Historical Review of the Development of Florida's School Finance Plan
Historical Review of the Development of Florida's School Finance Plan
Shiver, Lee A., 1955-
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incurred by the schools for building purposes, many counties were forced to issue bonds and secure loans for current operating expenses as well. An educational survey team appointed by the governor in 1929 and headed by George D. Strayer of Teachers College, 104. Ibid. , pp. 38-39. 105. Ibid., p. 39. 106. Ibid., pp. 34-35. 57 Columbia University, identified the school district system as the main problem of Florida education and the primary source of the inequalities which pervaded the state's p...ublic 107 schools. "' Summarizing the Commission's findings, Johns reported wide differences among the counties in revenue receipts and expenditures per pupil, in educational facili- ties provided, in length of school term for whites and blacks, and in teachers' salaries of females compared with males and of blacks compared with whites. Again, the substantial variations in assessed property valuations within the special tax school districts, coupled with the Constitution's require- ment that district taxes were to be expended for school pur- poses within the district where assessed, were primarily responsible for perpetuating the inequities of the existing state school finance plan.-*-^^ According to Johns, the school legislation enacted in 1929 further exacerbated equalization of financial support by abandoning the equalization fund and adopting the method of apportionment recommended by Cawthon, i.e., aggregate 107.
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