Sec. 262.

The City School Superintendent, with the approval of the Board of Education, may, for good and sufficient cause, provisionally suspend any teacher employed in the public schools of the City, until the next meeting of the Board of Education. It shall be the duty of the City School Superintendent to report to the Board of Education annually, and at such other times as it may be required, all matters pertaining to the expenditures, income and condition and progress of the public schools of said City, during the preceding year, with such recommendations as he may deem proper; to visit each school as often as practicable; to observe, and cause to be observed, such general rules for the regulation, government and instruction of the schools as may be established by the board; to recommend to the board the dismissal of teachers, stating the reasons therefor; to attend all sessions of the board, and inform it at each session of the condition of the public schools, school houses, school funds and other matters connected therewith, and recommend such measures as he may deem necessary for the advancement of education in the City, and to acquaint himself with all the laws, rules and regulations governing the public schools in said City, and the judicial decisions thereon, and give advice connected with public schools, gratuitously, to officers, teachers, pupils and their parents and guardians.  (Added, 1925.)