Norristown Borough School District v. Upper Merion Township School District

Citations

• 49 Pa. Super. 561
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 369

Syllabus

<p>School law — High school — Cost of tuition — Act of May 23, 1907‘ P. L. 202.</p> <p>1. Under the Act of May 23, 1907, P. L. 202, relating to the payment to a school district in which high school pupils resident of another district, are attending, of the pro rata cost of “tuition and school books,” the word “tuition” does not include the cost of fuel, light, janitor’s salary, arid other incidental expenses; nor does it include interest upon bonds of the school district maintaining the high school.</p> <p>Constitutional law — Inequality of taxation — School law.</p> <p>2. The Act of May 23, 1907, P. L. 202, regulating the payment which a school district, not maintaining a high school, shall make to another school district maintaining a high school, for tuition of pupils of the former district in such high school, is not unconstitutional as creating an inequality in taxation; inasmuch as the district maintaining the high school is not compelled by the act to receive pupils from other districts, and can, therefore, always save itself from loss.</p>