Milford chronicle., 1921-05-20
$2,2OO,OOO THIS YEAR
FOR DELAWARE SCHOOLS
This SUM WAS FIXED BY LEGISLATORS i'm BUDGET THAT
PASSED BOTH BRANCHES ON TUESDAY-SENATE
VOTE l3 TO A; HOUSE q TO TO-
NO ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR ROAD BUILDING
ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE FOR INCREASE OF MILLION DOLLAR
BOND ISSUE PASSED The HOUSE BUT DIED in
THE SENATE WITHOUT ACTION

4 Travelling expenses of superinten
e dent and assistants, $4,000; office ex
e penses, State Board, $4,000; schOo
e census, $4,000; bonds for county, 81,
. 900.
2 School superintendents, $35, ex
2 penSeS of superintendent Office, S25C
each special district, and $4,000 il
: Wilmington; total, $6,45O; SmitI
: Hughes vocational training act, SIG,
100; teachers expenses at summer
J school, $4,000; contingent fund, S2O,-
! 600; teachers salaries, fuel and text
books, $45O,OO0; 100000 additional is
also appropriated making a total Oi
$2,2OO,OOO.
From this would be deducted $780,
900, the amount estimated that will be
collected by the 25 per cent. real es-
tate tax which will leave but $1,7OO,-
600 to be appropriated each year from
the State treasury.
Senator Allee'S Statement
To make clear the situation about
the proposed budget, and especially
its effect on Wilmington schools, Sen
ator Alice, a member of the commit
tee that framed the budget, made the
following statement:
''The total budget, as now agreed
upon by the legislative committee, for
financing education throughout the
State of Delaware is $2,2OO,OO0 a year
for two years. This is $4,000 less
than the sum asked for in the budget
presented to the House last Monday.
1t will not provide for medical inspec-
tiOn in the schools, school lunches or
for any other frills, but it is intended
to cover every actual necessity that
may arise.
1.-THE intent of the present taxation
features of the new school law is that
the appropriation fixed by the Legis-
lature shall cover the entire cost of
conducting every public school in ev-
cry part of the State, including Will
mington. While Wilmington will pay
large proportion of the filing tax on
incomes received in Wilmington
cause of the greater number of resi-
dents of the State living in that city
and while this sum may amount to
something like $4,000, based upon
registration figures of 54 900 Whining
ton, instead of paying IS cents on the
S1OO of assessed property valuation
for the use of the City Board of Edu-
cation, will pay but rs cents on the |
$1O0 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 1919-20 to conduct the
schools Wilmington will pay on the
basis of proportion of it's pupils to
its taxpayers, the same as any and
every other district in the State.
When the budgets from all the
districts of the State came in, in or
der to be on the safe side and not
appropriate more than was necessary
for legitimate school expenses, we Sc
cured figures from all the districts,
showing the amounts spent in each ;
Of these in 1919-2O; 192O-21 and the ;
estimated as needed this
year. Then we decided on the figures
spent in 1919-20 as the basis for the s
to each and all of the I
districts for the current year.
For instance, the total spent for &
'epairs, in all of the districts, in t
'luding Wilmington, in 1919-2O was
$4,000. For the coming year we set
lp $15O,000 for this item, but none of
his sum was appropriated directly to
ny special district. It was placed in
ustody of the State Board of Educa-
ion to be distributed when and where I
eeded on the basis as follows;
Il. Number of pupils. 2. Number of s
eachers. 8. Number of buildings. 4. Il
mount of graded equipment. Il
Besides this another 100000 was Il
ct aside to be spent for High School b
Ost. We believed that for all districts u
the State, $100 per High School pu- II
Il, as provided in the law, would be IN
20 low in some cases and too high in
-hers. So we placed in the custody of So
lie State Board this 100000 to be W
stributed equitably as the high I'll
'hool cost in the cases of individual bl
stricts might be shown to the salts K
ction of the board. p'
In the important provisions for the hi
-laries of teachers and all others W
gagged in school work, the appro- th
iatiOns to each district were fixed at bl
e amount actually spent in 1919-20. c1
le total appropriation for instrument
service throughout the State for
at year was $1,O8O,OOO, and to this
Mount the new budget adds S450, 900
be distributed by the State Board % %
roughout the State, based upon the :'n a.
owe mentioned four points. IL III
So it may be seen that Wilmington ou
getting all that any other district nI' nl'
the State will get from the State pli
1ds, on the basis as stated; that it 90 90
IL be taxed on the same basis as ~ I
ch and every other locality in the cH i
lte and that, while large part of W. W.
revenue for the schools will come 1o' 1o
m Wilmington, the city will actual ~
be paying for financing its schools u! u!
tax of 40 cents on the $100 ''n'
S than it is now paying" cr7
The women of the State who have OAl
N engaged in welfare work are W
ply disappointed over the elimina- +
4 of the appropriation for physical ne1
animation Of school children from inc
budget. They argue that this work nro
done in other states and there is 1ne
reason for Delaware being behind. min
ny examples Of what the physical chs
minatiOn has accomplished are cit off,
as an argument for appropriating me,
money asked. a.
ollowing the passage of the budget acti
school purposes, Representative
vell introduced bill providing the INT
ropriation of 100000 with which
loaf loan for $1,OOO,OOO for road
ding purposes. This bill provided F
a tax of cent per gallon on gas Sus
e, which tax was to take care Of maj
100000 appropriation. The meas ter
passed the House, but it died in ple1
Senate without action oo,