Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — May Not Pay Transfer Fees From Tuition Fund. [ARTICLE]

May Not Pay Transfer Fees From Tuition Fund.

That school corporations may not pay transfer fees out of the tuition fund is held in' an opinion handed the state superintendent of public instruction, Robert J. Aley, by Attorney General Bingham. Aley desired to know of the attorney general if school corporations over the state could pay transfers out of the tuition fund, or whether the should be required to use the special school and township funds. Under the law the state gives aid to school cities and towns to help them maintain schools and pay teachers. It came to the attention of the state superintendent that such transfer fees had been paid from the tuition fund, which the state replenishes from the state school fund. The attorney general holds that while the school trustees may legally pay transfer fees out of the local tuition fund, they may not do so and be permitted to draw money from the state reserve fund to replenish the local fund. Before they can get state aid they must show that they have expended the local fund to maintain its schools and in the payment of teachers.