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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1943-1944
e recently created coun-
ants. others dissipated
ountles receive apprecia-
e funds. Below is state-
uperintendent of Public
public school finances
940-41
Common Independent
School SchoolReceipts: Districts Districts
State and counts aail-
able .........$13,004.444 33 $32,487,911 22
Local maintenance ... 9,800,111 22 42,252,216 08
Equalization aid
(rural aid) .... 4,094,057 98 2,613,476 70
Interest and sinking.. 2,979,103 96 14,400,456 92
Building ............ 1,632,809 87 6,355,422 64
Total ..........$31,510,527 36 $98,109,483 56
Disbursements:
State and county avail-
able ....,12,065,036 86 $31,627,082 07
Local maintenance ... 9,312,564 11 37,657,696 74
Equalization aid
(rural aid) . .. 4,004,602 80 2 522,513 43
Interest and sinking . 1,906,450 85 10.734,589 05
Building .. . 1,086.844 41 3.324,808 64
Total ........$28,375,499 03 585,866,689 93
State Support of Schools.
Formerly the ad valorem tax was also the
principal source of state support of Texas
public schools In the fiscal year ended Aug
31, 1942, however, ad xalorem taxes contrib-
uted to the available school fund only $5,795-
413.19 This was from collections from a tax
which had been 16 cents on the $100 valuation
in 1941 and 33 cents in 1942. At the constitu-
tional maximum of 35 cents the state school
tax can produce approximately $10,000,000
annually on the basis of present values and
ratio of rendition The total apportionment
of the state to public schools in the fiscal
year, 1941-1942. was $34,627,635 This was on
the basis of $22.50 per capita for 1.539,006
children of the s holastic age (6 to 17 years,
inclusive) enumerated in 1941.
Total enumeration for the year 194243 was
1.518,538, of whom 1,278.524 were white and
240.041 were colored Apportionment at $22 50
per capita was $34.167,105 Of the total enum-
eration 1.058.330 scholastics were in independ-
ent, and 460,208 in common school disticts.
Principal contributions to the available
school fund. other than from the ad xalorem
tax. in state fiscal year 1941-1942 came pri-
marily from gross receipts and production
tax, poll tax and miscellaneous taxes includ-
ing the highway motor fuel tax which alone
contributed $12.534,484 74 There is a consti-
tutional provision that the available school
fund must receive a minimum of one fourth
of all state occupation taxes
School Equalization.
In addition to apportionments from the
aiallable school fund, there are varying an-
nual appropriations by the Legislature from
the general fund for equalization as between
poor and wealthy districts (formerly rural
aid) Disbursements from this equalization
fund during the fiscal school year 1941-1942
were $6 056,662 These payments go primarily
to the common school districts During 1941-
1942 $4 170.479 went to teacher salary aid,
$2 947.743 to transportation aid and $938,143
to tuition aid
Free Textbooks.
Since adoption of an amendment section 3
article VII State Constitution in 1918. Texas
school children have been furnished free text-S C H M A L Z RI E D
domain Some of th
ties received no gr
their funds Some c
ble support from thes
ment by the State S
Instruction, showing
for the fiscal year, 1BOOK SH OP
books. Expenditures for this purpose dui ng
the fiscal year, 1941-1942, were $2,046,133.07.
including $43.826.38 for administrative expen-
ditures.
Bonded Debt of Schools.
School buildings have been erected and
equipped primarily out of bond issues of the
local districts. The total outstanding bonded
debt of the public schools of Texas Aug. 31,
1941, according to the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, was $131,103,750 Of
this amount $116.228,354 was debt of the in-
dependent districts and $14,875,396 was debt
of common school districts.
Vocational Education.
Under a system of federal, state and local
matching of funds, vocational training was
carried on in Texas schools during the fiscal
year 1941-1942 at a cost of $4,283,471.43 The
largest expenditure was for agriculture and
home-making, but there were also courses in
rehabilitation, aid for crippled children,
trades and industrial vocations.
School Transportation.
Because of the wide, thinly settled spaces
in many sections of Texas the consolidation
of small school districts has made necessary
high expenditures for transportation At the
end of the school year, 1941-1942, there were
6.074 school buses in operation, of which 4.719
were owned by the schools and 1,355 were
privately owned and operated for the schools
Original cost of the buses owned by the
schools was $10.444,710 During the year.
213.033 elementary school children and 120,477
high school children were given transporta-
tion. The cost of school transportation during
the year, exclusive of purchase of new buses,
was $6,729,233.
Value of School Property.
Table below shows value of classified school
property of Texas, according to original cost,
as reported to the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction for the fiscal year ended
Aug 31, 1942.
Original cost of:
School buildings . .........$232,601,976
School sites and playgrounds ...... 25,953.867
Grounds for working in agriculture... 294,863
School furniture .... ............. 23,361,217
Teachers' homes ................... 2,589,064
Subtotal .......................$284,800,987
Equipment for teaching sciences ...... $2,355,026
Equipment for vocational classes 2,648.396
Equipment for teaching manual training 1,414,184
Equipment for teaching commercial
subjects ... 1,656,455
Public school libraries (books only)... 4,778,738
Equipment for teaching music ....... 2,165,369
Audio-usual aids ................... 644,167
Other equipment .................... 3,291,572
Miscellaneous .................... 244,672
Subtotal (equipment) .. ........ $19,198,579
Grand total ................. $303,999,566
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