SCHOOL LAWS, Revision of 1900, WITH Notes, Blanks and Forms FOR THE USE AND GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOL OFFICERS. PREPARED BY THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. To be Preserved and Delivered by each Officer to his Successor. Blanks and Forms for School Officers.......... Boards of Education in School Districts Situate in Municipalities Divided into Wards, Article VI................ Boards of Education in School Districts Situate in Municipalities not Divided Page. State Board of Education, Article I......... State Normal School, Article XXII.... State School Tax, Article XVIII..... State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Article II........ 82747 EXTRACTS From the State Constitution Respecting Public Schools. SECTION VII. 6. The fund for the support of free schools, and all money, stock and other property which may hereafter be appropriated for that purpose, or received into the treasury under the provision of any law heretofore passed to augment the said fund, shall be securely invested and remain a perpetual fund; and the income thereof, except so much as it may be judged expedient to apply to an increase of the capital, shall be annually appropriated to the support of public free schools, for the equal benefit of all the people of the state; and it shall not be competent for the legislature to borrow, appropriate or use the said fund, or any part thereof, for any other purpose, under any pretence whatever; the legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in this state between the ages of five and eighteen years. 11. The legislature shall not pass private, local or special laws providing for the management and support of free public schools. (3) |