VII-1. Legislature; free instruction in common schools; provide.

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 a political subdivision thereof.

Source:Neb. Const. art. VIII, sec. 1 (1875); Transferred by Constitutional Convention, 1919-1920, art. VII, sec. 1; Amended 1940, Laws 1939, c. 109, sec. 1, p. 477; Amended 1952, Laws 1951, c. 164, sec. 2(3), p. 646; Amended 1954, Laws 1953, c. 174, sec. 1, p. 554; Amended 1970, Laws 1969, c. 423, sec. 1, p. 1439; Amended 1972, Laws 1972, LB 1023, sec. 1.

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