Daily globe., 1879-05-16
HIGHER EDUCATION.

HIGHER EDUCATION.
Meeting of the High School Board-Former |
Apportionment. Of the State Appropria- |
ton Declared Illegal by the Attorney |
General-A New wApportionment Schools
GLOBE readers will remember the action of
the High school board at its meeting May
5th for the distribution of the appropriation
of $4,000 by the last legislature under the
act for the encouragement of higher educa-
ton. The applications to the board for aid
under the provisisns of the law were forty
two schools. AS the appropriation had to
years, the board decided to divide
the schools into two parts, aiding
one-half the schools applying to their pro-
rata share of the appropriation this year, the
remaining half to be divided in like proper
ton next year. Under this determination
the following schools we're selected for the
current year.
Monticello, Austin, EE
Duluth Red Wing
st. Peter, Waseca
Mankato, Albert Lea
St, Cloud, Hastings.
Wells, Faribault,
LIE Seuer Rochester,
Mantorville, Litchheld,
Rushford Lake City, ~
Moorhead, Sank Center.
After taking this action question arose
as to whether the requirements of the law
had been complied with in so doing. To
reach an understanding on this point the fol
lowing questions we're submitted to Attorney
General Wilson, and a session of the board
convened yesterday to consider and act upon
his answer. The questions are: EgSaa ..ggtas
First-Have the High school board any
discretion in the selection of schools to be
aided, or must they, beginning at the top of
the list of schools applying, accept those
schools that have complied with section of
the act? $40 a4
Second-Can the board lawfully divide the
$4,000 appropriated, using one-half this
year and one-half next year? s.s4-,
The reply of the attorney general to the
first question is, in substance, that the act
does not invest the board with any discre-
tionary power to be goyerned by location, or
population, or the idea of a general distrsbu-
ton over the State. Schools complying with
the conditions of section in the act, as to
scholarship and course of study, must be
aided in the order of their applications.
The second question is answered substan-
tally as follows The omission of the leg
| islature to make an appropriation for 1880
will not Justify the board in dividing the
fund in order to bridge the chasm. Schools
| complying with the conditions of the act are
| entitled to aid, in the order of their applica-
| tions, until the $2O, 700 are exhausted.
The fact that there is no appropriation for
| 1880 will not dissolve the board nor abolish
the system of aid contemplated in the act.
The assumption is that the next legisla-
ture will appropriate the funds necessary to
| give efficiency to the work contemplated in
the law. 18ga7 H# u aaitya.al 5Ha 81
| Governed by this decision the high school
board has made out the following list OF
schools, to receive $4OO each at the end OF
the current school year, provided that at that
time it shall appear to this board upon re,
port of their authorized examiners, that such
schools 'have fully complied with the provi.
sions of this act.'' ..s.e,.tg
Sections 3 and referred to in this con
nection, and which must be complied with tc
entitle anv school to the benefit of the high
or education act, are as follows: ~ lz
Sec. 8. The said board shall require of the
schools applying for snch pecuniarY aid, as pre-
requisite TO receiving such aid, compliance will
the following conditions, to-wit.
| ElTSC-lQdG uueIt Dt Regular anu OIucI1.
courses of study, embracing all the branche'
prescribed as prerequisite for admission to th
collegiate department of the University o
Minnesota, not lower than the third or sub
freshman class. 4 l.t
Second-That the said schools receiving pc
cuniary aid under this act shall at all time
permit the said board of commissioners, or an.
of them, to visit and examine the classes pur
suing the said preparatory courses. t4
Sec. 4. The said board Of commissioner
shall cause each school receiving aid under thi
act to be visited at least once in each schoo
year by committee of one or more members
who shall carefully inspect the instruction AM
} discipline of the preparatory classes, and max
! xuritto, report tho SAINT Immediately
Provided, that the said board may, in their dis
cretion, appoint in any case competent person
to visit and inspect any schools, and to max
report thereon, and no money shall be paid i
any case until after such report shall have bee
received and approved by the board.
!, Acting on the opinion as above the boar
, placed the following schools upon the list t
| he aidad.