The fiscal problem in Missouri

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Neuere Zeit

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Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

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Year of publication:: 1904

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Title:: Siebzehntes Buch

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254 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI of $0.20 per $100 of assessed valuation is the difference be- tween tax levies and tax collections. There is nothing in the minimum program to indicate that a school district will have to collect the amount of the taxes levied before it is entitled to aid. Consequently, the districts in which tax delinquency is most serious may see fit to depend very largely on state aid, since it may be possible to maintain a satisfactory school without collecting all of the local tax levy. It would seem that a financial program such as has been recommended would clearly require the collection of a certain proportion of the local levy, in order that each district might be required to finance at least a minimum proportion of its expenditures out of funds raised locally. The question may well be raised whether the transfer of a large part of the cost of the public schools to the state might not accentuate the delinquency problem in those districts in which the total aid would be relatively large as compared with the amount collected by the district. Probably the outstanding educational need in Missouri is for the elimination of the one-room rural schools, particularly in the districts in which the attendance is small and the cost per pupil, therefore, relatively high. This need is especially urgent in many of the poorer sections of the state. The financial plan offers an inducement for these districts to enter or form enlarged districts, since $1,000 would be paid on account of each one-room school displaced by a consolidated district. This part of the plan would not, however, become operative during the first four years, and after that it is wholly voluntary. It is perhaps too optimistic to expect that such districts will be formed in many sections of the state without considerable inducement, if at all. The one- room district is in many instances firmly entrenched, and the residents of the community often are reluctant to accept a change for the better. A recent study published by the New York State Tax Commission contains a statement that might be applied to Missouri: “The most commonly advocated panacea is increased state aid. There can be no doubt that the recently enacted increase in state aid for schools was needed; yet there is doubt that it would have been needed if the education system

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