The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-05
Desires the Charter Amended
i'm Regard to School Levy.
VIII Ask the City for Representation
on the Charter Amendment
Committee.
GREATLY NEEDS THE MONEY

ter amendments 1Oi cities vi the SCI
ond class. and strong pressure will
be brought to bear to have. someone
from the school board appointed on
the committee, which will be sent to
Lexington to prepare for legislatine
the proposed amendments decided on
by the joint committees from each
second class city. AS far as superb
cial observation goes little attention
has been given the matter OF educa-
tional facilities, inasmuch az the
school board has been ignored in the
amendment matter and it is said the
schools in cities of the second class
are ground hard indeed in the matter
of funds, not having sufficient levy
under charters of the second class
to properly conduct the schools.
This morning Supt c. NJ. Leib
called Mayor ID. A. Yeiser up over
the telephone and suggested the mat
ter of appointing a member OF the
school board on the committee to go
to Lexington and the matter will
come before the boards tonight. The
schools have been tightly pinched
ever since the city went into cities
of the second class, and a charter
amendment seems to be the only re-
lief. and will be hard fought for. It
is said
when Paducah went into cities
of the second class, we'll known
official stated this morning, THE
third class board left the incoming
school board with debt of several
thousand dollars This debt was as
sumed by the board succeeded by
the present board and it left the pres
| ent board a legacy o. $4,000 or
little more. possibly. Under cities of
the third class the schools go; IA
levy of so cents on the 500 but un-
! der second class cities can get only
35 cents. Since that time the board
has built one new school, the McKin-
! ley school. at cost of about $l2, 900
and bought two lots, the Herzog lot
and the Rowlandtown lot for new
schools. the lots costing 81 900 each.
In addition TO this the standard OF
teachers, necessary to the advance
ment of the schools and educational
| facilities, has beeh raised and more
money paid them. The increase in
salaries will amount 10 $1,000 more.
Take this into consideration and YOU
will see what a pinch the board gets
stand up under II, and if the schools
are TO prosper and advance. or even
remain at the present standard some
I provisions will have TO be made for a
greater levy. This can be done by a
charter amendment only, and we
will urge that this be one of the
amendments the city asks, for and
/ that a representative from the school
board be put on the charter amend
ment committee to help urge it
through the legislature"
The board is drawing on the fu-
ture in making the necessary improve
ments it has and has had much
more TO look after than any preced-
ing board. The money is not spent
in any careless way, but always Judi
ciously and when the situation which
at present confronts the schools Is
felt by the legislators, there is little
doubt for the safe passage of an
amendment increasing the allotment
of the schools
IL is not known whether the schools
in other Kentucky second class cities
are experiencing the same trouble as
the Paducah schools, but educators
say they must be If there is any pro-
gress made.
The Paducah schools since the
city went into the second class, have
made wonderful progress and bet
ter advertisement for the city could
not be had The fact that colleges and
universities accept Paducah High
school graduates without examina-
ton Is one fact THAT a standard of ex-
cellency reached by few schools IN
cities of Paducah's size, is maintain
ed here.
Mayor Yeiser stated this morning
that he had nothing TO say relative
TO the allotment to the schools. He
stated that the boards tonight would
act on the matter il IL is brought up,
and as for himself he would say moth
ing.
Mayor Yeiser did not deny that the
present school levy is TOO small.
The reason that the schools in 9th
err second class cities do not suffer
much on account of the levy is that
the assessed valuation OF property
there is so much larger. in Paducah
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