Educational Grants and Contracts
Amends
Article VIII. Education
Section 11. Aid to nonpublic higher education
Summary
This measure allowed the state to offer grants to students at private colleges (specifically, the TAG grant program), as well as enter into contracts with these colleges.
Shall Section 11 of Article VIII of the Constitution of Virginia be amended so as to allow grants to or on behalf of students attending non-profit institutions of higher education and to empower the General Assembly to permit the State or any political subdivision thereof to contract with non-profit institutions of higher education for the provision of educational or other related services?
- First resolution – HJR279 – 1973
- Second resolution – HJR36 – 1974
- Referendum legislation – H326– 1974
Article VIII. Education
Section 11. Aid to nonpublic higher education
The General Assembly may provide for loans to, and grants to or on behalf of, students attending nonprofit institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate or graduate education and not to provide religious training or theological education. The General Assembly may also provide for a State agency or authority to assist in borrowing money for construction of educational facilities at such institutions, provided that the Commonwealth shall not be liable for any debt created by such borrowing. The General Assembly may also provide for the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof to contract with such institutions for the provision of educational or other related services.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/constitution/article8/section11/
