinations, the
regulations, the policy orientation.
The elementary school and middle school are configured as basic school.
The extension and implementation of the full-time elementary school and junior high
will be implemented according to a plan of action to be expected n ll'ordinamento the school.
Art. 10

School Calendar The school calendar is annually proposed on the basis of school days provided for in each
orders from Deputy Education.
It is approved by the State Congress after hearing the Commission Education and promulgated
with Reggenziale Decree.
It 'faculties of the Deputy of Education to declare the closure of the school or
suspension of classes if there are established therein mo educational or impediment to
operation of the service or for other reasons.
The Deans or the Educational Directors may suspend classes for no more 'than a day in an emergency
for serious reasons.

TITLE III MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL
Art. 11
collegial bodies of management
The school realizes the purposes of art. 1 attr to the social management.
The collegial bodies of management of the school have the joints provided by the special regulations
.
The social management of the school wants to achieve the contribution of each citizen to politics
school and promote, in the collective interest, always new opportunities to gather and stimulus
of the cultural activities of the school, both in the form Shareholders that in the form of temporary or
regular meeting in which they struggle ergenti problems.
The social management of the school also wants dareconsapevolezza citizens to be active subject
education of their children is the youth of the Republic.
Art. 12

The educational Coordination of Educational Coordination Committee by the operation of teaching and educational
within the school.
Save where jurisdiction is derived from specific anointing, the Committee performs an action of
discussion and coordination between the different levels of the school, acting in the field of application and
implementation of the decisions taken by the political bodies and the collegial management bodies
create the conditions for operation and commissioning attodelle same.
It consists of:
- the Deputy of Education
- Deans high school
- Deans of the junior high school
- the Director of the elementary school
- the Director of the kindergarten.
The Coordination Committee shall meet whenever one of its members so requests and
at least once each quarter.
Art. 13
Technical Bodies Administrative Educational Coordination

The technical teaching and administrative coordination of the school organizations are the Directorates
Teaching in kindergarten and primary schools, the presidencies in middle school and in high school
.
They are assisted in an advisory capacity with regard to problems of organization and coordination of educational
by the Department Councils and the Presidency of the Council.
Art. 14
Councils of Management and
Presidency Councils The Executive Council in kindergarten and elementary school and the Board of Presidency
in middle school and high school are made by
teachers elected annually by the respective Boards of teachers.
It 'delegated to the colleges of teachers to establish the criteria for representativeness of the individual orders of
school, by act of domestic regulation.
Art. 15

administrative secretariats Each Education Office and each Presidency have a Secretariat Office.
Administrative Secretaries of various types of schools meet the respective Deans and Directors
Teaching of administrative activities and entrusted their service.
Art. 16
Function technical bodies
Chairs and Educational Departments assisted by the respective President and Boards of Directors and the administrative secretary
ua place of work and coordination function
of school organization and caring for their rational use of personnel, are also responsible
the general trend and the OPERATION to the services which they are responsible.
In the performance of their duties, with the approval of the Deputy for Education,
it can make use of qualified eserni contributions to the school and the contribution of teachers.

TITLE IV PROGRAMMING TEACHING, TESTING AND EVALUATION
Art. 17
programming of educational activities
The purposes of art. One can achieve p omuovendo experimentation, research
individual and group learning the experimental verification, the deepening of
specific problems.
To this end, during the fifteen days preceding the start of the school year the Colleges of
teachers establish a program of educational activities aimed at full utilization of
school facilities, of teaching equipment, environmental resources and territorial, resource of proper social management
.
In particular they program initiatives:
a) develop common criteria for the evaluation of liv lli of departure and to start the design of educational curricula
.
B) Organize school work in function of a rational use of teaching and non-teaching
, spaces for common tasks and specifications, equipment and teaching materials.
C) Promote the possible links between different types of schools.
D) To promote integrated activities, support, elective and experimentation and educational research
deemed appropriate to ensure that all pupils acquire the basic tools and
harmonious development of their personality.
E) Report activities supported by common motivations.
F) promote liaison activities of the school with the territory.
Established the general criteria of educational programming, each plexus and school processes
independently the plan of educational activities plexus and school and discuss it in their
collegial management bodies for appropriate comparison and suggestions and for the deliberations of
competence.
Art. 18

