Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-03-30
SCHOOL BOARD PLANS.
Cuts Special Tax Levy Approximate
Iy Eleven Per Cent for Next Year.

Board of Education Monday nigh
very serious study was made o.
the cshool situation and school tax
alton in Payette, and consideration
w agsiven to every conceivable pos
sibility of retrenchment in expenses
A study was made of the cost OF
education in all parts of the State as
with the cost in Payette
and attention was given to the
that are being adopted in
other places for retrenchment.
The per capita cost of education
in the Payette High School last yeal
was $3.50. Other places run as
follows: Weiser $3.50; Caldwell
S109.35; Nampa $111.15; Fruit
land SLIGO; Gooding $113.49;
Emmett S113.S7; Boise S11o.S2;
Twin Falls S137.79; Bull S139.14;
Mt. Home $145.53; st. Maries $780,
A; Filler S193.95; Bull 139.14scs
"A; Filler $193.95; Boomers Ferry
$212.94; Bliss $217.S0; Mullan
S243.63. In act, there are but two
other towns approximately Pay
cites size in the State that have as
low a per capita as Payette.
This means that the Boards OF
Education in Payette during the
rast years did not go the limits nor
follow the pace set by many other
schools in the matter of enormously
increased expenditures. They re-
cognized that there are certain
fundamentals in education that must
be always stressed and that other
things must be omitted if they can
not be afforded. Many of the schools
mentioned above are now seeking to
retrench by cutting out Manual
Training, Domestic Science and
Agriculture from their elementary
grades below the High School. BUT
PAYETTE NEVER HAD THESE in
the grades and so can not retrench
by cutting out something we never
had. Many of these schools are cut
ting out Primary Supervisors, Inter,
mediate and Grammar Grade Super,
visors, Supervising Principals and
numerous assistants in Departments.
BUT PAYETTE NEVER HAD
THESE EXTRAS and so can not res
trench by emitting them. The Super.
of Schools has been sole
supervisor from the Primary to the
High School. Many schools are
seeking to cut down the cost of Adj
But this has always
been kept down to the minimum in
the Payette Schools. Retrenchment
in these other places is being made
for the mots part by cutting out the
things that the Payette Boards never
felt they could afford to take on in
the past.
In many places retrenchment is
being made by cutting salaries, but
the maximum salaries in the Grades
in Payette are less than the mini
mum salaries in such places as
Nampa, Twin Falls, Caldwell, Boise,
Bull, etc. The cut these places are
to make will not bring
their salaries down to the equal of
Payette salaries at the present time
Tor the same positions.
The Payette Schools have all along
been conducted with the strictest
economy consistent with efficiency.
While some other schools are trim
ming down, when they are trimmed
o the limit they will only be COM
ng to the standard that Payette has
,een forced to maintain all the
While. The difference is his, while
10 many of the growing school sys,
ems of the State have for years
'een living beyond their means, the
'ayette Boards have insisted that
heir schools must be operated with
II their means.
But, Notwithstanding all this. the
Board has made an honest effort to
meet the situation and come to the
I'D of the tax-suffering public to the
,xtent OF about eleven per cent re.
tuctlon in the Special Tax Levy.
The Board voted unanimously land
With full realization and apprecia-
ION OF the importance of the SUBJ
ects of Music and Art in the schools)
o discontinue the position of Super
'isor of Music and Art for next year
nd to carefully select teachers who
an carry on this work in their re-
pective grades.
They also voted to cut the Manu-
i Training and Domestic Science !
york in the High School to half time
nd require the instructors in these
departments to each spend half
M bCGNhihS OlicF SUBJECTS, tnuS |
one High School teacher. |
They also adopted a salary seed |
lie whereby incoming teachers shall |
e employed the first year at salaries
angling from s120 to $3.50 less than
he present scehule.
1t was estimated that this ar
angement would enable them to
ut the Special Tax Levy about two
Hills. Nampa's plans of retrench-
ient contemplates a Special levy for
ext year of rs mills. The Payette
eyy will nat exceed Is mills.
The decision Of the Board to re-
uce the Manual Training and Do
lestic Science courses in the High
chool rather than abandon them
together was based on opinions of
ANY school parons gathered by the
GARD and the Superintendent with
the las month. 1t was learned in
lis way that more than nine-tenths
the patrons were unwilling that /,
lis work should be abandoned alto \
ether, but were Of the opinion that
resent conditions warrant curtail,
ent of the work at least temper
lily.
There seems to be prevalent
istaken notion that of these two
apartments were eliminated ma