| Popis: |
embarrassment grew out of the fact that according to the laws of the state of Indiana, school revenues for any given year are obtained upon an assessment of property made almost two years before. In a city where the population had been doubling each year, the result was that the revenues for any given year were based upon an assessment made when the population was only about one-quarter as great. Furthermore, the method of distributing the state school revenues failed to recognize the pressing needs of a rapidly growing city. Revenues were apportioned on the basis of an enumeration made the previous April; but the enumeration was increasing 50 per cent between April and September, and another 50 per cent before the end of the school year. Along with these unusual difficulties in the raising of current revenues there were on the other hand unusual immediate demands. In a city of slow growth, the school plant grows slowly and the yearly increase is no great burden upon the community; but in a new city having no school plant there was the immediate necessity |
