Article VIII, Education
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Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 1 Knowledge and learning, generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government
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Knowledge and learning, generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government; it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement; and to pro…
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 2 The Common School fund shall consist of the Congressional Township fund, and the lands belonging thereto
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The Common School fund shall consist of the Congressional Township fund, and the lands belonging thereto; The Surplus Revenue fund; The Saline fund and the lands belonging thereto; The Bank Tax fund, and the fund arising from the one hundred and fourteenth section of the charter …
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 3 The principal of the Common School fund shall remain a perpetual fund, which may be increased, but shall never be diminished
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The principal of the Common School fund shall remain a perpetual fund, which may be increased, but shall never be diminished; and the income thereof shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools, and to no other purpose whatever.
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 4 Section 4
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The General Assembly shall invest, in some safe and profitable manner, all such portions of the Common School fund, as have not heretofore been entrusted to the several counties; and shall make provision, by law, for the distribution, among the several counties, of the interest t…
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 5 Section 5
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If any county shall fail to demand its proportion of such interest, for Common School purposes, the same shall be reinvested, for the benefit of such county.
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 6 Section 6
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The several counties shall be held liable for the preservation of so much of the said fund as may be entrusted to them, and for the payment of the annual interest thereon.
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 7 Section 7
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All trust funds, held by the State, shall remain inviolate, and be faithfully and exclusively applied to the purposes for which the trust was created.
Ind. Const. art. VIII, § 8 Section 8
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There shall be a State Superintendent of Public Instruction, whose method of selection, tenure, duties and compensation shall be prescribed by law.(Section 8 as Amended November 7, 1972. )