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SECTION 1 PREAMBLE. It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample
provision for the education of all children
residing within its borders,
without distinction or preference on account of race, color, caste, or sex.
SECTION
2 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. The legislature shall provide for a general
and uniform system of public schools. The public school
system shall include
common schools, and such high schools, normal schools, and technical schools
as may hereafter
be established. But the entire revenue derived from the
common school fund and the state tax for common schools shall
be exclusively
applied to the support of the common schools.
SECTION 3 FUNDS FOR SUPPORT. The principal of the
common school fund as the
same existed on June 30, 1965, shall remain permanent and irreducible. The
said fund shall
consist of the principal amount thereof existing on June 30,
1965, and such additions thereto as may be derived after
June 30, 1965, from
the following named sources, to wit: Appropriations and donations by the
state to this fund; donations
and bequests by individuals to the state or
public for common schools; the proceeds of lands and other property which
revert to the state by escheat and forfeiture; the proceeds of all property
granted to the state when the purpose
of the grant is not specified, or is
uncertain; funds accumulated in the treasury of the state for the
disbursement
of which provision has not been made by law; the proceeds of
the sale of stone, minerals, or property other than timber
and other crops
from school and state lands, other than those granted for specific purposes;
all moneys received from
persons appropriating stone, minerals or property
other than timber and other crops from school and state lands other
than
those granted for specific purposes, and all moneys other than rental
recovered from persons trespassing on said
lands; five per centum of the
proceeds of the sale of public lands lying within the state, which shall be
sold by
the United States subsequent to the admission of the state into the
Union as approved by section 13 of the act of congress
enabling the
admission of the state into the Union; the principal of all funds arising
from the sale of lands and
other property which have been, and hereafter may
be granted to the state for the support of common schools. The legislature
may make further provisions for enlarging said fund.
There is hereby established the common school construction
fund to be used
exclusively for the purpose of financing the construction of facilities for
the common schools. The
sources of said fund shall be: (1) Those proceeds
derived from the sale or appropriation of timber and other crops from
school
and state lands subsequent to June 30, 1965, other than those granted for
specific purposes; (2) the interest
accruing on said permanent common school
fund from and after July 1, 1967, together with all rentals and other
revenues
derived therefrom and from lands and other property devoted to the
permanent common school fund from and after July 1,
1967; and (3) such other
sources as the legislature may direct. That portion of the common school
construction fund
derived from interest on the permanent common school fund
may be used to retire such bonds as may be authorized by law
for the purpose
of financing the construction of facilities for the common schools.
The interest accruing on the
permanent common school fund together with all
rentals and other revenues accruing thereto pursuant to subsection (2)
of
this section during the period after the effective date of this amendment
and prior to July 1, 1967, shall be exclusively
applied to the current use
of the common schools.
To the extent that the moneys in the common school construction
fund are in
excess of the amount necessary to allow fulfillment of the purpose of said
fund, the excess shall be available
for deposit to the credit of the
permanent common school fund or available for the current use of the common
schools,
as the legislature may direct. [AMENDMENT 43, 1965 ex.s. Senate
Joint Resolution No. 22, part 1, p 2817. Approved November
8, 1966.]
Original text - Art. 9 Section 3 FUNDS FOR SUPPORT - The principal of the
common school fund shall remain
permanent and irreducible. The said fund
shall be derived from the following named sources, to wit: Appropriations
and
donations by the state to this fund; donations and bequests by
individuals to the state or public for common schools;
the proceeds of lands
and other property which revert to the state by escheat and forfeiture; the
proceeds of all
property granted to the state when the purpose of the grant
is not specified, or is uncertain; funds accumulated in the
treasury of the
state for the disbursement of which provision has not been made by law; the
proceeds of the sale of
timber, stone, minerals, or other property from
school and state lands, other than those granted for specific purposes;
all
moneys received from persons appropriating timber, stone, minerals or other
property from school and state lands
other than those granted for specific
purposes, and all moneys other than rental recovered from persons
trespassing
on said lands; five per centum of the proceeds of the sale of
public lands lying within the state, which shall be sold
by the United
States subsequent to the admission of the state into the Union as approved
by section 13 of the act
of congress enabling the admission of the state
into the Union; the principal of all funds arising from the sale of lands
and other property which have been, and hereafter may be granted to the
state for the support of common schools. The
legislature may make further
provisions for enlarging said fund. The interest accruing on said fund
together with
all rentals and other revenues derived therefrom and from
lands and other property devoted to the common school fund shall
be
exclusively applied to the current use of the common schools.
SECTION 4 SECTARIAN CONTROL OR INFLUENCE PROHIBITED.
All schools maintained
or supported wholly or in part by the public funds shall be forever free
from sectarian control
or influence.
SECTION 5 LOSS OF PERMANENT FUND TO BECOME STATE DEBT. All losses to the
permanent common school
or any other state educational fund, which shall be
occasioned by defalcation, mismanagement or fraud of the agents or
officers
controlling or managing the same, shall be audited by the proper authorities
of the state. The amount so
audited shall be a permanent funded debt against
the state in favor of the particular fund sustaining such loss, upon
which
not less than six per cent annual interest shall be paid. The amount of
liability so created shall not be counted
as a part of the indebtedness
authorized and limited elsewhere in this Constitution.
Investment of permanent school
fund: Art. 16 Section 5.
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