| Show percent of taxes W inch goes coca for education the december issue of the utah educational review made its ap pear peara anoe ince recently recen tl in a bright oliver cover suggests suggestive e of the holiday season the number features interesting discussions of the mork w ork of some nine cl classroom n teachers also reports of some unusual community projects lyric poems by D ramsey ani by b mance mame moffett have daintiness and chat charm attention is called edi tonally to an elucidation by george N child superintendent of schools salt lake city CAY of the real facts concerning tle tie prop oration of tax money that goes for edreca education tem the article corrects a common misapprehension that 84 per cent of all the money mone paid in property tax goes gati to the schools taking salt lake city as an example mr bir childs analysis nali sui shows that disregarding other sources AA of revenue and charging all the expense of education in salt LAI lake city against taxes 45 8 cents out of every dollar paid in taxes go for education mr child says in conclusion every effort must mug be made to wd ward answering the first two questions in a manner to satisfy a tax burdened and thoughtful public tile the answer to the third question will require vision as well as in telli gence for it involves the great problem as to whether any cow corn county can afford not to provide and to maintain a school system sesmon that will mill successfully assume a large proportion po of or the responsibility for training young oung people into intelli gent law abiding liberty loving practical ts citizens t s statistics tell us ufa that the drop outs froni from thew hous furnish most of the criminals and criminals clar mills are am from all 11 points of wo new extremely expensive not no co counting the ct cost of manhood and womanhood women hood the journal ol of criminology and cearnal law volume 4 page shows that the cost of crime in A the state of calif arm us in 1912 was 37 it has been carefully that without any per cent of mcm ion in crime 1 in 1921 the cost coat will be A ap Z A create 56 1 COO l in this same mine great state during the school Y year car 1919 1920 the cost of public education including kincle kinde garten ganten elementary and high schools was 47 |
