NEBRASKA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE VII
EDUCATION
Art. VII §1 | LEGISLATURE; FREE INSTRUCTION IN COMMON SCHOOLS; PROVIDE
Art. VII §2 | STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION; GENERAL SUPERVISION OF SCHOOL SYSTEM
Art. VII §3 | STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; MEMBERS; ELECTION; MANNER OF ELECTION; TERM OF OFFICE
Art. VII §4 | STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION; COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION; APPOINTMENT; POWERS; DUTIES
Art. VII §5 | FINES, PENALTIES, AND LICENSE MONEY; ALLOCATION; USE OF FORFEITED CONVEYANCES
(2) Fifty per cent of all money forfeited or seized pursuant to enforcement of the drug laws shall belong and be paid over to the counties for drug enforcement purposes as the Legislature may provide.
(3) Law enforcement agencies may use conveyances forfeited pursuant to enforcement of the drug laws as the Legislature may provide. Upon the sale of such conveyances, the proceeds shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of the common schools as provided in subsection (1) of this section.
Art. VII §6 | EDUCATIONAL LANDS; MANAGEMENT; BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL LANDS AND FUNDS; MEMBERS; APPOINTMENT; SALE OF LANDS
Art. VII §7 | PERPETUAL FUNDS ENUMERATED
Second. All money arising from the sale or leasing of sections number sixteen and thirty-six in each township in this state, and the lands selected, or that may be selected, in lieu thereof.
Third. The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be, granted to this state, where by the terms and conditions of such grant the same are not to be otherwise appropriated.
Fourth. The net proceeds of lands and other property and effects that may come to this state, by escheat or forfeiture, or from unclaimed dividends, or distributive shares of the estates of deceased persons.
Fifth. All other property of any kind now belonging to the perpetual fund.
Art. VII §8 | TRUST FUNDS BELONG TO STATE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES; USE; INVESTMENT
Art. VII §9 | EDUCATIONAL FUNDS; TRUST FUNDS; USE; EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND; CREATED; USE; EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, DEFINED
(b) The income from the unsold school lands, except that costs of administration shall be deducted from the income before it is so applied;
(c) All other grants, gifts, and devises that have been or may hereafter be made to the state which are not otherwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift, or devise; and
(d) Such other support as the Legislature may provide.
(3)
(b) An amount equal to forty million dollars of the funds belonging to the state for common school and early childhood educational purposes operated by or distributed through the common schools described in Article VII, section 7, of this Constitution shall be allocated for the early childhood education endowment fund.
(c) Only interest or income on such early childhood education endowment fund may be appropriated as provided by the Legislature for the benefit of the common schools and for the exclusive purpose of supporting early childhood education in this state.
(d) For purposes of Article VII of this Constitution, early childhood education means programs operated by or distributed through the common schools promoting development and learning for children from birth to kindergarten-entrance age.
(e) If the annual income from twenty million dollars of private funding is not irrevocably committed by July 1, 2011, to the use of the early childhood education endowment fund, then the forty-million-dollar allocation pursuant to subdivision (3)(b) of this section may revert to the use of the common schools as the Legislature shall determine.
Art. VII §10 | UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA; GOVERNMENT; BOARD OF REGENTS; ELECTION; STUDENT MEMBERSHIP; TERMS
The Legislature shall divide the state, along county lines, into as many compact regent districts, as there are regents provided by the Legislature, of approximately equal population, which shall be numbered consecutively.
The Legislature shall redistrict the state after each federal decennial census. Such districts shall not be changed except upon the concurrence of a majority of the members of the Legislature. In any such redistricting, county lines shall be followed whenever practicable, but other established lines may be followed at the discretion of the Legislature. Whenever the state is so redistricted the members elected prior to the redistricting shall continue in office, and the law providing for such redistricting shall where necessary specify the newly established district which they shall represent for the balance of their term.
Art. VII §11 | APPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS; HANDICAPPED CHILDREN; SECTARIAN INSTRUCTION; RELIGIOUS TEST OF TEACHER OR STUDENT
All public schools shall be free of sectarian instruction.
The state shall not accept money or property to be used for sectarian purposes; Provided, that the Legislature may provide that the state may receive money from the federal government and distribute it in accordance with the terms of any such federal grants, but no public funds of the state, any political subdivision, or any public corporation may be added thereto.
A religious test or qualification shall not be required of any teacher or student for admission or continuance in any school or institution supported in whole or in part by public funds or taxation.
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Art. VII §12 | EDUCATION AND REFORM OF MINORS
Art. VII §13 | STATE COLLEGES; GOVERNMENT; BOARD; NAME; SELECTION; DUTIES; COMPENSATION
Art. VII §14 | COORDINATING COMMISSION FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION; MEMBERSHIP; POWERS AND DUTIES; COORDINATION, DEFINED
Coordination shall mean:
(b) plans for facilities which utilize tax funds designated by the Legislature;
(3) Authority to review and modify, if needed to promote compliance and consistency with the comprehensive statewide plan and prevent unnecessary duplication, the budget requests of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, any board or boards established for the community colleges, or any other governing board for any other public postsecondary educational institution which may be established by the Legislature.
Nothing in this section providing for statewide coordination shall limit or require the use of property tax revenue by and for community colleges.
The commission shall consist of eleven members, residents of the state or the districts for which appointed, who shall be appointed by the Governor with the approval of a majority of the Legislature. Six of the members shall be chosen from six districts of approximately equal population and five shall be chosen on a statewide basis.
The terms of the members of the commission shall be six years or until a successor is qualified and takes office, except that of the members initially appointed, four members shall serve for terms of two years and four members shall serve for terms of four years. The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for the performance of their duties but may be reimbursed their actual and necessary expenses.
Art. VII §15 | OMITTED
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Art. VII §16 | REPEALED 1972. LAWS 1972, LB 1023, SEC. 1
Art. VII §17 | REPEALED 1972. LAWS 1972, LB 1023, SEC. 1
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