educational programming beginning of the school year the teachers of each class, valued the starting levels of
pupils related to the specific educational objectives, prepare a curriculum programming or
for single subject , or to subject areas, or interdisciplinary, in order to build a didactic
program to be implemented for each class, for interclass, for courses or parallel classes.
The educational program is submitted to the governing bodies responsible for
teaching program which will look after the conduct in relation to educational activities.
The educational program is regularly tested, additions and corrections by
proposed collegial body, in relation to the AND chin of the teaching.
For the programming of educational activities is planned to structure the school day
disciplines in modules capable of ensuring flexibility to teaching both classes for
open classes.
It 'also possible to overcome the permanence of students and pupils in classrooms fixed for each section,

Establishing clockwise rotation systems of the various classes in classrooms equipped according to disciplines and
activities.
Art. 19

Educational Research and Experimentation The experimentation in the school of all levels can relate to:
a) as a search and realization of metodol gico- educational innovations;
B) as research and development of innovations or inamenti and existing structures.
The testing referred to in point a) is promoted by individual teachers, class councils, by
teachers 'colleges, from the circle Councils, plexus, institution, may involve more' educational areas and
perspective the whole cycle or two or three or five years.
It is authorized by the teachers should not go beyond the ambit of the school structure, involving more
'educational areas or an entire sclastico cycle.
Teachers who intend to achieve it have a program to indicate the reasons,
the educational tools they intend to use, the procedures for verification of the results and their
advertising, the purposes they intend to pursue.
The Directors and Deans, after consultation with the Graduate School Committee may propose to organize
the teaching hours of individual teachers to enable the development and implementation of the testing program
.
The documentation and testing proposals submitted by the Teachers know, on
reference of teachers who directly manage the testing, the Deputy to the
Education to consider the question.
The testing referred to in point b) has implemented pr vvedimento of the Great and General Council authorization
.
Any proposal or testing program is trasmes a Deputy for Education and
shall include: the identification of the problem you want to deal with the reasons therefor;
The scientific formulation of the hypothesis of work; the identification of tools and
organizational conditions; the cost estimate; the description of the methodological procedures
in various stages of testing; how ver Pussy results and their publication;
the bodies to document and evaluate the results achieved; the maximum
trial duration.
Submitted must also specify and contain the materials and teaching schedules, the
composition of any scientific and educational committees in charge of testing, testing examination
license or maturity and composition of examining boards.
The decision of the Great and General Council must also determine the scope of autonomy of
structures and systems and methods for the procurement and use of teaching and non-teaching staff
in the order of special lists.
Art. 20
Verification and overall assessment
The educational programs and testing are periodically subject to verification by teachers
which, overall assessed the work done and the students' learning level and suggest
programming interventions such as to enable the achievement of educational goals and programmed
.
Of all the decisions above, the teachers themselves relate annually to the Council of Institute
or circle, as well as the Commission of Education.
Art. 21
Supplementary activities, elective and support
The integration and support activities are you Finalize acquisition of the basic tools needed
enabling all pupils to make use of the real right to education eliminating any
starting inequalities.
They are interdisciplinary and are organized by groups of pupils of the same class or different classes
.
They take place within school hours for a period of no more than 120 hours during the school year
.
They are decided by the teachers on the basis of the proposals of the Class Council and
general criteria set by the programming of educational activities.
In the school where pupils are welcomed bearers of handicaps must be secured the necessary
specialized integrations provided by the plan of action in art.
3 for the duration of the school year.
At normal hours outside the classroom, can be arranged, after consulting the State
Congress to consider the question, class or interclass groups that perform cultural activities, teaching-educational
not explicitly included in the programs but connected to one or more 'educational areas
(elective subjects).
The frequency of such activities is voluntary and it must ssere made regular written request by the

