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Show oo SCHOOL RULING IS IDE PUBLIC Peculiar Situation in Cache County Put Up to Attorney At-torney General salt LAKES, Oct. I. A question yesti rday put before the attorney Ren-eral Ren-eral by the stale superintendent of ! public Instruction asked; Can clij -i I Is, alrc.id crowded for room, no compelled to provide educational facilities fa-cilities for families who move Inio'lhe City for the winter, nut who. in summer, sum-mer, when the school census Is taken, an numerated In other school districts? dis-tricts? Tin answer appears to be, from an pinion rendered yesterday, that the law is specific, and that a child may attend pulillc school In a district whei the parent or guardian pays taxes; Otherwise. ,-Utendanci- may be compelled com-pelled in the district where the family resides. The question is more than theoretl- 'l diiin in advices reaching the stat" school offices. The advantages of the larger schools Of the city compared com-pared with tho.-o of the rural districts appeal t parrots sufficiently to cause man to move into cities for the school t erm The specific case came to the attorney attor-ney general from Locan. where about thirty children lhe dose the city limits, but in the Cache counts district dis-trict The parents of some also own property in lhe city Cache county llOOls are nearer the homes of some than are the Logan schools. D. M. Draper, eu istant attorney general, says that tin- children of taxpayers in Logbn may undoubtedly attend school tht re The others might be compelled in attend BChbbl in the district where tin reside if the l-ogan schools were to lie t losi'd to them. A consideration that appeal. to the Locan chool lioard. as related bv B. TSrbet, its derk, Is that the children arc enumerated In the Cache collnt district That district pets the benefit of tin stale aid to schools, now about $11 per head. The Logan taxpayers, i Ion Ion-, Ki t no-state .ml f,,, schooling school-ing these children. Mr. Eraper suggests sug-gests that this may be a matter of which the legislature should take cog-n cog-n Ixanee, In another opinion written for the state school offices by o. c Dalb assistant as-sistant attorney general it is declared that boards of education are compl-itifr compl-itifr with the law when they print summaries sum-maries of disbursements for specific purposes, and are not to be required to prim each warrant Such a requirement, require-ment, Mi Dalby says, would he unreasonable un-reasonable and an injustice to ih ho.. I districts. jr points out llrt ases mighl easll arise where the cost Of advertising the warrant would he greater than the amount of the warrant war-rant Itself. |