Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1919 — NO FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR H. S. PUPILS. [ARTICLE]

NO FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR H. S. PUPILS.

Pupils of the high school age are no longer to be given tree transportation to the township schools of the state, according to a ruling of the attorney general, in passing on the acts of the legislature of the session of 1919, and Jesse Eschbach, state examiner, has so notified the county superintendents of the ruling. The attorney general holds that under the new ruling township trustees do not have the right to transport or pay for the transportation of high school pupils, the former law, under which high school pupils were transported, not now being in force. It is mandatory upon the township trustee to provide and maintain transportation for grade pupils in abandoned high school district who live a greater distance than one and one-half miles from the school to which- they have been assigned, if the school has been abandoned within the last twenty years, or may hereafter be.- abandoned. The law also provides that any township trustee may provide means of transportation for any grade pupil in any school district if the conditions in the township, in the judgment of the township trustee, warrant the same.