§ 107. Compact for education. 1. The compact for education is hereby\nentered into and enacted into law with all jurisdictions legally joining\ntherein, in the form substantially as follows:\n COMPACT FOR EDUCATION PREAMBLE\n WHEREAS, the proper education of all citizens is one of the most\nimportant responsibilities of the states to preserve a free and open\nsociety in the United States; and,\n WHEREAS, the increasing demands of our whole national life for\nimproving and expanding educational services require a broad exchange of\nresearch data and information concerning the problems and practices of\neducation; and,\n WHEREAS, there is a vital need for strengthening the voices of the\nstates in the formulation of alternative nationwide educational\npolicies,\n THE STATES AFFIRM the need for close and continuing consultation among\nour several states on all matters of education, and do hereby establish\nthis compact for education.\n Article I. Purpose and Policy.\n A. It is the purpose of this compact to:\n 1. Establish and maintain close cooperation and understanding among\nexecutive, legislative, professional educational and lay leadership on a\nnationwide basis at the state and local levels.\n 2. Provide a forum for the discussion, development, crystallization\nand recommendation of public policy alternatives in the field of\neducation.\n 3. Provide a clearing house of information on matters relating to\neducational problems and how they are being met in different places\nthroughout the nation, so that the executive and legislative branches of\nstate government and of local communities may have ready access to the\nexperience and record of the entire country, and so that both lay and\nprofessional groups in the field of education may have additional\navenues for the sharing of experience and the interchange of ideas in\nthe formation of public policy in education.\n 4. Facilitate the improvement of state and local educational systems\nso that all of them will be able to meet adequate and desirable goals in\na society which requires continuous qualitative and quantitative advance\nin educational opportunities, methods and facilities.\n B. It is the policy of this compact to encourage and promote local and\nstate initiative in the development, maintenance, improvement and\nadministration of educational systems and institutions in a manner which\nwill accord with the needs and advantages of diversity among localities\nand states.\n C. The party states recognize that each of them has an interest in the\nquality and quantity of education furnished in each of the other states,\nas well as in the excellence of its own educational systems and\ninstitutions, because of the highly mobile character of individuals\nwithin the nation, and because the products and services contributing to\nthe health, welfare and economic advancement of each state are supplied\nin significant part by persons educated in other states.\n Article II. State Defined.\n As used in this compact, "state" means a state, territory, or\npossession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the\nCommonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n Article III. The Commission.\n A. The educational commission of the states, hereinafter called "the\ncommission", is hereby established. The commission shall consist of\nseven members representing each party state. One of such members shall\nbe the governor; two shall be members of the state legislature selected\nby its respective houses and serving in such manner as the legislature\nmay determine; and four shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure\nof the governor, unless the laws of the state otherwise provide. If the\nlaws of a state prevent legislators from serving on the commission, six\nmembers shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the governor,\nunless the laws of the state otherwise provide. In addition to any o
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