...use said funds for as aforesaid. 7. That it is provided by the constitution of the State of Illinois that "the General Assembly shall provide a thorough...efficient system of free schools whereby all children of this state may receive a good common school education." That it is provided by the General School Law...

...entitled to an education. State constitutions and legislative enactment call upon all school districts to provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools...state may receive a good common school education. The use of the word all indicates that it is not intended that any child should be excluded. On such a...

...question the Court merely quotes from the Constitution of the State, which directs the General Assembly to "provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools...State may receive a good common school education," and points out that the schools of the City of Chicago have been entrusted to a Board of Education,...

...transportation Survey Plans and Procedures Illinois is bound by its constitution, adopted in 1870, to provide "a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of this state may receive a good common school education." " The prime obligation with respect to schools...

...unconstitutional,—that it is in conflict with section 1 of article 8 of the present constitution, which provides that the General Assembly shall provide a thorough...State may receive a good common school education. This provision of the constitution was doubtless intended as a limitation upon the power of the legislature...

...for rehearing, and we are of opinion the objection is untenable. The const., art. 8, sec. 1, directs that " the General Assembly shall provide a thorough...efficient system of free schools, whereby all children in this State may receive a good common school education." There is no limitation in that or any other...

...religious denomination or mode of worship." The first sect-ion of article 8 of the constitution, requires that "the General Assembly shall provide a thorough...and -efficient system of free schools, whereby all the children of this State may receive a good common school education"— not a religious or sectarian...

...annexation. Mr. JOSEPH B. LEAKE, for the appellee : Article 8, section l, of the constitution, provides "that the General Assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools," etc. In providing such system the power of the legislature is limited only by section 22, article 4,...

...constitutional rights. Article VIII, section 1 of the Illinois Constitution, SHA requires the legislature to "provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of this State may receive a good common school education." Accordingly, a State common school fund supplements...

...call upon all school districts to provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools whereby att children of the state may receive a good common school education. The use of the word all indicates that it is not intended that any child should be excluded. On such a...