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

260 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI superintendent of schools in each county could prepare a map of his county showing the present district lines and also possible enlarged districts. The county superintendent could also make available to the school authorities of the state such information as he may have concerning the attitude in the county towards consolidation and redistricting. With this information, both the county superintendents and the state school authorities would be in a position to further a redis- tricting and consolidation program. The most effective form of aid that the state can grant appears to be aid in furtherance of the consolidation move- ment. On’ the basis of the facts that have been presented, the logical solution would seem to be financial assistance to newly established consolidated districts and also certain assistance to the smaller districts when for various reasons consolidation is not feasible. The additional building aid to consolidated districts recommended by the State Survey Commission indicates a satisfactory approach to the problem, and it is possible that by increasing the state grants on ac- count of buildings displaced and the maintenance apportion- ments to consolidated districts the consolidation program could be pushed forward rapidly. The only other form of additional aid that might be considered is aid to rural dis- tricts that could not be fitted into the consolidation program. Some of the present forms of state aid, as has been seen, have undesirable features. If the state adopted an effective central supervision of assessments, these objectionable fea- tures would be eliminated in part. It is not considered good business procedure to make a distribution of funds on a basis that is not subject to control by the authority disbursing the funds. This, however, is what Missouri has been doing in granting state aid that in any way depends on assessed valuation. If it were believed that the assessment procedure would not be greatly improved in the near future, assessed valuation should be eliminated as soon as possible as a basis for the distribution of state funds. State support of education on the basis of need probably represents the only effective approach to the problem of public school finance in Missouri. Examination of the present distributions indicates that they are not necessarily

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