Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the State Inspector of Public High Schools of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Year Ending June 30, 1918: Including a Report of the Town and City High Schools

Our present plan does not provide for alarge State school fundto be paid into the State Treasury and distributed from there to the various counties. The revenue derived from the general State school tax of 20 cents on the $100 Of property valuation is retained, in the various counties. The State aids the counties out Of the State treasury in the following ways: (1) By an annual appropriation Of to be distributed among all the counties upon the basis of school population; (2) by setting aside 5 cents of the annual ad valorem tax levied and collected for State purposes on every $100 of property valuation (yielding now about (3) by a special annual appropria tion of for public high schools.

Under the general plan advocated since the passage of the constitutional amendment, it is proposed to create a' State school fund sufficient to run all the public schools for three months, and to require the counties to levy a special county-wide tax sufficient to run them another three months, thus meeting the constitutional requirement Of a six-months school term. If the school revenue act is based upon this principle, all the general school tax now levied, together with the present equalizing fund, the per capita appropriation, and the appropriation for high schools will go into the State Treasury as a State school fund - which will be as large as can be raised under the constitutional limitation of 66 cents (on the $100 of property valuation) for general State and county purposes. The rate Of State taxation, therefore, for school purposes will be at least 30 cents; it may be as much as 32 cents. After this constitutional limitation has been reached, any tax that the Legislature may require the counties to levy will be levied as a special county tax and will not be subject to the constitutional limitation men tioned above. This fact constitutes really the strongest argument for the proposed change of policy: it puts every county in the State under a special county-wide tax, thus almost doubling over school revenues, and it unifies and consolidates all our public school work - elementary and secondary.

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