Section 16-35-4
Minimum course content; maximum number of courses.
The State Board of Education, on the recommendations of the State Superintendent of Education, shall prescribe the minimum contents of courses of study for all public, elementary and high schools in the state, and shall fix the maximum number of courses which are compulsory in each grade of the elementary schools.
(School Code 1927, §426; Code 1940, T. 52, §403.)