Show s Some Of Our Ouri F i School Problems I i It School boards and school exi ex- ex i- i e about the country are being beIng being be- be Ing compelled to give serious consideration cont con- con conI I t to the problems resultIng resultIng result- result Ing tag from enforced economy The problems of the present situation i are very difficult to meet 3 There few tew If school are any systems systems terns which have not been confronted confronted con con- 1 fronted with Increased enrollment 1 above the normal Increase This r has called for extension of school plants Though there Is the opportunity opportunity op op- ty to secure ground and andi i put up buildings at less expense there is a difficulty of obtaining the capital expenditure either cither by bond Issues or direct tax levy the latter of which Is ls already heavily heavily ily Uy overburdened and the former not good business if It It can be a- a voided School budgets which set forth Continued on page four tour SOME OF OUR SCHOOL PROBLEMS Continued from page one the chief educational policies of the school system as well as ana ann analyze analyze what the expenditures were In n the preceding years yeara call for considerable detail In fact there is no municipal service which requires re requires requires re- re quires more detail both as to Its fiscal and administrative duties I than our various school systems Moreover Moreo there Is IB no service which is of f more ore Importance to society that that rendered by the public schools Since every township every mu municipality every county and every state Is faced with the same fiscal problems would it not be most helpful to all the various school bot boards and executives and nd certainly redu reduce e the cost of ot public public public pub pub- lic schools if it there were a 8 National Nation- Nation al Department of Education with witha a whole section given over to the e scientific study of at the fiscal difficulties dif dif- difficulties of our schools alone |