The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-10-14
OUR COMMON SCHOOLS.
superintendent Report to the
County Board.

We have three good school-houses, each
containing two rooms, for the accOmmOda-
ton of three hundred and forty pupils
These rooms, supplied with good teachers,
should be stronger inducement for general
attendance than compulsory law, But the
attendance, about ffty-fve per cent, is a
serious objection on the part of taxpayers
to the cost Of maintaining the schools.
Parents and guardians are blameworthy,
but the district officers should endeavOr 10
have a greater constancy or reduce the de-
mand for taxation. The amount paid teach
ers and for incidentals in 1918 was 50, $780,
O7-the attendants, 2l2, amounts to $500
a pupil or $500 for each enumerated child.
The assessment and collection OF school
taxes by law devOlve upon district and town
officers. The clerk notifies the town clerk
of the amount voted by the district, the
town clerk i'll a separate column assesses
each districts amount upon the property
therein. (Secs 81 and 60 School Code)
The County Board is authorized to levy
two specific items for school purposes-oue,
an amount equal to that derived from the
State school fund, and the other, the com
pensation of the County Superinr endent and
his incidentaIs. (Secs. 5, Chap. "a r. s. and
81 School Code And all school moneys
raised by general county tax and the State
money are to be paid to each district in pro
portion to the number of school age children
therein.-(58 S. code.)
The district treasures have for years past
carried over from year to year unnecessarily
large balances of cash on hand The balance
August 81, 1878, was 8, l5629; August 81,
1874 s., 399.55 and August 81, 1875, 81
$500. In addition to the last balance
there is in the county or town treasury
S44S.3S, in the county funds the taxes levied
under Sec. Chap. n Z. S. S7SI.74 and
balance of the eyes by districts for 1878
and 1874 S90415, making $4,7l7.56, the re-
suit of taxation for years before the wants
of the schools demanded; and exclusive of
the levy for 1875. And cause Of the low
price for which laborers have TO sell their
orders.
Except technical following Of Chap. 323
Laws OF 1875, the districts have maintained
in separate departments free: high schools
more than thirteen weeks since the passage
Of the laag, taught by experienced and I'M
quesbionably qualified professors. More
over, the expenditures for these high schools
have in each district exceeded the amount
required to be entitled to the State aid of
five hundred dollars.
District No. . has adopted free-book
policy. The first cost of the supply was
about one dollar pupil and the annual adj
dition twenty-five cents, including stationery;
little, if any, more than the former cost for
indigency.
The Financial Statistics for this year dis
close deficit of $39S.94. BY access to the
office of the Board of Supervisors and
prompt aid of the Town Treasurer the re-
port of Dr. Graham for 1874 is corroborated
and the balances in the district treasures
is found to, be s., 5S3 % instead of s., lS435
as reported by the Town Clerk, and a sup
Elemental report from Dist. No is in con-,
formity with the result.
Respectfully submitted.
THOS. CLARK,
Z County Superintendent
October 9, 1875