OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN .“--‘-~ :
OCRALO
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Mo~orable L. k. Koode
State suparlntendentof Fublia Instruction
Austin, Texas
32ear'Sir:
“seotion 1 Of Arti
of the Hegular SesaiQn of
Videa in part ai3
ElOdih fQX,,Bot t0
gumthe on all.high sohool
sd in sstlddistriet~.'
tent the sahml eeme8 as a preotiae Ceaah%ng,tibora-
tory rorthe aallege. The sahool officialshave sub-
mitted a tuJ.tianr&part to this office for a31 the
Jionorable L. A. Woods, page.2
In Yadlaonvllle,Zotallng
of the total nunbar
are in classes that serve
.as laboratory purpoaea.
*The Joint LegislativeAdvisory Committeehas
oonsideredthe tuition approval under this provision
and failed to approve it. This offlae would like to
huow if this tuition were presented to the State
Board of Education end approved by that body, would
payment of the olalms be authorizedunder the statute
when thia article and Article 1 are oonsidered joini&'.
Stated differently,would any sohool have to meet the
eligibilityrequiremhts of Artlole 1 in order,to
participateIn the allocation of either of the three
type8 or aid on ohlldrefillvlngwlthln the dirrtrlot
gyldad for In the Aof$ ,.
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LcrtitauI Seotion 1, firraid xoase Bill X0, 284 pr&'
sorlbesthe prerequirltemior ~ellglbilltyror rural aid, and :
reads as rollewsr
*Se.ction
.l. SoholfistlcPopulation Of The Dla-
triot. State aid under the provisionsof.thlo.Aot
shall be dlstrlbutad in euah a way as to assiat all
aohool dlatriotewhloh have hot fewer than twenty
(20) nor rpr~'tha&ifin hundred(500) Orfginalen-
merated eaholastios-rithla the gmdees alaasfiledto
be tat@ht refpainingin the di6trietafter tlWBllf8XU
out’, and oonmlldated and/or rural’high eahool dim-
trlatowhioh have an average0r not nwre than two
huhdmd (200) soholatatlos of eaoh original dirtriot
oomposa the ooneolldatedand/or rural higheuhool
dlstrlot unitj pxovldad that the maaum limitation8
as to eoholastiopopulation for ellgibllltgherein
set forth ahall not apply for type or aid to any
sohool diatrlot whloh ia nine Y
(9 miles or more in
&eagth or oontalns forty-eight (48) aq&lareties of
territoryor more provided there is noKlooated "
suoh dletxiot a& aoxpxated
~~ alty OT town ha
populatloh!ornom thaa thirty-sixhuadred
5nhabltant6,aooordihg to the laat preoadlng Federal
Census4 'Districtssialntalning a school at home and
having leas than an average of one (1) enumerated
aoholaetioper oquars mile are exempt fr+said mini-
mum aoholastio~qulrement and are eligible for ald
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for only~onu tomher an&r a geographicalbarrier
~luoudtates tha operafionaf two sshoola ior the
oamu rhae In uald dlutrlot, suoh geopphiaal ba+
rler to be determined by the State DepaFtmaat of
E&uoatlonrrubjeot to the approval or the Joint Leg-
itdatIVeAdvisory Committee. If they am show budg-
etary need therMOr, all other distriata having les@
than said nd.nlmm soholastfe requirement,shall be
eligible for only fultlon,andtraneportaikonaid to
the nearest lsorddlted school on enumeratedtiiaholas~
ties whosffgrade? are not taught in suoh dlatrioti*
You have advised aa that the Madiaonvl~le adependent
l Sohool Dietriot haa a 8oholaetio poplilatiO!i 0P 886. It .there-
.foxedoes not .meetthe eligibilityreqalremeatsof motion 1,
quoted,gbove, whioh makea only those sohooldlatriota 'eligible
whleh have "a~+:iawur than twunty (SO) nor IPOX&than ilvo hutit
drd (600) original ~mtmeratdd mholqstla6.'. :,?.,'fhls"$a& ~5:
ku believel,tJ$aqfaall~is8~ ths~JKadlsozcVllle
.~i~~ot',~~~:'fSrarrgh::,."
it.cr~lr~wlt~~@e'~$~lti .iMssot1on-3 oi -ATtselo'TO;' bite&
in your letter,: :"
Yours very truly
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