Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-08-06
Required Of Non Resident Students.

{. L. Cary, state superintendent
of public instruction, has issued a
circular relating to chapter 800, laws
of 1908, which amends chapter is
previously in force. 1t treats on the
encouragement Of attendance upon
free high schools by residents of the
towns and villages having no free
high schools and sets forth the fol-
lowing explanation; This chapter rs
amended requires that certain docu-
ments shall be filed with the board
of education of the free high school
district before persons residing out
side of said district may be permitted
to attend. Section = reads as follows :
."Whenever persons, not residing in
any tree high school district and
having completed the course Of study
in the school district in which he re-
sides or one equivalent thereto i =
enter any free high school, the free
high school board of that district
shall be entitled and is hereby au-
thorized to charge tuition fee for
such pupils not to exceed fifty cents
per week. On or before the first day
of July in each year, the secretary of
the free high school board shall
make a sworn statement to the clerk
of the city. town CT village, from
which any person may have been
admitted to said free high school.
Said statement shall set forth the
residence, name, age, and day of en-
trance to such school and number of
months attendance during the pre-
ceding school year of each person so
admitted from such city, town or
village" X Section 3 reads as
follows: THE usual diploma issued
by any school or school district or.
ganized under the laws of the state
shall be sufficient evidence of the
completion OF the course of study.
A duplicate of such diploma or
a copy thereof duly certified as such
by any of the persons signing the
original shall be delivered upon re-
quest to the person named therein
and shall be filed by him with the
secretary of the free high school
board upon his admission to its high
school. A certificate from the county
superintendent of the completion of
such course or that the diploma here
inbefore referred to has been proper
ly issued 10 the person named there
in, shall have the same effect as such
diploma as evidence of the compile
ton of the course of study. All du-
plicate diplomas or certified copies
thereof, or certificates of county sup
erintenderts so filed, shall be attach
ed to the sworn statement of such
secretary of the high school board"
This amendment appears TO make
it necessary that each applicant APP
plying for admission to n high school
shall now furnish himself with one
of these documents and that here
after the board of education and the
principal of tAe high school are not
authorized to admit pupils upon an
examination given by them as here
tofore. 1t also appears to make it
necessary that the required certifi-
cate shall be filed with the secretary
of the board of education so that he
may be able TO make the statement
necessary to the town, city or village
clerk, as the case may be. in order
that the said officer shall be author
lied to provide for tax levy to pay
for the tuition of such nonresident
pupils.
1t is deemed worth while to call
attention to this law at the present
time in order that complications may
not occur at the opening Of the school
year and that high school officers,
principals and all nonresident pu-
pills may be prepared to do what the
law, as amended, requires.