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Directives on Public Schools from the Constitution of the State of Wyoming
Article 7, Section 1. Legislature to provide for public schools.
The legislature shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a complete and uniform system of public instruction, embracing free elementary schools of every needed kind and grade, a university with such technical and professional departments as the public good may require and the means of the state allow, and such other institutions as may be necessary.
[Article 7, Sections 2 through 9 focus on the funding of schools]
Article 7, Section 10. No discrimination between pupils.
In none of the public schools so established and maintained shall distinction or discrimination be made on account of sex, race or color.
Article 7, Section 11. Textbooks.
Neither the legislature nor the superintendent of public instruction shall have power to prescribe text books to be used in the public schools.
Article 7, Section 12. Sectarianism prohibited.
No sectarian instruction, qualifications or tests shall be imparted, exacted, applied or in any manner tolerated in the schools of any grade or character controlled by the state, nor shall attendance be required at any religious service therein, nor shall any sectarian tenets or doctrines be taught or favored in any public school or institution that may be established under this constitution.
(Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group. Common examples are denominations of a religion, ethnic identity, class, or region for citizens of a state and factions of a political movement. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism)
[Article 7, Section 13. Land commissioners. Superseded by Article 18, Section 3 as amended 1922.]
Article 7, Section 14. Supervision of schools entrusted to state superintendent of public instruction.
The general supervision of the public schools shall be entrusted to the state superintendent of public instruction, whose powers and duties shall be prescribed by law.
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