Milford chronicle., 1947-06-13
SCHOOLS USE OF STATE FUNDS
MAY CAUSE Low FEDERAL AID
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lmum appOrt1Onment or $3.OO per
school child for every state"
With about 92.8 per cent of the
school expenses for the current
fiscal year being paid out of state
funds, Delaware, despite large av-
erage per capita payments into the
federal treasury, would receive
only a very small apportionment
of any federal money for the sup
port of schools.
According to a table compiled
in the Legislative Bulletin, Della |
ware would receive $171,000, the
smallest amount of any state in
the union and an average of less
than a hundred dollars for each
teacher employed in the state. Del
aware school expenses now aver
age about $3.50 per pupils per
year.
In contrast to the payment pro-
posed for Delaware, are the apor-
tionments for some other states.
For instance Kentucky, Alabama,
Arkansas and some other states
would receive an average of more
than $500 per teacher yet their
average expenditure per pupil is
less than fifty dollars.
Maryland would average $3.50
per teacher and has an average
pupil expense of less than hum
dred dollars. Virginia would aver
age 5000 per teacher and has an
average pupil expense of slightly
more than fifty dollars.
An examination of the table re-
veals that all but two states would
receive more per teacher than is
allotted for Delaware, these two
states being New York., which
would average about ten dollars
less than Delaware and New Jer-
sey which would receive just
about the same average as Della
ware.
Persons interested in school af-
fairs, who have made a study of
this report, have referred to the
fact that late in 1916 a report
issued by Iowa State University
listed Delaware as 46th in educa-
tional advantages, giving as one
reason for this low rating the
states ability to use more funds.
These same sources point out
that in contrast, the sponsors of
the program now before Congress
indicate, by their action, that eX-
penditures in Delaware must be
average and therefore do not rate
a great amount of support from
federal funds.
A provision in the Congression-
al proposal requires that state
use at least % per cent of its
income for education to be ELI
gible to participate in the federal
money. During the next two fiscal
years, starting on July 1, it is es-
timated that 52.8 per cent of all
state income in Delaware will be
used for expenses of education.
The total amount of federal funds
planned to be used for this purpose
is $197 ,092,000. Delaware's share
would be .007 per cent.
| Among the various states Del
aware ranks first in the matter O.
the use of state funds for educa
ton with the total of state funds
expended for this purpose in Del
aware being about forty per cen
, more than the second state.
; That this condition operates tt
, the disadvantage of Delaware il
the distribution by states of th'
proposed federal funds is shown il
the following report on the mea
sure now before Congress, whicl
lists. payments to the states as fol
lows:
! Hlabama-$13,330,000.
Arizona-$1, ,232,000
ADMINISTRATION
:, California-$4, ,356,O00.
Colorado-$735, 900.
;, Connecticut-$1, ,023,000.
Delaware-$171 900.
District of Columbia-$432 900.
u Florida-$1,9 1856, 900.
, Georgia. *$10,664,0O0
Idaho-*S564,0 900.
Illinois-s4,512,OOO.
Indiana-$2,1S7, 900.
Iowa-S1, SOB 900.
: Kansas-$1,116,000.
= Kentucky-*$12,095,0 900.
- Louisiana-*$7 ,959 900.
:, Manifestation.
Il Maryland-$1,2 ,2S1 900.
Massachusetts ,496,00O.
:, Michigan-$3,588,000.
:, Minnesota-$1,668,O00.
u Mississippi *$12,735 ,OOO-
p Missouri-$2, ,253, 900.
,. Montana-$327 900.
10 Nebraska-$81O,000.
~ ~ Nevada-$S1,0 900.
~ ~ New Hampshire-$294, 900.
y New Jersey-$2,415, 900.
III New Mexico-*$2,82 ,824,000.
:, New York-$7 ,206,000.
North Carolina-*$18,766,0 900.
!" North DakOta-*$1,213,00
,e ,e Ohio-s4,254, 900.
le Oklahoma-*$7 100000.
:, Oregon-$675, 5,OOO
"a - Pennsylvania SO, ,246,G00.
~ Rhode Island-$432,000.
io South CarOlina-*$10, ,6S6,000.
South Dakota-*$1 ,0S0,000.
~ Tennessee-*$ 9,556,OOO
es Texas-*$10,547 900.
a Utah-*$1 ,O22,OOO.
% Vermont-$225,000
y NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
II Washington-s1, ,092, 900.
West Virginia-*$8,234,O 900.
7u Wisconsin-$1, ,980,000.
w Wyoming-$168,000.
~ States marked with an (*) a
no listed to receive much more tn;
- the average because of low e
~ penditures on the part of t