Show SCHOOL equalization AMENDMENT NT schools of the rich district would be materially benefited bencil ted and a part of tile the cost of maintaining this district would be lifted from weal property owners onnel j at tile same time under the program of equalization worked out under tinder direction of dr 0 N X jenson state superintendent plans for distributing a proposed lioio equalization fund woud pay kiy into this district di a total of at the same time ahne it would be p possible to finance an educational program III I 1 in n till this 1 district on a higher plane than that now afforded without adding to the burden on local property owners such a program is conditioned upon the people passing issing pc the constitutional amendments at the election next no veini it will bo be recalled that tour four amendments are to come before tile people pertaining to tax revision they contain the basis for a definite plan of equalizing the tax burden by bringing in new forms of revenue which shall be used to lift part 0 of f the taxes now low im ed on tangible forms of property such as real estate improvements Il and livestock this would be done by taxing incomes and laitan t bles which are almost entirely in the larger financial centers such as salt lake and ogden this program reprise represents lits the work of ge several veral beals s study in made ade of inequalities in educational advantages throughout hout the state stale under the direction of dr jensen the program tor for a state equalizing equa lising fund first alist assumed definite proportions as the result of a survey made inside in igo th roligh the superintendents office tills till survey e exposed m glaring inequalities in educational IO IlkI as school districts and a state equalization fund was ted as the logical re remedy one of the amendments la Is designed to provide a special fund amounting to yao for each child of school age in the state this fund to bo be buted tor for equalizing the cost of providing tor for a cair standard of an all edu cat lonal pro program grani in those districts which aind it extremely burdensome if not entirely impossible bille to finance a well rounded and id adequate edum educational tIon i present i present based the sall school l population n ot 1028 1928 such it a f lind fund would provide about 00 for distribution in the poorer school I 1 districts the state school s proposes in his 1 plan to 1 provide ro v 1 d e I 1 foran oran almost uniform i local olca lii toa tax x r rate a te for local school purposes mog amounting to 0 6 mills a levy which would ins be lesta lead than the dist district vict now pays such a levy would be regarded gardenas gar dedas as the minimum which should be applied a adust hist property within this district to finance its ita school system the remain remainder deT necessary to carry carra on oil an adequate school program up to the state standards would bo be provid ed out of the uniform 2500 per capita that is now paid from tile the state school fund and the proposed equalization fund so iso far as rich district is concerned he places this at which would be paid out of the equalization fund keeping in mind that the tro TOO posed constitutional amendments call tor for this money to be raised through taxation of property proper tv other than tb t t now taxied taxed this would make maike it possible to build up the local school district to a higher standal and actu actually all v cost less to the local property owners the plum of the state superintendent cannot of course be revar re yarded ded as fixed they are conditioned on the people of the state approving the tax amendments at the election next november vember r and if this Is done the recommendations of the state school will be presented to the bhe legislature as the basis for distributing tile the equalization fund |