The fiscal problem in Missouri

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Identifikator:: 1833271335

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-230042

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The fiscal problem in Missouri

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: National Industrial Conference Board, Inc.

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: xvi, 359 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Public school finance

Collection:: Economics Books

248 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI Tue StaTE Survey Commission Pran of PusLic ScrooL Finance . The recent State Survey Commission has recommended an elaborate plan of school finance, the effect of which would be to transfer a larger part of the cost of the public schools to the state government. Each elementary teaching unit under this plan would be guaranteed a minimum of $900, and each high school teaching unit, a minimum of $1,200. For the purpose of introducing this program, each one-teacher school district, regardless of daily attendance, is to be considered an elementary teaching unit. High schools with an average daily attendance of less than 142 pupils are to count as one high school unit for the first 15 enumerated students, with average daily attendance of 12, and one additional unit for each additional 23 students! The plan not only provides for the guarantee of the amounts per teaching unit as in- dicated, but also for the stepping up of the amounts until a considerably higher level is reached? For the present pur- pose, only the initial basis will be considered; that is, the analysis will be based upon a $900 guarantee for each ele- mentary teaching unit and $1,200 for each high school teach- ing unit. A local tax rate of $0.20 per $100 of assessed valuation would be required before an elementary school district com- prising one unit would be guaranteed the minimum of $900. In other words, if a rural school district employing one teacher has an assessed valuation of $50,000 and levies a local school tax of $0.20 per $100 of assessed valuation, or a total of $100, it would be guaranteed the difference between $900 and $100, or $800. It should not be inferred, however, that the plan would provide for 3800 state aid in addition to that now received. The additional state aid would amount only to the difference between $800 and the total of the present state, county, and township aids. The county and township aids are very small in many cases, and it may be assumed that a district such as the one just cited would receive a total of between $700 and $800 from the state. t Report of the State Survey Commission, 1929, pp. 69 f. 2 The present forms of state aid would be gradually eliminated under the pro- posed plan of stepping up the minimum.

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