Graham guardian., 1911-01-20
THE CONSTITUTION
As Adopted by the Conven.
ton Held in the City
Of Phoenix
Continued from Last Week.
ARTICLE XII.
EDUCATION,

EDUCATION.
Sec. /. The Legislature shall en-
act such laws as shall provide for
the establishment and maintenance
of a general and uniform public
school system, which system shall in
clude kindergarten schools, common
schools, high schools, normal schools,
schools and a university
(which shall include an agricultural
college, a school of mines. and such
other technical schools as may be-
essential, until such time as it may
be deemed advisable to establish
separate State institutions of such
eharacter.) The Legislature shall
also enact such laws as shall provide
for the education and care of the
deaf, dumb and blind.
Sec. 2. The general conduct and
of the public school sys-
tenn shall be vested in a State Board
of Education, g State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, county school
superintendents, and such governing
boards for the State institutions as
may be provided by law.
Sec. 8. The State Board of Edu-
cation shall be composed of the fol-
lowing members: The governor,
the superintendent of public instruc-
ton. the president of the university,
and principals of the State normal
schools, as ex-officio members, and
a CITY superintendent of schools. a
principal Of a high school, and a
county superintendent of schools,
to be appointed by the governor.
The powers and duties of the board
shall be such as may be prescribed
by law. The members of the board
shall serve without pay. but all their
necessary expenses incurred in at
tending the meetings of the board,
and for printing, shall be provided
for by law.
Sec. 4. The State superintendent
of public instruction shall be a
member. and secretary, of the State
board Of education, and, ex-oficio,
a member of any other board having
control of public instruction in any
State institution. His powers and
duties shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. S. The regents of the uni
versity and the governing boards
of other State educational institu-
tions, shall be appointed by the gov
erhor, except that the governor
shall be, ex-officio, a member of the
board of regents of the university.
Sec. 6. The university and all
other State educational institutions
shall be open to students of both
sexes, and the instruction furnished
shall be as nearly free as possible.
The Legislature shall provide for
a system of common schools by
which a free school shall be estab-
lished and maintained in every
school district for at least six months
in each year. which school shall be
open to ali pupils between the ages
of six and twenty-one years.
Sec. z. No sectarian instruction
shall be impaired in any school or
State educational institution that
may be established under this Con-
stitution, and no religious or politi-
cal test or qualification shall ever be
required as a condition of admission
into any public educational institu-
tion of the State, as teacher, student
or pupil; but the liberty of con-
science hereby secured shall not be
SO construed as to justify practices
or conduct inconsistent with the
good order, peace, morality or safe
ty of the State, or with the rights
of others.
sec. 8. "A permanent State ScnOol
fund for the use of the common
schools shall be derived from the
sale of public school lands or other
public lands specified in the Enabling
Act approved June 20, 1910; from
all estates or distrihutive shares of
estates that may escheat to the
State; from all unclaimed shares and
dividends of any corporation incor-
porated under the laws of Arizona,
and from all gifts, devises or be-
quests made to the State for general
educational purposes.
The income derived from the in
vestment of the permanent State
school fund, and from the rental de-
rived from school lands, with such
other funds as may be provided by
law. shall be apportioned annually
to the various counties of the State
in proportion to the number of
pupils of school age residing therein.
Sec. 8. The amount of this ap-