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Provisions

XI.1 of 1939 • Common schools.

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The Text

The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.


A Few Facts

• Joined the Constitution in 1939

• In Article XI: Education

• Has 26 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amends or builds on:
1895-IX.1

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