Opinion No. (1988)

Dear Representative Burch:

This opinion is in response to your question asking:

May payments for tuition fees, charged by educational entities to provide coursework for high school credit, delivered to students via interactive satellite communications systems, be paid from the Teachers Fund pursuant to Sec. 165.011, subsections 1 and 3, RSMo?

The "tuition fees" to which you refer are sums paid by the local school district to an entity which provides the interactive satellite coursework. That entity has previously purchased classroom services from another school for purposes of transmitting them…