Commonwealth ex rel. Fry v. Directors of Upper Swatara Township School District

Citations

• 164 Pa. 603
• 30 A. 507
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 1128

Syllabus

<p>School laws—Residence of pupils—Act of May 8, 1864.</p> <p>The taxes levied by a school district are for the education of the children of that district, and are not applicable to the education of the children of another district.</p> <p>Children who are inmates of the “ Children’s Industrial Association of Harrisburg, Pa.,” the buildings of which institution are situated in Upper Swatara Township, Dauphin county, have no right to admission to-the common schools of that township, where their parents are residents of other school districts.</p> <p>The mere physical presence of such children in the district, considered in connection with the act of May 8, 1864, P. L. 617, requiring school directors to establish a “ sufficient number of public schools for the education of every individual between the ages of six and twenty-one years, in their respective districts,” does not give them such right.</p>