EWP NewsPrint001
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EWP NewsPrint001
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Virginia
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1043114
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2024-01-07
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Digitized by Edwin Washingon Project
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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English
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Virginia May Reduce
School Funds Unless
Localities Give More
By the Assoc«cfied Press
RICHMOND ‘Dec. 6 — Six
& ‘counmes and four cities may re-
@ | ceive reduced amounts of State
aid for education during the
1954-55 school year unless they
appropriat/e more local funds.
| - The State Education Depart-
‘ment report the localities will
ihave to show an increase over
local expenditures for the 1953-
54 term if they expect to share
in two aid programs totaling
$9,914,760.
The « counties are Loudoun,
Frederick, Highland, King and
Queen, Warren and Washington.
The cities are Charlottesville,
Staunton, Virginia Beach and
Colonial Heights.
Unless they show an increase
in local effort, they will not be
permitfed to share in the State’s
minimum education and salary
i | equalization funds.
~ Minimum Effort Needed.
These funds are set'aside for
those areas which exert a mini-
mum effort to raise money for
school in accordance with each
area’s need and its ability to
pay.” The funds are in addition
to the basic State appropriation
for school operations which to- |
year.
Last year, four localities failed
to show minimum Efioxt__a.nd
thus did- not qualify for a full
share of State aid. They were
| Clarke and Warren Counties,
PFredericksburg and Staunton.
At the same time, 18 cities
and 17 counties recived only the
basic appropriation in 1953-54
because they didn’t need extra
aid.
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Arlington Gave Most.
The county which appropri-
ated the highest percentage of
local funds in 1953-54 was Ar-
lington, which contributed $4,-
283,434 of a total expenditure
of $5,857,705 for school opera-
tions. The local output repre-
|sented 73 per cent of total ex-
| penses. The State contributed
/19 per cent and the, Federal
; g :
1ocal expend1ture was second
and Fairfax with 62 per cent was
third. Henrico with 60 and
Chesterfield with 59 per cent
came next.
Among the cities, Williams-
| burg led the way in local ex-
penditures with its outlay of
$2176,447, representing 82 per cent
of total operational costs. Rich-
| mond trailed with 77 per cent
| and Roanoke followed with 75
| per cent. Falls Church raised
| 73 per cent of its school bill and
| Alexandria 70 per cent.
Buildings Not Included.
None of these figures included
outlays for buildings or debt re-
tirement. Nor did a high ex-
penditure at the local level nee-
essarily mean a locality was ex-
erting top effort.
| For instance, Arlington, al-
thouch heading the counties in
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i | tals $31,999,750 ‘for the cunent«
the basis of
g axX rate | ¥
f,zl]u;sc.hools - S Proper tt;
Alleghany Rate™i 8
Alleghany, second in®
penditure percentage,
school tax rate of 1.59 pe1
double that of Arlington
highest among both counties and%.
cities. The second greatest ef-
fort, based on 1950 true taxable
wealth, was shown by Williams-
burg, whose percentage was 1.10
Fairfax had 1.09 and Martins-
ville 1 per cent. All others were |,
below 1 per cent.
The localities which may be
denied a share in the two special
funds had rates below 45 cents
per $100 true valuation.
The lowest: rate was Virginia
Beach’s 26 cents. The resort
was on the bottom largely be-
cause it ranks highest in taxable
wealth = per pupil. Virginia
Beach’s $55,021 average taxable
wealth per child was well ahead
of Richmond’s $32,792 and the
county high, Arlington’s $29,734.:
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