Section 15-B. Education  


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  • The present director of vocational education shall
      be  the director of education with the powers and duties of the director
      of education and hereafter shall be appointed by the  commissioner.  The
      director  of  education,  at any time appointed, shall be a person whose
      education, training and experience shall cover fields of penology and of
      professional education. The educational qualifications shall include the
      satisfactory completion of three years of graduate  work  in  education,
      penology, and allied fields. The head of the division of education shall
      have the direct supervision of all educational work in the department of
      correction  and  shall  have  full  authority  to  visit and inspect all
      institutions of the department to observe, study, organize, and  develop
      the  educational  activities  of  such  institutions in harmony with the
      general educational program of the department. He shall  be  responsible
      to the commissioner and deputy commissioner of correction.