Show PROPOSED SCHOOL LAW A number of Weber county teachers I and other citizens living outside of Ogden Og-den have called the attention of this office to the bill now pending in the legislature introduced by Senator Allison Al-lison entitled senate bill No 43 and described as an Act to provide for a uniform system of free schools throughout I through-out the state of Utah It is claimed I that the bill was drafted by the Salt I Lake board of education and discriminates discrim-inates against the country districts I These citizens are particularly alarmed alarm-ed at a paragraph in section 143 of the bill which they claim will operate against the districts outside of the city The paragraph complained of Is on page 29 of the bill and reads The state school tax and the state school fund provided for in section 3 article 10 of the constitution of Utah shall be distributed among the several school districts according to the population popu-lation residing therein and all other sdhool taxes shall be raised by separate sepa-rate levy in the cities of the first and second class and the counties or districts dis-tricts exclusive of said cities anything to the contrary notwithstanding It is feared that the effect of the above would be to separate cities from counties in the financial support of the schools However after looking up the constitutional provision and the old school law the writer is of the opinion opin-ion that the fears expressed are groundless as the first part of the paragraph provides for an equitable distribution of all common school funds and leaves the raising of all other funds with the district desiring such fund |