Revamp Of School Fund Distribution Suggested By Fiscal Officer
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Editor's Note: A revamp of
some of Oregon's most-established
money procedures has been ug.
Rested In report by the legis
lature's own fiscal officer.
By ANN H. PEARSON
United Press International
SALEM (UPI) - The Oregon
Legislature is dealing with make
believe figures when it makes its
biggest appropriation of all, ac
cording to the legislative fiscal
officer.
The legislature appropriated
"$115 per census child" to the Bas
ic School Fund for local schools
during the 1961-62 school year.
Actually, for a real child going
to public school that year, the
Hermiston School District re
ceived $199.62 from the Basic
School Fund.
The Pendleton School District
just 27 miles away in the same
county, received $124.11 from the
same fund for a similar child.
Legislative fiscal officer Ken
neth Bragg says it may be time
for the legislature to stop dealing
out school money blind.
He says the legislature may
want to take public school financ
ing matters Into its own hands as
explicitly as it has the rest ot the
state's money matters.
: The Basic School Fund was ere-
ated in 1946, when the voters dc
cided state-collected taxes should
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help pay the cost of local schools.
It amounts to an estimated
$127.5 million for the current bi-
enmum, about one-third of all
general fund money.
Property Tax Offset
Most of the fund represents the
stale's share of the cost of public
grade and high schools, offsetting
the local property taxes that pay
the balance.
The Basic School Fund is the
only one left in Oregon's general
fund budget where the legislature
makes a lump sum appropriation
without saying how the money
will be spent after that.
It also is the only case where
the legislature doesn't know ex
actly how much it is appropriat
ing. The legislature doesn't pro.
vide a flat sum. It appropriates
so much "per census child be
tween the ages of 4 and 20."
The final sum depends on the
census.
Bragg says the confusion
multiplied because the census has
nothing to do with the way the
money is handed out and distributed.
In the first place, it docs not
even all go to the districts. The
State Department of Education
skims off its operating costs. So
do some special programs. The
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governor wants to include educa
tional television.
About 94 per cent that Is left
does go to schools, but not on a
per-census-child basis.
For one thing, the census for
mula counts childrei. between 4
and 20. Most child! en going to
school are between 6 and 17. Of
these, many are in parochial
schools. Thus there are fewer chil
dren, or more money per actual
public school child.
Small sums go to districts on
the basis of growth and trans
portation needs.
More For Special Programs
Districts wilh special programs
for handicapped, gifted, migrant,
and retarded children get special
help.
Of the bulk of the money that
is left, 80 per cent goes to the dis
tricts on a "per weighted pupil"
basis. That means per pupil, ex
cept a little more is added for
high school students.
Then 20 per cent goes for equal
ization, to make sure each child
gets an equal educational oppor
tunity. Equalization is based on
Ihe true cash value of property
in each district.
In other words, the poorer dis
tricts get more than the richer
ones.
To put the whole thing in terms
of Hermiston and Pendleton, each
gets $104.63 in flat per pupil
grants.
But Pendleton, wilh true cash
value of property at $29,613 per
pupil, gets no equalization, while
poorer Hermiston, with true cash
value of $10,806 per pupil, gets
$82.39 per pupil in equalization.
Pendleton gets $6.64 per pupil
for special programs for the gift
led, mentally retarded and curricu
lum improvement. Hermiston gets
only $0.96 for the handicapped
and curriculum improvement.
Pendleton eel. cii 12 tor trans
portation and $6.36 for growth.
Hermiston gets $10.65 and $1.93.
Bragg suggests that the legisla
ture abolish the Basic school
Fund.
Instead, he says, the legislature!
should make flat, separate appro
priations for aid to local schools,
the Department of Education, and
Tuesday, February J, 1063
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each of the special programs.
Then, says Bragg, the lawmak
ers will know just what they are
doing when they appropriate mon
ey for public schools, and will be
able to do what they intend.
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