. Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Montana. tantly greater effort on behalf of the schools,and this effort has kept education in Montana from fall-ing behind the nation. According to the Kiplinger Maga-zine, Changing Times, in 1959 Montanans took secondplace only to Utah in the percentage of personal incomespent on schools—Utah spent , Montana , andthe national average was But, in the increase in school expenditures in the de-cade from 1950-51 to 1960-61, Montana ranked down in39th place among the states, showing that despite theeffort b
. Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Montana. tantly greater effort on behalf of the schools,and this effort has kept education in Montana from fall-ing behind the nation. According to the Kiplinger Maga-zine, Changing Times, in 1959 Montanans took secondplace only to Utah in the percentage of personal incomespent on schools—Utah spent , Montana , andthe national average was But, in the increase in school expenditures in the de-cade from 1950-51 to 1960-61, Montana ranked down in39th place among the states, showing that despite theeffort being made here, we could not keep up. Actually,the increase in Montana school expenditures in that 10-year period was just enough to compensate for infla-tion; in other words, the additional dollar amount wewere spending bought no more than before, whereas inthe nation as a whole, additional expenditures were be-ing made to improve quality, beyond the added expendi-ture of dollars necessitated by inflation. Fi9. 8 PERCENTAGE OF ALL PROPERTY TAXES USED FOR SCHOOLS1947-48—1960-61. Because school financing rests largely on the propertytax, and because rising property taxes frequently are at-tributed to schools, I think Figure 8 is especially inter-esting. This shows the percentage of all property taxesused for schools, from 1947 through 1961. Note that, be-fore the Foundation Program, a higher percentage ofproperty taxes went for schools than at any time since,and that in the most recently completed year, 1960-61, the percentage of was just slightly below the averageof for the period since the Foundation Programbegan. Schools, then, can scarcely be the villain theyare often pictured as being, for they have not been tak-ing disproportionately larger and larger shares of theproperty tax. The chart reflects total property taxes on a propor-tionate use basis. It does not reflect mill levies, whichas we all know have been increasing. A major reasonfor the increase in mil
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