Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-05-18
school information.

ton is OF value and interest to every
school superintendent, school COM
mitteeman and patron. The Post.
Dispatch is glad to publish it in full,
and we hipe you will read it:
May II, 1922.
ITO County and City Superintend-
ents:
Il wish to call your attention to
your budget for next year.
Il. 1t was foreseen by the special
session of the general assembly that
the State fund will not be sufficient
to pay any part of the salaries of
county superintendent, assistant
lsuperintendents, supervisors not
otherwise provided for, and princi
pals of elementary and high schools,
for the year 1929. Therefore, all
counties not drawing from the
Equalizing Fund for 1929 must
provide in their budgets for this ex.
pense, and superintendent should
! be guided accordingly in preparing
their budgets.
2. The State Equalizing Fund for
1928 is the same as for the year
1922, that is, approximately 1850,
600. A county that was not entitled
to draw from the Equalizing Fund
in 1922 will not be entitled to
draw from this fund in 1929.
3. The same tax rates legalized or
authorized by the special session OF
the general assembly of 1921 are the
tax rates required to be levied in
1929 before counties may draw
from the Equalizing Fund. (See Sec
ton |, of an Act to Validate Tax
Rates, Chapter 5, Special Session
1921. Counties should not be mis-
led to believe that 80 cents is the
maximum rate, except for those
counties designated by law,
4. Since the tax rates will be APP,
proximately the same and since the
Equalizing Fund will be the same, it
is necessary for counties entitled to
draw from the Equalizing Fund to
prepare their budgets so as to run
the schools next year on approx.
mately the same amount of money
required for the past year. Many
counties will receive less from the
EqualiZing Fund next year when
they comply with the provision Of
this section. The State salary SEIZED.
ule will be the same, but in order
to pay according to this schedule
| the State Board OF Education has
passed a regulation that the Equaliz
ing Fund for 1929 will be distrib,
uted on the following basis:
Two teachers will be allowed for
not less than 80 pupils in average
daily attendance, three teachers for
30 pupils, four teachers for 100 pu-
pills, and one additional teacher for
every so additional pupils. But if
the average attendance in counties
not drawing from the Equalizing
Fund shows a higher attendance
than 80 for two teachers, the high
average will be taken as basis
Therefore, counties should 81 far as
possible adopt an average of 40 pu-
pills as basis for the first two
teachers. This will be safe.
-. By adopting 40 pupils as ba-
sis for the first two teachers, great
saving will be effected and we shall
have surplus enough perhaps to pay
that part Of the salaries of superin.
tendents, principals and supervis.
ors for 1922 as authorized by law
and / am authorized by the State
Biard of Education to say to the
counties that the surplus will be ap.
piled to these purposes.
g. In providing for high school
instruction in the future it will moi
be wise for superintendent to plan
for two high schools in the same
township or two high schools within
about five miles of each other, un,
less the number of pupils in each is
great enough to justify a standard
| high school Of the highest class in
each. The cost of multiplying small
| high schools located close together is
too great. Superintendent can
transfer high school pupils from