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EWP NewsPrint004
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Virginia
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1043117
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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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8 Richmond Thmes-Dispaich
DavipD TENNANT BryaN, President and Publisher
VIRGINIUS DABNEY, Editor :
KSTABLISHED 1850: Published every day in the
vear at 110 North Fourth St. bv Richmond
Newspapers, Incorporated Entered at the Post
Office at Richmond, Virginia as Second-Class
Mail Matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS, which s exclusively entitled to the use
for publication of all news dispatches credited to
it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein. All rights of
publication of special dispatches are also reserved.
TELEPHONE 7-1851
Adv, Representative: Sawyer-Ferguson-Walker Co
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By carrier, Dally and Sunday, 40c week: Dally
only. 30c week: Sundav only. 15c week.
RATES BY MAIL- P{(&YABLE [N ADVANCE
1 ¥r. 6Mo. 38Mo. 1Mo
Daily and Sunday..$20.00 $10.50 $5.50 $1.9C
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Rates to Foreign Countries will be furnished upon
request. Subscriptions bv mail not accepted In
localities in which carrier_service is available.
Wednesday, December 8, 1954
Localities Must Earn State Aid
The counties and cities of Vir-
ginia are heading into a most diffi-
cult period with respect to the fi-
nancing of their schools. This is
true for a variety of reasons, par-
ticularly the Supreme Court’s seg-
regation decision and the flood of
children now beginning to pour
into the classrooms, as a result of
the high birth rate during and
after World War II.
utmost-i
ties and cities do their utmost to
finance their own schools, and not
call on the Commonwealth for spe-
cial help, unless and until they
have exhausted their available lo-
cal resources.
Tt is dismaying, therefore, to find
six Virginia counties and four cities
~some of which are relatively quite
well-to-do—falling, for the year
ended June 30, 1954, below_the re-
quirement fixed by the State De-
partment of Educaftion for all To-
califies wishing to participate in
the department’s MInIMUIN educa=
tionmand salary equalization funds.
These counties are Frederick, High-
land, King and Queen, Loudoun,
Warren and Washington, and the
cities are Charlottesville, Colonial
Heights, Staunton and Virginia
Beach. It is possible that one or
two have already put into effect
for this fiscal year tax rates which
will bring them above required
basic minimums, but if so, the facts
are not yet available.
Under the State Appropriations
Act of 1954, localities must spend
on their schools an amount equal
to a true tax rafe of 45 cents Der
$100 of 1050 true property values,
Th order to get any of the State”™
money set aside in the two funds
mentioned above. The 10 localities
listed did not come up even to this
modest requirement for the last
fiscal year.
All but one of the six counties
which haven’t met this minimum
condition have more wealth per
pupil than the average for: the
State ($12,118, based on 1950
values). The figures for each fol-
low: Frederick, $13,638; Highland,
$20,196; King and Queen, $10,873;
_Loudoun, $23,159; Warren, $25,814,
and Washington, $12,201.
In the case of the four cities,
three out of four have wealth per
pupil above the average per pupil
for Virginia cities ($22,425). The
ficures are: Charlottesville, $25,-
828: Colonial Heights, $21,493;
Staunton, $27,888; and Virginia
Beach, $55,021.
What is one to conclude as to the
effort, or lack of it, in such coun-
ties as Warren and Loudoun, with
approximately double the average
wealth per pupil for counties, or
Virginia Beach, with far more than
double the average city figure?
The truth of the matter is that
every one of these 10 localities
should be able to meet the 45-cent
requirement laid down by the
State. Many other counties and
cities with smaller resources have
met it.
Until these 10 Virginia localities
produce evidence that they are
making an adequate effort, they
need not look to the State Treas-
ury for aid in carrying the even
greater financial burdens that seem
sure to be loaded on them during
the next few years. The General
Assembly has laid down the sound
rule that no county or city shall
receive help from the State until
it demonstrates that it has made
an adequate effort of its own. That
rule must be adhered to.
