Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1899 — An Important School Law. [ARTICLE]

An Important School Law.

One of the new school laws will be of great importance to places like Rensselaer, which has large numbers of school children transferred to it from other school corporations. The law provides thet where any child can be better accomodated in the schools of another school corporation, the parent may, at any time, apply to the township trustee or board of school trustees, for an order of transfer. If the trustee or board of trustees, as the case may be, refuse to make the transfer, the county superintendent may be appealed to, and from him, the state superintendent. When the transfer is granted, the township trustee or board of trustees must pay to the school corporation to which the child is transfered, as tuition, $1.50 per school month for the grades and $3 per month for attending a high school. This will be quite an increase in the tutition heretofore paid to our city schools for pupils outside of the city school coporation. Button the other hand all children must be hereafter enumerated for school purposes where they legally reside. Heretofore transfer children have been enumerated in the places to which they were transfered for school purposes. Thus the new law will increase our city’s school revenue from tuitions and reduce it on enumerations.