SCHOOL CAPITATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 28 January 1915, Page 3

SCHOOL CAPITATION.

THE NEW SCALE. The question of capitation, which has always been a burning one among school committees in both town and country, as they have always had difficulty in making both ends meet, was brought up at the Board of Education meeting yesterday by a letter from a school committee, which asked whether the committee should not receive increased capitation allowance with increased attendance at the school. The chairman remarked that the capitation would now be paid direct to the committees by the Department on the new scale, as follows: Average attendance, to '2O pupils 10s per head of average; 21 to 35, £lO, together with 8s per head average over "20; 36 to 120, £lO, and 5s per head over 3a; 121 to 400, £3B, and 4s per head over 121; over 400, £94, and 3s per head over 400. Previously the Board had paid the capitation out of an amount allocated for general expenses on a sliding scale, as follows: Up to 25 average, 7s new scale, as folows,: Average attended per pupil; 26 to 35, £l2 per annum; increasing by, every 10 of an average by £2 per annum so that schools of 106 to 115 average received £2B. Thence it jumped until schools of 146 to 155 pupils received £3(5, 239, £55; 2(10, £oo 10s; 353, £72 10s; 549, £lO4, and 638, £ll3.

The new scale will mean an increase all round. ill- Bradbury remarked that it would do awav with i.he accusation that the town schools were starved at the expense of the country schools.