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Show CORRECT FIGURES ON SCHOOL FUND LOSS ARE QUOTED As there has been some misapprehension misappre-hension regarding the loss that might be incurred by the county schools through the action of the board of education'in closing them earlier than was anticipated, the News has obtained obtain-ed a statement from the county superintendent sup-erintendent and the clerk of the board. According to Superintendent Carlisle Carl-isle and Mr. Thompson, clerk of the board, Beaver County School District receives its operating funds mainly from three sources: a county tax which goes direct to the school district, dis-trict, a state tax which goes into a state fund which is divided among the various school districts of the state on a basis of twenty-five dollars for each child listed on the school census, and finally a state high school tax which goes into a. state fund which is in turn distributed back to the districts on the basis of the number of high school pupils pu-pils who meet certain requirements. This fund approximates five dollars for each high school pupil who meets these requirements. It is this last fund, the state high school fund, which the State Board of Education is questioning. Their ruling states that only those school districts which maintain, thirty-five weeks of high school or who get permission to close before meeting that amount of time shall be eligible to participate in the fund. Since many districts in the state have in the past received their quota of the fund while maintaining only an eight months term, there is little reason to believe that Beaver will be denied the same priviege. The matter is at prsent waiting the action of the State Board. In the event Beaver's petition is denied, the loss to the district in money this year will not be more than five hundred dollars. The total in this fund for the year is approximately fifteen hundred dollars, nine hundred and twenty seven of which has already al-ready been received. |