Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-12
To Free High School Boards.
MADISON, WIS, July 81, 10

GENTLEMEN:-
Chapter 329, laws Of 1903, amend
ing chapter 1873 Of the laws of 1901
relating to encouraging attendance
upon free high schools by residents
of towns and villages having no
free high schools, and prescribing
the conditions emitting persons to
attend, apparently needs some ex-
PLANTATION. This chapter as amend
ed requires that certain documents
shall be filed with the board of edu
cation of the free high school dis
trict before persons residing outside
Of said district may be permitted to
attend. Section 2 reads as follows:
whenever persons, not residing in
any free high school district and
having completed the course of
study in the school district in which
he resides or one equivalent thereto
enter any free high school,
the free high school board of that
district shall be entitled and is here
by authorized to charge a 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 or vii
lage, 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 entrance to such school
and number Of months attendance
during the preceding school year Of
each person so admitted from such
city, town or village" Sec
ton reads as follows: 1.-The usual
diploma issued by any school or
school district organized under the
laws Of the state shall be sufficient
evidence of the completion of the
course of study. A dupli-
cate of such diploma or 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 of the free high school dis
trict upon his admission to it's high
school. A certificate from the
county superintendent of the COM
pletion of such course or that the
diploma hereinbefore referred to
has been properly issued to the per
son named therein, shall have the
same effect as such diploma as evil
dence of the completion Of the
course of study. All duplicate di-
plomas or certified copies thereof,
or certificates Of county superin-
tendents so filed, shall be attached
to the sworn statement of such Sec
rotary of the high school board"
It appears that this law was
passed for the purpose OF restricting
the attendance of nOn-residents up
on free high schools to persons who
have graduated from the common
schools or who are able to present a
certificate of qualification obtained
from the county superintendent OF
the county. 1t appears to make it
necessary that each applicant apply
ing for admission To high school
shall now furnish himself with one
of these documents, and that here
after the board of education and the
principal of the high school are not
authorized to admit pupils upon an
examination given by them as here
tofore. It also appears to make 1t
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 vii
lage clerk, as the case may be, IN
order that the said officer shall be
authorized to provide for tax levy
to pay the tuition of such nOn-resi-
dent pupils.
I have deemed it worth while to
call your attention to this law at
the present time in order that COM
plications may not occur at the
opening of the school year and that
high school officers, principals and
all nonresident pupils may be pre-
pared to do what the law, as amend
ed, requires. Very truly yours,
39i4 G.. c.. CARY, State Supt.