Evening journal., 1921-05-16
Largest Paid Circulation

uatlon for the use OF the city Board
of Education. will pay but 25 cents
on the 500 to the county, which is
40 cents less than it is now paying.
At the same time it will receive from
the state appropriation the sum that
It required in 1920 to conduct the .
schools. Wilmington will pay on the
basis Of proportion of its pupils to
its taxpayers, the same as any ands
every other district in the state.
when the budgets from all the
districts OF the state came in, in or q
der to be on the safe side and not
appropriate more than was necessary
for legitimate school expenses, We
secured figures from all the districts.
showing the amounts spent in each
Of these in 1920; 1920-21 and'
the amounts estimated as needed this
year. Then we decided on the fig
ures spent in 1920 as the bass.
for the appropriations to each and
all OF the districts for the current
year.
For instance, the total spent for
repairs. in all of the districts, in.
cluding Wilmington. in 1920 was
$4,000 For the coming year we
set up S15OOO0 for this item, but.
none OF this sum was appropriated
directly to any special district II
was placed in custody of the State.
Board of Education to be distributed
when and where needed on the basis
as follows: .
Il. Number OF pupils. ?. Num-
Der Of teachers. 3. Number Of
buildings. 4. Amount Of graded .
equipment.
Besides this another 500, 900 was
set aside to be spent for High School
cost. We believed that for all dis
tricts in the State, 500 per High
School pupil, as provided in the law,
would be too low in some cases and
too high in others. SO we placed in
the custody Of the state Board this
100000 to be distributed equitably
as the high school cost in the cases
OF individual districts might be shown
to the satisfaction of the board.
In the important provisions for
the salaries of teachers and all others
engaged in school work, the appro-
priations to each district were fixed
at the amount actually spent in 1919
20. The total appropriation for in
strumental service throughout the
State for that year was $1.OSO,O0O,
and to this amount the new budget
adds S45O,000 to be distributed by
the State Board throughout the
State. based upon the above mem
toned four points.
80 it may be seen that Whining
ton is getting all that any other dis
/ trict in the State will get from the
State funds, on the basis as stated =
/ that it will be taxed on the same
/ basis as each and every other local.
/ ity in the State and that, while A
/ large part Of the revenue for the
schools will come from wilmington.
the city will actually be paying for
/ financing its schools a property tax
Of 40 cents on the 800 less than'
it is now paying"
! The women Of the State who have
/ been engaged in welfare work are
/ deeply disappointed over the elm
/ ination OF the appropriation for
! physical examination of school chill
dren from the budget. They argue
that this work is done in other states
and there is no reason for Delaware
being behind. Many examples Of
what the physical examination has
accomplished are cited as an argu-
ment for appropriating the money
asked. A delegation of Wilmington
women who go to Dover this morn
ing Will try to have the appro-
priation asked incorporated in the
budget.