...1873,"inGammel, Laws of Texas. Volume VIII, p. 212 (quotation); and Chapter CXX: An Act to establish and provide for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of Public Free Schools," in Gammel, Laws of Texas. Volume VIIl, p. 1043. 37. "Chapter CLIV: An Act amendatory of and supplemental...

...One exception involves public school financing. Article VII on education opens with the statement, "A general diffusion of knowledge being essential...maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools." Following the lead of a state district judge, in 1989 the Texas Supreme Court used this provision to...

...deprived of it by simple mandate of the legislature." B. Education Provision 1. Art. VII, Sec. 1 — "A general diffusion of Knowledge being essential...maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools." a. El Dorado Independent School District v. Tisdale, 3 SW 2d 420 (1928), "In constitutional terms (section...

...Decisions and Comments for the Use of School Officers CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. ARTICLE VII. SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to...Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provisions for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools. SEC. 2. All...

...political conventions, the principle has been reaffirmed. The present Constitution declares that "it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State...maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools," and further that "there shall be levied and collected an annual ad valorem State tax of such an amount,...

...applying sccOLXXXIV Cal.— S3 tion 1 of article 7 of the constitution of Texas, which provides that "it shall be the duty of the legislature of the state...support and maintenance 'of an efficient system of free schools," says, in language very pertinent to the situation here, that the section quoted "is...

...being essential to the S reservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the uty of the legislature of the State to establish and make...maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools. SEC. 2. All funds, lands, and other property heretofore set apart and appropriated for the support...

...section 1, of the constitution as amended in 1875, provides that it shall be the duty of the legislature to establish and make suitable provision for the support...efficient system of public free schools. Section 2. That "all funds, lauds and other property heretofore appropriated lor the support of public freu schools...

...the present one concurring therein, provides that "It shall be the duty of the Legislature of th» State to establish and make suitable provision for...support and maintenance of an efficient system of public schools." It also, after defining wlnt should constitute the permanent and available funds therefor,...

...charge upon the people. Democratic Stat© Convention, 1012; San Antonio, August 18-14 Pp. 578-579 3. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and the rights of the people, we recommend that our educational system, from the primary school to the...