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Show I ; mm IN TAX FOR STATE SCHOOLS SALT LAKE, Oct. 7 The legislative legisla-tive program of the schools, as sought ! by the school teachers represented at the meeting of the house of delegates of the Utah Educational association Saturday, comprises an increased state tax rate to 2,6 mills for the support sup-port of the district schools, and to .3 of a mill for the high schppjs of the state, and also an amendment to the law limiting the district school tax levy so that the rate of taxation may Increase as the assessed valuation per capita of school population diminishes. The present state rates are 2.4 for district schools and .2 of a mill for high schools. Further tho teachers ask that the textbooks for the high schools as -well as for the public schools be provided I by the boards of education, and that the school census be taken from October Oc-tober 15 to 31 of each year, instead i of, as at present, in July. Under the suggested school district , levies, Jordan school district, which k had an assessed valuation in 1917 of i $11,62-1 per capita of school population, would be limited to a rate of 3.4 mills. - Its neighbor, Granite school district, with a per capita assessment of $539S, would be allowed to ley as much as 5.4 mills for district school purposes; Bait Lake, with a per capita assessment assess-ment of $6080. could levy 4.6 mills, while a large uhmber of districts' with a per capita of less than $3500 could ; levy 7 mills. Even at that rate. Wash-; Wash-; ington district, v;here the per capita assessment is only $1096, could raise on $7.67 per pupil for school purposes, as against a possible $39.18 in Jordan district. As the law stands now, It was pointed out, Jordan can levy as high as $48-40 for each child of school age in the district, and Washington's maximum max-imum Is only $6,57. There is at present no limit in cities of tho first and second classes, the supreme court having ruled out the maximum limits in those cities as un-' un-' constitutional. The report of the legislative committee com-mittee of the house of delegates which was presented by G. N. Child, of Salt Lake City, proposes an additional levy of not to exceed .5 of a mill in each district for the purchase of school sites, or the construction or repair of : school buildings. With regard to tho school census, tho additional change in the law would involve the. change also that a child who was not 19 years old before October Oc-tober 31 of each year would be included includ-ed In the school population, i This fact becomes more significant in connection with a report presented at the morning session by D. I. Stew-, ! art, of Duchesne, member of the same I committee, which urges a law that all J children of school age shall be under ! the continuous supervision of the board of education for educational purposes, and shall be required to reg-' reg-' Ister at least once n year. Mr. Stewart Stew-art proposes that all boys and girls up 1 to that age shall be required to nt- tend school four hours a week, or its equivalent in time as provided by the I state board of education, Tho latter ! body might find a method of providing B' tor vocational instruction ill the shops or on the farms. |