PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE 261 
on such a basis, and in furthering the consolidation program 
it might be desirable to study the effects of the present 
systems of apportionment. If it should be found that any of 
them tended unduly to perpetuate undesirable features in 
the school system as a whole, it would appear advisable to 
discontinue them and to expend the funds in furthering the 
development of the consolidation program and in assisting 
those schools which cannot be brought under that program 
at the present time.