Sec. 260. 

The Board of Education shall have power:

(1)  To establish and maintain, and to provide suitable quarters therefor, kindergartens and day nurseries, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, evening schools, part-time schools, parental schools, warehouses for school supplies and equipment, administrative departments, and such other schools, departments, classes, and other activities as are now authorized or are hereafter authorized by state law to be established and maintained by a City Board of Education; to change, consolidate and discontinue such schools, departments, classes, and other activities; and to establish districts therefor, and fix and alter the boundaries of such districts

(2)  To appoint, employ and discharge a city school superintendent, a deputy school superintendent, assistant school superintendents, a secretary, an auditor, and such teachers, janitors, mechanics, laborers and other employees as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties of the board; to fix, alter and allow their salaries or wages, and to withhold, for good and sufficient cause, the whole or any part of the salary or wages of any person or persons employed as aforesaid.

(3)  To make, establish and enforce all necessary and proper rules and regulations for the government of public schools, the teachers thereof, pupils therein, and for carrying into effect the laws relating to education; also to establish and regulate the grade of schools, and determine what textbooks, course of study and mode of instruction shall be used in said schools.

(4)  To open, widen, extend, grade, pave, sewer or otherwise improve streets and other public places in front of, or when such improvements are beneficial to, real property owned or controlled by it, and to appropriate money to pay the cost and expense of such improvements, whether made by said board or under contracts, executed by the board, or under contracts, paid for by special assessments, made in pursuance of the general laws of the state respecting street improvements, or in pursuance of the provisions of this Charter governing such proceedings. Any such special assessments shall be paid by the Board of Education in the same manner as such special assessments are paid by property privately owned.

(5) To have and exercise entire control and management of the public schools of the City in accordance with the Constitution and general laws of the state and the provisions of this Charter, and said board is hereby vested with all the powers and charged with all the duties provided by this Charter, and also by the general laws of the state for City Boards of Education.

(6) To print, or print and publish, in its discretion, any report compiled under authorization of the board, or submitted to the board by the City superintendent of schools or other employee.

(7)  To establish and maintain, in its discretion, school lunch rooms.

(8)  To sell, under rules prescribed by the board, such school district personal property as is not required for further school use; provided, that if such property is reasonably worth two hundred dollars ($200.00) or more, the board must publish, at least once in some Los Angeles city newspaper, notice calling for sealed bids, describing the article or articles to be sold and the time when and the place where bids will be opened. At said time and place, all sealed bids shall be opened and examined, and the property sold to the highest responsible bidder among those who have submitted sealed bids and who offer to comply with all the terms and conditions required by the board; provided, however, that if any responsible person present at said opening offers to purchase such property for a price not less than five per cent higher than any other bid, either written or verbal, the property shall be sold to such person; and provided, further, that the board may reject any bid or all bids, if it should deem such action for the best public interest.  (Sec. Added 1925.)