Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-08
State Board Would Have
General Assembly Appro-
pirate Additional Sum
INCREASED LEVIES
Copies of Stearnes's Pan Beinf Mail
ed TO observation-disclosures Total o.
s9.635.3iO .-r

oublic school system is to be placed
| mon q basis as efficient as that III
tho average State in the Union So
;35.340 a year will be required. I'M"
I is, in round numbers. S3,O0O,0oo 4
year more than the schools are no"
receiving. If the Legislature will IN
.rease its appropriation by sl,9Oo'oo0
the remaining S1,500,00o IAN De
raised locally. The State approprla
ZION can be increased by retaining
,he 1O-cent school tax; the Sl,5eo,-
)OO can be raised locally by induc-
| NO the cities and counties to IN
| .rease their school levies to 80 cents
| IN the Sl0O.
This is the summary Of the recon-
| nendat;ons which will be made 70
he General Assembly next month
| W Superintendent r. c. Stea-nes. oi
he Department Of Pubic Instruction.
Tie recommendations have been
l1afted by Mr.. Stearne$:. and PRINT
d copies Of them. with statistical
Information regarding Firglnla'S
crool system, are being mailed 70
very member of the Legislature.
The principle upon which the re-
| concentrations are based is that oil
| citing the State and the counties
| ard citics) bear the burden equally.
/! tf.. STATE will add sI,50o,0oo q
ear to It's appropriations for. the pub
;c schools the counties and cltiea
Nr. .S,carncs believes, viii! reaeii?
nrrease their school le.ies. In nlrn-
,e,. Of :he counties the le"ies are Al
:eady 80 cents.
n the forty-eight States OF the
onion. Mr.. Stearnes shows ;he aver
ase appropriation for tine eounty
{ school is $50 per pupil per year ~
! Virginia Only $ll.35 is spent. by
hc nlan which Mr. StcarneS has
ror,,cd out and which the members
+ the Legislature are being asked :"
consider the to.al appropriation vii
,c 50 increased that $50 per capita
an bc spent annually IN the county,
.chools and go per capita in the ctty
! ;choo!s
I air. Stearncs. makes his estimates
| .ppu the theory that the average
monthly salary paid to school teach
,rs should rot hc less than Sl9; that
here should not be more than thJtJ
o1upiis to each teacher. and that the
.vclage school term shouid not %
1 less than eight months.
/ In giving comparative figures an"
lin discussing the proposed develop
! ment of the school system. NJ
| Stea,71eS. in his recommendations,
says:
"The revenue OF our public schoo
! system in 1905 WAS S2.432.lO2.i5
tour revenue during the year 1913 l9
! was between s60cO.000 and $500
900. and wr have How reached the
point where it seems Use TO consider
the expenditure Of oar put'nc sehooI'
for the year l9l3'la with the lcea
Of taking stock and determining wha'
.; is needed in financial way to g:vt
. the people of this Commonwealth {
/! system Of schools that shall sccort
in every way with the history an'
traditions of the State and with th'
ideals and hopes OF constituenc!
I which is aroused and enthusiastic o!
, the subject Of education. No one car
, doubt that the people Of Virginia art
now able to give every child IN tn
| State an education that will fit hin
:: for the duties Of life. and it is equal
! " true that no one can doubt the DE
t termination Of the people to see ttla
: this high task is accomplished am
u that without delay ,sj5r