Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-02-24

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the State School Fund has been
apportioned and that they have
come back at the Department with
a bill providing for the repeal of
the school reorganization act of
1907. which created the office of
Deputy Superintendent and placed
five such deputies in the state by
supervision districts to take the
place of the ex-officio office of
County superintendent that had
been existing, in name, for years.
In order that you may arrive at
the correct reason for this feeling
will state that the only way that
the Departmet has had anything
to do with appointments of school
money to the injury of Storey
County was in 1908 when the State
Superintendent sent the Deputy
Superintendent for the fourth
district 10 Virginia City to ~:nvesti-
gaze the census reports that had
been turned in by the census
marshal and trustees of that town.
After due investigation the Deputy
was authorized by the State
Superintendent TO strike from
the census list of Virginia City the
nan e. of about half of the children
tlat were reported. it having
been shown beyond any doubt that
the census list was padded, and
that the census reports from that
town lad been padded for years,
and the school district had thereby
rece i"ed thousands of dollars that
should have been distributed among
other counties of the state.
Of course this made the people
of Virginia City rise in arms
against the new system" and ever
since that time there has been
great anxiety OF the part of the
Legislators from Storey County to
abolish the plan of school SUPER
Vison and return to the old plan of
practically no supervision of the
state institution upon which the
state spends annually $500, 900.
So much for events in the past.
On February 81, a bill providing
for a new method of apportioning
State school moneys to the districts
of the state was up for final
passage in the Senate. The old plan
appointment gave to a fourteen
pupilc school in Sorey County
S3lS.ll, in Ormsby County $275.5O.
and Washoe County $259.1S. The
same sized school i1 Elko County
received only $142.G4, while in
Lander County it received
$l50.92, and other counties ranged
in order of amount so received as
follows: Eureka, Humboldt.
White Pine, Churchill, Lyon, Nye,
Douglass, Clark, Esmeralda. 1t
took thirty-fve children in Elko
County to draw as much money
from the State Fund as five children
drew in Storey County at the
recent appCrtionmcnt.
The Senate bill referred to
provides that all schools in the
State of the same size shall receive
hereafter the same amounts from
the State Distributivc School
Fund. This pain will deduct about
$1,000 a year from the Virginia
City school fund, and for that
reason the legislators from that
town go wrathy and brought their
old time threats to a climax by
introducing IN Act in the Assembly
or repeal about twenty sever
pages of school law, in fact al! of
the law now exists pertaining to
public schools.
The bill providing for a new
method of distributing state school
funds came directly from the
Department of Education, was drawn
by one of the Deputies, and wa,
advocated upon the floor Of The
Senate by Superintendent Bray ano
Mr.. Anderson upon the investiga.
ton of that body. The vote upor
passage of the bill in the Senate
was II in favor with 8 against It.
This does not make il look like
there is much fault to find with tho
schol system by conservative mer.
and 1t is very probable that the
retaliation Act" introduced by
O'Connor ofstoreyC County will have
short shift in the Senate if il passes
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