Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1954 NO. 299 >

A junior college operated by a first class school district is an institution of higher learning.  Such an institution may not construct student residential facilities.

AGO 1950 NO. 301 >

1. If the official school records of the county do not show any attendance for a school district, county superintendent may conclude that the school district has not had an average daily attendance of five or more pupils.  2. A school district has failed to maintain the minimum term of school required by law where the district has not maintained a school in the district or made arrangements with another district to educate the pupils.

AGO 1956 NO. 315 >

RCW 28.19.110 (§ 29, chapter 157, Laws of 1955) removes from the board of county commissioners the discretionary authority to determine the amount of funds to be annually allocated to the county superintendent of schools, and requires the county commissioners to allocate the amount of funds to the county superintendent of schools that is certified as needed by the county board of education to the board of county commissioners.

AGO 1954 NO. 333 >

Trustees of the colleges of education cannot authorize tuition charges as to students, other than extension students enrolled therein, but may authorize the assessment of special fees for special or extra classes and activities.

AGO 1956 NO. 335 >

A school district cannot condemn lands already devoted to a public use.

AGO 1954 NO. 338 >

A union high school district, and the component school district are separate entities, and as such are each able to indebt themselves to the maximum allowable under Amendment 27 of the Washington Constitution.

AGO 1950 NO. 349 >

The expense of the transcript prepared by county superintendent of schools where school teacher took an appeal from a local school district and where the county superintendent and state superintendent each decided in favor of teacher, must be borne by the office of the county superintendent.

AGO 1954 NO. 350 >

Proposed legislation to allow the colleges of education to make a reasonable tuition charge would not contravene Art. XXVI and Art. IX, sec. 2, of Wash. Constitution.

AGO 1954 NO. 359 >

The board of directors of a school district may expend school district funds to pay the premiums on an insurance policy limiting the district's liability occasioned by bodily injuries to its students or faculty members on school premises.

AGO 1950 NO. 369 >

(1) By virtue of the agreement between Eulah Blackwell and the superintendent of the school, the Eulah Blackwell estate is entitled to the sum of $600.(2) The above sum should be paid from the appropriation for salaries and wages.