Evening star., 1949-11-04
Schools Will GET
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Tuck TeI|sVEA
Education Session
Assured of SizubIe
Increase in Budget
BY the Associofed Press

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 4.-Gov.
Tuck assured the Virginia Edu-
cation Association last night that
the States next two-year budget
will include sizable increases in
school appropriations.
The Governor also told the as
sociation convention that tho
budget to be submitted in jan
uary to the General Assembly will
contain large capital outlay pro-
gram for school building.
DR.. Dowell j. Howard, acting
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, told the association the State
Department of Education is vi
tally concerned with school build
ings and travel to and from the
schools. He said a Statewide
committee is revising the program
of school studies and one working
on accrediting standards.
Federal Aid Indorsed.
The Governor and DR.. Howard
addressed the association at the
end of a day in which members
indorsed Federal aid to schools
without Federal control" They
urged financial support for public
schools which lack the ability to
provide adequately for them
selves.
Gov. Tuck said that although
demands on the State treasury
"are extraordinary" the budget
makers are giving primary con-
sideration to appropriations for
education. He said:
Without going into details as
to the contents of the next budget,
I can say it will contain an in
crease for the public school sys-
TEN comparable with the in
creases for the several preceding
bienniums.
Il regard the State Department
OF Education as one of the most
agencies Of the State
government, and will so treat 1t
in my recommendations to the
General Assembly, as I have done
in the past. The record speaks
for itself, Virginia has not been
a laggard in dealing with its pub
lie education problems. On the
contrary, our progress has been
one OF the noteworthy achieve
ments of our State government"
Recalls Fund Increases.
The Governor recalled increases
in appropriations during the last
four or five bienniums, saying:
For the four-year period July
l. 1888, to June 80, 1912, for ex-
ample. the appropriation from
the general fund, segregated taxes
and interest on the literary fund
was $38,395. .305. For the 1872
1946 period the corresponding fig
ure was $69, 9,906,502 For 1886
1850 it is 1922 1897, 7,69o.
This is an increase for 1860
Of $4,000, 1894, or more than 200
per cent. The average salary Of
our public school instructional per-
sonnel has increased from $1,054
in 1912 to $2,215 for the last school
year. On a biennial basis, the in
creases since 1912 have ranged in
round numbers from $l2,280, 900
to $14, 100000.
Commenting on the budget for
the next two years on which he
conferred with his advisory board
Monday after receiving requests
from the various State agencies
Gov. Tuck told the YEA that par
ticular attention has been paid to
the need for a more, adequate re-
tirement system for teachers.
In addition to increases for
other public school purposes, my
recommendations will include G
very substantial addition to the
appropriation for retirement Of
teachers" he said.
Gov. Tuck said he recognized
"the value of the dollar in attract
ing talent and in promoting its
development, whether it be in
teaching or in business" but, he
added, money alone will not edu-
cate our children. Nor can they
march through great buildings Of
brick and concrete and emerge
educated individuals. Neither
money nor buildings instill learn
ing. Education comes only through
painstaking effort on the part Of
parents, teachers and pupils"