Show A remarkable SUPREME COURT DECISION the burden of education rests on the state appropriations tor for state aid to weak districts are a part ot of the fulfillment of the obligation to maintain a system ot of public schools placed upon the state by its constitution district tax levies are somewhat in the nature of 0 aid to the state the limit of district school tax having been reached the state must carry on to the point where a school system ot of some degree of 0 uniformity and equality of 0 opportunity is m maintained these are the main points ot of a remarkable decision rendered by the supreme court ot of oklahoma on september 91 9 it was brought about by an attempt to invalidate an appropriation ot of made by the legislature last spring to aid weak districts to hold an 8 month term depending on the good faith of 0 the state about teachers stayed at their work length ened the terms in 1065 schools and helped about children the greater part of 0 this good was do done ne in rural districts where the small weal weak schools are the decision greatly strengthens the position of rural education in oklahoma it says among other things without affirmative aid by the legislature the constitutional mandate tor for an effective tree free school system will be unexecuted in those weak school districts the sovereign state and we as citizens are as much interested in the education ot of a youth in i remote part ot of our state as of 0 one who lives in our capital city because this interest Is based upon the childs relation to society generally generall Yr of which we form a part |