Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . 3,927 1,186 Lincoln 36,415 786 Madison 11,182 826 Meagher 21,282 1,125 Mineral 17,540 8,099 Missoula 37,651 2,610 Musselshell 19,022 413 Park 22,344 1,945 Phillips 4,947 950 Powell 6,344 1,167 Prairie 9,740 2,432 ?Ravalli Richland 9,146 648 Rosebud 39,632 556 Sanders 17,097 340 Sheridan 8,402 1,107 Silver Bow 4,873 511 Stillwater 9,867 1,197 Sweet Grass 60,080 2,950 Teton 14,797 951 Toole 5,523 1,290 Valley 10,^23 2,233 Wheatland 16,397 1,901 Wibaux : 8,141 2,203 Yellowstone 1,530 Statistics not available. 11
Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . 3,927 1,186 Lincoln 36,415 786 Madison 11,182 826 Meagher 21,282 1,125 Mineral 17,540 8,099 Missoula 37,651 2,610 Musselshell 19,022 413 Park 22,344 1,945 Phillips 4,947 950 Powell 6,344 1,167 Prairie 9,740 2,432 ?Ravalli Richland 9,146 648 Rosebud 39,632 556 Sanders 17,097 340 Sheridan 8,402 1,107 Silver Bow 4,873 511 Stillwater 9,867 1,197 Sweet Grass 60,080 2,950 Teton 14,797 951 Toole 5,523 1,290 Valley 10,^23 2,233 Wheatland 16,397 1,901 Wibaux : 8,141 2,203 Yellowstone 1,530 Statistics not available. 112 FIFTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT Special Levies The schools of Montana are better supported today thanthey have been in the past, but this support is too largelyconfined to the town and city schools. There is not a schoolin the state with more than five teachers but is largelysupported by local taxation. The average levy for districts in the state containingtown or city schools was eleven mills, (1917-1918) while theaverage levy for all districts in the state was six and a half. The peope of Jefferson City believe in pood schools. One of the bestarranged and best equipped rural schoolhouses in Montana mills. It is the large number of rural districts with littleor no levy which brings this average for the state so were no less than 15 school districts in the state(1917-1918) without schools, children or special districts had a combined assessed valuation of $1, left untaxed by a special levy for the education of thechildren of the state. Of the 1700 children of the state who were provided withno school in 1917-18, many were in districts which had nospecial levy. The average length of school term in 255 districts with-out any special levy was 110 days, or five and one-halfmonths. These untaxed districts had 280 schools and a com- SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 113 bined assessed valuation of $35,065,208. This non-supportby local districts affected
Size: 1923px × 1299px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecteducation, bookyear18
