The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-21
CUT $4,000
FR0M.SCHO0LS'
BUDGET HERE
City Board Reduces Total Ex-
penditures Planned For
The Next Year
TUITION is RAISED
TUITION is RAISED
kindergartens To Be Disc0n.
tinued, Other Department
tai Changes Made

IN session last night, took steps to
effect economies in the operation of
| the city schools next year under a
| plan worked out by members of the
board and school officials under which
1T was believed by the board members
that the efficiency of the schools
would not be impaired
The board decided at the outset in
the consideration of it's deliberations
on the subject that it would not
seek to decrease teachers salaries.
believing that they are not too high
under existing conditions and desir
ing to keep up high standard in
the city schools.
Under the proposed plan $4,000
Will be Topped off the city's school
budget next year, reducing it from
$l3S,oOO to $l22,OOO, the budget in.
Guiding the fixed charges for interest
and sinking fund on bonds.
One of the steps taken by the board
was to raise the tuition charge for
from $54 to $lOS per year. The
nonresident pupils in the high school
tuition for grade school attendance
was left at $50. The board was
moved to raise the tuition in the
hlgh school, it was explained, because
of the high cost of maintaining the
school and because of the lack of
room to- take care of all pupils de-
siring admittance to the high school. I
About $50 of the pupils in the
nigh school come from outside the
district The cost per pupil is esti-
mated at around $l25 per year, SO
that the board in fixing the tuition
at $10S felt it fixed the charge at
less than actual cost. Since all ex-
penses of the district are borne by
the taxpayers living in it, it was felt
by the board unfair to them to cause
them to pay for an excessive num-
Der of nonresident pupils. The high
school, too, is crowded so badly that
pupils living within the district can
not be given the facilities desired.
TO Reduce Number
1T Is expected by the board that
the increase of the tuition for non
resident pupils will decrease the |
number in the high school. This will |
not only make it possible to give the
local pupils better attention, in the
board view, but also will result in
reduction of three in the teaching
forces. What three classes will be
eliminated has not been decided.
The board, in its economy pro-
gram, decided to discontinue the kin.
dergartens next year, to abolish the
department Of physical training for
women, there being one in charge of
this training; to discontinue a music
supervisor for the grades, abolish
free text books in the grades and
reduce salaries of janitors from SllOI
10 800 per month.
Music Action
In abolishing the position of SUP.
'rvlser of music in the grades, men,
'ers of the board said that one quail n
fled teacher in each building will
the music instruction in
hat building. Some years ago, it I
vas explained, there was super {
User in penmanship, and this posi- y
ion was discontinued by the board,
'pe teacher in each building being
famed to supervise penmanship. A
eacher in each building also will
upervise physical culture work for
he girls.
Last year the board discontinued .
rec text books in the high school G
nd next year will discontinue them 9
the grade schools at an estimated
aving of $4,000.
Under the existing limitation law =
nd under existing conditions the
oard felt that it was necessary to :,
ccomplish economies in the school
udget for next year, and after con-
lderable deliberation and study, in /
luding review of the records of
ne meeting Of city school officials
ecently held in Jamestown, it decid-
d upon it's plan. The cuts made are ;,
OF as drastic as suggested in the =
esolutions of the jamestown school =
fficials meeting. I