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Show SCHOOL LEVY 2.4 MILLS TWO TENTHS HIGH SCHOOL In a letter received from Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent of public instruction, and Deputy E. J. Norton, the state board of equalization equaliza-tion is asked to make the 1918 state school levy two and four-tenths mills and the state high school levy two-tenths of a mill. Basing its calculations on the policy and practices of the past, the education department this year has estimated, for each person of school age as shown by the 1918 school census, a per capita of about $12.45 from the state school fund and the cx-hool land fund, and about $3.15 additional per capita from the occupation occu-pation tax on mrnes, making a total per capita of about $15.60. It is also estimated that the state high school fund will furnish to school districts maintaining stand- ard high schools an apportionment of about $12.00 for each person of ( school age attending such high schools at least twenty weeks. These estimates assume levies of two and four-tenths mills for state schools and two-tenths of a mill for state high schools. There is shown In the letter an average rate of increase of 3 per cent in' the school population. ' On this basis the school population for 1918 would beB136,396. Under the levies asked for there would be for distribution distri-bution to the schools $1,694,000 from taxes and the state school land fund. |