School Expenditures for Athletics

Margiotti, Attorney General,

You have requested an opinion as to the authority of a school board to make certain expenditures in connection with the inauguration of a proper physical education and health program. You state that the proposed program is to be established and administered as an integral part of the general physical education and health program and is to be under the joint supervision of the Director of Physical Education and Health, the principals of the high schools and the superintendent of schools.

You ask whether the school board would have authority to act as follows in…