The Sauk Centre herald., 1915-02-11
SETTLES
tuition QUESTION
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quickly. We will have this bill intro
duced in both houses.
Please let US know by enclosed card
whether or not you are with US, also
if you are aware of some good rural
workers, we should appreciate their
names and addresses. We want pc
titions from rural districts as much
as possible. Respectfully,
A. H. Henrickson,
Chairman Rural Legisla-
tive Committee.
John N. McGibbon,
President Board of Education,
Sauk Centre, MINI.
A Bill
For an act to regulate the admit
tance of pupils to the public schools,
defining who shall be admitted free
of tuition, granting State aid to
schools admitting certain non-resi-
dents of the district free and author
izing school boards to charge certain
nonresident pupils tuition, limiting
the amount of, and providing for the
collection and payment of the same.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Minnesota:
Section /: All schools supported
in whole or in part by state school
funds shall be styled public schools
and admission to and tuition in the
same shall be free to all persons be-
tween the ages of five and twenty
years, in the school district in which
such pupils reside. Also all such per-
sons residing in any district associ-
ated with a high or graded school
shall be admitted free to all depart
ments of the central school, free of
any tuition charges; provided that
the school board in any district may,
by resolution exclude all children un-
der six years of age.
Section 2: All State High Schools
and all graded schools or consolidated
rural schools doing high school work,
shall admit students, of either sex, of
school age, residents of the state,
free of any tuition charges in all it's
branches and studies, including ag-
ricultural and industrial in those
schools which have such departments,
but those only who shall pass a prop
er examination in arithmetic, SPELL
ing, English, grammar, reading, writ
ing, geography and United States
History.
Section 8: AL public schools shall,
as far as facilities are available, ad-
nit non-residents of the district, who
are residents of this state, into all it's
grades below the high school, and
may charge tuition therefor, but no
school board shall charge, any pupil
a greater sum for tuition than One
Dollar ($1.O0) per month, in schools
having no agricultural or industrial
department; Two Dollars ($2.OO) per
, month when such school has an agri-
cultural or industrial department des-
) ignated as such by the State High
School Board, and such pupil takes
one of these studies and Two and Fiji
ty One-Hundreths ($2.5O) per month
: when such school has both an agricul-
tural and industrial department, so
designated, and such pupil takes all
such studies. Where such tuition
charge is made, the pupil, his parents,
or guardian, shall pay into the treas
ury of the district, in which he de-
, sires to attend school, before he shall
be admitted, tuition for three months
in advance.
Section A: All State High Schools,
and all graded schools and consolidat-
ed rural schools doing high school
: work, shall on and after thte first day
of August, A. D. 1915, receive in ad-
dition to all other state aids provided
by law, the sum of Two Dollars
($2.OO) per month for each pupil not
resident of a school district, or a
rural district associated thereto, en-
rolled in such high school or taking
such high school work. Such aid shall
| be paid in the same manner, in which
l other state aids are paid, and shall
be based on the number of such non
t resident pupils enrolled in such school
-, the previous year. A principal teach
| er of such school shall make a report
= of all such nonresident pupils, and in
what grade or department such pupil
/ is enrolled, and shall state therein
: whether admitted free or charged tu-
t ition, and in. case tuition is charged
: he shall also state the home district
of such pupil; such report shall be
= made to the same place where reports
for apportionment from the public
school fund is made.
Section s.: There is hereby anual-
ly appropriated out of the revenue
, fund of this state the sum Of
= Dollars for the purpose of aiding
schools in educating nonresident pu-
pills as provided in Section Four (4)
I of this act
Section 6: In all cases where no
: tuition is charged the apportionment
from the public school funds goes to
the district where such pupil attends
schools, and all cases where tuition
is charged it goes to the district in
which the pupil resides. -.
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