pupils or parents in compulsory education.
Interested teachers and pupils have the Graduate School Committee in due time obtaining all the necessary means
, arranging the coordination and interdisciplinary, its program and
publicizing the results achieved.
Consistent with the directions of the budget and the overall planning, the
State Congress provides the means to benefit from the areas and ttive.
At the beginning of the school year and as part of school activities in physical education
are organized, where there is sufficient staff resources specialized in special
waiting lists and an adequate number of applications from of the students, sports groups preparation
in sports activities with an international character.
The physical education teachers wishing to join the preparatory work in groups sports
may, after consultation with their respective service chiefs and in compliance with applicable laws,
organize their service hours allotting ua part in carrying out this activity.
The integration activities, support and elettiv requiring the extraordinary use of personnel
are decided by the Congress of State, taking account of existing provisions.
In junior high school or above can be resolved by individual Class Council or
course or elapsed support activities for up to 60 hours during the school year, to the outside of
' normal class schedule.
Recruitment of staff overtime for this purpose is authorized at the request of the Deans from
Chief of Staff under Law 41 of July 17, 1979.
Art. 22
Individual Pupil Assessment
In elementary school, junior high and senior high individual pupil assessment
happens for three or four months, at the decision of the Academic Board, after hearing the opinion of the Directors of
institution or plexus.
The choice of the quarter or semester must be unified for grade school.
At the end of each quarter or semester the class teachers make a judgment for
individual subjects and an overall judgment that is based on evaluation of the work and the level of
learning of each student in relation to teaching and educational programming.
These opinions are brought to the attention of the family on a special document referred
will be given a copy to the pupil.
At the end of the annual course of study individual Class Council with the presence of teachers in middle schools only
lower or higher, and classroom teachers in elementary school,
formulate a reasoned judgment, admission or non-admission to the following year.
This judgment is specific to the work of the school year.
The transition from the first to the second cycle of elementary school and from one class in each grade
school is by ballot.
The admission or non-admission to licensing examinations and maturity is based on the evaluation of
all the work done by the pupil during the studies.
Average high school until entry into force of new regulations the quarterly evaluation
or four months is expressed in numerical marks. TITLE V

TESTS, TRAINING CLASS, HOURS
Art. 23

Examinations At the end of the second cycle of elementary school l 'lunno supports a licensing exam.
At the end of junior high school students take a licensing exam.
At the end of secondary school pupils take an exam.
The licensing exam for middle school and high school are state exams.
Art. 24
Examination sessions, the exam timetable
The exam sessions are fixed at the end of the school year.
The Educational Coordination Committee referred to in Article. 12 of this Act shall, by 31
May each year, the exam timetable for the various types of schools.
The exam calendar must be published within the school premises by the
Presidencies and the Board of Education in elementary school at least 10 days before the session
and remain exposed until the completion of the examinations themselves.
In intermediate middle school classes Superior is expected to fall session for pupils
that should support remedial examination.
The remedial examination must be completed at least ua week before the start of the new school year
.
The student, who proving grounds can not take exams on the day indicated in the calendar,
must promptly to duly inform all Presidency or the Board of Education that

Will ensure that a supplementary test.
Those wishing to take a licensing exam or ripeness or fitness to the intermediate classes
as from private schools must submit an application allePr presidencies or the Education Office by March 31
academic year.
The examination program must be presented to the Head of the Institute which transmits it to the Commission
examining at least 30 days before the opening of the examination session, which will be established for
intermediate classes by the Presidency or lla Education Office.
The Headmaster may refuse to accept the examination program presented by the external candidate
excluding it from the examination, where it fails to comply with established programs.
Art. 25

Training classes Each pupil is assigned to a class or section.
The assignment to classes or sections by drawing lots, taking into account the criteria suggested by the teachers'
.
The criteria for the formation of classes are established by the regulations of individual jurisdictions school
.
The framework of the classes will be approved along with the teaching plan by the Commission under Article.
15 of Law 17 July 1979 n.
41. The sections or classes which are assigned students bearers of handicaps, the number of
pupils must be provided by the monitoring scheme in art. 3 of this Act.
In determining the number of pupils in classes for sections which provides for the inclusion of pupils
bearers of handicaps should take into account the degree and nature of each disability.
Art. 26 hours of lessons

The class schedules are established by the laws on education organization.
Art.

