Bonners Ferry herald., 1915-09-03
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NOW PROVIDED
New Idaho Law Allows Students to
Attend Any High School in State
Without Any Charge
WILL HELP COUNTRY STUDENT
Goes into Effect at the Beginning Of
the School Year

| Wnen I n BonnerS Ferry nigh
school opens September 18th it will
be operating under new state law
that provides free tuition to all schol-
ars who desire to attend high school
whether they live in the district or
not. In enacting this law Idaho takes
a long step forward educationally,
and offers all the boys and girls with
in her borders free schooling from the
primary grades through the high
school and the higher institutions of
learning. Heretofore only elemen-
tary school and college education
have been free to all, leaving the
four years of high school, an i'm
portant link subject to a tuition fee,
except to boys and girls who are so
fortunate as to be located in a dis
trict Offering such work. The four
years of high school today, with their
wide range of diversified interests,
offer work that is superior to that of
the colleges of generation ago. In
fact, the great majority of boys and
girls never go beyond the high school
and the high school is more and more
becoming a finishing school.
The tuition fee has been barrier
that has deferred thousands of coun-
try boys and girls from fitting them
selves for a more efficient career, and
when the fall term of school opens
the Bonners Ferry high school will
open its doors free to all the boys and
girls who are residents of the state
of Idaho regardless of whether they
live in the district or not.
Section 1876. All school districts
within the state of Idaho which do
not maintain a four-year high school
shall pay tuition for pupils of such
districts who have completed the
course therein, and who desire to at
tend high school in another district
If two districts are in the same coun-
, ty the amount of tuition as herein
after set forth shall be transferred
by the county superintendent from
the district wherein the pupil resides
high school from the county school
fund. If the two districts are in diff
ferent counties, the county superin-
tendent of one county shall remit to
er county and the amount remitted
shall be charged to the account of the
district in the county wherein the pu-
pill lives and credited to the high
school. Payment of such high school
tuition shall be judged a part of the
Y necessary minimum expense of any
district in applying special aid under
I section 81, chapter 159, laws 1911, as
= amended by section 2, of chapter 13,
laws of 1912.
Section 1877 The maximum rate of
. tuition shall be three dollars per pu-
pill per month with exception that
. high schools maintaining departments
of agriculture, home economics, man
ual training, or other vocational work
: may receive four dollars per school
= month when at least two such de-
= partments are approved by the coun-
y ty superintendent of public instruc-
tion and the state board of education.
. Tuition shall be charged monthly and
, fraction of month shall be deemed
), month. No district which receives
aid under section 81 of chapter 159
laws 1911, as amended, laws 1912,
~ shall charge more than three dollars
e per month tuition.
- Section 1eS. Bills of tuition of non
- resident pupils shall be rendered by
=. the superintendent of the high school
). district in which the pupils are at
% tending school, and when approved
by the county superintendent of pub
lie instruction, such county superin-
tendent is empowered to make the
h. proper transfer of funds.
ol Section 1879. Every high schoo
s. within the state of Idaho, subject tC
Dr. the general school laws of the stat,
sh shall receive nonresident pupils up
ne on the basis above set forth, excep
H. when t would work a hardship upol
e. the high school district; Provided
tn that the county superintendent O
re public instruction shall be the judg'
en- of such cases subject to review by tn
he state board Of education, and proWd
as ed further, that high schools shall
not be required to admit pupils VIII
ed have not passed the eighth grade ex
er animation, or in some other manne
no established their fitness. to enter sal
high school.