New Ulm review., 1920-12-08
STATE SCHOOL
AID $33,l9l.5O
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF BROWN
COUNTY SENT ADVANCE
CHRISTMAS GIFT.
STATE AID THIS YEAR PAID
FULLY. CONSOLIDATED
DISTRICT LEADS.

Minnesota S annual advance Christ
mas gift in the form CT state aid to
the public schools CT the common
wealth has been sent out to the
various county auditors under the
direction Of J. M. Mcconnell, com
missioner Of education cf Minnesota,
and was distributed by these officials
to the treasurers Of tie individual
school districts. For the Brown
county schools this gift amounts to
the muniicent sum CT S33, 1880.
All Paid in Full.
In letter accompanying the ap-
portionment, Commissioners McCon-
nell informed County Auditor Louis
G. Vogel that all state aid this year has
been paid in full, according to the
provisions of law. He also calls at
tention to Section 8, Chapter 81,
Laws of 1919, which reads as follows;
All claims for tuition Reimburse
ments from state funds shall be Ie-
ported to the state high school board
or the state board of education, which
board shall alzo establish rules ION
such reporting and shall make pro-
visions for TIE payment OF such
tuition from the available current
school fund; provided, that in al
cases where such nonresident pupli
is resident. of state aided rural
district, the amount provided by the
provisions of this act shall, by the dis
bursing board, be deducted from the
aid otherwise going to such ruraA
district in all cases where such state
aided rural district does not levy at
least six mills or more upon thel
property of such district for school
purposes. .....t
This clause explains the deductions
that have been made from the amounts
otherwise due several districts in Brown
county, as will be noticed by the
figures published below.
Co.nfrey School Leads.
The greatest individual amount re-
ceived by ar y school district in Brown
county has been apportioned to the
Comfrev Consolidated district NO. 49,
The New Ul1n and the Sleepy Eye
district take second and third place,
respectively, following each other /. IN N:
close succession. The amount CT
state aid received by each OF the
di,+r;c+s classified according to high,
Graded, semi-graded and rural schools,
is as follows:
2 High Schools.
District No. /, New Ulm-Regular
and supplemental, $1,8oo; industrial,
$500. training department, 81 400;
tuition, S1,4S7; total, s6,4S7.
District No. "a, Sleepy Eye
REGULAR and supplemental, $1,Soo
industrial, s2,54O; training depart
ment, s1,4o0; tuition, S7o2; total
$6,442.
District No. Springfield Regu,
lar and supplemental, $500; indus
trial, $2,O25; tuition, S74l; total
$5,266.
TIE total state aid for all OF ths
three high schools in the county ag
gregate $19,195.
Graded Schools.
Consolidated District No. 40, Com
frey-Regular and supplemental
81 500; building and transportation
el onO. industrial, S975: tuition, 168
total, $6,743.
District No. 81, Hanska Regula
and supplemental, 5000. { a
Senli-Graded Schools. r
The basis upon which the state al
for semi-graded schools is figured
5000, but both Of the districts i
Brown county which come under thi
classification have previously receive
portion Of the amount, so tha
District No. 5S, Evan, is entitled t
S273 and District No. II, Cobder
to STA of state aid at thus time
making total of $447 for the tW
districts.
Class A, Rural Schools. ].
The following 20 Class A rnf.
school districts in Brown county eac
received the full quota of S15t
Districts Nos. 2, q, S, 8, 10, is, 16, i
21, 25, 27, 90, 81, 81, "a, 35, sc, 40, A
As, 81, Sd, 81, IS, So, "A, 70 an
Goshen, making a total Of $4,350.
The other Glass A rural schools
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