The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-04-24
SCHOOL BOARD DISCUSSED
MANY PROBLEMS TUESDAY
All Members Are Present at
Regular Meeting-County Com
missiOners Thanked in Letter

The Board of Education of Garrett
county held its regular meeting at it's
office in t...e Court House last Tuesday
afternoon, all members of the Board
being present The Board is COM
posed of H. A. Loraditch, president,
John W. Mccullough, and Stuart F.
Hamill.
Along with other routine business,
the Board considered the following
subjects:
Returns from the Board of County
Commissioners of Garrett county up
on the Budget of the Board of Educa-
ton as submitted to the County Com
missioners, setting out the financial
needs of the schools of the county for
the coming school year of 193O-31,
as provided for by the County Com
missioners in the County Levy of
April Is, 1880. In this same connec-
ton, the Board of Education instruc-
ted the County Superintendent to
write the following letter to each of
the County Commissioners, the same
referring particularly to the amount
of $4,000 provided for capital out
lay on new school building purposes:
To the Honorable,
] The Board of County Commissioners,
Oakland, Maryland.
conference.-the Board of Educa-
ton of this county at its meeting
held April %, 1880, instructed me to
write you expressing its appreciation
for the very satisfactory manner in
which you considered the budget of
the Board of Education for the finan-
cial needs of the schools during the
coming school year of 1930-1931.
Your decisions in this connection
| have been eminently gratifying and
will result in very enlarged education
al opportunities for the boys and girls
| of this county.
Sincerely yours,
F. E. RATHBUN,
County Superintendent.
A report was submitted from the
State Department of Education set
ting out that if the State had not
provided any money at all for the
support or current expenses Of the
schools during the school year OF
| 1928 1929, in order to conduct the
schools of the County as they were
conducted during the same year, the
very high and prohibitive County Tax
rate of $1.46 upon each $4,000 of
assessable property would have been
mandatory in the county levy OF
April, 1928. However, with the usual
and regular State financial aid that
normally is given to the county as a
result of State Law, this financial aid
being based upon census of children
in the county and attendance at
school the year before, text books,
materials of instruction, office salaries
and High school aid, the county tax
rate would have been $1.14 but with
the Equalization Fund as provided for
the year of 1928-1929, which amour
ted to $112,266.OO, the county tax
rate for the support of the schools in
the Levy of April, 1928, as mandatory
in order to meet the requirements of
the State School Law, was only 81
cents upon each $4,000 of assessable
property in the county.
The County Superintendent submit
ted report to the Board, setting out
in detail that of the 440 boys and
girls who were graduated from the
elementary schools of the county in
June, 1929, only PA of them entered
High school during the following or
this school year for a period of more
than 10 days. There were, therefore,
226 boys and girls throughout the
county who had completed and been
graduated from the elementary school
but who did not take up high school
education although they were eligible
for it. The Board was concerned
about those of the number of 226 who
may have desired to attend High
school but could not do so owing to
the fact that they lived too far away
from any such institution. The in
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