Day v. City of Newton

The board of aldermen of Newton in its annual appropriations for 1959 deleted from the budget of the school committee $1,100 of the $9,500 requested for out-of-state travel, and restricted the appropriation to the purposes of providing funds “for recruiting teachers outside the State,” and sending members of the “professional staff to meetings of national organizations and to conferences of subject matter areas.” This excluded an item to cover travel expenses of members of the school committee in January, 1959. 'Sixteen taxable inhabitants brought a petition under Gr. L. c. 71, § 34, to…