(105 ILCS 5/12-20) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-20)
Sec. 12-20.
Attendance in other districts.
If a recognized two or three year high school is conducted in a non-high
school district, any eighth grade graduate residing in the district, upon
the approval of the county superintendent of schools, may attend a
recognized high school more convenient in some district other than the
district in which he resides and his tuition shall be paid by the board of
education of the non-high school district. If no recognized two or three
year high school is conducted in a non-high school district, any eighth
grade graduate residing in the district may attend any recognized two,
three or four year high school, and his tuition shall be paid by the board
of education of the non-high school district.
When non-high school territory is eliminated from the non-high school
district the pupils residing in the former non-high school territory who
have been attending a recognized public high school in another district as
tuition pupils may continue to attend such school until their high school
education is finished and the annexing board shall pay the tuition after
the annexation of the former non-high school territory.
"Eighth grade graduate" in this section means any person of school age
who gives satisfactory evidence of having completed the first eight grades
of school work by presenting a certificate of promotion issued by the
school board of the school attended by him, or by passing an examination
given by the county superintendent of schools or by passing an examination
given by the school attended.
"Recognized high school" in this section means any public high school
providing a course of two or more years of work approved by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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(105 ILCS 5/12-21) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-21)
Sec. 12-21.
Attendance in adjoining state.
Upon a determination by the State Board of Education and
of the regional superintendent of schools of the region in which a high
school student or an eighth grade graduate resides that no high school
of this State is readily accessible to the pupil or graduate, but that a
high school in an adjoining state providing a course of two or more
years of work approved by the State Board of Education of
this State is readily accessible to him, the pupil or graduate may
attend such high school in an adjoining state and the board of education
of the high school district or of the non-high school district in which
he resides shall pay his tuition.
(Source: P.A. 81-1508.)
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