Article VII — Education
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Neb. Const. art. VII, § 1 Legislature; free instruction in common schools; provide
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The Legislature shall provide for the free instruction in the common schools of this state of all persons between the ages of five and twenty-one years. The Legislature may provide for the education of other persons in educational institutions owned and controlled by the state or…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 2 State Department of Education; general supervision of school system
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The State Department of Education shall be comprised of a State Board of Education and a Commissioner of Education. The State Department of Education shall have general supervision and administration of the school system of the state and of such other activities as the Legislatur…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 3 State Board of Education; members; election; manner of election; term of office
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The State Board of Education shall be composed of eight members, who shall be elected from eight districts of substantially equal population as provided by the Legislature. Their term of office shall be for four years each. Their duties and powers shall be prescribed by the Legis…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 4 State Board of Education; Commissioner of Education; appointment; powers and duties
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The State Board of Education shall appoint and fix the compensation of the Commissioner of Education, who shall be the executive officer of the State Board of Education and the administrative head of the State Department of Education, and who shall have such powers and duties as …
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 5 Fines, penalties, and license money; allocation; use of forfeited conveyances
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(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, all fines, penalties, and license money arising under the general laws of the state, except fines and penalties for violation of laws prohibiting the overloading of vehicles used upon the public roads and highways…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 6 Educational lands; management; Board of Educational Lands and Funds; members; appointment; sale of lands
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No lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the state for educational purposes shall be sold except at public auction under such conditions as the Legislature shall provide. The general management of all lands set apart for educational purposes shall be vested, under the directio…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 7 Perpetual funds enumerated
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The following are hereby declared to be perpetual funds for common school purposes, including early childhood educational purposes operated by or distributed through the common schools, of which the annual interest or income only can be appropriated, to wit: First. Such percent a…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 8 Trust funds belong to state for educational purposes; use; investment
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All funds belonging to the state for common school purposes, including early childhood educational purposes operated by or distributed through the common schools, the interest and income whereof only are to be used, shall be deemed trust funds. Such funds with the interest and in…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 9 Educational funds; trust funds; use; early childhood education endowment fund; created; use; early childhood education, defined
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(1) The following funds shall be exclusively used for the support and maintenance of the common schools in each school district in the state or for early childhood education operated by or distributed through the common schools as provided in subsection (3) of this section, as th…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 10 University of Nebraska; government; Board of Regents; election; student membership; terms
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The general government of the University of Nebraska shall, under the direction of the Legislature, be vested in a board of not less than six nor more than eight regents to be designated the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, who shall be elected from and by district…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 11 Appropriation of public funds; handicapped children; sectarian instruction; religious test of teacher or student
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Notwithstanding any other provision in the Constitution, appropriation of public funds shall not be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state or a political subdivision thereof; Provided, that the Legislature may provide that t…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 12 Education and reform of minors
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The Legislature may provide by law for the establishment of a school or schools for the safe keeping, education, employment and reformation of all children under the age of eighteen years, who, for want of proper parental care, or other cause, are growing up in mendicancy or crim…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 13 State colleges; government; board; name; selection; duties; compensation
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The general government of the state colleges as now existing, and such other state colleges as may be established by law, shall be vested, under the direction of the Legislature, in a board of seven members to be styled as designated by the Legislature, six of whom shall be appoi…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 14 Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education; membership; powers and duties; coordination, defined
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On January 1, 1992, there shall be established the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education which shall, under the direction of the Legislature, be vested with the authority for the coordination of public postsecondary educational institutions. Public postsecondary edu…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 15 Omitted. (Elected Officials; ineligibility.)
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Adopted in 1992 by Initiative 407 and in 1994 by Initiative 408. Omitted because of the decisions of the Nebraska Supreme Court in Duggan v. Beermann, 245 Neb. 907, 515 N.W.2d 788 (1994) and Duggan v. Beermann, 249 Neb. 411, 544 N.W.2d 68 (1996). The omitted language read, "(1) T…
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 16 Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1
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Neb. Const. art. VII, § 16 Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1 Terminal constitutional section row. The heading records the current status; no operative text is published for this row. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nebraska_Constitution
Neb. Const. art. VII, § 17 Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1
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Neb. Const. art. VII, § 17 Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1 Terminal constitutional section row. The heading records the current status; no operative text is published for this row. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nebraska_Constitution