27 Registration Registration for the kindergarten are made in June before the start of the school year
for children who will be 3 years old and there mpiano 6 years to 31 December
of the school year to come.
Their attendance at school will take place from the first day of school in January for those who commit the three years
by March 31 and the first day of pril school for those who commit the three years before 30 June
.
Accepted enrollment of children who turn three years old by March 31 and June 30
the current school year only if there is availability of reception by the school complexes
.
In elementary school enrollments to the first clsse take place in June before the school year
start for children who turn six years by 31 December of the school year to come
.
In middle school enrollment in the first grade the ffettuano in July
before the start of the school year for all students in possession of elementary school license and that
have exceeded 14 years .
in high school the inscriptions are in the month of July of the school year for
guys in possession of the middle school license.
The dates and registration procedures at the various school levels and grades must be made public in
appropriate time by the respective Educational Directorates and presidencies.
For intermediate classes of the different orders of the school Registration takes place in the days to be determined by the respective Departments
Presidencies with public communication. TITLE VI UPDATE


Art. 28
The update is a right and a duty of the school staff fundamentally.
It is expressed:
a) how to refresh linked to professionalism and specific function;
B) as a theoretical and practical training and retraining activities in relation to the school
objectives, the policy orientations of the different grades, the adaptation of knowledge, the development of science
for individual disciplines and connections interdisciplinary,
deepening methodological, looking for teaching and pedagogical innovation.
The Faculty decides and manages its moments of renovation tying research to
experimentation.
The Department of Education is committed to promu true of renovation work, and for
provide the organizational and financial instruments, on the appropriations provided for this
Report and the compliance with financial laws.
I school in service training programs are approved by the Deputy
Education and are published all'iniz or of each school year.
Each program shall include the arrangements for participation of school staff.
E 'obligation to the staff of the school to participate in the update task,
retraining and education promoted by the competent bodies for the introduction of specific

Teaching and educational programs and the change of the school system.
This obligation is foreseen inside timetable.
The update criteria may include s the following characteristics:
a) the possibility for each move a tenured professor in the order and the degree of mandatory training school
dell'infanzi waves and school benefit of multiple experiences during developmental
, where he fulfills at least the requirements of Law 41 of July 17, 1979. Teachers who
wish to take advantage of this possibility must apply in writing to the Joint Committee for EQUEST
art. 15 of Law 41 of July 17, 1979, by the end of June of the school year to come;
Moving is allowed only one teacher by school per school year, chosen for
of service ranking among those who request it and can be realized only in the case of
availability of seats in the grade and order the chosen school;
B) the possibility, for each tenured teacher or stabilized, subject to securing commitment and relativ
documentation, to follow educational experiences outside the territory;
C) the possibility for each tenured teacher or stabilized to follow cultural experiences at European and international level
, both at Institutes univers tari that at research institutes both public and private
;
D) the possibility for each teacher, subject to documentation warranty and commitment to follow
within their specialization of their particular qualification upgrading activities.
The rules on the concrete use of the possibilities referred to in a), b), c) are issued annually
with Reggenziale Decree, after hearing the Commission Education.

TITLE VII FINAL PROVISIONS AND REGULATIONS REPEAL
Art. 29
The effects resulting from the higher charge resulting art. 17 of this legislation on the current
employment of school staff will be working with the entry into force of the new legal status
.
Art. 30

Final Provisions For matters not covered by this law rules apply no rules concerning the legal systems of
different types and grades of school.
Art. 31
repeal regulations
With the entry into force of this Act are abr gate the current rules are incompatible with it.
Art.

32 Entry into force This Act comes into force after its legal publication.
Our Residence, this day of August 6 1980/1679 Foundation of the Republic THE CAPTAINS REGENT

Peter Chiaruzzi - First Marani

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Alvaro Selva