Evening star., 1951-04-13
Fairfax Groups
Protest Cuts in
School Budget
Additional Trimming
Will Reduce Salaries,
PTA Warns Board

Efforts of the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors to trim adj
ditional sums from the budget re-
quested by the County School
Board were protested vigorously
today by Mrs. Hugh McDiarmid
of Vienna.
Mrs. McDiarmid is chairman
of the committee appointed by
Mrs. Malcolm Morrow, county
Parent-Teacher Association presi-
dent, to present information
about school needs and the school
budget.
"The cuts which the super
visors already have forced upon
the School Board" said Mrs. Nc
Diarmid, ''have left only meager
allowances for most budget items,
and very inadequate expenditures
for some. Now any additional
reductions demanded can come
out of nothing but teachers sal
aries, which already are extremely
low"
School Levy Called Small.
Mrs. McDiarmid said the budget
would call for a school tax levy
amounting to well under $23 per
person in Fairfax County.
Fairfax County residents she
said, "are being asked to spend
for education about $23 per capita
out of a per capita income in the
county of something between
$1,000 and $1,400. Even with the
county's share of State revenues
devoted to education included, we
still are devoting only tiny frac-
tion Of income to the education
of our children" .-.. r.
The School Boards budget, 1t
was announced today by Mrs.
Morrow, has been taken up and
approved by resolution of nine
parent-teacher groups in the
county. She listed as approving
the budget these parent-teacher
groups:
Oak Street. Franconia, Lin
colnia. Fairfax High School.
Shirley-Duke, Mount Eagle. Ches-
terbrook. Centreville and Fairfax.
In addition, she reported several
civic associations have considered
and formally approved the School
Boards budget. including the COM
bined parent teacher and civic as
sociation in Oakton and the.
Northeast Fairfax County Civic
League.
Plans for consideration of the
school budget by other parents
teacher groups next week also were
announced by Mrs. Morrow.
Speakers Announced. @
These groups and the speakers
who will discuss the budget are as
follows:
Monday night, Annandale Par,
lent-Teacher Association, with
Mrs. G. A. Justusson, of Annan-
dale, president of the School Emer-
gency Association. as speaker.
Tuesday night, Herndon PARENT
Teacher Association. Mrs. Morrow:
Mclean Parent Teacher Associa.
ton, Mrs. McDiarmid, and Holm
Hall Parent Association.
Mrs. Jane Wellemeyer of Tauxe-'
mont.
Wednesday night, Lee-Jackson
Parent-Teach Association, Mrs.
Morrow.
Thursday night. Vienna Parent
Teacher Association, John Rice.
assistant county superintendent Of
schools; w. Alvord Sherman of
the School Emergency Association
and Mrs. McDiarmid; Forrestville
Parent Teacher Association. Mrs.
Morrow; Fairview Parent-Teacher
Association, no SPEAKER an
nounced; Baileys Cross Roads Par
ent-Teacher Association, Mrs. Jus
tusson, and Groveton PARENT /
Teacher Association, Mrs. H. C.
Crowther, School Board member
from Mount Vernon.
Other plans for consideration
OF the county budget were an
nounced today by Guy M. Bayes
OF Chesterbrook, president of the
Federation of Fairfax County
Citizens Associations. That group
plans to devote most of it's meet
ing next Thursday at Annandale.
to the proposed budget.
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