Section 16-3-20
Supervision of educational work of special institutions.
The State Board of Education shall have general supervision of the educational work of all charitable, penal, reformatory and child-caring institutions, maintained in whole or in part by the state, through its executive officer, who shall be a member of the governing board or boards which have charge of such.
(School Code 1927, §51; Code 1940, T. 52, §25.)